mobile home scrap value

[carlos]

hi has anyone dismantled and weighed in a mobile home before?

i have a 28 x 10 old mobile home that i may have to move just wondering what sort of weight is in the metal work.

thanks carl

[spuddog0507]

1 hour ago, carlos said:

hi has anyone dismantled and weighed in a mobile home before?

i have a 28 x 10 old mobile home that i may have to move just wondering what sort of weight is in the metal work.

thanks carl

Not a lot , chassis might have 4-500kgs in it, Ally of the outside might be 200kgs, copper, brass and stainless from the plumbing side of it will be of the highest value for the least work, scrap value might be 3-400 quid but a lot of work and a lot of crap to get rid of, 

[carlos]

thanks for the reply, sort of what i suspected, il leave it as a last resort option,

carl

[Justme]

Cost of having someone do it will be more than the value of the scrap.

 

Only way to make it pay is do it yourself.

 

Did one about 10 years ago.

 

A 35 by 12 had 3 builders bags of insulation to get rid off.

Lots of wood but untreated so could burn it.

Steel was basically worthless at the time.

[youngsbury]

The chassis are normally rotten as a pear !. I did an old one of mine a couple of years ago and as mentioned before so much other crap to dispose of fibre glass shower / carpets / insulation etc etc = agg. took me two days 

[Canal Navvy]

They always used to be November the 5th specials ........ and when you see how quickly and how hot they burn you'd never want to live in one. 

 

The axle and wheels are worth saving if it's been boxed in out of the elements 😉

[benedmonds]

Sounds like a business opportunity.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-54250282.amp

[eggsarascal]

Give it a swerve, I broke one down years ago. It really isn't worth the effort.

[Woodworks]

Many moons ago we had a chap come out and dismantle and remove an old mobile home and gave us £200 for doing so. No idea  if it payed but we were delighted 

[scbk]

I've got a friend who had one (actually a few..) in his garden, first a family member living in it, then as storage.

But in the end he didn't really need all the storage space so he cut it in half and made a new front for it!