Cable. I was at HD picking up some screws. The guy ahead of me bought 4 jugs of windshield washer fluid and 20 M of 14/3 NMD. With taxes it was $145.00. Glad I rewired my daughters place 15 years ago. Replacing knob and tube meant going from basement to attic and halfway back down.
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Enough of COVID...what are you doing to the house?
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20m pieces have always been brutally expensive per foot. Iirc, the last I looked, hd wanted $270 for a spool of 14/3.
I've got some 6/3 cable here...that stuff should def buy me a TESLA...or a Bolt at least.
Buy a Tesla wiring harness and get the car for free
Mad Mike
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A few weeks back I snagged a lot of wiring at a household auction. Most spools were full, got 3 x 100m of 14/3 romex, 75M 10/3 BX, a 50M spool of 8/3 romex, and 8 x 100m spools of 12/1 and 14/1. Cost me $57.
Lucky find, I'm rewiring a whole house and garage. All I need now is 50' of 6/3 to run power to the garage.
I may have like 10’ of 6/3 but not sure as I haven’t measured it out yet. Bought 30m of it when we were doing our renovation.
I’m interested in these household auctions though…where do you find those?
Wow, they lost huge there. They would have gotten far more money scrapping that wire.
Probably. But then they have to deal with it. Cheaper to just get someone to buy it and haul it off.
@Mad Mike ill give you $58 for it!
Neighbour of my M-I-L passed away and the granddaughter cleaned up the house to sell. Threw everything into a dumpster including an aluminum fishing boat.
A friends father passed last summer, they got a couple grand for the scrap metal and wire he had accumulated for "future projects". They spent some time sorting copper to copper (and bright to insulated), aluminum to aluminum, steel to steel etc. and brought it in in waves to the scrapper.
I have a full 75m spool of 12/2 yellow left over from my rewire, I guess I should put it on kijiji...
I have a full 75m spool of 12/2 yellow left over from my rewire, I guess I should put it on kijiji...
I'm going to start hunting for 14/2 and 14/3 for my renovation project next year.
When I do a project I normally buy to minimize cost per foot. That normally means I end up with extra for future projects. Sometimes that is brutal though (needed THHN to wire a deck with conduit and you aren't allowed to tape colors anymore so I needed three spools, ouch).
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Then I see crap done by "professionals" and shake my head. Right beside the hydro meter, romex emerges from the foundation and goes into a conduit to a light. Wtf. Can't use romex in a wet location, can't leave romex exposed, leaving end of conduit roughly horizontal means conduit is probably completely full of water after years. Insulation hasn't broken down yet on the exposed romex but I check it every year. When it eventually fails, I will install boxes and thhn for the outdoor run. Another piece of romex comes out of the foundation and is sitting in a garden unterminated and unprotected. On the plus side, that one is dead.
My buddy is anal about measuring and labelling lengths of off cuts. It worked out well for me. When I needed say 20 feet, instead of going to the spool I just grad the 20 foot+ off cut. When doing a rewire with fishing etc. there will be more off cuts than a net new job. He had a system using marks on my basement wall to quickly measure up all the off cuts as I went, sorted them by size....
As for spool size I found 75m to be the best compromise of cost vs convenience for DIY. Many times I would run multiple circuits at once so I needed more than one spool to do so. The cost savings at 150m did not offset this enough IMO.
As for spool size I found 75m to be the best compromise of cost vs convenience for DIY. Many times I would run multiple circuits at once so I needed more than one spool to do so. The cost savings at 150m did not offset this enough IMO.
Mad Mike
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Maxsold.com. You have to sort thru a lot of tchotchkes, but every once and a while there's a gem.
I looked a few times there but there was far too much wading for me. It's good to hear that occasionally there is a gem. Surprised you got such a good deal, I expected them to have more traffic and prices closer to market price.
Mad Mike
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$60 and it's yours.
You can pick it up in Timmins. Note --you'll have to install then and splice most of it back together.
Great thanks. I’ve tried that site but so much junk!
However my buddy scored a $300 desk for his office for a total of $1.
I’ll have to keep an eye out. Will measure house this weekend, and will be in need of:
- insulation
- 14/2 cable
- drywall
- CAT6
There is another one called transition squad. You also have to look at the pick-up location and time as most items must be picked up in a set narrow time window where they are being sold from. From what I have seen the deals will be better the less known the site is as there is less competition. Next it is basically arbitrage where prices are much lower the farther from major cities you get, but in many cases this is the same on kijiji etc.
Lots of granny knickknacks and furniture to pick through.
Lots of granny knickknacks and furniture to pick through.
Mad Mike
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Auctions outside of cities seem to have less competition, particularly if there are only a couple of interesting items. One of the guys at the office does stuff with wood -- he buys solid oak and maple tables regularly just for the wood. Huge or scratched tables sometimes go for $1. He just hauled in a large carved mahogany pedestal table - $1.
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