Chicago, IL · Transfer Switches
Chicago, IL: Transfer Switches Purchase and Removal
We purchase transfer switches throughout Chicago and the surrounding Illinois market — units still energized and scheduled for replacement, equipment already sitting dead after an upgrade, and lots coming out of a full plant closure. We buy the gear and we do the removal: one company, one offer, one certificate of insurance.
Same-day written offer
Get a Written Offer
Send the asset list, or just describe what is in the room. We come back the same business day with a written, itemized offer.
Faster: call 954-740-1983
Email an asset list to electricalequipmentbuyers@gmail.com
Mon–Sat, 7am–7pm CT. We never resell your contact information.
- Location
- Chicago, IL
- Equipment
- Transfer Switches
- Ratings
- 100 A – 4,000 A ATS
- Offer
- Same business day
- Removal
- Our crews
- Phone
- 954-740-1983
Equipment
Transfer Switches we buy in Chicago
Chicago sits in Illinois, where ComEd, Ameren Illinois, City Water Light and Power feed the load and I-55, I-57, I-80, I-88 and I-294 carry the freight. Both facts land in your number: a site near those corridors costs us less to service and the saving shows up in the offer rather than our margin. Chicago, Rockford, Peoria, Springfield and Joliet are regular stops, and Chicago work routes with them.
Paperwork travels with the job: a certificate of insurance naming your entity, a W-9, a signed purchase agreement listing every asset and its price, oil test and disposal manifests where transformers are in scope, and weight tickets or a bill of lading for what leaves the Chicago site. Maintenance, EHS and accounting each get the document they need.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Ratings | 100 A – 4,000 A ATS |
| Scope | Automatic, manual, bypass-isolation |
| Nameplates | ASCO, Zenith, Russelectric, Kohler, Generac, Onan, Cummins, Eaton, Square D, GE Zenith |
| Condition | Working, retired, water-damaged or already dismantled |
| Minimum | One section, one unit, or a whole plant lot |
Valuation
What it is worth
Transformer oil is the item sellers in Chicago worry about most, and fairly so. We test it, drain it, manifest it through licensed handlers and hand you the documentation. PCB-suspect units are handled under their own waste profile. The cost of that handling is already inside the offer, so nothing surprises you after the fact.
Illinois note
Chicago and its collar counties give us the widest range of equipment on this site, from century-old switchgear in loft conversions to switchboards pulled out of Loop high-rises still under warranty. The industrial ring through Joliet, Cicero and the Calumet side runs railcar, tank and metals operations with heavy motor loads. Downstate is a different business entirely: the agricultural processing plants at Decatur and Peoria, the Ameren Illinois distribution system and the refineries in the southwest corner. Bus duct and bus plug work shows up here more than anywhere, because so much Chicago-area industrial and institutional building was wired on busway and the plugs come out by the pallet during renovations.
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Common questions
Questions
Can you work nights, weekends or during a shutdown in Chicago?
Regularly. Most electrical removals happen outside production hours because that is when circuits can be released. Night, weekend, holiday and turnaround windows in Chicago are normal scheduling for us, not a premium service.
What happens to the equipment after you buy it?
Serviceable gear is tested, reconditioned where needed and resold as replacement equipment — that resale is what funds your offer. What cannot go back into service is dismantled for copper, aluminum and steel recovery through permitted processors, with regulated fractions documented.
Do you buy equipment that is still energized and in service?
Yes, and most of what we buy is. We quote it now and remove it on your cutover date. Telling us at the quote stage which Chicago assets are still live lets us build the phasing and the clearance coordination into the schedule from the beginning.
Our electrical room is in a basement with a tight door. Is that a problem?
It is routine. Switchgear sections, transformers and gensets frequently have to be cut down or partially disassembled to clear a door width, an elevator limit or a stair turn. The access survey at your Chicago site establishes the path before we commit to a date, and that cost is already inside the offer.
Transfer Switches in Chicago?
One written offer covering purchase, removal and freight.