Seller guide
Preparing for a Busway Teardown
A short checklist that makes the job faster and the number better.
- Paid before removal
- No testing required
- Dismantling and rigging on us
- Freight always covered
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Photograph before anything moves
The most useful preparation is documentation, taken while everything is still in place. Nameplates, wide shots of each run, the ceiling height, what sits underneath, both terminations, and the route to a dock. Ten minutes with a phone at this stage produces a materially better quote than a description after the fact.
If a demolition contractor is already on site, do this before they reach the electrical room. Once equipment starts moving the information gets harder to recover, and some of it is lost permanently.
Leave the equipment alone
The strongest position for a seller is untouched equipment. Do not cut duct into sections, do not discard joint hardware or hangers, do not separate plugs from the runs they came off, and do not clean anything.
Each of those actions either reduces value directly or destroys identifying information. Continuous duct length with hardware attached is worth meaningfully more than the same metal in pieces, and a grease-pencil marking on a cover is sometimes the only surviving clue to what a unit is.
Sequence us relative to demolition
Electrical removal should happen before general demolition reaches the area, not after. Once structure starts coming down, access deteriorates, equipment gets damaged incidentally, and what could have been a resale purchase becomes a recovery one.
Tell us the demolition schedule at the walkthrough. We build our crew plan around your critical dates, including working nights or weekends where that is what the sequence requires.
Sweep the storerooms
Maintenance storerooms and mezzanines accumulate spare plugs, breakers and fuses for systems that were removed years ago. On a discontinued line, unused spares in cartons can be the best material in the building, and they are routinely thrown out during a cleanout because nobody recognises them.
Photograph those shelves before anything goes into a dumpster. It costs nothing and it occasionally changes the size of the deal substantially.
Have the site logistics ready
A point of contact who can make decisions, whatever contractor orientation or badging your facility requires, and a workable place for a truck. If insurance certificates need to go to a safety group, tell us early so mobilisation is not held up by paperwork.
Beyond that, nothing is required from you. No labor, no lifts, no crating, no testing, no certification.
Get the quote before you commit to a disposal plan
Once electrical equipment is in a scrap container the decision is made and it is not reversible. A photograph and a phone call first has no downside, because we buy the recovery-grade material too.
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Everything worth knowing before you sell
Funds change hands before a single section leaves your property. There is no consignment and no waiting on a downstream resale.
Our own crew takes the run down. You are not sourcing riggers, renting lifts or chasing a carrier who has never handled busway before.
You are never asked to test, megger or certify anything. We grade from physical condition and the nameplate. That is the entire process.
Fusible plugs, breaker units, bus duct, tap boxes, panelboards and starters all on one job is the normal case rather than the exception.
Preparing for a Busway Teardown: quick answers
Straight answers
How far ahead should I contact you?
As early as you know the equipment is coming out. Weeks of notice gives the best scheduling flexibility, but we work short timelines routinely.
Can you coordinate directly with our demolition contractor?
Yes, and it usually makes the sequence cleaner for everyone.
What if the building has to be empty by a hard date?
Tell us the date and we plan backwards from it, including additional crew where that is what it takes.
Questions about your own equipment?
Call or text photos and we will tell you what you have.
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