When renovating your home, staying on time and under budget is always a top priority. While you work with contractors to enhance the beauty and value of your property, you'll create plenty of rubbish as you remove older materials. Instead of hauling everything to the landfill, consider bringing certain metals to a salvage yard and earning cash through scrap metal recycling. Here's a list of metals that are both valuable and ideal for recycling. 

Which Household Metals Are Valuable?

1. Copper

Copper is one of the highest-priced scrap metals as it's incredibly desirable on the resale market. Copper is frequently used in plumbing pipes and tubing. It's also found in electrical wiring and is a metal used in high-end cookware. Collecting these items to take to the salvage yard when renovating your kitchen or bathroom can help mediate costs. 

2. Brass

After copper, brass is a top scrap metal. It's used in pipes and tubes, but can also be found in doorknobs, door knockers, drawer pulls, lighting fixtures, and even bed frames. Beyond the nuts and bolts of overhauling your space with a contractor, collect brass as you redecorate, so you can reinvest in newer decor. 

3. Aluminum

While aluminum recycling is often synonymous with soda cans and smaller items, aluminum is also used in home building for fencing, siding, gutters, downspouts, window frames, and door frames. Aluminum is also prevalent in cook and bakeware since it's rust-resistant. 

4. Stainless Steel

With its distinct shine, durability, and rust-resistance, stainless steel is popular when building homes and appliances such as refrigerators, ovens, washers, dryers, dishwashers, and even sinks. Collect stainless steel appliances and smaller items like knives, utensils, and scissors to maximize your return at the salvage yard.

If you're renovating and have any of the metals listed above, Phipps Auto Parts in Goshen, OH, is your go-to source for scrap metal recycling. This salvage yard has helped residents across Clermont County trade scrap metal and junk cars for cash since 1980. Call (513) 722-2034 to discuss a pick-up, or visit them online for more information on the items they accept and their payment policies.