Bexar County ยท Alamo Heights
We buy surplus wire in Alamo Heights.
A 1930s house being rewired in Alamo Heights gives up a hundred pounds of cable older than the panel it now lands in, and none of it is on a reel.
Call or text the buying desk954-740-1983
CountyBexar
Housing1920s to 1950s
Common lotRemoved branch and SE
AccessDriveway or alley
Get a buy quote
Send the reel list. A buyer reads it.
Six details are enough to start. Tags and photos can follow by text or email once a buyer has looked at the basics.
- A buyer reviews the lot: construction, footage and condition, not only metal weight
- Copper and aluminium, 600 V building wire through 345 kV cable
- Full reels, partial reels, cut lengths, pallets and truckloads
- No fee, no obligation, and no automatic pickup
Reel list · Alamo Heights
Reviewed by a buyerTell us what you have and where it sits. Nothing is moved until written lot terms are agreed.
Alamo Heights is old residential stock with a small commercial strip on Broadway, and the electrical work there is almost entirely renovation inside a standing building. A rewire means fishing new cable through plaster and pulling the old out where it can be reached. What comes out is short, dirty and mixed: knob and tube in the walls, BX in the attic, cloth-covered service entrance at the mast.
None of that is a reel lot, and it should not be sold as one. It is bought on the metal and on how well it has been separated, and the honest answer is that a pail of mixed old branch wiring is worth less than the same weight of clean service conductor. Keeping the service cable, the BX and the bare copper apart is what lifts the number.
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What a rewire actually removes
The cable in an old house was installed to serve a few lights and a refrigerator, and it was added to for eighty years. A rewire pulls the service entrance at the mast, the panel feeder, and whatever branch wiring the electrician can reach without demolishing plaster, so the service entrance is usually the heaviest single piece on the job. The rest stays buried in the walls, which is why a rewire rarely yields as much metal as the square footage suggests.
- Cloth-covered service entrance
- Knob and tube, where reachable
- Old BX and armoured branch
- Bare copper grounding
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Knob and tube is not the prize people think
Knob and tube is single insulated conductor pulled through drilled studs, and it comes out in short, brittle pieces with ceramic knobs still attached. The copper is real, but the recovery is labour and the pieces are small. Treat it as copper content rather than cable: coil it into its own labelled container and do not let it contaminate a cleaner lot of BX, because the two behave nothing alike.
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Small commercial on Broadway
The commercial buildings along Broadway are a different profile from the houses. A restaurant or shop refit there pulls three-phase service, panel feeder and lighting circuits in lengths worth keeping, and those jobs are also more likely to leave a partial reel behind because a small contractor buys a full one and uses half of it. The unopened reel is often the only reason that lot is worth collecting.
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Sorting is the whole job
Separating a rewire takes an hour and changes the quote. Copper service conductor goes in one container, armoured cable in another, bare copper in a third, and steel and devices in the dumpster, because a single mixed pail prices as recovery while four sorted pails price as material. That is the entire method, and it costs nothing but time.
- Copper service conductor
- Armoured cable
- Bare copper
| Material | Sizes we see | Condition we buy |
|---|---|---|
| Service entrance cable | 4 AWG to 250 kcmil | Removed, cloth or modern |
| BX and armoured branch | 14/2 to 10/3 | Pulled, short lengths |
| Knob and tube conductor | 14 AWG to 10 AWG | Removed, mixed |
| Bare and stranded copper | 14 AWG to 4/0 | Sorted, clean |
| Small commercial feeder | 1/0 to 350 kcmil | Reel, cut length |
Questions
Answers before you send anything.
If your question is not here, call the desk. A buyer answers, not a call centre.
Is a single rewire worth calling about?
Usually not on its own, unless the house had a heavy service or the job is part of a larger renovation. Several rewires in one neighbourhood, or a rewire plus a commercial refit, is the point where a pickup makes sense.
How should old BX be prepared?
Coil it and keep it separate from bare copper and from modern MC. Do not strip the armour to get at the conductor unless you already have a safe way to do it; the armoured cable is bought as it comes off the wall.
Do you take the old panels and meter cans?
They can go in the load, but they add weight and handling without adding much value. Most sellers separate the copper and let the steel go with the general demolition debris, which keeps the cable lot clean and easier to price.
What about cloth-covered cable with the paper insulation?
We buy it on the copper, and it prices below clean modern conductor because the insulation has to be handled. Keep it out of the rain, in its own container, and tell us roughly how much of the lot it represents.
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You have the cable. We have a scale and a check.
Send the reel list, the tags or a photograph of the pallet. A buyer comes back with what the lot is worth and how pickup would work, before anything is moved.
954-740-1983 Call or text
- Reel tags, or the print on the jacket
- Reel count and footage, even roughly
- Where it sits and what can reach it
- Whether the cable is still energised