Comal County ยท Bulverde
We buy surplus wire in Bulverde.
A Bulverde property is several buildings on one meter: house, well house, shop, barn and now often a solar array, each with its own run and its own leftover cable.
Call or text the buying desk954-740-1983
CountyComal
What we see mostService, PV and pump
Typical lotTruck bed to one pallet
AccessLong drive, gate, caliche
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 · Bulverde
Reviewed by a buyerTell us what you have and where it sits. Nothing is moved until written lot terms are agreed.
The lots here are measured in acres, cut out of limestone and caliche, with a gate at the road and a driveway long enough to need its own lighting. A house is rarely just a house. There is a detached shop with a welder and a lift, a well house with a pump and a storage tank, and a barn or a carport that was added after the fact.
Each of those is an electrical load with a run back to a panel, and each run leaves something over. Partial reels of SER, a coil of 6 AWG for a subpanel, pump cable, direct-burial conductor for a gate or a light. The pile in the shop is small, honest and usually still clean.
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One address, five separate electrical loads
A large-lot property is a small utility system. Service at the meter, a feeder to the house panel, a buried run to the shop, a circuit to the well, and usually one more to a gate, a tank or a yard light that nobody planned for.
Work on any of them produces the same thing: a length of cable bought for a run that turned out shorter than expected. Four or five of those lengths from one property is a legitimate lot.
- SER and SEU service cable, 2/0 to 4/0
- Subpanel feeder to shop or barn, 6 AWG to 1/0
- Submersible pump cable, three and four wire
- Direct-burial conductor for gates and yard lighting
- Grounding electrode conductor in cut lengths
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Solar additions leave DC conductor nobody reuses
Arrays went up on a lot of these roofs and ground mounts, and the installers bought cable by the reel. What is left is PV wire and USE-2 in 10 and 8 AWG, RHH/RHW-2 for the DC runs, and equipment grounding conductor for the racking. Most of it is unused, coiled and tagged.
This is the cleanest material on the property. It has never been energized, it has been stored indoors, and the jacket print is intact. Keep it off the ground and out of the sun and it prices as surplus rather than salvage.
- PV wire and USE-2, 10 and 8 AWG, red and black
- RHH/RHW-2 DC home runs on partial reels
- Rack and module grounding conductor, bare and green
- AC collection cable from the inverter to the panel
- MC or conduit wiring from a combiner or disconnect change
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Long driveways decide the vehicle
A caliche drive that climbs and turns is not a place for a loaded trailer, and a gate with a cattle guard is not a place for a truck that cannot cross one. We ask before we send anything: surface, slope, width, turning room, overhead lines.
For most Bulverde lots a pickup or a box truck with a lift gate is the right answer, and the reels come out by hand. When the lot is heavy, the truck is left at the road and the reels are staged up to it in a smaller vehicle.
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Hill Country commercial is small and specific
Along US-281 the commercial buildings are clinics, storage yards, offices, shops and the occasional light industrial bay behind a retail front. Nothing is large, and almost everything is three-phase with a modest service.
A tenant improvement in one of those bays leaves feeder, lighting conductor and a little tray cable. It is not a plant lot, but it is the same discipline: identify the size, keep the reels dry, and send the tags.
| Family | Sizes we see | Condition we buy |
|---|---|---|
| Service entrance | 2/0 to 4/0 SER, SEU | Tails, partial reel |
| Solar DC cable | 10 and 8 AWG PV wire, USE-2 | Unused, tagged |
| Pump cable | 14 to 8 AWG, three and four wire | Surplus, pulled |
| Subpanel feeder | 6 AWG to 1/0 copper or aluminium | Cut lengths, reel |
| Buried site conductor | 8 to 2 AWG, direct burial | Coil, remaining reel |
Questions
Answers before you send anything.
If your question is not here, call the desk. A buyer answers, not a call centre.
Do you buy solar cable left from a rooftop or ground mount?
Yes, and it is often the best material on the property. PV wire and USE-2 that was never energized, still coiled and still printed, is surplus by any definition. Send the reel tags and the lengths and it can be priced from photographs.
Can a truck get up a steep caliche driveway?
Sometimes, and the answer comes from a photograph rather than a guess. Slope, surface and turning room all matter, and a loaded trailer changes the calculation. Where access is doubtful we bring a pickup and hand-carry.
Is a shop's worth of offcuts too small to bother with?
On its own it may be, and we will say so. Combined with a service reel and a coil of pump cable from the same property, it becomes a lot worth a scheduled stop on a run through Comal County.
What if the cable has been sitting in a barn for years?
It depends on the barn. Dry and shaded holds condition well; open to the weather does not. Tell us where it sat and for roughly how long, and the lot will be priced for what it is rather than what it might have been.
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No fee · no obligation
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