Planning to clean property and make the first trip ever to recycle -tips?

Originally Posted by nooboman

Strange and suspicous? Guys this was our parents estate. My father kept everything he ever ran into free or broken but as he got older time got it in disarray. Mother died not to long ago and my brothers and sisters want nothing to do with the cleanup and since I am the least successful of them (they have a million kids, a high 6 figure borrowed home, and good reviews in academia don't you know) the clean up to help the sell went to me. Basically they came in, filled a few boxes with stuff they wanted and said the rest is yours and a bigger cut of sale will go to me for the work.

I'm just trying not to be wasteful on this but have duties of my own apart from this and can't commit fully. People accumulate a lot of stuff over their lives and the trash,trinkets,trenchcoats and otherwise sellables have been moved.


What is left is furniture and scrap. Not every person is versed in the business and general goods aren't made with its scrapping in mind. You run into a lot of mixed material products like lamps which have aluminum,glass/etc, copper wiring or something simplier like a metal door but with glass paneling.

I was just wondering if you were expected to bring in raw metal (shaving off pvc, tearing a top off a metal desk) or if they handle it for you. I just can't fully seperate the mixed stuff. Too much time to be trying to peel wire off when you will end up having 40 or 50 pounds of it which is quite a task when you aren't shopped up to process it and since I'm not in the business for any longer than the cleanup lasts not worth it to buy all the equipment is it?




I get its a community for scrappers. I'm not a scrapper. Just happen to have enough scrap and seek the most elementary of education on the process.

I know you think all that's left is junk, but call a local auctioneer to come buy. Even after his cut you'll get higher than scrap prices (Or thereabouts) and the Auctioneer moves the merchandise. Then just don't be afraid to load a truck up and go. If it's as extensive as you say, you'll probably make more money that you think in the long run. And don't tell your siblings....they don't want to help, they don't get to know.