WE BUY SURPLUS WIRE AND CABLE IN LOWELL

A six-storey mill on the canals does not have a loading dock. It has a freight elevator, a narrow stair, a door on a side street and a landlord who knows exactly what the car will take. That shapes how wire moves here. A renovation in the Hamilton Canal District, or a fit-out in one of the older blocks along Middlesex Street, can leave reels stranded on an upper floor, and the move becomes the whole problem.

We buy the wire and we solve the move. Unused reels still banded. Partial reels with a readable tag. Coils of THHN left from a rewire. Aluminum feeder bought for a service upgrade and never installed. MC, tray cable, fire alarm cable, SOOW cord. If the reel is on the fourth floor and the elevator is rated for a ton, we plan around that instead of pretending it will fit.

Send photos before anything moves. The drum tag, the jacket print, the reel flange, and a picture of where it sits: the floor, the doorway, the elevator. Note the weight if it is printed on the tag. We price from the construction, the gauge and the condition. If a reel will cost more to move than it is worth as wire, we will tell you that and leave it where it sits.

For Lowell pickups we bring a pallet jack, straps and enough people to control a drum on a ramp. Where the elevator is small, we re-spool or cut down before moving. Street loading on the canal blocks needs a permit in some cases, so give us the address early and we will check what the city and the building require. We travel to Lowell and we are used to old buildings.

Wire and cable we buy in Lowell

• THHN/THWN-2 building wire
• XHHW-2 feeder cable
• Aluminum SEU and feeder cable
• MC armored cable
• TC-ER tray cable
• SOOW flexible cord

Areas of Lowell we collect from

Reels are collected from shops, plants, warehouses and jobsites in and around these Lowell areas.

• Hamilton Canal District
• Downtown mill district
• Wannalancit Mills area
• The Acre
• Centralville
• Pawtucketville
• Belvidere
• The Highlands
• Industrial Avenue corridor
• Middlesex Street

Who we buy from in Lowell

Mill building owners

Landlords in the canal district and along Middlesex Street hold wire left by departing tenants and never inventoried.

Electrical contractors

Rewires in century-old mill space use more wire than planned, and the remainder usually stays on the reel in the van or the basement.

Institutional facilities

Campus and public building projects in Lowell generate steady small lots of building wire, tray cable and fire alarm cable.

Small manufacturers

Shops on converted mill floors buy wire for machine installs and keep what is left on a shelf for years.

Pickup and loading notes

• Freight elevators in six-storey mills have weight and door limits, so we plan around the rating rather than against it.
• Canal-side streets are narrow with little standing room, which makes the loading window matter.
• Where the elevator is small, reels are re-spooled or cut down before they travel.