Scrap Metal in Borehamwood, Hemel Hempstead and all Watford, Hertfordshire and North West London Areas

Our scrap metal merchants, located in the Bushey area of Watford, are your trusted experts for all scrap metal types. If you plan to have a clearance or wish to hire our services to manage a waste disposal on your behalf, we think it is important that you can identify different types of scrap metal too. To help you, we have put a short guide together that gives our Hertfordshire and North West London customers an insight into the most common scrap metals.

Like all reputable scrap metal yards, we also explain how to recognise them.

We welcome consignments from the following areas:

Borehamwood | Edgware | Harrow | Hemel Hempstead | St Albans | Watford

If this page fails to answer any questions you might have on different scrap metal types, please contact our scrap yard on 020 8421 9194.

Aluminium

Did you know that apart from oxygen and silicon, aluminium happens to be the most plentiful mineral on the planet? Aluminium is easily recognisable to scrap metal merchants because it is light in weight. In comparison to iron, another common metal we handle at our Watford scrap yard, aluminium is three times lighter. It is also extremely resistant to the impact of corrosion.

A common source of aluminium for Carey’s Scrap Metal is from wheels, or from window frames derived from clearance work in the Watford area.

Copper

Copper is a particularly valuable scrap metal and one which should be easily recognisable to our Hertfordshire and North West London customers. Our own scrap metal merchants recognise it through its distinctive red or brown colour, although it happens to be pink in pure form. Scrap copper often derives from local boiler, tank and pipework clearance and waste disposal projects.

We have one of the few scrap metal yards in the Watford area to accept all scrap cable consignments, which also contain copper. The Statue of Liberty was a brown copper construction when first built in 1876 but because of oxidation over the years, it now has its legendary green coloured patina.

Iron and Steel

The most common scrap metals we derive from clearance work in Watford, Hertfordshire and North West London are iron and steel. Iron is strong, heavy and highly magnetic but corrodes easily when it has contact with water or oxygen. This is why it needs a primer when used in manufacturing, particularly on car panels prior to painting. Primer forms a protective barrier against rust.

Our scrap metal merchants encounter iron daily because it happens to be the most common element and is part of the planet’s inner and outer core.

Lead‍

Commonly used in the building, construction and roofing sectors, lead is a heavy and dense scrap metal up to 150% denser than iron. In fact, our scrap metal merchants recognise lead because it is soft and carves easily using a sharp edge. We often find lead during factory clearance work and similar commercial waste disposal projects in or around the Watford area.

We can even find lead in the pencils we use.

The Romans are known to have mixed syrup in lead containers. Our historians claim the Roman Empire partly collapsed through large-scale lead poisoning.

Brass

The scrap metal merchants at our Watford yard frequently monitor market rates for scrap metal to ensure our customers get the best value from their clearance and waste disposal projects. Brass is roughly half as valuable as copper and is most often found in our own line of work when we encounter pipe valves, fluid manifolds and similar items from commercial clearances.

Brass is a metal alloy with core components of copper and zinc.

Make the trip from Borehamwood, Edgware, Harrow, Hemel Hempstead, St Albans or the nearby Watford area and visit our scrap yard in person. We will help you to identify the metals in your consignment and offer you the best possible price based on our monitoring of current global market rates.

Call Watford’s trusted scrap metal merchants on 020 8421 9194. We collect from Borehamwood, Hemel Hempstead and all surrounding areas.

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