Looking for advice.

[Dave-01]

Hi I'm Dave not a plumber, just looking for some help regarding plumbing fittings.
My father passed a while ago, he was a plumber by trade, there is loads of fittings left lying around & I don't know wether it is better to scrap them or try sell them to help my mother get spending money for when she goes on holiday.

Theres a multitude of straight couplings, elbows, tee, compression elbows, loads of upvc fittings too.
We must be upto 15-20kg on brass fittings.

He also has a set of what I think are Georgian taps, I remember him saying there worth a bit off money any ideas where to take them.

I will try upload photos, and accurate numbers of the fittings.

appreciate any advice.

 

[Old Account]

I just would sell them all ...do not scrap them either plumbers here or on eBay will buy the. About those taps depends what sort of taps some of them you can get quite cheap around 40/50£

 

[Unregistered]

Thanks for the quick reply, this might sound daft but do plumbers reuse the brass fittings that come from previous jobs as lot of them are old. There is some new ones like bib tap, end feed straight tap connectors & compression fittings. All the copper fittings are new from what I can see.

 

[Old Account]

Me personally I wouldn't buy used stuff. You can ask some other ppl over here you may better off on eBay if you have no result here. I guess here is an section for plumbing tools and fittings you may post and ask there.

 

[Unregistered]

Ok, thanks for your help.Will follow up the post in a day or two once I get everything counted & hopefully have some pictures.

 

[Best]

Scrap metal like brass & copper is at a very low value at moment, - so don't scrap anything yet.
I would try to sell any new stuff (a new brass fitting might have the value of £2, but would be silly to scrap it for 10 pence! Also the taps, if they're real old Georgian taps they might sell in the right place for good money. You wouldn't get them from a dealer cheap. Just be careful plumbers, or in the case of the taps, antique dealers, don't rip you off.
Some of the brass fittings might look used, but could be just lying about in stock for years dulled, but perfectly good.

 

[Dave-01]

These are the taps I was talking about

 

[Dave-01]

Any ideas what these are, thought I took two pictures of it. It has a hole in the middle of it.

 

[Neil K]

Any ideas what these are, thought I took two pictures of it. It has a hole in the middle of it.View attachment 22845

Looks like a 15mm -8mm or 10mm reducer for use in a 15mm compression fitting

 

[solutions]

Looks like a 15mm -8mm or 10mm reducer for use in a 15mm compression fitting

Yes I agree that is what it is. Op it Goes inside a compression fitting in place of the original olive to reduce the pipe size. The middle section becomes the olive for the smaller size pipe.

 

[Dave-01]

Thanks again guys for the advice, will get a stock of everything and if it's not to much hassle could someone give me a ballpark figure so I know am not getting ripped off.

 

[plumben]

If you can post pictures up of everything you've got,
You might be able to sell to a plumber on here,

Although when selling fittings that they'd have to be cheap for someone to take the risk in buying them, if its only a small saving most plumbers would just go to Williams & co instead

 

[stevetheplumber]

help if we knew where your based im always up for buying job lots of fittings i usually give around half retail for them

 

[Dave-01]

Ok see here goes I hope this isn't a pain for people reading.

15mm straight coupling x 650
15mm elbow x 475
15mm tee x 25
22mm straight coupling x 185
22mm elbow x 35
22mm tee x 10
22-15mm reducer x 75
15-10mm reducer x 25
Copper pipe 15mm x 3m x 17 lengths
Copper pipe 22mm x3m x 6 lengths
Copper pipe 28mm x3m x 2 lengths

Compression elbows 15mm x 10
22mm x 10
Compression straight coupler 10mm x 10
Gate valves 15mm x 3
28mm x 1
Straight cylinder Union ( I think that's what they are)
22mm x10
15mm x 10
Isolating valve 15mm x 15
Angled radiator valve x 32

Stelrad K2 600 x 600
1100 x 600 x 2

Upvc bottle trap x 3
32mm couplings, 45 & 90 degrees approx 40
Syphons with ball floats & hardware x 3
Pan connectors x 2
Washing machine trap
Other odds & ends of upvc compression fittings.
15mm barrier pex pipe x 18m

This is most of the stuff, there is two boxes of brass compression fittings, flanged backnut, caps, nipple & other fittings that I have included in the pictures. Is it worth my while trying to salvage fittings out of them?

 

[Dave-01]

 

[Dave-01]

 

[aqua.heat]

I'd be willing to put an offer in for the copper fittings and pipework. There are a few guys that posted before me though and will let them have first dibs. Anything they don't want or need let me know by all means.

Jon.

 

[Rckape]

Whereabouts are you?