Small commercial lots in Addison.

A restaurant remodel disturbs more electrical work than its floor area suggests. Cooking equipment needs dedicated circuits, hoods need controls, walk-ins need their own feeds, and the rooftop units that serve the dining room are re-connected whenever the roof is touched. All of it is small cable, and all of it is cut to length on the day rather than measured against a drawing that was revised twice before the kitchen opened.

What survives is a mixture: THHN coils in several colors, MC whips to hoods and fixtures, portable cord for equipment that gets moved, and occasionally a length of feeder from a panel change. Grease and heat mark the jacket on anything that lived near the line, and that marking is worth describing rather than hiding.

Rooftop work adds its own category. A replaced unit leaves a whip, a disconnect and sometimes a length of tray or flex, and the whip's length and armor condition decide whether it can be reused or should go for the copper rather than sit in the van for another year.

The office buildings around Addison are served by corridors that were designed for cleaning carts rather than pallets. A suite refit leaves MC, tray cut-offs and Cat6 boxes, and moving them out means a pallet jack, a tight turn and a service door that may open onto an alley shared with three other tenants.

That constraint is not a reason to leave the material behind. It is a reason to say at the start that a straight truck and a lift gate are needed, and to name the window when the alley is not blocked by a delivery. A collector who arrives with a trailer at lunchtime will not get in, and the material will still be sitting there afterwards.

A single coil of THHN is not a collection. A coil, two whips, a partial box of Cat6 and a portable cord from the same kitchen is a stop, particularly when it sits near other Addison lots. The material does not have to be large; it has to be described well enough for a buyer to plan around it.

Photographs do most of the work here. One wide shot of the store room, one of the panel schedule if it is being replaced, and one of the jacket print on the largest item will usually tell a buyer whether the lot is worth collecting, and it saves a second conversation about the same shelf.

Small lots in Addison are often combined with nearby work on the same run. Sending the list early, even before the remodel is finished, gives the review more options than a call on the last day.