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Selling Switchgear Before a Demolition: A Contractor's Guide

Demo contractors leave serious money in buildings by scrapping electrical rooms. Here is how to turn switchgear, transformers, and MCCs into a payday before the excavator arrives.

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Walk the Electrical Rooms First

Before pricing any demolition job, walk the main electrical rooms and photograph everything: main switchboards, distribution panels, transformers, MCCs, and the bus duct runs between them. That equipment can be worth tens of thousands of dollars intact — and near-zero once it is cut up for scrap copper.

Timing Is Everything

The window between power disconnection and structural demolition is when gear must come out. Call a buyer as soon as the demo contract is signed — ideally weeks before mobilization. We coordinate our riggers around your schedule so equipment removal never delays the excavator.

What the Numbers Look Like

A mid-size commercial building might hold a 2000A main switchboard, a dozen distribution panels, two dry-type transformers, and a rooftop generator. Scrapped, that package nets a few thousand dollars in copper and steel. Sold intact to a replacement-market buyer, it can bring five figures — with the buyer's crew doing the removal work your laborers would otherwise burn hours on.

One Call Covers the Building

We buy the whole electrical scope — gear, generator, busway, even loaded panelboards — with payment upfront and zero testing required. Send photos from your walk-through and get a package number before your bid goes in. That number can be the margin that wins the job.

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