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We buy surplus cable in Leon Valley.
Leon Valley is Bandera Road: strip centres, pad sites and parking lots, with 1960s housing behind them and almost nowhere to turn a truck around.
Call or text the buying desk954-740-1983
CountyBexar
CorridorBandera Road
Common lotSmall removal, mixed
AccessParking lot, no dock
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 · Leon Valley
Reviewed by a buyerTell us what you have and where it sits. Nothing is moved until written lot terms are agreed.
The commercial spine is a run of small centres and pad sites along Bandera Road, most of them built when a service was sized for a fraction of today's load. A restaurant refit, a tenant swap or a canopy rebuild each pull a small amount of service and feeder cable. None of it is a truckload, and all of it has to be handled in a parking lot.
Behind the strip the housing dates from the 1960s. That stock is now at the age where a panel upgrade or a full rewire is routine, and where a small demolition lot appears when a house comes down for redevelopment. Those lots are the opposite of the south side: tight, hand-carried, and often mixed with everything else in the roll-off.
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Strip centre refits, one tenant at a time
A strip centre changes tenants without changing shape, and every change drags electrical work behind it: a new panel for a kitchen, added circuits for a freezer line, a sign circuit that has to be re-fed. The work is small and the removed cable is smaller, but it repeats across every unit in the centre over a few years. A centre with twenty units is twenty small jobs hanging off one service, and one meter room.
- Service and panel feeder
- Kitchen equipment circuits
- Sign and canopy lighting
- Partial reels from refits
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1960s housing and the panel upgrade
Houses of that era were built with a small service and, in some cases, aluminium branch wiring. A panel upgrade pulls the service entrance and the meter connection, and a rewire pulls whatever branch cable can be reached, so the aluminium is worth buying but worth less than copper. Keep it separate so the copper in the same lot is not discounted, and say which part of the load is aluminium before anything is weighed.
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Small demolition lots and the sorting problem
When a house comes down for redevelopment, the cable leaves in whatever container was closest. Service entrance, meter bank, branch wiring and appliances end up in the same roll-off, and the value drops because somebody has to separate it later, which is why a demolition contractor who pulls the service gear before the walls come down gets a better number. The rest is worth more as sorted material than as mixed debris.
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Loading out of a parking lot
A strip centre lot is designed for cars. There is no dock, the dumpster pad is shared, and a trailer will block the drive aisle the moment it stops, so we work from a box truck at the kerb, load by hand where the material is light, and time the pickup around the quiet hours a centre manager will agree to. A trailer that blocks the aisle gets the job shut down.
- Box truck access
- Drive aisle width
- Agreed quiet hours
| Family | Sizes we see | Condition we buy |
|---|---|---|
| Service entrance cable | 4 AWG to 350 kcmil | Removed, surplus |
| Aluminium branch wiring | 12 AWG to 2 AWG | Removed, mixed |
| Copper branch and feeder | 14 AWG to 4/0 | Removed, cut length |
| MC and BX armour | 12/2 to 4/0 | Pulled, partial reel |
| Sign and lighting cable | 12 AWG to 8 AWG | Surplus, removed |
Questions
Answers before you send anything.
If your question is not here, call the desk. A buyer answers, not a call centre.
Can you get a truck into a strip centre parking lot?
A box truck, usually, if we come outside peak hours. A trailer is rarely possible. Tell us where the material sits relative to the drive aisle and whether there is a service road behind the building.
Is aluminium branch wiring from a 1960s house worth buying?
Yes, at an aluminium rate, which is well below copper. Keep it in its own container so the copper in the same lot is not discounted, and say clearly which part of the load is aluminium.
Do you buy material from a single tenant refit?
Often, if there is a reel or a service pull involved. A few armfuls of cut branch wire is not a lot. Combining it with a neighbouring unit or with a demolition container usually makes it worth the trip.
How do you handle a lot that is still in a roll-off?
We will look at it, but the price reflects sorting. If the cable can be pulled out and put in one place before we arrive, the quote improves noticeably, and the demolition crew spends less time waiting on a truck.
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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