Weighed in front of you
You watch the load go on the scales and you see the reading yourself. Nothing gets weighed out the back.
Cash for scrap metal in inner Melbourne
Copper, brass and stainless out of renovations, rewires and refits. A straight run out to our Braybrook yard, weighed in front of you and paid on the spot.
- Open till 6:30pm weekdays
- Weighed in front of you
- Paid on the spot
We buy Copper, Aluminium, Brass, Stainless steel, Steel and heavy metal, Cable and wire, Car bodies, Lead, Batteries, Electric motors, Alloy wheels, Radiators, Catalytic converters, Offcuts, Site clearance.
Why people use this yard
Paid on the spot
Settled the moment the weight is agreed. No invoice to wait on and nobody to chase next week.
Open till 6:30pm weekdays
Two hours after most Melbourne yards shut, 5pm on Saturday, and after hours by arrangement if you ring ahead.
No minimum at the yard
A boot load is weighed the same way as a truck load. Factories and industrial sites, we collect.
Scrap metal recycling, Inner Melbourne
Scrap metal recycling for inner Melbourne’s strip-outs, rewires and refits.
Metal Plus buys scrap metal from the builders, electricians, plumbers, shopfitters and building managers working inner Melbourne, and from anyone renovating a terrace or clearing a basement. Most of it is high-value: copper pipe and cable out of old houses, stainless from kitchen refits, brass tapware, and aluminium from commercial fit-outs.
Our yard is at 159 Ashley St, Braybrook, a straight run out from the city. A ute or boot load is quickest dropped off at the yard, where there is no minimum. A strip-out with more than a tonne of metal can have a bin on site, and the industrial sites still left in the inner suburbs can have it collected. It is graded in front of you and paid on the spot.
Where the yard is
A straight run out from the city.
Braybrook is a straight run out west, so a ute or a car boot of copper is a short trip, with no appointment and no minimum at the gate. For a bin on a strip-out, the question worth answering first is where it can sit and how the metal gets to it. Tell us that on the phone before anything is booked.
What we see from here
Scrap metal we buy from inner Melbourne.
Different regions produce genuinely different loads. This is what turns up from inner Melbourne, and roughly who it comes from.
Renovation and rewire
Copper pipe, cable and old wiring out of the terraces and workers cottages through Fitzroy, Collingwood, Richmond and Carlton. Usually the highest value per kilo of anything on this list.
Scrap copper wire and cableCommercial strip-out
Office and retail fit-outs coming back out: partition framing, ducting, cable tray, conduit and shopfitting aluminium.
Hospitality refits
Stainless benches, canopies, sinks, shelving and cool room panel from cafe and restaurant refits, which the inner north and South Yarra produce constantly.
Stainless steel recyclingWarehouse conversion
Structural steel, roof sheeting, old plant and machinery from the warehouse-to-apartment work through Abbotsford, Cremorne and Brunswick.
Bathrooms and kitchens
Copper pipe, brass tapware and stainless sinks out of houses being brought up to date. Easy to get wrong on price if you sell them as mixed steel.
Scrap brass taps and fittingsApartment and body corporate
Basement clear-outs, old bike racks, roller doors, balustrade and plant room replacements. Ring before a big one and we will tell you what suits.
How it works
Four steps, and you are paid before you leave.
- 01
Ring us or send a photo
Tell us roughly what you have got. A photo from your phone is usually enough for us to say whether it is worth bringing in and what to expect.
- 02
Bring it to the yard
Drive it into the Braybrook yard Monday to Saturday, or at another time by arrangement. Any amount, and no appointment. Factories and industrial sites can book a pickup instead.
- 03
Weighed in front of you
Your load goes on the scales while you watch. You see the reading and you get the docket. Nothing is weighed out the back where you cannot see it.
- 04
Paid on the spot
Sorted the moment the weight is agreed. You are not waiting on an invoice and you are not chasing anybody next week.
Three ways to sell
However much you have got, there is a way to move it.
Drop off at the yard
Pull in, get weighed, get paid. No appointment and no minimum. We are open until 6:30pm on weekdays and 5pm on Saturday, and after hours by arrangement.
- No minimum quantity
- Weighed while you watch
- Paid before you leave
Industrial pickup
For factories and industrial sites across Greater Melbourne. Tell us what the site produces and roughly how much, and we will bring the right truck.
- Factories and industrial sites
- Right truck for the load
- Paid on collection
Bins for bigger jobs
Scrap bins dropped on site for jobs over a tonne. Factories, demolition, construction and site clearance. We swap them out as they fill.
- For loads over 1 tonne
- Swapped as they fill
- Ongoing contracts welcome
Weighing and payment
You watch the scales. That is the whole policy.
The single most common worry people have about selling scrap is that the weight will not be right and there is no way to check. So we took the question off the table.
- Your load is weighed where you can see it. Nothing goes out the back and comes back with a number on it.
- You get a docket with the weight on it. Written down, in your hand, before anything is settled.
- Grades are shown to you, not just quoted. If your copper is two different grades we will separate it in front of you and explain why.
- Payment is settled on the spot. Once the weight is agreed, that is it. No invoice, no waiting.
- 5+
- Years in the trade
- 4,000+
- Tonnes recycled each year
- 50
- Trucks and bins on the road
- 150+
- Collections a week
Reviews
What people actually say.
Every one of these is a real review on our Google profile, word for word. Click any of them and check.
See all reviews on Google- Tom Ison
Read Tom Ison's review on GoogleDawood is one of the nicest lads you’ll meet. Clearly communicated on the phone and was a pleasure to deal with. Had to get rid of these wheels asap and he took care of me with a fair payment.
Would highly recommend his service, easy and straightforward.
- Ben Salads
Read Ben Salads's review on GoogleGood experience, good customers service, best prices for scrap coppers in Melbourne. On the spot payments.
Good people
- Luc Tran
Read Luc Tran's review on GoogleGreat service, fast service, no issues, good pricing, They paid instantly and much better rate than other metal recyclers yard across Melbourne,
- Nathan Barca
Read Nathan Barca's review on GoogleWas looking for a scrap metal place and couldn’t find one that dealt with small amounts, Dawood from Metalplus was very quick honest and helpful, i am definitely coming back.
- Syafiq Azroy
Read Syafiq Azroy's review on GoogleI recently had an old accident-damaged car that I needed to get rid of while I was in Bendigo. After searching on Google, I found MetalPlus in Melbourne, and I’m really glad I chose them.
The whole process was smooth and hassle-free. They were professional, easy to deal with, and offered me a fair price for my car. When I dropped the car off, everything was handled quickly, and I received my payment without any issues.
I’m very happy with the service I received and would definitely recommend MetalPlus to anyone looking to sell a scrap or unwanted car. Great experience overall!
- Joseph Robinson
Read Joseph Robinson's review on GoogleGreat service, best copper price in the market Dawood helped heaps Will be back
- Max Bruton
Read Max Bruton's review on GoogleGreat service, great prices with reliability and easy to work with attitude. Will definitely be back for future business.
- Arthur Lamaris
Read Arthur Lamaris's review on GoogleGreat service. Efficient and payment received on the spot. Couldn’t recommend higher.
- Mark Killmister
Read Mark Killmister's review on GoogleFriendly staff extremely helpful good money paid for Scrap!!! highly recommend
- Benji Hibberd
Read Benji Hibberd's review on GoogleVery good service top bloke looks after his customers great experience
Been in and had a good run? A review takes a minute and it genuinely helps. Leave one here, or just ring 0452 220 422.
Where we go
Dense, old, constantly being pulled apart and put back.
Very little is manufactured in the inner suburbs any more, and almost all of the metal that comes out of them comes out of change: a terrace being rewired, a warehouse converted to apartments, a restaurant refitted, an office floor stripped and redone for the next tenant.
That produces excellent metal. A hundred-year-old house in Fitzroy or Richmond has copper pipe and cable through it that predates anybody thinking of it as valuable, and a commercial kitchen strip-out in South Yarra is stainless bench and canopy in quantity.
What it also produces is a parking problem, which is why most inner-city metal comes out to the yard rather than the other way round. Most of these streets were laid out before trucks, half of them are one-way and a lot of them are permit or clearway, but a ute or a car boot gets out to Braybrook easily, and someone will tell you where to pull up when you arrive.
Suburbs we cover in inner Melbourne
- Melbourne CBD
- Docklands
- Southbank
- North Melbourne
- West Melbourne
- Kensington
- Flemington
- Parkville
- Carlton
- Fitzroy
- Collingwood
- Abbotsford
- Richmond
- Cremorne
- South Melbourne
- Port Melbourne
- Albert Park
- South Yarra
- Prahran
- Windsor
- Brunswick
- Northcote
- Fairfield
- and the rest of inner Melbourne
Somewhere else in Melbourne?
Questions
Scrap metal questions from inner Melbourne.
The ones we get asked most from this part of Melbourne.
Call 0452 220 422Do you pick up in inner Melbourne?
From factories and industrial sites, yes, though there are not many left in the inner suburbs. We do not collect from houses, apartments or shops. A ute or boot load is a short run out to the yard, with no minimum at the gate, and a big strip-out can have a bin on site.
Do I need a permit for a bin in the inner suburbs?
If it is going on the street rather than on your own property, usually yes, and that comes from your council rather than from us. On site, in a driveway or in a car park, normally not. Ring us and we will tell you which situation you are in before you start ringing the council.
It is a strip-out on level twelve. Can you put a bin on it?
It can work, but it needs planning rather than a truck turning up. Tell us the building, the lift booking and where a bin can sit at the loading dock, and we will work to it. Commercial strip-outs in towers are a normal job, they are just not a same-afternoon one.
Can I bring a small load to the yard?
Yes, and from the inner suburbs that is usually the easiest way. If you can get it in a ute or a car boot, Braybrook is a short run out and there is no minimum at the gate. We are open until 6:30pm on weekdays and 5pm on Saturday, and after hours by arrangement, so you are not trying to fit it into your lunch break.
Can I get cash for scrap metal in inner Melbourne?
You are paid on the spot once the weight is agreed. That is normally what someone searching for cash for scrap wants to know. The way a Victorian scrap metal dealer may pay is fixed by state law for every yard, and we explain it on our page about the law.
Is scrap metal from the inner suburbs worth more?
Often, but because of what it is, not where it comes from. Old copper pipe and cable, brass tapware and stainless are among the best-paying metals there are, and inner-city renovation produces a lot of them. The rate depends on the metal, the grade, how clean it is and the weight, at the prices per kg we publish. Send a photo and we will tell you what to expect.
Got metal sitting there doing nothing?
Ring us and we will tell you what it is worth and whether it is worth bringing in. Takes two minutes and it costs you nothing to ask.