Trade collections
Garages & body shops
Alloys, panels, exhausts, batteries and the pile behind the unit. Regular pickups, so the bay stays a bay.
A working garage produces scrap continuously and has nowhere to put it. It goes behind the unit, or in the corner of the bay, or into a skip you are paying for by the pull — which is the expensive way of disposing of something that should be paying you.
What comes out of a garage
- Steel panels — wings, doors, bonnets, cut sections, jig offcuts
- Alloy wheels — worth considerably more than steels, and worth keeping separate for exactly that reason
- Exhausts — mild steel and stainless, priced differently
- Batteries — see scrap batteries; these accumulate faster than anyone expects
- Aluminium radiators, condensers and intercoolers
- Brake discs and drums — heavy, clean cast, good weight
- Engines, boxes and axles — heavy scrap
- Loom and cable off strip-downs
Separating pays here more than most places
Motor trade scrap has an unusually wide spread between grades sitting in the same pile. A stillage of mixed garage waste and a stillage with the alloys, the aluminium and the steel kept apart are not close in value, and the work involved is throwing things into three containers instead of one.
We will tell you where the line is for your volume. There is a point beyond which sorting stops paying for the time, and we would rather you knew where it was than sorted things that do not matter.
Catalytic converters
We buy them, we record them, and we ask which vehicle they came off.
Cats are the most stolen component in the country and every legitimate buyer keeps a record. If you are a garage, this protects you: a documented trail from your job sheet to our record is exactly what you want in place if anybody ever asks. If a buyer is not asking you where they came from, they are not asking anyone else either, and that is a yard you do not want your name associated with.
End-of-life vehicles
Whole cars are a separate route from parts and offcuts, because the record with DVLA has to be closed properly and that has to happen at an authorised treatment facility. See scrap cars for how that works and who does which part of it. If you take vehicles in on trade or get abandoned ones left on you, that is worth reading before the next one arrives.
Setting it up
Tell us roughly what you generate in a month and how much room you have got. Most garages settle on a fortnightly or monthly pickup. Payment is by transfer — cash for scrap has been illegal since 2013 — and there is a transfer note every time.
How it works
Three steps. No site visit.
Send a photo
WhatsApp a picture of whatever needs shifting. No need to tidy it first or guess the weight.
Get a price
A straight number back, usually the same day. The real price for your actual load.
It’s gone
We turn up, load it, sweep up, and you get the paperwork showing where it went.
The money bit
What actually decides what we pay
Nobody likes “it depends”. Here is what it actually depends on, so you can work out roughly where you stand before you ring anyone.
01
What it weighs
The base of it. Weighed on scales you can read, in front of you — not estimated in a back office and written on a docket afterwards.
02
What grade it is
The widest variable by a distance. Bright copper and burnt copper are the same metal and nowhere near the same price. Light iron, heavy scrap and non-ferrous are three different numbers, and keeping them apart is what moves yours.
03
How clean it is
Everything attached that is not the metal comes off the weight that counts — motors in a pile of steel, plastic housings, timber, the foam bonded to a modern cylinder. You do not have to strip it. It just prices as what it is.
04
Whether we collect it
Bringing it in yourself is worth more than having it collected, because collection is a vehicle and a driver. On a decent load the difference is real; on a boot full of oddments it is not worth the fuel.
Why there’s no price list on this page
Because scrap prices move with the metal markets, and they move weekly. Any figure printed here would be out of date before most people read it, and a website quoting last month’s rate is not being transparent — it is being wrong in a direction that never seems to disadvantage whoever published it.
Send a photo of what you have got and you will get today’s number for your actual load. Payment is by bank transfer, because paying cash for scrap has been illegal in this country since 2013 — anyone offering you notes is telling you something about how the rest of their business runs.
FAQ
Straight answers
Do you take catalytic converters?
Yes, and we record them and ask which vehicle they came off. Cats are the most stolen component in the country, so a documented trail from your job sheet to our record is exactly what you want if anyone ever asks.
What about whole end-of-life vehicles?
Different route, because the DVLA record has to be closed properly at an authorised treatment facility. Worth reading the scrap cars page before the next one gets left on you.
Is it worth separating the alloys?
Yes — alloy wheels are worth considerably more than steels, and motor trade scrap has an unusually wide spread between grades sitting in the same pile. Three containers instead of one changes the number noticeably.
What areas do you cover?
Wymondham and everywhere down the A11 and A47 — Norwich, Attleborough, Thetford, Diss, Long Stratton and across into Suffolk to Beccles and Bungay. If you are not sure, just ask.
Is it all done legally?
Yes. We are a registered waste carrier and licensed scrap dealer, every load comes with a waste transfer note, and our registration numbers are on every page of this site so you can check them before you ring.
How quickly can you come?
Often the same week, sometimes the same day if we are passing. Tell us where you are and you will get the honest answer rather than the one that gets us the booking.