We buy surplus electrical cable in Dallas–Fort Worth.

Six families cover most of what leaves DFW job sites. Every one of them is bought, never sold, and each is reviewed on different facts: conductor metal, insulation, shielding, voltage class, footage and how it has been stored.

• Building wire — THHN and THWN, XHHW, RHW and bare copper in full reels, partial reels and cut lengths.
• Armoured and sheathed — MC, AC, SER and SEU, NM-B from commercial fit-outs and residential work.
• Feeder and service — large feeder, paralleled sets, service entrance, switchgear and padmount cable.
• Medium and high voltage — 2 kV through 345 kV, shielded, PILC and HPFF, substation bus, transmission conductor.
• Industrial — tray, control, instrumentation, VFD, welding and pump cable.
• Situations — partial reels, cancelled projects, warehouse overstock, demolition and plant changeover surplus.

Cable does not have to be new, and it does not have to fill a truck. One reel is reviewed on its own facts; a full trailer is reviewed lot by lot.

The Metroplex is not one market. A data centre shell in Allen, a stamping plant in Arlington and a 1960s office tower coming down in downtown Dallas produce completely different cable, in different condition, with different paperwork. Knowing which corridor a lot came from tells a buyer what to ask next.

The first conversation is about facts, not figures. Send what you know about the cable and a buyer works through the same five steps every time. Nothing is bought, moved or scheduled until written lot terms are agreed.

• Send the list — type, conductor, voltage class, gauge or MCM, footage or reel count, condition and the city it sits in.
• Construction check — copper or aluminium, shielded or unshielded, armoured, plenum, direct burial; whether the reel tag is legible and the jacket print matches it.
• Quantity check — tag footage against measured circumference, weight against published conductor weight, cut lengths counted rather than estimated.
• Written terms — a lot description, what is included, what is excluded, and who handles loading and freight.
• Pickup and settlement — access arranged around your dock hours, cable loaded and checked, payment released on the agreed terms.

There is no published rate card, because there is no single cable. Insulation, shielding, stranding, condition and footage move a lot far more than the metal value does.

Thirty district files sit under the Metroplex hub, each written around the building stock and industry that actually produces cable there — not a template with the city name swapped.

• Downtown Dallas and the Design District — tower retrofits, risers, showroom fit-outs.
• Irving and Las Colinas, Coppell and Farmers Branch — corporate campuses, warehouses, older industrial parks.
• Plano, Allen, McKinney and Frisco — the northern data centre and corporate belt.
• Richardson and Garland — telecom, semiconductor support and heavy manufacturing.
• Arlington, Grand Prairie and Fort Worth — assembly, aerospace and rail.
• Mesquite, Lancaster, DeSoto and Waxahachie — the southern logistics corridor.
• Denton, Weatherford and Midlothian — the outer manufacturing ring.

Six details are enough for a buyer to decide whether a lot is worth a site visit. Everything else can be answered later, and photos can follow by text or email.

• Wire or cable type, and the jacket print if you can read it.
• Copper or aluminium, and whether it is shielded, armoured or direct burial.
• Voltage class — under 600 V, 600 V to 2 kV, 2 to 15 kV, 15 to 35 kV, or above 35 kV.
• Gauge or MCM and conductor count per reel or coil.
• Footage, weight or reel count — tag footage is fine, an estimate is fine too.
• Condition and location: new surplus, partial reel, removed, plus the city and how a truck would reach it.

Useful photos: the reel tag, the jacket print, a clean look at the cut end, and a wide shot showing how the reels are stored and what is around them.