Question: Scrapping a large walk in heating/cooling unit.

I have a large heating cooling unit to scrap similar to this photo.

Can anyone give me some tips on where I would start? How much copper/aluminum I should be able to find? Stainless steel?


Total worth, rough guess?

Nothing came thru, i am not sure but i believe you have to start a few posts before you can send pics.

STOP! walk in coolers are ALWAYS worth money if the insulation isn't trashed. You might want to ask around some of these refrigeration shops and see what they say. It would almost always be better to simply remove it as whole as possible and see if you can sell things like the door and the door surround, they are regularly damaged and go for several hundred bucks.

Also, I just thought of this and it has alot to do with my own hobbies but home beer brewers would probably love to have a walk in, usually setup in their multicar garage or even outside on a cement slab...think about that, even if the main unit long ago failed the insulation and walls have actual value.

Well removing walk inn coolers is one of our specialtys, let me just say that we charge for taking them down, now don't get me wrong if you have some one that needs a walk inn and is willing to pay for it THATS great but the realialty of that is very unlikely I can't tell you wow manny times we stored them in the yard trying to sell them and it just never happens so the bad news is that there is realy no value in the cooler itself, the reason is that the insulation is verry thick and the thin layer of sheet tin is lighter than the insulation some yards will not pay you for it. The only value is number one in the coolers door hardware, and number two the floor of the cooler should be a sheet of aluminum. Now the blower in the cooler will have some copper lines and a copper aluminum coil depending on the size of the cooler the coil could be very small or very large, the compressor / compressors should be on the roof of the cooler that being said if you don't know this little secret taking apart the cooler itself will be a time consuming frustrating job.Now the first thing you do is get the roof removed first, now here is my secret that I am sharing with you, the walls and roof of the box have these round plastic circles they are gray in color they Are that color as not to stand out with a large flathead screw driver remove the plastic caps, now the secret tool a Allen Key,,, stick the Allen key in the hole and turn to the right or left you can fell it turn and unlock the hinge/hinges once lose just remove the panel. they are put together like this no matter what size. I have just shared that tip with you,and I hope you and some one else will use it to there advantage. We advertise walk in cooler removals and do a few a year, depending on the location of the cooler to the exit the father away from the door the more we charge, a tipical eight by sixteen cooler we charge a thousand dollars for the job.good luck I know this will help you.

A buddy of mine just sold one of these on craigslist for $800. He got it already disassembled though, so he just had to load it on a trailer and left it on the trailer until it sold. Took about 2 weeks to move it I think. Don't know the dimensions off the top of my head but the guy drove 4 hours to buy it...

Why not try repair it and sell it as a whole thing?

Depending on the condition, even without the freezer unit.
It might have use as a flammable goods storage shed.

Someone told me this a few years ago when someone else I know was wanting to get rid of one.

Market them to the micro/craft beer beer crowd. Or home brewing guys - check your local homebrew clubs