Free From Your Local Roofer

[Semisane]

The mold is home made from an old piece of angle iron and a short section of galvanized water pipe. The ingots average about 1 ½ lbs.

 

[Kansas Jake]

Nice score and ingot mold.

 

[William P Sepessy]

Looks good! I always get a kick out of seeing that nice clean lead after skimming off the dross.

 

[Ames]

Roofers up here sell it for scrap money.

 

[Scota@4570]

Good score.
Here in California lead is Has-mat. Roofers will not give or sell it. Scrap yards will not sell it. It is one more reason on my list to leave California.

 

[longcruise]

I just bought some of the roofing lead from my local scrapper. Be careful of the pipes soldered to the flashing. They seem to be harder than the flashing and the solder joints can be harder too. It's probably just fine even if a bit hard.

 

[Carbon 6]

Roofers up here sell it for scrap money.

Offer them a better price. Roof flashing is good stuff.

 

[Frontier's]

very nice! I've been going down to the local scrap yard and buying it for a buck a pound. No roofers in this area seem to run into this kind of stuff. Last trip I picked up 144lbs.

 

[FishDFly]

I buy mine as mentioned, at the local re-cycle place.

 

[dave951]

Local roofers sell it to the scrap yard. My local scrap yard will resell it at spot, roughly $.95/lb. If given the choice since I cast minies, Xray room lead is the goto at that price.

If you can get roofing lead free and shoot PRB, that's a great score.

 

[longcruise]

I have worked in roofing extensively and managed jobs all around the denver area and never encountered lead flashing. All my work was in areas of homes that were 50 years old and newer. Most homes, if any, in that age range would not have any lead flashing. Much older homes do have it but most roofs have been replaced over the years and no lead used.

It's obviously out there though. I just bought some a couple weeks ago! going rate with my guy was 75 cents.

 

[Nyckname]

Within the last twenty years, there was a hardware store in Houston selling pre-fab lead flashing to go around roof vents.

 

[FishDFly]

My house was built in 2004 and it had 6 lead roof vents and I re-roofed in 2020 because of hail damage. Roofer swapped them for a 6 pack, which we split while visiting.

 

[Sidney Smith]

Was at a local auction recently. They had two flat sheets of lead about a foot and a half long by a foot wide by about 1/4 inch thick. They went for $25 each.

I have plenty of raw lead for my needs or would have placed a bid.

 

[spudnut]

I viited my med center and met a laborer on the way out pushing a dumpster, full of sheet lead from an xray renovation, I was late but he gave me about 20lbs, after the appointment I went out back and pulled another 20lb sheet out of the roll off, I went back an hr later to burgle it again but there was a cop parked by it...manure!

 

[bud in pa]

I just bought some of the roofing lead from my local scrapper. Be careful of the pipes soldered to the flashing. They seem to be harder than the flashing and the solder joints can be harder too. It's probably just fine even if a bit hard.

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