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Metal Workshops

A shop that fits the lift — and everything under it.

Every serious shop lives or dies on one number: the eave height. Put a two-post lift under a 10-foot ceiling and you'll never raise a truck to standing height. Give it a 14-foot eave and a 12-foot door and that same lift works the way it's meant to. It's the single spec home mechanics and commercial shops get wrong most often — so it's the first thing we help you get right.

From there it's about bays and open floor. A 30×40 is the classic home shop: two vehicles side by side, a lift, a workbench wall, and tool storage. Step up to 40×60 and you've got the commercial four-lift layout — four roll-up doors across the front, drive-through bays, and room to run a business. Clear-span steel means no columns crowding the lifts or the benches, fire resistance around welding and solvents, and the freedom to add a bay or a door down the road.

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Price-beat guarantee
Free delivery & install · 40 states
20-year rust warranty
Factory-direct — no middleman
The workshop lineup

Workshops, built around your lift.

Set the footprint, the eave for your lift, the door count and sizes — we engineer the clear span and frame the openings. Every shop is built to spec.

Planning a lift, a bench, or a business?

Tell us what goes in the shop — how many lifts, how many bays, whether you'll heat it — and a specialist will spec the eave, doors, and insulation to match.

Home shop or working shop

Two kinds of shop, one right spec each.

A weekend home shop and a four-lift commercial garage are different buildings. The eave height, door count, and electrical are what separate them — here's how each is built.

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30×40 home shop

The most-ordered home-mechanic size: two vehicles side by side, a two-post lift, a workbench wall, and tool storage — 1,200 sq ft that does it all.

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40×60 commercial shop

The four-lift standard: four roll-up doors across the 60-ft front, two lifts in the back bays, two drive-through bays up front for a working business.

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14-ft eave for a lift

The all-around auto-shop spec — a 12-ft door plus a standard two-post lift at full extension with a light truck or SUV on it.

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16-ft eave for big rigs

Bump the eave to 16 ft and the door to 14 ft to service lifted trucks, duallies, and oversized vehicles on the lift.

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Wired and heated

Electrical and HVAC are yours to arrange, but we frame and insulate the shell for it — double-bubble for basic control, heavier for a climate-controlled shop.

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Fabrication & welding

Steel walls shrug off sparks and solvents in a way wood never will — the safer envelope for a shop that cuts, welds, and grinds.

The lift math

Get the eave height right and the lift just works.

The most expensive workshop mistake is a ceiling too low for the lift you'll buy. Size the eave for the tallest thing you'll raise — here's the rule:

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Minimum 14-ft eave for any lift

Below 14 ft a two-post lift can't raise a vehicle to a comfortable standing work height. Treat 14 ft as the floor for a real shop.

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14 ft = the all-rounder

A 14-ft eave with a 12-ft door handles a standard two-post lift plus a light truck or SUV at full extension — the best all-around auto-shop spec.

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16 ft for oversized

Lifted trucks, duallies, and big rigs want a 16-ft eave and a 14-ft door so they clear the lift with room overhead.

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Then the bays

One door per bay: a 40×60 runs four roll-ups across the front for a four-lift commercial layout, a 30×40 typically two.

Sizes & starting prices

How big is a metal workshop?

Home shops start around 30×30 to 30×40; commercial shops run 40×60 and up. The width sets the bays, and the eave — 14 ft for a lift, 16 ft for oversized — sets what you can raise.

Every shop is spec'd around what goes in it, so treat the sizes below as starting points. Search or scroll them, hover any one for what it fits, the SKU, and the price.

The building is factory-direct; the slab, electrical, and any interior finish are budgeted separately.

50′x150′ steel workshopSKU: SC15

50′x150′

Starting at
$126,290
  • Multi-bay commercial shop with room for lifts
  • Small-engine repair shop with parts storage
  • Also great for a sandblasting bay.
Two ways to pay

Own it sooner, pay it monthly.

A workshop is an easy building to finance — a little down at 6.9% APR, or no-credit-check Rent-to-Own on smaller shops to take delivery now and pay monthly. Larger commercial shops can use conventional financing.

Steel workshop being finished on a poured slab
Delivery & installation, included

Raised and framed ready for your trades.

Our crew erects the clear-span shell on your prepared, level slab and frames the door and window openings you spec'd. A poured slab is required — it carries the frame, seals the doors, and gives a lift something solid to anchor to. Electrical, HVAC, and finish are arranged separately once the shell is up.

  • Anchors for concrete, asphalt, or ground — included
  • Certified builds: engineer-stamped for your county's wind & snow loads
  • 12- or 14-gauge galvanized steel — carries our 20-year rust warranty
  • Factory-direct pricing with no middleman markup
Free install · 40 states
Reviews

Owners say it best.

Real, verified Google reviews from owners who bought their building from us, straight from our business profile.

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We are building a barndominium and they delivered the shell on schedule. Our contractor said the framing was straighter than most stick-built shells he sees.
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Priya & Dave L.
Bend, OR
Loafing shed for the horses showed up exactly when they said it would. The crew leveled and anchored on uneven ground and didn't try to charge extra.
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Greg H.
Bowling Green, KY
Hurricane-rated anchors and engineer-stamped drawings were ready when our county asked. Permit went through the first time.
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Tonya W.
Lakeland, FL
Workshop FAQ

Answers before you buy.

Working out the eave height for your lift, or home shop versus commercial? A specialist will size it with you.

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