Free scrap metal pickup · Windsor Gardens SA

Scrap metal pickup in Windsor Gardens, sorted the same day.

Windsor Gardens gives us more domestic copper than almost any suburb on the run, mostly out of hot water changeovers.

Free pickup across Windsor Gardens, usually inside 24 hours. We are about 10 minutes away, so call before 2pm and same day is often possible.

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~10 minfrom Windsor Gardens35 Jacobsen Cres, Holden Hill SA 5088

Scrap metal pickup in Windsor Gardens, and what comes out of it

Windsor Gardens is ten minutes from the yard, down towards the Torrens, and it is one of the suburbs where we pick up the most domestic copper.

The South Australian Housing Trust built prefabricated, imported timber houses across Windsor Gardens between 1950 and 1954. The Trust meant to sell them, but most buyers preferred to wait for a masonry house, so the prefabs were rented to selected tenants at a higher rate instead. By 1960 and 1961 the suburb was still a hive of construction, and a Uniting Church went up on Pitman Road in 1965.

A suburb built in one short burst ages in one short burst too. Windsor Gardens hit the point where original hot water systems, wall furnaces, air conditioners and galvanised roofs all came due at roughly the same time, and that is most of what we carry out of here. If you are replacing a hot water system, the old cylinder is copper and it is worth real money -- do not let the plumber take it as part of the job without asking what he is doing with it.

The original prefab blocks here are deep, and a lot of the metal ends up at the back rather than at the kerb. Tell us whether there is side access, because carrying a cylinder the length of a block is the difference between a ten minute job and a half hour one. If a plumber is coming, ask him to leave the old unit rather than take it away.

We run down through Hillcrest and Gilles Plains to get here, so a Windsor Gardens job often gets paired with one of those on the same trip.

Today's scrap metal prices

Clean copper is running $14.00 to $18.00 a kilo. Rates move with the market, so call 0435 805 124 for the exact figure on the day before you load up.

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What we buy from Windsor Gardens

Copper Brass Aluminium Stainless steel Steel Batteries Alloy wheels Wire & cable Air conditioners Electric motors Switchboards Transformers

Booking a pickup in Windsor Gardens

Call 0435 805 124 or use the form, tell us roughly what you have and that you are in Windsor Gardens, and we come to you. The load is weighed in front of you and you are paid before we drive off. From the yard that is about a 10 minute trip.

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Frequently asked questions - Windsor Gardens

Is pickup in Windsor Gardens free?

Yes. Windsor Gardens is ten minutes from Holden Hill and inside our standard free pickup zone, so there is no call-out fee and no deduction for the trip.

My plumber is replacing my hot water system. Should I keep the old one?

Keep it. The cylinder in an older Windsor Gardens house is usually copper, and it is worth considerably more as scrap than nothing, which is what you get if it leaves on the back of someone else's ute.

Why is there so much hot water and heating metal in Windsor Gardens?

The suburb was built in one burst, so it ages in one burst. The Housing Trust put up prefabricated timber houses here between 1950 and 1954 and the place was still under heavy construction in 1960. Original cylinders, wall furnaces and air conditioners have all come due within a few years of each other.

How much is an old copper hot water cylinder actually worth?

Enough to be worth a phone call rather than a skip. The cylinder itself is copper and the price follows the copper rate on the day, which has been running in the teens per kilo. Windsor Gardens produces more of these than anywhere else we collect from, so we price them most weeks and can tell you over the phone.

The old unit is already on the verge, can you just grab it?

Yes, and that happens a lot here. Tell us the street and roughly where on the verge it is sitting and we will pick it up on the next Windsor Gardens run. If you want paying for it rather than just gone, say so when you call so we weigh it properly instead of taking it as a tidy-up.

Nearby suburbs we collect from on the same run

Windsor Gardens sits 10 minutes from our Holden Hill yard, in the City of Port Adelaide Enfield. These are the suburbs either side of it, so if you are closer to one of them, start there.