Building Material Suppliers Serving the Asheville Area
8 local businesses listed
Every project on this site starts as a pile of material somebody hauled up a mountain road, and in Buncombe County most of that material doesn’t come from far away. The quarries east of Asheville supply the stone under local driveways and foundations, and the ready mix plants batch concrete that has to reach a job site before it starts setting — which is why the plant’s location matters more here than it would on flatter ground.
That’s the practical reason to know who these companies are. Concrete has a working window measured in about 90 minutes from batch to placement. A steep, single-lane driveway on the far side of a ridge changes what a supplier will agree to deliver, and it’s a conversation worth having before the forms go in, not after the truck arrives.
For homeowners, the useful thing to know is that most of these yards will sell to you directly, not only to contractors. Gravel for a driveway, stone for a wall, bagged material for a small pour — you can buy it. Ask about load minimums, delivery fees, and whether hauling it yourself makes sense, because on a small job the delivery charge can exceed the material cost.
Prices are quoted by the ton or the cubic yard, not by the truckload, and they move with fuel costs. Get the quote in writing and confirm what’s included.
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Asheville Lumber & Building Supply
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.
- Residential
- Commercial
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.
- Residential
- Commercial
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.
- Residential
- Commercial
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.
- Residential
- Commercial
Grove Stone & Sand Company
Grove Stone & Sand is the quarry just east of Asheville, on the Swannanoa–Black Mountain line, and it's where a large share of the crushed stone in local driveways, foundations, and road base comes from. The operation is one of nine mining sites run by Hedrick Industries, a family company more than a century old — its other Buncombe-area site is the North Buncombe Quarry. Products cover base and coarse aggregates, natural sand for concrete, asphalt, and mortar, rip rap and armor rock, landscape boulders, decorative gravel, stormwater products, and recycled asphalt and concrete. Homeowners can buy here, not just contractors. The quarry runs its own sales and dispatch line, and there are pickup truck loading hours set aside on weekday afternoons plus selected Saturday mornings — so a small load in a pickup is a normal transaction here, not a favor. Commercial quoting and account setup are the part that runs through Hedrick's Material Sales Company rather than the scale house. Open weekdays 7 to 5. Saturday hours are seasonal and posted on Hedrick's site, so confirm before making the trip. Worth asking about load minimums if you're ordering a delivery rather than hauling it yourself.
- Residential
- Commercial
Haywood Builders Supply
Haywood Builders Supply has been on Charles Street in Waynesville since 1948 — a full-line building supply house serving professional builders and homeowners alike. The useful distinction from a big-box store is the counter. A supply house that sells mostly to builders keeps people who can read a plan, take off a material list, and tell you the framing member you asked for is not the one you need. That is worth the trip if you are running your own project. Employees participate in an ownership program, and the company operates as part of the SBSI group. Open Monday through Friday, 7:30 to 4:30, closed weekends — which is a builder's schedule, not a weekend-warrior schedule. Plan accordingly.
- Residential
- Commercial
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.
- Residential
- Commercial
Timberline Lumber Company
Timberline Lumber is a finish lumber yard on Eastside Drive in Black Mountain, founded in 1998 by Matt Gryder and Russ Scruggs to bring better material to Western North Carolina than the framing yards carried. That's the distinction worth understanding. A general supply house sells you what holds the house up. Timberline sells what you see — hardwood decking in ipe, cumaru, and garapa, siding and paneling in Western Red Cedar and cypress, Eastern White Pine, Douglas fir, and domestic hardwoods like white oak, poplar, and walnut. Timbers and beams too, for the exposed work that shows up in a lot of mountain builds. If you're planning a deck and comparing a composite quote against real wood, this is where the wood side of that comparison comes from. Same for a porch ceiling, a board-and-batten exterior, or a mantel you want to match to something. Open weekdays, 8 to 4. They'll load you at the yard or deliver.
- Residential
- Commercial