I Scrapped an Entire House for Copper! How Much Did We Make?

[@cuscrapping]

When I had my construction business...demo was the most fun part of the job!!!

[@Holy_handful_of_bread91]

As someone who used to help my father with demo at the ripe age of 8, I can say yes absolutely best part of anything and everything

[@bread-gz3rl]

Dude that place is like 1000x better then most houses ive ever seen

[@timcolgan2699]

Someone either died or murdered in this house.😮

[@Manhandle730]

@@timcolgan2699 What?

[@Manhandle730]

You need to go see more houses then. It’s an ok place but nothing special at all. I give it a 5/10.

[@BOOT]

The wiring and pipes were A Lot better/newer than my house. Prob gonna build something there much nicer tho.

[@gregkareem9824]

​@@timcolgan2699huh?

[@joeybuldo3008]

I work a plumbing job and let me tell you the amount of copper we pull out of houses sometimes is nuts especially when it’s all original and the 3inch sewer line is copper

[@johnjack8195]

Are you allowed to keep it?

[@VirtualAustin]

​@@johnjack8195 normally its the company that he works for that keeps it

[@joeybuldo3008]

@@johnjack8195 unfortunately no,however when it gets sold our bosses are kind enough to give us all a cut of the total payout

[@ballard66766]

I work as a general and the amount of copper that our plumbers pull out is crazy. Thanks for all the hard work. Sorry for never sharing. It be hard out here.

[@Andf-kc4xx]

@@ballard66766 lol silly guy

[@tiggidyty]

As the guy who was living in this house prior to all of this, that was extremely fun to watch. I'm glad you got to do this Thub. It seems like it was worthwhile. To the commenters who think this was a "perfectly good house" I assure you, it was not. Though it may not have been the worst house, there were many deficiencies. Too many to mention here. It needed to be demolished. As far as i know, it was purchased for around $750K. In its place 2 houses will be built that will likely be listed for about a million each. Call it what you want but that's just good business.

[@Manhandle730]

Good business for everyone but the people paying a million for a townhome!! Good god prices are just ridiculous anymore.

[@tiggidyty]

@@Manhandle730 you got that right buddy.

[@ryanglaser5336]

Interesting, what were the significant defects with this place?

[@LorandHungary]

@@ryanglaser5336Biggest one is that it is only 1 home.

[@EC-dz4bq]

@@ryanglaser5336 Why settle for 750k when you can make 2 mil? lol those type of defects.

[@allfather5150]

Top tip for cleaning copper pipe, grab a large cable cutter. Something that can handle 1" cable. You can just cut above and below the joints like a pair of snips. Would have cleaned that pile in about an hour. Glad to see the truck back, great vid!

[@jamieclayton9]

Yay, the truck is back!

[@widestreammedia5547]

This was so much fun to film, turned out great 🤙🏻

[@thubprint]

Thanks for being a part of it, you were such a big help!

[@Loretzo4]

I think that was not sow much fun for the owner of the house

[@thubprint]

@@Loretzo4 maybe not, but that’s likely why he invited us in to do it for him

[@gussuperman7565]

M8 you did well , and you're right the sell of items is worth more than scrap. Yes you did leave it better than you founded , because you removed some of the recyclable materials . Not going to the landfill is a win for Canada and the world , since , it can be used again , and again . Keep up the good work. God bless y'all.

[@jazzlicafan]

TRUCK IS BACK!!!!! Woooooo so happy for you man! loved the video as always! i would love to see more house scrapping if you like doing that

[@thubprint]

Oh I loved doing it 😆 if it’s available, I’ll jump on it!

[@michaelsinclair8279]

MORE please!! Nice to see the Thubomiser 400 out to play on the plaster board as well.

[@chadfortman8098]

Your truck back alive 🎉. Yes the waste even wood floors the cabinets .

[@CanadianTreasureHunter]

You have to be careful about asbestos in the drywall, Houses here 1990 & before have to be tested for asbestos before you can do any demo

[@allthingsjack89]

Awesome to see that you have your truck back 🙂

[@eugene251]

The truck is back? That is awesome.That was hard work and smart one too.

[@ScrapFatherScrapSon]

I got to do this a month or 2 back with my son. Guy was demolishing house and rebuilding his retirement home. Ended up with about 50 pounds of copper pipe. Didn’t smash the walls for wire but should have

[@thubprint]

Cool! I hope you made a video of it! 😜 I was planning on pulling all the wire out of the walls but that would have been a lot of extra time for a small amount more money. Sounds like you hauled about the same amount we did!

[@ScrapFatherScrapSon]

@@thubprint I’ll have to look I think I posted a video if not I know I made one!

[@bryangilmer671]

This is one of your best yet

[@williammeeks1283]

Awesome video. Good to see your crew on camera. Keep up the good work

[@unknownlegend6275]

That door knob on front entrance looks like brass. Take it!

[@82camionero]

The best part was to see the Truck running again! Congrats!!

[@markrice3502]

great and yes i would watch another one if you do it and i see you have your truck running agin i hope thanks for shareing and god bless

[@riverboat28]

Good man buying the appliances!

[@ajmprovidence]

Hey just some advice from an electrician that does a lot of demo of old wiring. Next time use a pair of knipex 11 inch angled side cutters to pull the staples instead of beating up your hands and shoulders yanking the staples. Also milwaukee m12 band saw will cut pipe and wire like butter.

[@thubprint]

Pulling out staples with nice side cutters?! I don’t know if I could! 😆

[@Idolmakercat]

This home is better than my house. It is sad to see that it will be torn down. This home was very well taken care of.

[@01mustang05]

Three times better than mine; this society is a joke.

[@FranssensM]

Thub, you’re a great person. Just be careful of people who pick up on your “good guy vibes” and use that against you. I get the feeling “some folks” take more of the cash than you. After you’ve put in all the hard work. Justifying the cut because: “you get to make some money from KZbin” Not judging or criticising, you or them. I want to make sure bad things don’t happen to nice people. You may spot I have a problem with quotation marks “I’m trying man, I really am” It’s just so hard to give them up.

[@Manhandle730]

Some call it a “problem” but I call it “punctuation”!!!

[@scottcameron8804]

Glad to see the truck back on the road.

[@patrothwell9138]

U got your truck going. That should mean more scrap videos

[@crazybear357]

Great video thanks for sharing. My daughter just bought a house that needs to come down and I get dibs on all the scrape. Now im pumped

[@thubprint]

Nice! It’s a lot of work but if it’s coming down anyway 👌

[@riley8603]

BROTHER, BEEN WATCHING YOUR VIDEOS FOREVER! you're very informative and a cool guy. I enjoy these keep em up!

[@thubprint]

Well thanks for being here! I have a lot of fun coming up with scrappy vid ideas I hope will be interesting, so I appreciate the feedback and support 💙

[@riley8603]

@@thubprint I believe the smelting lead video was probably the best you've done as far as a good idea for money makin. But I enjoy watching you scrap while I scrap

[@nixd0rf356]

Great vid Thub!

[@benhumphregys3087]

Wow this was amazing I wish I could do this!

[@Manhandle730]

You can just get done before they get home!!

[@larrybuckles5180]

Dude, you have your truck back, yaaaaaaa

[@davidevans9266]

I love this, i love how you dont pretent to know what your doing you just jump in and have a go. Your very honest and have nothing to prove to anyone which is such a breath of freash air. I scrap i do it as part of value adding for clean ups . I recycle as much as i can but we are really behind in australia especially in regards to plastics, for a first world country we have no excuses. I have bad ADHD so when i take on jobs time is always an issue as i alwaus think it going to not take that long , hence i find the challenges you take on extremely imformative. Keep up your fabulous work😊

[@rayl3177]

Man that was a sweet to watch. I've always wanted to scrap a house. This was really informative and cool to watch. Thank you. I've really improved my scrapping skills from your videos.

[@gabeschulte5690]

Informative??? How so.

[@zacnok]

Great video Thub... thanks.

[@OldsmobileCutlass1969Va]

Yeah... that's where i make the best $$$ from house clean-outs! Usually the appliances are older than 5 years... but for the stove, fridge, dishwasher, oven I usually make $100 for each appliance. If there is a washer/dryer set... that's an easy $250+. Then I breakdown the scrap into the most valuable price point. When I have a truck worth of scrap... then I turn it in! My biggest load to date is 1400 pounds of steel (2700 for the year), 450 pounds of aluminum. I'm still consolidating my wire to take in next with my next steel load. And i have yet to turn in the 1500 pounds of heavy iron.

[@tomtom33tom22]

I did a house 15 years ago when I was a bit younger😂.we had 3 days took every metal,the deck,all the interior wood.if we had a few more days we would have had enough time to fully deconstruct the house and save the home owner the demolition cost.no cash changed hands even ripped the main copper wire back to the pole 115metres worth.great video

[@mediocrefunkybeat]

The ol' safety sandals!

[@3hub5386]

GOOD ol' safety sandals lmfao

[@LeanneRende]

I've been watching since the beginning and it's awesome to see you do a whole house. Great idea with taking the appliances 😊

[@teembo]

that WAS fun!

[@ChineseDetective]

04:14 - Enter the most Canadian looking guy EVER!!! Need a "Canadian guy" for your movie script! Here he is!!!

[@tresopple]

Dude it’s true about the bidet. My sibling installed one in the basement and I was like fine I’ll try it. Literally ordered one for my bathroom while sitting there lmao

[@thubprint]

😆👌

[@cocopufer5667]

so awesome you saved part of the house!!

[@thubprint]

I would’ve been more motivated to scavenge something but my friends gave me some wonderful gifts to decorate my own place with that they couldn’t take with them 💙

[@jrae6608]

Fun to watch.

[@eveengineer4147]

Awesome video, loved the scrapping and seeing the payout at the end. Also how did you not mention that THE TRUCK IS BACK, did you expect to sneak that past us.

[@adamdaley8090]

Hell of a score and experiment bud! Have a wonderful weekend Thub!

[@tedlongworth-li4ck]

Whole vid was very interesting. Well done.

[@JtePetOzen-2]

Great job... really enjoy your video That house wasn't in bad condition but the job needed to be done I'm glad you got ur truck back on the road again Ty

[@ComfortRoller]

Jetted tub would have a motor and maybe a heater. The furnace would have a motor, heater and possibly more. I remodel for a living. Good videos.

[@Thelime]

Must feel REAL good to finally be driving your truck again.

[@pattonger]

I just landed a whole house to scrap. Cannot wait to get going on it.

[@andrewgeyer2602]

This was such a fun video to watch. I would definitely enjoy watching another one of these

[@prestongarvey7014]

Good video. I’m gonna try it on my neighbors house and see what I get

[@nickyblueyes83]

Hey, just letting you know for future tarot to use the saws all reciprocating saw to cut the drywall it’s a lot easier I’m only telling you this as I am a home renovator and have done many many many bathroom, renovations

[@BushDogScrapper]

I used to work for a renovation company I was on the demolition crew! CheeRs Thub

[@yiannisk8369]

How about that metal railing at the outer stairs? Seems pretty thick and heavy.

[@gravitybear]

Oh, man! I would love to give this a try once. Very cool and fun to watch.

[@thubprint]

I leapt at the opportunity when it was mentioned 😁

[@jhnnyby85]

I've done a few house demos and I never made less than 800 taking out all the copper, brass, wires exposed, and all the misc metal that gets labeled as light iron. It's definitely worth it

[@Xander081987]

My guess, was that you were going to pull $350. After asking my son, he guessed you'd make $400. We were both amazed to see you hit $450! Great job thub! Personally, I would of pulled the wire in the walls, but hey to each their own! I can see why you don't strip the lumex wire as well after some "quick math" it looks like it would of cost you if you did actually strip it. Love it dude! Keep up the great work! Scrap Life!

[@pafischer]

This was awesome. It looked like a ton of fun. I'd like to see you do it again.

[@thubprint]

Well if the opportunity comes up I certainly will!

[@larrybuckles5180]

Yes do it again

[@tractors44]

Enjoyed watching this, a good haul of copper.

[@stanleygallman7800]

Adventures like this can end up being really profitable especially if you are being hired to do the clean out of the property where you get to keep everything although it often becomes at the very least a two person job in a limited time frame 😮 and you can also run into asbestos issues. So safety first but love this type of content.

[@workingclassdog3]

That first sledgehammer hit was comical.

[@leebishop5185]

One of my fav vids to date - this was sweeeeeeet 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@ralphh4131]

Ive made like 300 bucks since I ran into you at the scrap yard drake . It all goes into a hollow book in my house for a rainy rainy day.

[@MarkK01]

There should have been a lot more wire and pipes in that house. Did you get lazy and not take it all?

[@cthesavage]

$338.79 US dollars for anyone wondering

[@slimphillip]

videos keep getting better and better kepp up the awesome work brother🙏💪

[@Dubyea]

Invest in mini sawzall or fein tool makes cutting drywall easier less messy. Gloves for that tile are important too. Cuts like crazy

[@mattnewman6049]

Nice house.

[@joshp6061]

Awesome score thub! Was hoping you’d grab some more of the Romex, cause it runs through the whole house, but still really nice pile

[@thubprint]

I completely agree, and that was the plan the whole time. I went in expecting to pull long strands of wire straight through the drywall and end with a huge pile, but we just ran out of time at the end of the day. Next time we’ll get an earlier start and not lose so much time talking to the neighbor 😅

[@scrapitall200]

That was fun! Was this an older video that you just got around to posting or is your truck finally fixed?

[@dr.a006]

Well that was satisfying! Big hitters in all categories of copper and brass. I’m glad for you and your team! (**psst! I’m not your mom, but, Eye protection!😉👍)

[@garrysekelli6776]

It's very satisfying watching a group of tweekers tear the scrap copper out of a fully functioning house while the owners are away on vacation.

[@jesseTsg]

I second this. It only takes one pair of glasses to protect both eyeballs.

[@dr.a006]

@@jesseTsg as someone with eyeballs, I agree.

[@thubprint]

You’re absolutely right, I brought extra eye protection too.. was just being a doofus

[@jesseTsg]

@@thubprint You're not the only one. We've all been doofuses when it comes to safety.

[@bestest7239]

Great workout! I should recycle some old clothes too but I almost can't bring myself to do it, and I am also too lazy to shop new ones

[@g6vinm131]

hit the wall like u mean it wubb 😂

[@vincedibona4687]

Two thubs up. 👍🏻👍🏻

[@ericprater4017]

Great Job!

[@susananthony2366]

Part 2 of this house is diving the dumpster he gets for the tear down! 😂

[@jamespatterson8512]

It’s the house on the next street. 😂😂😂

[@thatcanada]

Did you or the homeowner test for asbestos? After watching the Treasure Hunter doing inspections, it seems to appear in random spots in those old homes...

[@dandanny1435]

Watched the tree planting mission episode.

[@bfg1637]

It's not often one is watching KZbin and sees a person you used to hang out with. Lol wild. In case you read this I'll leave a hint, we used to hang with Scribbles at my place on 14th. Many moons ago.

[@noah4652]

You're nuts, and I love it

[@RealTCE]

Dude read my mind on my wondering! Hope all is well my neighbour🤘🏻🇨🇦

[@woodworkingandepoxy643]

I'd be calling to ask about the appliances and cabinets lol

[@robdegoyim4023]

Something about shiny metal that just says.. MONEY

[@Trash_Cowboy]

Great video. And I completely agree that the real money is in the resale goods. I have been focusing on resale and barter alot more as I have found some great stuff curbside this summer. Alwas love watching your stuff on friday while I am "working" lol. Keep it up.

[@thubprint]

The resale is huge, especially with curb side! I love scrapping but the day is instantly a whole lot better when you find that easy $40 or $100 flip.

[@nickyblueyes83]

I love the video. Keep it up. Great work.

[@ProspectorTripp]

Great job dude! Score! Peace Prospector Tripp

[@LuftpolsterManu]

"its too much footage already" There can never be too much footag!!!

[@spicolip2334]

why are they demoing this perfectly good house?

[@ryanphillips1388]

Nice job!

[@choccie_chip685]

Love the editing! Really stepping it up

[@thubprint]

I’m trying! 😃

[@Xander081987]

@@thubprint The batman edits were hilarious.

[@petermccall9354]

Hey man you forgot the stainless-steel sinks, brass door knobs, steel flyscreen doors, . Cheers.

[@thubprint]

The sinks were porcelain and stone but you’re right, there was plenty more to pull if I’d been more efficient with the time we had. The furnace and water heater as well

[@Joesworld1988]

Wubs hair is incredible!

[@thubprint]

It’s really having a party these days 😆

[@s-volt9814]

Wow, this video is like a crazy Mr Beast Thub print level up lol! Such a cool experience that you got to do this!

[@richavic4520]

What, wait, do I see a truck? Effin A!

[@richardd1880]

Unfortunately Thub got the address wrong, it should have been nextdoor...😂

[@cuetTimmonz]

nice. too bad not everyone has access to a house, to scrap copper..lol. i did hear a piece of copper pipe fall off a guys truck.. about 12 feet 7 yrs ago, still using it. one piece is a broom handle!! LOL I was given a good lot of electrical cables, 1 huge motor, about 5lbs of copper in itself! and twisted rope copper in a cord... and i also scout on garbage days, or just in general, finding stuff. better than wasting time with BITCOIN!!! nice find guys..

[@Rasputin-p4e]

You need a stall, mate, for ceiling works.