Heritage Lumber Company
Heritage Lumber is a full-service building supply yard on Highway 19 in Burnsville, and it has grown from a lumber business started in 1985 into something closer to a complete home center.
The range is unusually wide for a yard this size — framing material and decking at one end, antique hardwoods and stone at the other, plus doors, windows, hardwood and plank flooring, hardware, and appliances. That combination matters in Yancey County, where the alternative is often an hour of driving to assemble the same list from three places.
They run their own delivery fleet and offer design help, which is the part homeowners tend not to expect from a lumber yard. If you’re building or renovating anywhere north or east of Asheville — Burnsville, Micaville, Spruce Pine, the Bee Log and Cane River side — it’s worth pricing here before assuming Asheville is cheaper once you add the trip.
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Asheville Lumber & Building Supply is a family-owned lumber and building materials dealer on Old Brickyard Road in Fletcher, and an affiliate of Gennett Lumber — the oldest lumber company in Asheville. They stock the structural side of a build: dimensional lumber, OSB and plywood, roofing, insulation, drywall, fasteners, and concrete products. What separates a dealer like this from a retail aisle is the services around the material — digital takeoffs, truss design, and prefabricated wall panels are things you get from a yard that expects to work off your plans. For a homeowner, the practical read is that this is a builder's supplier who will also sell to you. If you're managing your own project and you have drawings, they can turn those into a material list rather than leaving you to count studs yourself. They also do kitchen and bath design and appliance installation, which is a different department than the lumber yard and worth asking about separately.
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Bee Tree Hardwoods
Bee Tree Hardwoods is a family-owned lumber operation on Bee Tree Road in Swannanoa, about ten miles east of downtown Asheville and a couple of minutes off I-40. They work in Appalachian hardwoods and softwoods, and the reason to know about them is that they saw, kiln-dry, and mill it themselves. That's a different transaction than buying off a rack. It means you can bring them a dimension rather than choosing from stock sizes, and it means the wood in your house came from these mountains instead of a distribution center. The things people usually come here for are mantels, butcher block countertops, stair treads, flooring, and doors. If you have a specific idea — a single slab for an island, treads to match an existing staircase, a mantel cut to a particular length — this is the shop that can actually make it rather than order it. Open weekdays, 8:30 to 4:30. Worth calling ahead if you want something milled, since that's scheduled work rather than something you pick up off the floor.
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Carolina Ready Mix & Builders Supply, Inc.
Carolina Ready Mix & Builders Supply is a Swannanoa concrete plant and building supply yard, founded in 2007 out of a family tradition in the ready mix business going back more than 75 years. They batch commercial, NCDOT-approved, lightweight, and integrally colored concrete, and the supply side carries what goes around it — steel reinforcing, masonry products, foundation and slab prep materials, aggregates, Verti-Block retaining wall systems, and tools. For a homeowner pouring a slab or a small wall, this is where the material comes from rather than the crew placing it. The company runs four locations across Western North Carolina and is BBB accredited, with memberships in NRMCA, CRMCA, the Asheville Home Builders Association, and the Madison County Chamber.
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Go-Metal
Go-Metal manufactures and sells metal roofing panels from Pigeon Ford Road in Canton. It is a family-owned operation selling factory direct, which is the whole pitch — you are buying from the shop that rolls the panel rather than through a distributor. They supply panels, trim, and accessories. They do not install, so this is a stop for contractors and for homeowners running their own project, not a place to hire a roofing crew. Metal is a common choice on steep mountain roofs and on outbuildings, and the useful part of buying local is that panels get cut to your lengths instead of arriving in stock sizes you then have to work around. Open Monday through Friday, 7:30 to 5:30.
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