Valuation
What Your Equipment Is Worth
There are two floors under every piece of electrical equipment: the metal in it, and what a plant waiting nine months for new gear will pay to skip the lead time. Everything else is the distance between those two numbers.
Two floors- Offer
- Same business day
- Payment
- Before load-out
- Removal
- Our crews, our rigging
- Insurance
- COI on request
- Coverage
- All 50 states
- Desk
- 954-740-1983
Plate 01
The scrap floor and the resale ceiling
The floor is metal: copper windings and bus, aluminum, steel enclosures, and the small amount of recoverable electronics. That number is calculable and it never goes to zero.
The ceiling is replacement avoidance. If a plant needs a 2000 A lineup and the factory quotes forty weeks, your used lineup is worth a large fraction of new to them. Most real offers land closer to the floor than sellers hope and closer to the ceiling than scrap dealers admit.
Plate 02
The five nameplate facts that move the number most
Voltage class. Continuous current rating. Interrupting rating. Manufacturer and line. Physical arrangement — indoor or outdoor, front access or front-and-rear, cable entry top or bottom.
Send those five and a desk appraisal becomes accurate. Send only ‘some old switchgear’ and any honest buyer has to quote conservatively to cover what they cannot see.
Plate 03
What gets subtracted, and by how much
Labor and rigging are the big subtraction. A ground-floor lineup next to a dock is a fraction of the cost of the identical lineup on a third floor with a single freight elevator.
Then oil handling on transformers, crating on breakers and relays, trucking distance to the nearest reconditioning market, and any restoration the offer includes.
Plate 04
Where sellers lose money
Selling to a structural demolition contractor who prices everything by weight. Cutting bus duct into scrap lengths before getting an offer on intact runs. Throwing away test reports and single-lines during a plant cleanout. Chopping cable before it is priced as coils.
Each of those is a permanent, avoidable reduction, and each happens on projects every week.
Plate 06
Weighting, at a glance
| Factor | Effect on offer | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Rating and configuration | Largest single driver | Decides which buyers can use the asset at all |
| Nameplate and parts support | Major | Supported lines resell; orphaned lines go to parts |
| Documentation and test reports | Major upward | Removes risk for the next owner |
| Copper content | Sets the floor | Windings, bus and cable have a metal value regardless |
| Removal difficulty | Major downward | Access, floor level, live neighbors, night-only work |
| Condition and completeness | Moderate | Missing breakers or trims reduce resale |
| Timing and volume | Moderate | Whole lots move better than single awkward items |
Questions
Frequently asked
How do you decide what something is worth?
Ratings and configuration first, then how sellable the specific nameplate is, then condition and documentation, then the real cost of getting it out of your building. The last item is the one sellers consistently underestimate.
Do you charge for removal?
No. On any lot with recoverable value the removal cost is priced into the offer and you receive a net number. If a lot is genuinely worthless — badly burned gear, scrap-only aluminum panels in a bad location — we will tell you that instead of inventing a number.
What do you do with the equipment?
Reusable gear is tested, refurbished where needed, and resold into the used-equipment market — often to plants waiting many months on new switchgear. What cannot be reused is separated into copper, aluminum, steel and electronics streams.
Will you take one item or do you only do whole plants?
Both. One transformer on a pad is a legitimate call. So is a complete plant electrical lot with substations, MCC lineups, hundreds of bus plugs and miles of tray cable.
Do you buy equipment that is still energized?
We buy it, but we do not touch it energized. Your electrician or the utility de-energizes and locks out, your representative verifies it, and then our crews begin.
Do you handle transformers with oil?
Yes, including PCB-suspect units. Oil is sampled and handled to the applicable federal and state rules, and you receive documentation for your records.
Form 1 — Request for Offer
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Send the asset list, or just describe what is in the room. We come back the same business day with a written, itemized offer.
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