A large proportion of the everyday brass we buy comes in as mixed brass.

This can include a mixture of brass fittings, taps, valves, plumbing components and other suitable brass items.

For plumbers and heating engineers in particular, mixed brass can accumulate surprisingly quickly.

A bucket containing old fittings, valves and other brass components can represent a valuable load without somebody necessarily needing to spend hours dismantling every individual item.

Is Brass Worth Stripping

Not always.

Removing certain attachments can sometimes affect the grade, but the additional value needs to justify the time and effort involved.

Mixed brass itself can be a valuable scrap grade.

We don’t want to encourage customers to spend hours stripping or dismantling something for a relatively small additional return.

Instead, ask us first.

Show us what you’ve got and we’ll explain how we’d grade it and whether additional preparation is actually worthwhile.

We want to help customers get the best return for their scrap – not give them unnecessary work.

Brass is everywhere in the plumbing and heating trade.

We buy suitable old and redundant:

This makes plumbers and heating engineers particularly important customers for us.

Their brass also often comes alongside valuable copper tube, cylinders and other non-ferrous material.

Customers don’t necessarily need to know every grade before they visit.

If they’ve got copper, brass and other non-ferrous metals from a job, bring them in and we’ll help make sure the different materials are correctly identified and graded.

Old taps and valves are another common source of scrap brass.

We see them from:

They can contain brass alongside steel, plastic, rubber and other materials, so their construction can affect how they’re graded.

Again, we don’t want to tell people automatically to dismantle every tap or valve.

Bring us some first.

We’ll explain how we’re grading them and whether doing anything differently with future loads would actually be worth their time.

As well as plumbers and heating engineers, we welcome:

Already use another scrap yard? Ask us what we’re paying today.

Never used Stewarts before? Give us a try.

Got Copper to sell? We also buy scrap Copper across Essex.

You don’t need to be a tradesperson or have a van full of scrap to use Stewarts.

Members of the public are very welcome.

Someone might have brass from a:

Bring it into the yard and we’ll weigh and grade it.

If they don’t know what’s brass and what isn’t, that’s fine.

That’s something we can help with.

This is one of the most important Stewarts messages and I’d like it carried across the new price pages.

At Stewarts Scrap Metal Recycling, we don’t just want to weigh somebody’s material and send them on their way without explaining anything.

If they’ve got different materials mixed together, we’ll help identify them.

If separating something differently could help them get better value from future loads, we’ll tell them.

And importantly:

New customers will need the appropriate identification to set up an account.

Please bring:

Scrap metal cannot legally be paid for in cash, so payments are made using an approved cashless method.

Scrap metal purchases are made using an approved cashless payment method.

If someone is unsure what identification they need, call us before travelling.