Metal shops & workshops
Work shops, equipment barns and big-door buildings for trucks, tractors and boats.
Metal shops →
Livingston · Lufkin · Huntsville · Cleveland · Woodville
Independent referral service
8 East Texas counties
One call, one local pro
Metal shops and barndos, built on your land
Planning a metal shop, a barndominium, a garage or a barn? Call and we connect you with one local builder for a written quote. We’re a referral service. The builder does the work.
Where to start
Where are you right now?
Pick the closest match. Each answer gives you the next step, not a sales pitch.
Before any dirt work or post holes, call 811 at least two business days ahead. Buried lines are common on rural lots.
Independent referral service8 East Texas countiesOne call, one local pro1
Tell us the build
Shop, home, or both, and the county.
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One builder calls
A local builder, not a list of ten.
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Quote in writing
Slab, erection, doors and finish-out spelled out.
What people build here
Start with the building you want
Barndominiums
A metal-building home on your land, finished inside like any house.
Barndominiums →Shop with living quarters
Half shop, half home under one roof. Popular on rural acreage.
Living quarters →Kits vs. a builder
What a kit includes, what it leaves out, and when a turnkey builder makes sense.
Kits vs. builder →What it costs
National figures from HomeAdvisor, each one dated and linked.
Cost figures →Building on your land
Pad, septic, well and power: the work before the building.
Your land →Before you call
Four things that shape every quote
Every builder asks the same handful of questions. Having rough answers ready gets you a real number faster, and it helps you compare two quotes on equal terms.
- Footprint and height. Width × length and the eave height. A shop for a gooseneck trailer or a motorhome needs taller walls and doors than a two-car garage.
- Doors. How many roll-up or sectional doors, how wide and how tall, plus walk doors and windows. Big doors change the frame.
- Use. Storage only, a heated and cooled shop, a home, or a mix. Insulation, wiring, plumbing and finish-out follow from this.
- Site. Whether the land is cleared, whether a pad or slab is ready, and how far the building sits from power and the road.
If you don’t know some of these yet, that’s normal. Tell the builder what you plan to do inside the building and let them suggest sizes.
Where we connect builders
Eight counties in the Pineywoods
This referral line covers Polk County, San Jacinto County, Trinity County, Tyler County, Angelina County, Hardin County, Liberty County and Walker County, including Livingston, Onalaska, Coldspring, Groveton, Woodville, Lufkin, Kountze, Silsbee, Liberty, Cleveland and Huntsville. Rural lots outside city limits are the usual job. Inside a city, the city’s permit office has its own rules, so mention it when you call.
The ground work matters as much as the steel. Our sister guides cover shop and barndominium slabs, new septic systems and water well drilling in the Polk County area.