Salvage Services
If you have a renovation or upgrade project coming up or just a pile of building materials sitting in your garage or basement, give us a call, 716–885–4131.
Buffalo ReUse can:
- Offer free pick-ups of materials from your home or business and offer you a tax-deduction for the value of that materials.
- Accept drop-offs of materials at our ReUse Store.
- Offer estimates or provide free services for the removal of kitchen cabinets, fixtures, etc. prior to a renovation project in your home or business.
- Salvage materials from abandoned buildings prior to your contractor’s demolition.
Here’s a partial list of materials that we accept at our ReUse Store:
- Appliances - <5 yrs old stoves, microwaves, A/C, fridge, freezer, washer/dryer in good working order
- Baseboard heaters
- Breakers - power supply boxes, meter bases, mast
- Cabinets - kitchen or bath uppers and base w/ no water damage, assembled
- Ceiling tile - 2′x2′ or 2′x4′ panels, white grid
- Chimney pipe - insulated, b-vent, single wall*
- Counter tops - straight sections, standard size
- Doors, wood - entry, interior, or screen; hollow core only if in good condition
- Doors, glass - sliders with all pieces
- Doorknobs, modern with parts/key older mortise locksets missing parts okay
- Electrical - outlets, switches, boxes, conduit, surface mount, wire, phone jack, thermostat
- Fasteners - nails and screws sorted in boxes
- Faucets - with all parts
- Fencing - Wood or metal, posts, panels, rails
- Fireplace mantles - with all pieces
- Furnaces - wood, propane, or gas good working
- Garage doors - insulated metal with tracks
- Gardening - shovels, rakes, wheelbarrow, axe, pruners, hoses, terracotta pots, plants
- Granite, Marble, Stone, or Brick
- Hand tools - all types modern or collectable
- Hardwood floor - tongue and groove intact
- Insulation - fiberglass, clear plastic bagged; rigid foam; or cellulose bagged.
- Lighting - wall, ceiling, chandelier, utility, Christmas, yard
- Lumber- 1×4x6 or greater, 2×4x6 or greater
- Medicine cabinets - no rust or mirror fogging
- Molding - crown, picture, baseboard >6 ft
- Paint - new or mis-tint cans white preferred, polyurathane
- Paint accessories - roller handle, trays, brushes
- Pipe - copper, PVC, and ASB >3 ft, fittings
- Plumbing - valves, fittings, faucets, shower control
- Plywood - >2×4 ft incl. chipboard, OSB
- Power tools - saws, sanders, drills, woodworking
- Radiator - steam and hot water, see Baseboard above
- Roofing - metal, drip edge, tar paper, bitathane, full asphalt bundles
- Sheetrock - min 4×4, prefer 4×8 flat and dry
- Shower stalls - fiberglass or plastic w/ all parts
- Shutters, wood - with all louvers present
- Siding- solid wood, vinyl, cement
- Sink, stainless, enameled cast iron, enameled metal, slate, soapstone
- Sink, bath - wall-hung, single vanity top, pedestal
- Screen/Storm doors - with all panes and screen
- Storm windows - triple track, panes in good working order, prefer with screen
- Tile - new, floor or wall, ceramic, slate, composition (no adhesive)
- Toilets - white low flush or lids only
- Tools - hand and power in safe working condition
- Towel bars - bath accessories in good condition
- Tubs - claw foot, fiberglass, cast iron, metal
- Trim - window and door > 6 ft
- Vanities - with counter, no water damage
- Vinyl flooring - new 5?x8? or larger rolled w/ size marked
- Vinyl siding - uncut pieces >500 sf
- Water heaters - < 3 years old
- Windows- double pane fixed or moving w/ jambs, single paned sashes
- Wire- phone, data, bell, speaker, romex, 6–16 ga
- Wood- see Lumber
