WE BUY SURPLUS ELECTRICAL WIRE IN PITTSFIELD

Pittsfield's building stock carries its manufacturing history in the walls. Big brick buildings off North Street and along the old industrial corridors are renovated a floor at a time, and every stage leaves conductor behind. The contractor base here is smaller than in the eastern part of the state, so leftover reels tend to stay in a shop or a garage until somebody decides to clear the shelf. That is usually where we come in.

Distance changes the arithmetic. A pickup in the Berkshires is a full trip, so it works best when the material adds up: a rack of tagged reels, a pallet of feeder, a shelf of partial spools gathered from several jobs. Small lots still get looked at, especially when they can be combined with another stop nearby. Photographs and honest weights save everybody a wasted drive.

Older stock deserves a careful look. Wire that sat in an unheated garage through a dozen Berkshire winters may be perfectly fine, or the jacket may have gone brittle. We ask where it was stored, whether it stayed dry, and what the exposed ends look like. Tagged, wrapped and indoors is the easy answer. Everything else gets judged on the photographs and the print on the jacket.

Send the photographs first, then we set a day. Tell us the street, whether a truck can use the driveway, whether the material is in a basement or a barn, and roughly what the reels weigh. North Street storefronts mean curbside loading. A shop off Dalton Avenue usually means a garage door and a clear apron in front of it. We would rather ask twice than arrive wrong.

Wire and cable we buy in Pittsfield

• THHN/THWN-2 building wire
• NM-B cable
• SER service entrance cable
• MC and armored cable
• UF underground feeder cable
• Bare copper grounding wire

Areas of Pittsfield we collect from

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

• North Street
• Downtown Pittsfield
• Morningside
• Coltsville
• Tyler Street
• West Side
• Allendale
• Dalton Avenue
• Merrill Road
• East Street

Who we buy from in Pittsfield

Electrical contractors

Small crews covering the city and the hill towns finish jobs with short coils they will not restock. Clearing the van once a season is usually when the call gets made.

Owners of mill-era commercial buildings

Brick buildings off North Street and around Coltsville were rewired in stages, so feeder and riser cable of several ages turn up together. We sort by the jacket print.

Property managers and landlords

Managers of older downtown buildings inherit basement stock with no tags and no record. Photographs of the spool ends tell us more than any inventory sheet.

Pickup and loading notes

• Berkshire pickups are a full trip, so combining several stops in one day is often what makes a small lot worthwhile.
• North Street storefronts mean curbside loading with limited standing room for a truck.
• Older buildings often mean basement stairs or barn doors instead of a dock; tell us which before pickup day.