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Arkansas Game & Fish Pavilion
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Five categories do not cover everything a contractor gets asked for. This page is the sixth, and it is here because the honest answer to most of those questions is: ask us.
What it is
The work that does not fit a category
Most of what we build falls into one of five categories, and each of those has a page. But a construction company that only did the five things on its website would be a strange construction company, and the projects people call us about do not always arrive with the right label on them.
A metal building can be designed for commercial use, a shop, storage, a workspace or a specialty structure. That is our own published language, and the last item on that list is doing a lot of work. Agricultural buildings, additions, renovations, outdoor structures and one-off projects all live in it.
We would rather have a short page that tells you to ask than a long one that claims things we have not done. Below is what we can actually point at, and what we would need to know from you.
What comes up
The kinds of things people ask about
Each of these traces to something we have published or built. Where we have a project you can look at, it is named.
Renovations and upgrades
Work on a structure that is already standing. The Arkansas Game & Fish Pavilion was exactly that — an existing public facility upgraded rather than a new build. Our Arkansas licence is classified for remodeling, renovations, restoration and alterations.
Agricultural and specialty structures
Barns, equipment storage, pavilions and buildings that do not fit a standard description. Our own published article names agricultural buildings and specialty structures among what a metal building gets designed for.
Specialty elements inside a build
A built-in storm shelter, a custom stone fireplace, a lean-to that has to do a specific job. Built Around the Hearth has a storm shelter in it. These are usually part of a larger project rather than a project of their own.
How to ask
What we need to know
The fastest way to get a straight answer out of us is to send these four things. If a project is not something we should take, we will say so and try to point you at who should.
01
What the thing is
In your own words, without worrying about the right term. Plenty of the buildings we put up did not have a name when the first phone call happened.
02
Where it is
The site does more to decide a project than the drawings do — slope, rock, access and how far services have to come. Tell us the address or near enough.
03
New, or on something existing
Building from nothing and working on a structure that is already there are different jobs with different unknowns. It changes what we need to look at before we can price anything.
04
What has to be true when it is done
What has to fit, what has to work, what it has to stand up to. That is usually a more useful brief than a set of dimensions.
Straight about scope
What we do not sell
A catch-all page is exactly where a contractor is most tempted to say yes to everything. These are the things we will tell you we do not do, because several builders in this market do sell them and you should not have to guess.
We do not lend
No in-house financing, no broker arrangement. We will give your lender the construction documents, scope and draw schedule they ask for, and answer their questions about the structure directly.
We do not sell land
No land search, no real estate. If you are still looking for a site, that conversation belongs with somebody else — though we are happy to look at a parcel and tell you what building on it would involve.
We do not sell plans or kits
There is no plan library here and no catalogue of building packages. We build to your plan, or alongside your designer or engineer, and we erect packages other people supplied.
If what you are asking about is something we should not take on, we will tell you that too. Pointing you at the right contractor costs us one job and is the reason people call us back.
Proof
Work outside the usual five
One published project that is genuinely none of the other five categories: a renovation of an existing public facility.
Straight answers
Questions we get asked
No prices and no timelines below. Both are project numbers, and a builder who quotes them before seeing your site is guessing at your expense.
- My project is not on your list. Should I still call?
- Yes. That is what this page is for. Describe the project in your own words and we will tell you honestly whether it is work we should take, work we should take part of, or work somebody else is better placed to do.
- Do you do remodeling and renovations?
- We take renovation work — the Arkansas Game & Fish Pavilion was an upgrade to an existing structure — and our Arkansas licence is classified for remodeling, renovations, restoration and alterations. What we do not have is a published portfolio of interior remodels, so ask and we will be straight with you about fit.
- Do you build agricultural buildings?
- Yes. A metal building can be designed for a shop, storage, a workspace, agricultural use or a specialty structure, and the planning questions are the same ones we ask on every building: what has to fit inside, how equipment moves through it, and whether you need a clear floor.
- Can you add on to a building I already have?
- Ask. It depends heavily on what is there — the existing structure, the foundation and how the two would tie together. That is a look-at-it answer rather than a website answer, and we would rather see it than guess.
- Do you take small jobs?
- Sometimes, and it depends on where the crews are. We will give you a straight yes or no rather than a quote we have no intention of honouring, because a job we cannot get to is worse for you than a job we declined.
- Where do you take this kind of work?
- Across Harrison, Boone County, and surrounding North Arkansas communities. On unusual projects the site matters more than usual, so tell us where it is early.
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The rest of what we build
Six categories, one crew, one company answering the phone.
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Shop, storage and workspace buildings sized and spanned around what has to fit inside — put up by a contractor, not dropped off on a trailer.
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Commercial Buildings
Metal commercial buildings for businesses opening, expanding or replacing a building they have outgrown — and the structural steel package underneath somebody else's job.
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Barndominiums
Metal buildings with full living quarters inside — open-concept, energy-efficient and low-maintenance. Shouses, where the shop comes first, are built the same way.
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Steel Roofing & Siding
Metal roofing, siding, soffit, gutters and downspouts — on a new building, or replacing what is on one you already own.
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