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We buy surplus cable in Live Oak.
Live Oak's retail centres, hotels and office buildings along Pat Booker Road are old enough to be refitting, and new enough that the cable coming out is still worth buying as cable.
Call or text the buying desk954-740-1983
CountyBexar
What we see mostRefit feeder and tray
Typical lotPallet to two pallets
AccessTight lot, service drive
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 · Live Oak
Reviewed by a buyerTell us what you have and where it sits. Nothing is moved until written lot terms are agreed.
The Pat Booker Road spine through Live Oak is a strip of car dealerships, big-box retail, hotels and low office buildings, most of it built within a couple of decades of each other. That timing matters. The electrical systems are all reaching the point where lighting, service and distribution get replaced rather than repaired.
A retail refit is fast and disruptive, and the contractor wants the old material off site before the store reopens. What lands in the dumpster is often perfectly good feeder and tray cable. Pulling it aside costs one conversation at the start of the job.
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A retail refit runs on a schedule, not a plan
Store work happens overnight in a fixed window, and every hour is counted. The electrician strips the old lighting circuits, pulls the feeder to the cases and the signage, and stacks the waste by the back door for whoever is coming at 6 a.m.
That stack is the lot. Tray cable from a ceiling grid, MC from a fitting change, feeder from a panel relocation, and the parking-lot lighting conductor that was replaced while the lift was already rented.
- Tray cable and MC from ceiling and lighting work
- Feeder from panel relocations and service upgrades
- Parking-lot and pole lighting conductor
- Fire-rated cable from corridor and egress changes
- Sign and canopy circuits, often in conduit
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Hotels here refit on a rolling cycle
The hotel stock along the corridor renovates in phases, floor by floor, which means the same building can produce three lots in two years. Guest room rewires give you NM-B and MC in short lengths. Lobby and meeting-space work gives you heavier feeder and dimming control cable.
Ask the general contractor for the electrical sub's number. The GC wants the space clear; the electrical contractor owns the material and is the one who can say yes.
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Tight parking lots decide the truck
Live Oak loading is the hardest part of the job. Service drives are narrow, the dumpster enclosure is in the way, and a trailer that blocks a fire lane will be moved on within minutes. A box truck with a lift gate solves most of it.
Send the address, the time window and a photograph of the service drive. We would rather plan a hand-carry of twenty reels than arrive with a vehicle that cannot get to them.
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Condition survives a retail refit well
Cable pulled out of a ceiling in a climate-controlled building is usually in better shape than cable pulled out of a plant. No oil, no washdown, no process heat. The failure mode here is handling: kinked reels, crushed barrels and jacket torn on a lift.
If a reel got run over by a scissor lift, say so. A damaged barrel with sound cable is still buyable, but it has to be re-spooled or coiled before it travels, and that changes the pickup.
- Tray and MC from ceiling and lighting changes
- Feeder from panel moves and service upgrades
- Site lighting conductor, direct burial and conduit
- Fire-rated cable from egress and corridor work
- Control and dimming cable from lighting systems
| Source of the lot | Typical material | Usual condition |
|---|---|---|
| Retail interior refit | Tray cable, MC, lighting conductor | Pulled, coiled |
| Hotel phase renovation | NM-B, MC, dimming control | Short lengths |
| Office tenant improvement | 1/0 to 250 kcmil feeder | Partial reels |
| Site and parking lighting | 8 AWG to 2 AWG, direct burial | Removed, cut |
| Service upgrade | SER, 4/0 aluminium feeder | Tails, surplus reel |
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 in and out inside a single overnight window?
That is the normal arrangement for retail work. We pre-plan the loading so the truck is at the service door when the crew finishes, load once, and clear the space before the store opens. Parking-lot lighting is not needed for that.
The contractor wants the cable gone today. How fast can that happen?
Speed depends on the lot being described, not on the drive. A photographed, weighed pile with terms agreed can usually be collected quickly. An unlabelled dumpster of mixed material takes longer to price, so separation helps.
Do you buy cable that was abandoned in a ceiling and never removed?
We buy what has been removed, not what is still installed. Abandoned cable in a ceiling belongs to the building and to whoever is doing the demolition. Once it is on the floor and de-energised, it becomes a lot we can look at.
Is there a minimum size for a lot on this corridor?
A pallet is a comfortable minimum, though smaller lots get combined on a run through the corridor. If you have three part reels and a coil of tray cable, send it anyway; it may pair with a neighbouring job.
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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