# LG Building & Concrete Review: full text Independent customer review of L & G Building and Concrete LLC (Asheboro, NC). Not affiliated with the company. Statements are tagged by source on the site; third-party reviews are allegations; open questions are stated as open. Site: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/ --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/ # L&G Building & Concrete review: $98,750, 209 days, no finished building In February 2026 I signed a contract with L&G Building & Concrete of Asheboro, North Carolina, for a 50×80 metal building and the concrete under it. This site is my record of what happened next: the contract, the money, the photos, the inspections and the public records, laid out so you can check every piece yourself. Read the timeline Thinking of hiring them? Read this first Company L & G Building and Concrete LLC, Asheboro, NC Project Certified 50×80×16 metal building, two lean-tos, slab and footers Where Alexander County, North Carolina Signed February 20, 2026 Contract total $98,750 ($50,551 building, $48,199 concrete) Paid so far About $93,000 Status, Sept. 17, 2026 Cracked slab, half a frame, no roof, no walls Tape-measure timeline of the project, February to September 2026 Order written February 12, 2026. Contract signed February 20, 2026 for $98,750. In April the footings failed inspection and the slab preparation measured about four and a half inches. July 10 marks twenty weeks, the contract’s outside estimate for engineered plans. The August 29 install date was moved by text. The crew arrived September 3. On September 17, day 209, the building was half framed and work had stopped. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Feb - Mar - Apr - May - Jun - Jul - Aug - Sep - 209 days from signing. April dates are approximate until the county inspection file is released. - Feb 12 Order written up - Feb 20 Contract signed: $98,750 $19,700 deposit by wire - Jul 10 (week 20) L&G’s contract says engineered plans “can take up to 20 weeks” - Sep 17 (day 209) Half a frame. No roof, no walls. Work stopped. - April Footings fail inspection. Slab prep measures 4½ in. - Aug 29 Install date. Moved by text to “Monday at latest” One tick is one day. Flags mark only the dates I can document today. Pink is my own record, orange is L&G’s own statement. ## What about $93,000 has bought so far P-04 The building as it stood when work stopped: part of the frame up, no roof or wall panels, loose parts on the slab. A crack in the slab is visible at lower left. Early September 2026 . Notes on this photo P-01 Before the pour. The tape stands on the vapor barrier, and the yellow string line crosses it at about 4½ inches. The white plumbing stub-ups in the background are standing straight. April 2026, before the pour . Notes on this photo P-03 A crack running from the front of the picture to the back, crossing a saw-cut control joint, beside the building’s base rail. Handwriting on the rail is blurred for privacy. Nothing else in the image is altered. Early September 2026 . Notes on this photo See all the photos ## Why I built this instead of leaving a one-star review A one-star review is easy to write and easy to dismiss. Nobody reading it can tell whether the customer was unreasonable or the company was. I would rather show you the paperwork. I paid for a certified building with engineered plans, a 6-inch slab and inspected footings. In April the footings were dug to 12 inches when L&G’s own plans called for 14, failed the county inspection, and I was charged extra for the fix, then charged for a concrete pump that was on no invoice I had signed. When I was told the pad was ready to pour I measured about 4½ inches. The building was delayed for months and my requests for a refund were refused. In September a crew finally arrived, five days after the date I was given, put up half the frame, left my plumbing stub-ups leaning and gouged, and stopped. L&G then told me I needed to supply a different telehandler, despite having texted me that anything beyond my one-week rental “runs through us,” and asked for the installation payment that my paperwork says is due at completion. I have paid about $93,000. Some of that is documented on this site today. Some of it is waiting on records I have requested from the county and on files I am still organizing, and those spots are marked so you know the difference. If L&G finishes the job or shows me I have something wrong, that goes on the site as well. ## What the contract says, next to what I have Left column: L&G’s own signed paperwork. Right column: my account of my own project. Photos and texts are linked. County records and payment confirmations are being added as they are released. Item The contract My project Slab thickness Company statement The concrete contract specifies 6 inches under the building and 4 inches under each lean-to, at 3,500 psi, for $37,380. My project record Told the pad was ready to pour, I stood a tape on the vapor barrier. The string line crossed it at about 4½ inches. Photo P-01 . Footings Company statement “1x1 footers” plus two strip footers for $9,594, marked “inspection required.” If the inspector wants them deeper, the customer pays. My project record The plans L&G gave me call for 14-inch footings. The crew dug 12. They failed inspection and I was charged extra for the correction, then for a concrete pump that is on no invoice I signed. County reports requested. Concrete quality Company statement “L&G Building and Concrete does not offer warranty on concrete.” The sheet says cracks “are bound to happen.” My project record A long crack that runs through a control joint, five months after the pour. Photo P-03 . Decide for yourself whether you would accept it on a $48,199 concrete job. Telehandler Company statement Order form: customer provides the lift, for one week. By text, L&G: “if we need it long it runs through us” and “if we need it longer I’ll get my own” lift. My project record I paid $2,000 for the rental. The crew came five days late, put up half the building, and I was told to supply a different telehandler. Read the texts . Damage on site Company statement The customer agrees to hold L&G harmless for damage to “submerged lines, pipes, cables.” My project record Plumbing stub-ups left leaning and gouged, with tire tracks on the slab around them. They were upright before the pour. I contend it happened during L&G’s install. Photos . Refunds Company statement “All down payments are non refundable. … All sales are final.” My project record During months of delay I asked repeatedly for my money back so I could hire someone else. Refused. Finish date Company statement None. The packet has no start date, no completion date and no remedy for delay. My project record Day 209 and counting. L&G has asked for the $8,568 installation payment, which its own Balance Breakdown says is due “upon building completion.” Read the contract, clause by clause See every line item and price ## General contractor license: still checking Official record North Carolina requires a general contractor license when a project is $40,000 or more. My project was $98,750. I have not yet been able to match a license to L&G Building and Concrete for this job. That is not the same as saying none exists. I have asked the board directly and will post its answer here, whichever way it comes out. What I can tell you today is what the contract says: “we are manufacturers not contractors.” The permit for this project is in my name, because the contract made permits my job. How North Carolina’s $40,000 license rule and owner-builder permits work ## I am not the only one who has written about this company Other L&G customers have posted public reviews and complaints describing delays, cracked concrete, lift charges that were not in their contracts, and payment standoffs. L&G has answered several of them and disputes parts of what they say. There is a five-star review in there too. I summarize each one with the company’s reply beside it and a link to the original. They are other people’s allegations. I cannot verify them and I do not present them as fact. Read the other reports See the public records ## Buying a metal building in North Carolina? L&G’s contract made the permit my job, and I had to learn how my county works on my own. I have written up what I found for the counties around my project and around L&G’s home base, with each office’s contacts checked against its own website. Alexander County · Catawba County · Caldwell County · Burke County · Iredell County · Randolph County · Guilford County · Lincoln County · Wilkes County · Rowan County · Gaston County · Cleveland County If you are about to sign with any metal building company, start with the fifteen questions to ask , the contract red flags and how to verify a license in ten minutes . If work has already stopped on your job, here is what to do, in order . There are also guides built on my real numbers: what a metal building costs in NC , what the slab costs , how to check slab thickness and footing depth . ## How to read this site Every claim carries one of four flags, so you always know whose word you are reading. Official record Government, court or regulator records. Linked to the original. My project record My contract, photos, payments, messages and what I saw on my own lot. Company statement L&G’s own words: its contract, website or written replies. Third-party report Reviews and complaints by other people. Allegations, not findings. ## Questions people ask about L&G Building & Concrete Is this the official L&G Building & Concrete website? No. This is an independent review written by a customer. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by L&G Building & Concrete LLC of Asheboro, North Carolina. The company’s own website is lgbuildingsandconcrete.com. What did you hire L&G Building & Concrete to do? A certified 50×80×16 vertical-roof metal building with two 12-foot lean-tos, plus the concrete: a 6-inch slab under the building, 4-inch slabs under the lean-tos, footers, grading and a vapor barrier. The signed project total was $98,750. Did L&G finish the building? Not as of September 17, 2026, which is 209 days after I signed. A crew arrived on September 3, five days after the scheduled date, put up about half of the steel frame and stopped. There is no roof and there are no walls. I have paid about $93,000. I will update this site if that changes. Does L&G Building & Concrete warranty its concrete? No. The contract packet includes a separate sheet that the customer signs, stating that L&G does not offer any warranty on concrete. The building carries a 90-day workmanship warranty and a 10-year sheeting warranty. Did you get the 6-inch slab you paid for? I do not know yet. My contract specifies 6 inches under the building. When I was told the pad was ready to pour, I stood a tape measure on the vapor barrier and the string line crossed it at about 4½ inches. The photo is on this site. Only core samples can show what the finished slab measures, and I intend to have them taken. Who pays for the telehandler on an L&G Building & Concrete job? On my order the lift was listed as customer-provided at $0, for one week. By text, L&G’s installation contact told me that if the crew needed it longer “it runs through us” and “I’ll get my own” lift. I paid $2,000 for the rental. The crew came five days late, and after half the building was up I was told to supply a different telehandler. The texts are published on the telehandler page. Is the deposit refundable? The terms say all down payments are non-refundable and all sales are final. One page allows a refund, minus the salesperson’s commission, if your county sends a written letter rejecting your permit. My deposit was $19,700. During months of delay I asked for a refund more than once and was refused. Is L&G Building & Concrete a licensed general contractor in North Carolina? I do not know yet, and I am not going to guess. North Carolina requires a general contractor license for projects of $40,000 or more. I have not yet matched a license to the company for my job and have asked the licensing board to confirm. The contract itself says L&G is a manufacturer and not a contractor. I will publish the board’s answer. Why should I believe you? You do not have to. Every claim on this site is tagged by where it comes from: official records, my own project records, L&G’s own statements, or other customers’ reports. Where I am giving an opinion I say so, and where a document is still on its way I say that too. What if L&G says something here is wrong? It can send documentation to the corrections address on the company response page. If reliable records show I have a fact wrong, I will fix it and note the correction publicly. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/timeline/ # The project timeline, from signing to today What happened, in order. Exact dates come from signed documents and time-stamped texts. Where I only know the month, I give the month, and name the record that will pin it down. - February 12, 2026 ### L&G writes up the order My project record Sales Order Contract ODR-001094 is dated February 12, 2026: a 50×80×16 certified vertical-roof building with two 12 ft lean-tos, on a concrete installation surface, with site-specific engineered blueprints. Contract line items - February 20, 2026 ### Contract signed. Project total: $98,750 My project record The e-signature packet was completed on February 20, 2026. Building $50,551, concrete $48,199. I sent the $19,700 building deposit by bank wire in February. What the contract says Payment schedule Being added: Wire confirmation for the deposit - April 2026 ### Footings dug to 12 inches. The plans L&G gave me say 14. They fail inspection My project record L&G’s crew came in April to do the concrete. The engineered plans L&G provided call for 14-inch footings. The footings were dug to 12 inches and did not pass the county inspection. I was charged extra to have them corrected. My concrete contract does say the customer pays if an inspector wants footers deeper. In my view that clause was never meant for the case where the crew digs shallower than the company’s own plans. Being added: County footing inspection and re-inspection reports; the plan sheet showing footing depth; the invoice for the correction - April 2026 ### A concrete pump charge that was not on my invoice My project record I was then charged for a concrete pump. There is no pump on the concrete contract I signed or on the Balance Breakdown. The concrete line items Being added: Pump invoice and proof of payment - April 2026 ### “Ready to pour.” I measure 4½ inches where I paid for 6 My project record My contract specifies a 6-inch slab under the building. When I was told the pad was ready for concrete, I stood a tape measure on the vapor barrier and read it against the string line: about 4½ inches. The photo shows one spot on one day. It does not tell you how thick the finished slab is. Core samples would, and that is on my list. P-01 Before the pour. The tape stands on the vapor barrier, and the yellow string line crosses it at about 4½ inches. The white plumbing stub-ups in the background are standing straight. April 2026, before the pour . Notes on this photo P-02 Form boards at the edge of the pad before the pour, with rebar, vapor barrier and part of the footing trench visible. April 2026, before the pour . Notes on this photo - May to August 2026 ### The building keeps getting pushed back. I ask for a refund and am refused My project record With the slab down, the building itself was delayed again and again. I asked more than once for my money back so I could hire someone else. L&G refused. Its terms say all down payments are non-refundable and all sales are final. The refund clause Being added: Messages requesting refunds and L&G’s replies - Before August 27, 2026 ### L&G, by text: the lift is mine for one week, and after that it is on them Company statement My order form makes the telehandler my job and the terms say it must be available for a week. Before I rented it I got L&G’s installation contact to spell out what happens if the crew needs it longer. L&G Yeah like your getting lift for one week that’s all if we need it long it runs through us All the lift texts - August 27, 2026 ### Two days before the install date, it moves Company statement The building was set to go up Saturday, August 29. I had been told to have the telehandler on site the day before. On Thursday morning I asked for confirmation. Me Confirming you’re for sure building Saturday morning 8am. L&G Our crews are still behind get the lift will be there Monday at latest but lift needs to be there Screenshot - August 27 to 30, 2026 ### The deal on the lift, in writing, twice Company statement I told L&G’s contact I was not paying $3,000, and offered to have the lift there Monday if the crew was guaranteed to be. L&G’s contact agreed and repeated the one-week arrangement. I then paid $2,000 up front for the rental and had him confirm that this was the whole of my obligation. L&G Yes sir if you can have lift there schedule for a week if we need it longer I’ll get my own lidt Me I have to pay the entire 2k up front this time. So just so I have it in writing. This is my fulfilling the entirety of my telehandler responsibility. L&G Yes Screenshots - September 3, 2026 ### The crew arrives, five days after the Saturday date My project record Installers showed up Thursday morning and started standing the frame. I had rented the telehandler for the dates L&G gave me. P-04 The building as it stood when work stopped: part of the frame up, no roof or wall panels, loose parts on the slab. A crack in the slab is visible at lower left. Early September 2026 . Notes on this photo - September 4, 2026 ### Plumbing stub-ups damaged My project record During the install, PVC plumbing that comes up through the slab was left leaning, scuffed and gouged. My pre-pour photo shows those pipes standing straight. The photos from this week show tire tread marks on the slab around them. I contend the damage happened during L&G’s installation work. P-06 A capped PVC pipe where it comes up through the slab. It is leaning, with black scuff marks and gouges up one side. September 2026, during frame installation . Notes on this photo P-08 A plumbing stub-up leaning well off vertical, with tire tread marks across the slab beside it. Compare the upright stub-ups in photo P-01. September 2026, during frame installation . Notes on this photo - September 5, 2026 ### Half a building, a demand for a different telehandler, and a request for the final payment My project record By Saturday about half the building was up. More than a week had passed since I rented the lift. I was told the crew now needed a different telehandler. In the texts above, L&G said anything past my one week “runs through us.” It has not supplied a lift. L&G also asked for the installation payment. My Balance Breakdown lists that $8,568 as “due upon building completion.” The building is not complete and has not passed a final inspection. P-05 A corner of the frame seen from below: column, header, diagonal brace and two open tube ends. Early September 2026 . Notes on this photo The telehandler dispute Being added: The messages requesting the installation payment - September 17, 2026 ### Where things stand My project record Two hundred and nine days after signing, I have paid L&G about $93,000. I have a slab with cracks in it, damaged plumbing, and a steel frame with no roof and no walls. Work has stopped. P-03 A crack running from the front of the picture to the back, crossing a saw-cut control joint, beside the building’s base rail. Handwriting on the rail is blurred for privacy. Nothing else in the image is altered. Early September 2026 . Notes on this photo Being added: Payment ledger: date, amount, payee, purpose, wire confirmation ## How the dates were worked out February dates come from the contract and its e-signature certificate. August 27 is the time stamp on the text thread. The install was set for the Saturday after that text, August 29. The crew arrived five days later, on a Thursday, which makes it September 3. The April entries will get exact dates when Alexander County releases the inspection file, and the payment entries when my wire confirmations are posted. L&G is welcome to supply its own dates and records. See the company response page . --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/contract/ # What the L&G Building & Concrete contract says I signed a 20-page packet. These are the clauses that ended up mattering, quoted word for word from L&G’s own paperwork, with my plain-English reading underneath. Company statement: quotations from contract ODR-001094, signed February 20, 2026 The packet came through PandaDoc as a single e-signature request: a two-page sales order, four renderings and a floor plan, a balance breakdown, a one-page concrete contract, a concrete information sheet, four pages of terms, and a North Carolina Department of Revenue affidavit. I signed or initialed in more than twenty places. I am quoting short passages here so you can see the exact wording. My street address, my contact details and L&G’s bank details have been left out. If you are about to sign a packet like this one, the checklist for buyers turns these clauses into questions to ask first. ## Deposits and refunds “ ALL DOWN PAYMENTS ARE NON REFUNDABLE. … ALL SALES ARE FINAL. ” Terms and Agreement, page 1 The terms call the down payment a non-refundable fee for configuration, design, engineered drawings and administrative costs. A separate page, the Balance Breakdown, offers one exception: if the county sends a written rejection letter denying the permit, the deposit can be refunded “minus the commission paid to sales executive.” My deposit was $19,700, which the order form itself calculates as 38.97% of the building price. The terms describe the minimum deposit as 10%. What this clause meant on my project, and how I would rewrite it ## How you pay “ L&G Building and Concrete LLC will only accept bank wire transfers as forms of payment. … NO PERSONAL CHECKS WILL BE ACCEPTED. ” Terms and Agreement, page 1 Every payment in my packet was set up as a bank wire with a confirmation number emailed to the office. A wire is final the moment it leaves your account. There is no chargeback window the way there is with a credit card, so whatever leverage you have is gone once the money is sent. What this clause meant on my project, and how I would rewrite it ## When the money is due “ The first payment must be paid prior to the arrival of materials to the job site. … The remaining 17% must be paid to installer upon completion of the building. ” Terms and Agreement, page 1, and Balance Breakdown On my job the schedule works out to $90,182 due before the building is finished and $8,568 due at completion. Concrete follows the same pattern: footers and grading are paid when the crew arrives, and the rest of the concrete is paid when the pour is scheduled. The contract explains that L&G prepays for concrete, which is why it wants payment ready on arrival. What this clause meant on my project, and how I would rewrite it ## Concrete warranty “ L&G BUILDING AND CONCRETE DOES NOT OFFER WARRANTY ON CONCRETE. ” Concrete Information sheet, signed separately The concrete sheet says cracks “are bound to happen,” describes shrinkage and crazing cracks, and asks the customer to sign that there is no warranty of any kind on the slab. On my job the concrete was $48,199, a little under half of the project. What this clause meant on my project, and how I would rewrite it ## Building warranty “ The sheeting has a 10 year warranty. The building includes a 90 day workmanship warranty. ” Terms and Agreement, page 4 Ninety days covers things like leaks from missing screws, badly installed sheeting, bent tubing and roll-up doors that do not work. The same page says any interior or exterior modification by the customer voids all warranties. What this clause meant on my project, and how I would rewrite it ## Footings and inspections “ If the inspector requires for footers to be dug deeper, the customer is responsible for paying any additional concrete/labor. ” Concrete Contract My concrete contract lists “1x1 footers” and marks the job as certified with inspection required. If the county inspector wants deeper footings than the crew dug, this sentence puts the extra cost on the customer. On my job the plans L&G provided called for 14-inch footings, the crew dug 12, the inspection failed, and I was charged extra for the correction. In my view this clause was written for an inspector asking for more than the plans, and should not apply when the crew digs less than the plans. Compare the footing size on your plans with the footing size on the concrete contract before you sign. What this clause meant on my project, and how I would rewrite it ## Failing final inspection “ If your building does not pass final inspection, our installation crew will be responsible for correcting any issues stated in the inspection report issued by your local county inspectors office. ” Terms and Agreement, page 3 This is one of the few promises in the packet that runs in the customer’s favor. It applies to certified buildings where the customer is pulling a permit, which is what I bought. What this clause meant on my project, and how I would rewrite it ## Permits “ L&G Building and Concrete LLC will not provide permits, we are manufacturers not contractors. ” Terms and Agreement, page 3 The permit, and everything that goes with holding it, is placed on the customer. The order form says “Permit Required: Customer To Verify,” and the customer also agrees to indemnify L&G for any city or county code violation. I pulled the permit for this project myself. What that means for a $98,750 job is something I look at on the licensing page. What this clause meant on my project, and how I would rewrite it ## Telehandler and equipment “ If the customer is providing lift it must be available for one week unless otherwise specified. ” Terms and Agreement, pages 2–3 My order form lists “7k Telehandler Lift (customer Provided)” at $0. For any building 13 ft or taller, or over 30 ft wide, the terms say a telehandler may be required. If you are the one supplying it, the rental clock and the rental bill are yours, so a crew that arrives late or does not finish in a week costs you directly. That is what happened to me. L&G told me by text that anything beyond my week “runs through us,” and the texts are on the telehandler page. What this clause meant on my project, and how I would rewrite it ## Grading and site work “ Grading is up to 2 hours only. $150 for each additional hour. ” Concrete Contract and Balance Breakdown The $1,000 grading line buys two hours. Fill dirt, gravel, stump and rock removal are all the customer’s job and must be done before scheduling. If the crew arrives and the site is not level there is a $300 return-trip fee. What this clause meant on my project, and how I would rewrite it ## Schedule “ Weather, crew availability,, and other unforeseen occurrences could affect project scheduling. ” Terms and Agreement, page 2 I could not find a start date, a completion date or any remedy for delay anywhere in the packet. The only time estimate is that site-specific engineered plans “can take up to 20 weeks to receive.” What this clause meant on my project, and how I would rewrite it ## Repossession and security interest “ Customer agrees that L&G Building and Concrete LLC may repossess any structure that is not paid for in full. ” Sales Order Contract and Terms and Agreement The order form also says the customer grants L&G a security interest in the structure, and that orders may be filled by “an independent manufacturer and/or installer.” What this clause meant on my project, and how I would rewrite it ## Damage to your property “ Customer agrees to indemnify and hold harmless L&G Building and Concrete LLC for any damage done to yards, pets, submerged lines, pipes, cables, or any other utility instrumentalities during construction. ” Terms and Agreement, page 2 The customer is responsible for marking underground lines (811 will do it free). Read this one twice if you have plumbing stubbed up through the slab area. What this clause meant on my project, and how I would rewrite it ## What I could not find anywhere in the packet - A start date or a completion date - Any remedy or credit if the job runs late - A North Carolina general contractor license number - A certificate of insurance, a bond, or the name of an insurer - A dispute-resolution, arbitration or venue clause - A non-disparagement clause None of these omissions is proof of anything by itself. Plenty of small companies use thin paperwork. But when a job goes sideways, these are the clauses you go looking for, and on a project just under $100,000 I wish I had insisted on them. ## The tax affidavit in the packet My project record The last document was NC Department of Revenue Form E-589CI, an Affidavit of Capital Improvement. I filled in Box A as the property owner and described the work as a “50x80x16 metal garage building structure and concrete.” Box B, where the form asks for the “Real Property Contractor (General Contractor or Subcontractor) hired to perform capital improvement,” was blank in my signed copy. The form exists for sales-tax purposes. It treats the job as a real property contract performed by a real property contractor. That is a tax term, and I am not claiming it settles any licensing question. I point it out because the same packet also says L&G is a manufacturer and not a contractor, and I would like to understand how both descriptions apply to one job. I have put that question to the people whose job it is to answer it. More on the license rules page . --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/contract/deposit/ # The deposit clause: “all down payments are non refundable” Clause 1 of 13 from my signed L&G Building & Concrete contract, with what it meant on my project and how I would rewrite it. ## What it says Company statement: contract ODR-001094, signed February 20, 2026 “ ALL DOWN PAYMENTS ARE NON REFUNDABLE. … ALL SALES ARE FINAL. ” Terms and Agreement, page 1 The terms call the down payment a non-refundable fee for configuration, design, engineered drawings and administrative costs. A separate page, the Balance Breakdown, offers one exception: if the county sends a written rejection letter denying the permit, the deposit can be refunded “minus the commission paid to sales executive.” My deposit was $19,700, which the order form itself calculates as 38.97% of the building price. The terms describe the minimum deposit as 10%. ## What happened on my project My project record My Sales Order Contract calculates the building deposit as $19,700, which it labels 38.97% of the building price. The Terms and Agreement describe the deposit as a non-refundable fee covering configuration, design, engineered drawings and administrative costs, and describe the minimum deposit as 10%. I wired the larger figure in February 2026. The one exception in the packet is on the Balance Breakdown: if the county sends a written rejection letter denying the permit, the deposit can be refunded minus the commission paid to the sales executive. My permit was not rejected, so the exception never applied. During the months when the building kept slipping, I asked more than once for a refund so I could hire someone else. L&G refused, pointing to the terms. The clause worked exactly as written. ## How I would rewrite it - Pay the 10% the company’s own terms describe as the minimum, not a figure the salesperson fills in. - Make the deposit refundable if stamped engineered plans are not delivered by a written date. - Make it refundable if the company fails to start by a written date, not only if the county rejects the permit. - Strike “minus the commission paid to sales executive.” The company’s commission arrangement is not the customer’s cost. The question to ask before signing: “ Under exactly what conditions do I get this deposit back, and can you write those conditions on the order form before I sign? ” My reading as a customer, not legal advice. A North Carolina construction attorney can tell you what the clause means for your contract. ## Related The full payment schedule A safer schedule Next clause: How you pay . All clauses . --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/contract/wire/ # The payment method clause: bank wire only, no personal checks Clause 2 of 13 from my signed L&G Building & Concrete contract, with what it meant on my project and how I would rewrite it. ## What it says Company statement: contract ODR-001094, signed February 20, 2026 “ L&G Building and Concrete LLC will only accept bank wire transfers as forms of payment. … NO PERSONAL CHECKS WILL BE ACCEPTED. ” Terms and Agreement, page 1 Every payment in my packet was set up as a bank wire with a confirmation number emailed to the office. A wire is final the moment it leaves your account. There is no chargeback window the way there is with a credit card, so whatever leverage you have is gone once the money is sent. ## What happened on my project My project record Every payment in my packet was set up as a bank wire, with the confirmation number emailed to the office. The terms say L&G will only accept bank wire transfers and that no personal checks will be accepted. Other customers’ reviews mention credit cards; my packet did not offer one. When the slab measured short of the specified thickness, when the footings failed inspection, when the crew came five days late and when the installation payment was requested on a half-built frame, there was no chargeback window and no stop-payment to call. The money for each step had already cleared. ## How I would rewrite it - Ask for credit card payment on at least the deposit and the final payment, even with a surcharge. The dispute right is worth more than the fee. - If wire is the only option, shift every payment trigger to something verifiable after the fact: a passed inspection, material counted on the lot, a stripped and measured slab. - Hold a retainage of at least 10% until final inspection. With wire-only payment, that retainage is the only money you will ever have to negotiate with. The question to ask before signing: “ If I pay by wire and something is wrong with the work, what is my remedy, and where does the contract say so? ” My reading as a customer, not legal advice. A North Carolina construction attorney can tell you what the clause means for your contract. ## Related When the money is due Contract red flags Previous clause: Deposits and refunds . Next clause: When the money is due . All clauses . --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/contract/front-loaded/ # The payment timing clause: paid on arrival, paid on scheduling, paid before delivery Clause 3 of 13 from my signed L&G Building & Concrete contract, with what it meant on my project and how I would rewrite it. ## What it says Company statement: contract ODR-001094, signed February 20, 2026 “ The first payment must be paid prior to the arrival of materials to the job site. … The remaining 17% must be paid to installer upon completion of the building. ” Terms and Agreement, page 1, and Balance Breakdown On my job the schedule works out to $90,182 due before the building is finished and $8,568 due at completion. Concrete follows the same pattern: footers and grading are paid when the crew arrives, and the rest of the concrete is paid when the pour is scheduled. The contract explains that L&G prepays for concrete, which is why it wants payment ready on arrival. ## What happened on my project My project record My Balance Breakdown: $19,700 at signing; $10,594 for footers and grading when the concrete crew arrives; $37,605 for the rest of the concrete when the pour is scheduled; $22,283 for building materials when the building is scheduled, before delivery; $8,568 for installation on completion. The first four rows add to $90,182, or 91% of the project. Arrival and scheduling are the company’s events, not the customer’s. The footing money was paid before the footings were inspected and failed. The concrete balance was paid before the pad was measured at about 4½ inches. The installation payment was then requested while the building was half a frame, although the breakdown ties it to completion. ## How I would rewrite it - Footers and grading due after the footing inspection passes, not on arrival. - Concrete balance due after the pour, less retainage, with thickness verified by the customer before placement. - Materials payment due after delivery and a count against the order, not before. - Final payment due after the county’s final inspection passes and the punch list is closed. The question to ask before signing: “ Can each payment be triggered by a passed inspection or a delivery I can count, instead of by your crew arriving or your office scheduling? ” My reading as a customer, not legal advice. A North Carolina construction attorney can tell you what the clause means for your contract. ## Related Milestone-by-milestone comparison Every line item Previous clause: How you pay . Next clause: Concrete warranty . All clauses . --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/contract/concrete-warranty/ # The concrete warranty clause: “does not offer warranty on concrete” Clause 4 of 13 from my signed L&G Building & Concrete contract, with what it meant on my project and how I would rewrite it. ## What it says Company statement: contract ODR-001094, signed February 20, 2026 “ L&G BUILDING AND CONCRETE DOES NOT OFFER WARRANTY ON CONCRETE. ” Concrete Information sheet, signed separately The concrete sheet says cracks “are bound to happen,” describes shrinkage and crazing cracks, and asks the customer to sign that there is no warranty of any kind on the slab. On my job the concrete was $48,199, a little under half of the project. ## What happened on my project My project record The Concrete Information sheet in my packet, signed separately, states in capitals that L&G Building and Concrete does not offer warranty on concrete. It describes shrinkage and crazing cracks, says cracks are bound to happen, and has the customer acknowledge there is no warranty of any kind on the slab. About five months after the pour I photographed a crack running across a slab panel and straight through a saw-cut control joint, beside the building’s base rail. A control joint exists so the slab cracks along it rather than across it. Under the sheet I signed, that crack is my problem. The concrete was $48,199, a little under half the project. A separate BBB complainant alleged severely cracked concrete and was told, in L&G’s published reply, that concrete does not come with a warranty. ## How I would rewrite it - Ask for a written one-year workmanship warranty on the slab covering thickness, strength and finish, which independent concrete contractors in the area commonly offer. - If the seller will not warranty the concrete, hire an independent licensed concrete contractor who will, and buy only the building from the seller. - Require a copy of the ready-mix delivery ticket for every truck, so the mix and strength ordered are on paper. The question to ask before signing: “ If the slab is thinner, weaker or more cracked than the contract specifies, what will you do about it, and where is that written? ” My reading as a customer, not legal advice. A North Carolina construction attorney can tell you what the clause means for your contract. ## Related The crack through the control joint Reading a concrete contract Previous clause: When the money is due . Next clause: Building warranty . All clauses . --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/contract/building-warranty/ # The building warranty clause: 90 days on workmanship Clause 5 of 13 from my signed L&G Building & Concrete contract, with what it meant on my project and how I would rewrite it. ## What it says Company statement: contract ODR-001094, signed February 20, 2026 “ The sheeting has a 10 year warranty. The building includes a 90 day workmanship warranty. ” Terms and Agreement, page 4 Ninety days covers things like leaks from missing screws, badly installed sheeting, bent tubing and roll-up doors that do not work. The same page says any interior or exterior modification by the customer voids all warranties. ## What happened on my project My project record Page four of the terms gives the sheeting a 10-year warranty and the building a 90-day workmanship warranty covering things like leaks from missing screws, badly installed sheeting, bent tubing and roll-up doors that do not work. The same page says any interior or exterior modification by the customer voids all warranties. Ninety days is short. A Yelp reviewer described a building that leaked for years and a workmanship warranty the company would not honor; I cannot verify that account. On my own project the question has not arisen, because the building has no roof or walls to leak. ## How I would rewrite it - One year of workmanship is a reasonable ask on a building this size. Get the number written on the order, not just in the standard terms. - Define what counts as a “modification.” Running electrical, insulating or hanging a door should not void the structural warranty. - Get the manufacturer’s panel and paint warranty documents by name, not just “10 year sheeting.” The question to ask before signing: “ When does the 90 days start, what exactly starts it, and what happens if the building has not passed final inspection by then? ” My reading as a customer, not legal advice. A North Carolina construction attorney can tell you what the clause means for your contract. ## Related Failing final inspection What other customers reported Previous clause: Concrete warranty . Next clause: Footings and inspections . All clauses . --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/contract/footers/ # The footing clause: “if the inspector requires for footers to be dug deeper, the customer is responsible” Clause 6 of 13 from my signed L&G Building & Concrete contract, with what it meant on my project and how I would rewrite it. ## What it says Company statement: contract ODR-001094, signed February 20, 2026 “ If the inspector requires for footers to be dug deeper, the customer is responsible for paying any additional concrete/labor. ” Concrete Contract My concrete contract lists “1x1 footers” and marks the job as certified with inspection required. If the county inspector wants deeper footings than the crew dug, this sentence puts the extra cost on the customer. On my job the plans L&G provided called for 14-inch footings, the crew dug 12, the inspection failed, and I was charged extra for the correction. In my view this clause was written for an inspector asking for more than the plans, and should not apply when the crew digs less than the plans. Compare the footing size on your plans with the footing size on the concrete contract before you sign. ## What happened on my project My project record The concrete contract lists “1x1 Footers,” two strip footers, and marks the job as certified with inspection required. The engineered plans that L&G supplied for the certified building call for footings of roughly 14 inches. The crew dug to 12. The Alexander County inspector did not pass the footings. I was then charged extra for the additional concrete and labor to correct them, under this clause. In my view the sentence was written for an inspector who wants more than the plans show, not for a crew that dug less than the company’s own drawings. The county inspection reports have been requested and will be posted. ## How I would rewrite it - Replace “1x1 footers” with “footings per engineered drawing dated ___, sheet ___.” - Change the clause so the customer pays only if the inspector requires more than the engineered drawings show. - Do not sign the concrete contract until the foundation sheet is in hand, even if that means waiting out the plan lead time. - Make the footing payment due after the footing inspection passes. The question to ask before signing: “ Does the footing size on this concrete contract match the footing size on the engineered plans you are selling me, and will you write the plan sheet number on the contract? ” My reading as a customer, not legal advice. A North Carolina construction attorney can tell you what the clause means for your contract. ## Related Footing depth guide The forms before the pour Previous clause: Building warranty . Next clause: Failing final inspection . All clauses . --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/contract/inspection-fix/ # The final inspection clause: the crew corrects what the inspector finds Clause 7 of 13 from my signed L&G Building & Concrete contract, with what it meant on my project and how I would rewrite it. ## What it says Company statement: contract ODR-001094, signed February 20, 2026 “ If your building does not pass final inspection, our installation crew will be responsible for correcting any issues stated in the inspection report issued by your local county inspectors office. ” Terms and Agreement, page 3 This is one of the few promises in the packet that runs in the customer’s favor. It applies to certified buildings where the customer is pulling a permit, which is what I bought. ## What happened on my project My project record Page three of the terms says that if the building does not pass final inspection, the installation crew will be responsible for correcting any issues stated in the inspection report issued by the local county inspector’s office. It applies to certified buildings where the customer is pulling a permit, which is what I bought. It is one of the few promises in the packet that runs toward the customer, and I have not been able to use it, because the building has not reached a final inspection. A clause that only applies at the end is worth little if the job never gets there. ## How I would rewrite it - Add a date by which the building will be ready for final inspection, so the clause has a trigger. - Extend it to cover the concrete: if the slab or footing inspection fails for reasons within the crew’s control, the crew corrects it at no cost. - Add that the correction will be made within a stated number of days of the inspection report. The question to ask before signing: “ If the county fails the final inspection and your crew does not come back within thirty days, what can I do under this contract? ” My reading as a customer, not legal advice. A North Carolina construction attorney can tell you what the clause means for your contract. ## Related When work stops Where my project stands Previous clause: Footings and inspections . Next clause: Permits . All clauses . --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/contract/permits/ # The permit clause: “L&G Building and Concrete LLC will not provide permits” Clause 8 of 13 from my signed L&G Building & Concrete contract, with what it meant on my project and how I would rewrite it. ## What it says Company statement: contract ODR-001094, signed February 20, 2026 “ L&G Building and Concrete LLC will not provide permits, we are manufacturers not contractors. ” Terms and Agreement, page 3 The permit, and everything that goes with holding it, is placed on the customer. The order form says “Permit Required: Customer To Verify,” and the customer also agrees to indemnify L&G for any city or county code violation. I pulled the permit for this project myself. What that means for a $98,750 job is something I look at on the licensing page. ## What happened on my project My project record The terms say L&G will not provide permits, “we are manufacturers not contractors,” and that the customer is solely responsible for the permit. The order form adds “Permit Required: Customer To Verify.” Elsewhere the customer agrees to indemnify L&G for any city or county code violation. So I went to Alexander County and applied as the owner, which meant signing an owner exemption affidavit that has the owner swear to personally superintend and manage all aspects of construction. One company priced the job, took the money and sent the crews. I held the permit and the responsibility. North Carolina requires a general contractor license on projects of $40,000 or more. I have not yet matched a license to L&G for my project and have asked the licensing board to confirm, in writing, whichever way the answer comes out. ## How I would rewrite it - Ask for the company’s license number before discussing permits at all. - If the seller insists you pull the permit, call the county first and describe the arrangement. Let the county tell you whether it fits the affidavit. - Strike the indemnity for code violations, or limit it to violations caused by the customer’s own work. The question to ask before signing: “ If you are a manufacturer and not a contractor, who is the licensed contractor on my $98,750 job? ” My reading as a customer, not legal advice. A North Carolina construction attorney can tell you what the clause means for your contract. ## Related The $40,000 rule What an owner-builder takes on Previous clause: Failing final inspection . Next clause: Telehandler and equipment . All clauses . --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/contract/lift/ # The lift clause: “if the customer is providing lift it must be available for one week” Clause 9 of 13 from my signed L&G Building & Concrete contract, with what it meant on my project and how I would rewrite it. ## What it says Company statement: contract ODR-001094, signed February 20, 2026 “ If the customer is providing lift it must be available for one week unless otherwise specified. ” Terms and Agreement, pages 2–3 My order form lists “7k Telehandler Lift (customer Provided)” at $0. For any building 13 ft or taller, or over 30 ft wide, the terms say a telehandler may be required. If you are the one supplying it, the rental clock and the rental bill are yours, so a crew that arrives late or does not finish in a week costs you directly. That is what happened to me. L&G told me by text that anything beyond my week “runs through us,” and the texts are on the telehandler page. ## What happened on my project My project record The order lists “7k Telehandler Lift (customer Provided)” at $0. The terms say buildings 13 feet or taller or over 30 feet wide may require a telehandler, and that a customer-provided lift must be available for one week unless otherwise specified. Before renting it, I got L&G’s installation contact to say by text that if the crew needed it longer, “it runs through us,” and later, “if we need it longer I’ll get my own” lift. I then confirmed in writing that the $2,000 prepaid rental was the whole of my telehandler responsibility. The reply was “Yes.” The crew arrived five days after the Saturday I was given, put up about half the frame, and I was told they now needed a different telehandler. The building has sat since. ## How I would rewrite it - Have the seller supply the lift and price it. If you must supply it, write the machine size, the number of days and who pays for crew delay into the contract itself. - Add: if the crew does not arrive on the scheduled date, the seller reimburses rental days lost. - Add: if the seller’s crew needs equipment beyond what the contract names, the seller supplies it at its own cost. The question to ask before signing: “ If your crew is late or does not finish within the week my lift is rented, who pays for the extra days, and will you write that on the contract? ” My reading as a customer, not legal advice. A North Carolina construction attorney can tell you what the clause means for your contract. ## Related The texts, word for word The dates Previous clause: Permits . Next clause: Grading and site work . All clauses . --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/contract/grading/ # The grading clause: two hours included, $150 an hour after that Clause 10 of 13 from my signed L&G Building & Concrete contract, with what it meant on my project and how I would rewrite it. ## What it says Company statement: contract ODR-001094, signed February 20, 2026 “ Grading is up to 2 hours only. $150 for each additional hour. ” Concrete Contract and Balance Breakdown The $1,000 grading line buys two hours. Fill dirt, gravel, stump and rock removal are all the customer’s job and must be done before scheduling. If the crew arrives and the site is not level there is a $300 return-trip fee. ## What happened on my project My project record My concrete contract includes grading at $1,000 for up to two hours, with $150 for each additional hour. The terms make fill dirt, gravel, stump and rock removal the customer’s job before scheduling, say the customer is responsible for compaction and that L&G is not responsible for a failed compaction test, and add a $300 fee if the crew arrives to a site that is not level. On my job the grading itself was not the dispute. I include the clause because on a sloped foothills lot it can quietly add more than the slab upgrade you were debating, and because it hands the one soil question that determines whether a slab cracks, compaction, entirely to the customer while the company keeps the no-warranty page. ## How I would rewrite it - Have your own excavation contractor grade and compact the pad, with a compaction test if the soil is questionable, before the concrete crew is scheduled. - Get the finished-grade elevation and tolerance written down so “not level” has a definition. - If the seller grades, make the hourly rate and a not-to-exceed figure part of the contract. The question to ask before signing: “ What do you need the site to look like when your crew arrives, in numbers, and who decides whether it is level? ” My reading as a customer, not legal advice. A North Carolina construction attorney can tell you what the clause means for your contract. ## Related Reading the concrete contract County guides Previous clause: Telehandler and equipment . Next clause: Schedule . All clauses . --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/contract/schedule/ # The scheduling clause: weather, crew availability and “other unforeseen occurrences” Clause 11 of 13 from my signed L&G Building & Concrete contract, with what it meant on my project and how I would rewrite it. ## What it says Company statement: contract ODR-001094, signed February 20, 2026 “ Weather, crew availability,, and other unforeseen occurrences could affect project scheduling. ” Terms and Agreement, page 2 I could not find a start date, a completion date or any remedy for delay anywhere in the packet. The only time estimate is that site-specific engineered plans “can take up to 20 weeks to receive.” ## What happened on my project My project record The only time estimate in my twenty-page packet is that site-specific engineered plans “can take up to 20 weeks to receive.” The terms say weather, crew availability and other unforeseen occurrences could affect project scheduling. There is no start window, no completion date and nothing that happens to the company if the job runs long. I signed February 20, 2026. The building was set to go up August 29. By text two days before, it moved to “Monday at latest.” The crew came September 3, worked until about September 5, and stopped with half a frame standing. As of the last update to this site, that is still where it is. ## How I would rewrite it - A start window and a substantial-completion date, in the contract. - A daily credit for each day past the completion date not caused by the customer or weather, or the right to cancel and recover unearned money. - A written plan-delivery date, since plans gate everything else. - A written definition of “complete”: final inspection passed and punch list closed. The question to ask before signing: “ What date will this building be finished, and what happens to the price if it is not? ” My reading as a customer, not legal advice. A North Carolina construction attorney can tell you what the clause means for your contract. ## Related Day by day Questions to ask Previous clause: Grading and site work . Next clause: Repossession and security interest . All clauses . --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/contract/repossess/ # The security interest clause: the company may repossess any structure not paid in full Clause 12 of 13 from my signed L&G Building & Concrete contract, with what it meant on my project and how I would rewrite it. ## What it says Company statement: contract ODR-001094, signed February 20, 2026 “ Customer agrees that L&G Building and Concrete LLC may repossess any structure that is not paid for in full. ” Sales Order Contract and Terms and Agreement The order form also says the customer grants L&G a security interest in the structure, and that orders may be filled by “an independent manufacturer and/or installer.” ## What happened on my project My project record The sales order has the customer grant L&G a security interest in the structure and agree that L&G may repossess any structure that is not paid for in full. The order also says orders may be filled by an independent manufacturer or installer. Read with the payment schedule, the company holds most of the money and a claim on the building at the same time. On my lot the “structure” is half a steel frame bolted to a slab I paid for in full. Whether and how a security interest applies to that is a question for an attorney. ## How I would rewrite it - Strike the security interest, or limit it to materials not yet installed and amounts actually past due. - Add that title to materials passes to the customer on delivery and payment of the materials invoice. - Add that the customer may hire another contractor to complete the work after a stated notice period if the company stops. The question to ask before signing: “ If your crew stops halfway and I have paid for the materials on the ground, who owns them, and can I have someone else finish? ” My reading as a customer, not legal advice. A North Carolina construction attorney can tell you what the clause means for your contract. ## Related When work stops The company’s response page Previous clause: Schedule . Next clause: Damage to your property . All clauses . --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/contract/damage/ # The damage clause: the customer holds the company harmless for yards, pipes, cables and lines Clause 13 of 13 from my signed L&G Building & Concrete contract, with what it meant on my project and how I would rewrite it. ## What it says Company statement: contract ODR-001094, signed February 20, 2026 “ Customer agrees to indemnify and hold harmless L&G Building and Concrete LLC for any damage done to yards, pets, submerged lines, pipes, cables, or any other utility instrumentalities during construction. ” Terms and Agreement, page 2 The customer is responsible for marking underground lines (811 will do it free). Read this one twice if you have plumbing stubbed up through the slab area. ## What happened on my project My project record The terms have the customer agree to indemnify and hold harmless L&G for any damage done to yards, pets, submerged lines, pipes, cables or other utilities during construction, and make the customer responsible for marking underground lines. My plumbing stub-ups were standing straight in the pre-pour photo. During the September install they ended up leaning, scuffed and gouged, with equipment tire marks on the slab around them. I contend the damage happened during L&G’s installation work; the photos cannot show who was at the controls. Under this clause, the company’s position is that the damage is mine regardless. ## How I would rewrite it - Limit the clause to unmarked underground utilities. Above-slab plumbing that the crew can see is the crew’s responsibility. - Require the installer’s general liability insurance to be named on a certificate before work starts, so there is a policy behind any damage claim. - Add a pre-construction walkthrough with photos signed by both parties, so “before” is documented. The question to ask before signing: “ If your crew damages something above ground that is plainly visible, is that covered by this clause too? ” My reading as a customer, not legal advice. A North Carolina construction attorney can tell you what the clause means for your contract. ## Related The damaged stub-up The same pipes before the pour Previous clause: Repossession and security interest . All clauses . --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/costs/ # What L&G Building & Concrete charged, line by line If you are pricing a metal building, real numbers are hard to find. These are mine, from contract ODR-001094, signed in February 2026 for a site in western North Carolina. ## The building: $50,551 Company statement: L&G sales order, February 12, 2026 A certified 50 ft × 80 ft × 16 ft vertical-roof building in 14-gauge framing, dark gray sides with glossy black roof, trim and wainscot, plus a 12×35 lean-to on the right and a 12×50 lean-to across the back. “Certified” means it comes with engineered drawings meant to pass county inspection. Qty Item List price 1 50×80 vertical roof building (roof 81 ft, 14 gauge, 3/12 pitch) $36,300 1 16 ft height (ladder legs baserail) $8,400 1 Other certification (including lean-tos) $0 2 Ends, closed, vertical $9,420 2 Sides, closed, vertical $8,060 1 Right lean-to 12×35 (wrapped length 47 ft, 2/12 pitch) $5,050 1 Right lean-to, 13 ft height $820 1 Right lean-to, front certified gable $375 1 Right lean-to, side closed $1,775 1 Back lean-to 12×50 (wrapped length 62 ft, 2/12 pitch) $6,600 1 Back lean-to, 13 ft height $1,090 1 Back lean-to, back certified gable $375 1 Back lean-to, side closed $2,267.50 3 Front 24×36 in. windows, black with grid $690 3 Back 24×36 in. windows, black with grid $690 2 Right side 36×80 in. walk-in doors, 9-lite, black $1,320 2 Right side 14×14 ft garage door frame-outs $1,200 1 Right side 10×10 ft garage door frame-out $400 4 Back lean-to 14×12 ft garage door frame-outs $2,400 3 Right lean-to 14×12 ft garage door frame-outs $1,800 1 Site-specific blueprints, 4 ft centers $3,000 1 7k telehandler lift (customer provided) $0 1 Generator fee $150 1 Soffit, wainscot, J-trim, ladder-leg baserail (listed as free) $0 List prices added up $92,182.50 “Manufacturer discount” − $41,631.50 Building total, no sales tax charged $50,551 Notice how the price is built. The line items add up to $92,182.50 , and then a single “manufacturer discount” of $41,631.50 takes off about 45%. The number that matters is the bottom one. When you compare quotes between metal-building sellers, compare bottom lines and ignore the size of anybody’s discount. Also notice the $0 lines. “7k Telehandler Lift (customer Provided)” means the machine that lifts the trusses was mine to rent and have on site. A $0 on the order form did not mean the lift was free. It meant the cost was on me and outside the contract. ## The concrete: $48,199 Item What the contract specifies Price Pad size 50 ft 7 in. × 80 ft 7 in. main pad, plus a 12×47 ft and a 12×62 ft lean-to pad $37,380 Pad thickness 6 in. under the building, 4 in. under each lean-to Concrete strength 3,500 psi Grading Yes, up to 2 hours. $150 for each additional hour $1,000 Footers 1×1 footers, a 47 ft strip footer and a 62 ft strip footer. “Inspection required” $9,594 Vapor barrier 6 mil $225 Certified Yes, “inspection required” Finish Light broom finish selected Concrete total $48,199 The three pads come to about 5,384 square feet, so the pad price works out to roughly $6.94 a square foot before footers and grading, and about $8.95 a square foot all in. L&G’s standard slab is 4 inches at 3,000 psi. My contract specifies more than that: 6 inches under the building, at 3,500 psi. I paid for that specification, which is why the thickness of what actually got poured matters to me. The concrete sheet I signed says there is no warranty on any of it. Read the clause . ## When the money is due When For Amount At signing Building deposit (38.97% of the building price), by bank wire $19,700 When the concrete crew arrives Footers and grading $10,594 When concrete is scheduled Concrete balance, before the pour $37,605 When the building is scheduled Building materials, before delivery $22,283 When the building is complete Installation $8,568 Grand total for the project $98,750 Add up the first four rows and you get $90,182 , which is 91% of the project, due before the building is complete. Only the last $8,568 waits for completion. All of it moves by bank wire, which cannot be reversed. On top of the schedule sit the extras the contract allows: $150 an hour for grading beyond two hours, $300 return-trip fees, and any additional concrete and labor if an inspector wants deeper footings. I have paid about $93,000 so far. The schedule calls for $90,182 before completion. On top of that I was charged for two things that are on none of my signed paperwork: extra money to correct footings that were dug to 12 inches when the plans called for 14, and a concrete pump. A payment ledger with dates and wire confirmations is being assembled and will replace this paragraph. How I would structure the payments if I were doing it again --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/photos/ # Photos from the job site Taken on my own lot. Published copies are resized, and one has handwriting blurred for privacy. Nothing else is altered. Each caption says only what the picture shows. ## Slab depth before the pour My project record I paid for six inches under the building. This is what I measured when I was told the pad was ready for concrete. P-01 Before the pour. The tape stands on the vapor barrier, and the yellow string line crosses it at about 4½ inches. The white plumbing stub-ups in the background are standing straight. April 2026, before the pour . Notes on this photo ## Cracking in the slab My project record Photographed about five months after the pour. P-03 A crack running from the front of the picture to the back, crossing a saw-cut control joint, beside the building’s base rail. Handwriting on the rail is blurred for privacy. Nothing else in the image is altered. Early September 2026 . Notes on this photo ## The unfinished building My project record How far the frame got before work stopped. P-04 The building as it stood when work stopped: part of the frame up, no roof or wall panels, loose parts on the slab. A crack in the slab is visible at lower left. Early September 2026 . Notes on this photo P-05 A corner of the frame seen from below: column, header, diagonal brace and two open tube ends. Early September 2026 . Notes on this photo ## Plumbing stub-ups My project record These pipes were standing straight before the pour, as photo P-01 shows. P-06 A capped PVC pipe where it comes up through the slab. It is leaning, with black scuff marks and gouges up one side. September 2026, during frame installation . Notes on this photo P-07 The same kind of damage close up. Tire tread marks from equipment are visible on the slab around the pipe. September 2026, during frame installation . Notes on this photo P-08 A plumbing stub-up leaning well off vertical, with tire tread marks across the slab beside it. Compare the upright stub-ups in photo P-01. September 2026, during frame installation . Notes on this photo ## Forms and footings My project record The edge of the pad during preparation. P-02 Form boards at the edge of the pad before the pour, with rebar, vapor barrier and part of the footing trench visible. April 2026, before the pour . Notes on this photo ## What a photo can and cannot prove The tape-measure photo shows about 4½ inches between the vapor barrier and the string line at one spot, on the day I was told the pad was ready to pour. I paid for 6. It is not a core sample, and it does not establish the thickness of the finished slab. Coring the slab would, and I intend to have that done. A photo of a crack proves there is a crack. It does not prove why. L&G’s paperwork says all concrete cracks and that it offers no warranty. Control joints are cut so that a slab cracks along them. This crack runs across the panel and through the joint instead. My opinion is that it is more than I should have to accept on a $48,199 concrete job. An engineer’s report would be evidence. If I commission one it will be posted here in full, whatever it concludes. The plumbing photos show pipes that are leaning, scuffed and gouged, with tire tread marks on the slab around them. The pre-pour photo shows the stub-ups standing straight. I contend the damage happened during L&G’s installation work. The photos cannot show who was at the controls. See where each photo falls in the timeline --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/photos/P-01/ # Slab Depth Before the Pour: About 4½ Inches on a 6-Inch Slab April 2026, before the pour . Photo 1 of 8 from my own lot. Resized only; nothing retouched except where the caption says so. Open full size ( 1800 × 1350 ) ## What the photo shows My project record - A tape measure standing on the vapor barrier of the prepared pad, with a yellow string line crossing the blade at roughly 4½ inches. - A rebar grid on chairs over 6-mil plastic sheeting, as the concrete contract specifies. - White PVC plumbing stub-ups in the background, standing straight. - Evening light; the pad was described to me as ready for concrete. ## What it does not prove It is one spot on one day. It does not establish the thickness of the finished slab anywhere, and the string line’s relationship to the finished surface is my reading of the scene, not a surveyed fact. Core samples would settle the finished thickness; I intend to have them taken. ## Where it fits Taken in April 2026 when I was told the pad was ready to pour. My contract specifies a 6-inch slab under the building at 3,500 psi, an upgrade over L&G’s 4-inch standard. The concrete balance of $37,605 was due when the pour was scheduled, so by the time this photo was taken the money had moved. How to check slab thickness The no-warranty clause The same stub-ups in September Next: P-02 . All photos . --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/photos/P-02/ # Form Boards and Footing Trench Before the Pour April 2026, before the pour . Photo 2 of 8 from my own lot. Resized only; nothing retouched except where the caption says so. Open full size ( 1800 × 1350 ) ## What the photo shows My project record - Wooden form boards staked at the slab edge, with a block and stakes holding them. - The vapor barrier and rebar grid inside the forms. - Part of the footing trench and a run of rebar along it. - Red clay subgrade typical of the western Piedmont. ## What it does not prove It does not show the footing depth. The footing failure on this project is documented by the county’s inspection, which has been requested, not by this image. ## Where it fits April 2026, during site preparation. The concrete contract priced footers at $9,594 and said that if the inspector required them deeper the customer would pay. The plans L&G supplied call for 14-inch footings; the crew dug 12; the inspection failed; I was charged for the correction. Footing depth guide The footing clause Previous: P-01 . Next: P-03 . All photos . --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/photos/P-03/ # Crack Through a Control Joint, Five Months After the Pour Early September 2026 . Photo 3 of 8 from my own lot. Resized only; nothing retouched except where the caption says so. Open full size ( 1350 × 1800 ) ## What the photo shows My project record - A crack running from the foreground to the background of the frame, crossing a saw-cut control joint rather than following it. - The building’s steel base rail and column stubs along the right edge, with loose framing parts on the slab. - Equipment tire tracks in the dust at the top of the frame. - Handwriting on the base rail is blurred for privacy. Nothing else is altered. ## What it does not prove A photo of a crack proves a crack. It does not prove the cause, the depth or whether it is structural. An engineer’s report would be evidence; if I commission one it will be posted whatever it says. ## Where it fits Early September 2026. L&G’s concrete information sheet says cracks are bound to happen and that it offers no warranty on concrete. Control joints are cut so that shrinkage cracking happens along them; this crack crosses one. My opinion is that it is more than I should accept on a $48,199 concrete job, and that is an opinion. The no-warranty clause Control joints and what they are for Previous: P-02 . Next: P-04 . All photos . --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/photos/P-04/ # The Half-Built Frame: How Far L&G Got Before Work Stopped Early September 2026 . Photo 4 of 8 from my own lot. Resized only; nothing retouched except where the caption says so. Open full size ( 1350 × 1800 ) ## What the photo shows My project record - Roughly half of a 50×80 steel frame standing on the slab, with trusses and columns but no sheeting. - An A-frame ladder against a column, loose framing on the slab, a pickup and a skid steer at the edge of the lot. - A crack in the slab in the lower left of the frame. - Workers in the background near a pile of steel. ## What it does not prove It does not show why work stopped or what was said that day. The telehandler page and the timeline carry that, with the texts. ## Where it fits Taken around September 3 to 5, 2026, the days the crew was on site. They had arrived five days after the Saturday I was given. After about half the frame was up I was told the crew needed a different telehandler, and asked for the installation payment that my Balance Breakdown ties to completion. The telehandler dispute Timeline Previous: P-03 . Next: P-05 . All photos . --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/photos/P-05/ # Frame Corner Detail: Column, Header and Brace Early September 2026 . Photo 5 of 8 from my own lot. Resized only; nothing retouched except where the caption says so. Open full size ( 1350 × 1800 ) ## What the photo shows My project record - A corner column with a header running off it and a diagonal brace tied back into the truss. - Two short tube ends projecting from the column, open. - Galvanized 14-gauge tubing, consistent with the order. ## What it does not prove Whether the connections are complete or correct is an inspection question. The county’s framing inspection, when there is one, will say. ## Where it fits Early September 2026. I include it because it is the clearest view of the materials and connections as left by the crew, and because any future inspection report will refer to details like these. What was ordered The final inspection clause Previous: P-04 . Next: P-06 . All photos . --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/photos/P-06/ # Damaged PVC Stub-Up: Leaning, Scuffed and Gouged September 2026, during frame installation . Photo 6 of 8 from my own lot. Resized only; nothing retouched except where the caption says so. Open full size ( 1350 × 1800 ) ## What the photo shows My project record - A large-diameter capped PVC pipe rising from the slab, leaning off vertical. - Black scuff marks and gouges up one side of the pipe. - Duct tape and green plastic at the base where the pipe passes through the slab. - Pine straw and concrete dust on the slab; the half-built frame edge in the background. ## What it does not prove Who or what hit the pipe. I contend it happened during L&G’s installation work; the photo shows the result, not the moment. ## Where it fits Around September 4, 2026. In the pre-pour photo P-01, the stub-ups are standing straight. My contract has the customer hold L&G harmless for damage to pipes and lines during construction. The damage clause Before the pour Previous: P-05 . Next: P-07 . All photos . --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/photos/P-07/ # PVC Scuffing Close Up, With Tire Marks on the Slab September 2026, during frame installation . Photo 7 of 8 from my own lot. Resized only; nothing retouched except where the caption says so. Open full size ( 1350 × 1800 ) ## What the photo shows My project record - The same type of capped PVC pipe, with scrapes and black marks along its length. - Tire tread marks from equipment on the slab surface around the pipe. - A trailer and truck in the background at the edge of the lot. ## What it does not prove The tread marks show equipment moved across the slab near the pipe. They do not by themselves show that the equipment struck it. ## Where it fits Around September 4, 2026, during the install. Read with P-01 and P-08. The leaning stub-up Timeline Previous: P-06 . Next: P-08 . All photos . --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/photos/P-08/ # Plumbing Stub-Up Leaning Off Vertical September 2026, during frame installation . Photo 8 of 8 from my own lot. Resized only; nothing retouched except where the caption says so. Open full size ( 1350 × 1800 ) ## What the photo shows My project record - A PVC stub-up leaning well off vertical where it passes through the slab, with disturbed concrete at the base. - Tire tread marks sweeping across the slab in the foreground. - The base rail of the building and a dirt pile at the far edge. ## What it does not prove Whether the pipe below the slab is broken. That will take a plumber, and it is on my list. ## Where it fits Around September 4, 2026. The stub-ups were straight before the pour (P-01). The damage was reported publicly by me at the time and is one of the items in the dispute. Before the pour The damage clause Previous: P-07 . All photos . --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/telehandler/ # The telehandler: what L&G put in writing, and what happened A metal building this size cannot go up without a lift. My contract made renting one my job, for one week. This page is about what happened when the week ran out. ## What the contract says Company statement The sales order lists “7k Telehandler Lift (customer Provided)” at $0. The terms add that any building 13 feet or taller, or over 30 feet wide, may need a telehandler because of the weight of the trusses, and that “if the customer is providing lift it must be available for one week unless otherwise specified.” So the deal on paper was one week of lift from me. Nothing in the packet says what happens if L&G’s crew shows up late or does not finish inside that week. I asked. ## What L&G said by text Company statement: texts from the L&G contact scheduling my installation L&G Yeah like your getting lift for one week that’s all if we need it long it runs through us Me, Thursday, August 27, 8:29 AM Confirming you’re for sure building Saturday morning 8am. L&G Our crews are still behind get the lift will be there Monday at latest but lift needs to be there Me I’m not paying 3k. If you’re guaranteed to be there Monday I’ll have the lift there Monday morning L&G Lift L&G Yes sir if you can have lift there schedule for a week if we need it longer I’ll get my own lidt L&G Are you good with that ? Me Yes Me As long as y’all are there doing it this week L&G Thank you I appreciate it Me I have to pay the entire 2k up front this time. So just so I have it in writing. This is my fulfilling the entirety of my telehandler responsibility. L&G Yes These are typed exactly as sent, typos included, in the order they appear in the screenshots below. Messages that fall between the screenshots are not shown. The phone number at the top of each screenshot has been cropped off. Nothing else has been changed, and I have kept the full thread. Twice, in two different messages, L&G’s contact says the same thing: my obligation is one week of lift, and if the crew needs it longer, that is on L&G. When I asked him to confirm that a $2,000 prepaid rental was “the entirety of my telehandler responsibility,” he answered with one word. The one-week arrangement, then the Saturday install date moving to “Monday at latest.” Time stamp: Thursday, August 27, 8:29 AM. “If we need it longer I’ll get my own” lift. L&G asks if I am good with that. I say yes, as long as the crew is there that week. I put it in writing that the $2,000 rental is the whole of my telehandler responsibility. L&G’s reply: “Yes.” ## What happened My project record The install was set for Saturday, August 29, and I was told to have the telehandler on site the day before. I rented it. Two days before the date, L&G moved the crew to “Monday at latest.” The crew arrived the following Thursday, September 3, five days after the Saturday I had been given. Between Thursday and Saturday they stood up about half the building. On Saturday, September 5, with more than a week gone since I first rented the lift, I was told the crew needed a different telehandler. L&G has not provided one. It did ask me for the installation payment, the $8,568 my Balance Breakdown says is “due upon building completion.” My position is simple. I did what the contract asked and what the texts asked. L&G’s own words say the lift is its responsibility from here. The building has been half-finished since. Full timeline Photos of the frame ## Another customer described a lift dispute too Third-party report In a November 2025 BBB review, a customer alleged that L&G demanded $1,500 for a lift rental although her contract listed the lift at $0, and would not continue work until she paid. L&G replied that it was a subcontractor on that job, that it explained the equipment and costs during the work, and that it requested nothing beyond what was discussed. I cannot verify her account. Both sides are summarized, with the link, on the other customers page . If you are buying from any metal building company and the order form shows a lift at $0 or “customer provided,” get three things in writing before you sign: what size machine, for how many days, and who pays when their crew is late. More checks before you sign . --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/public-records/ # Public records that name L&G Building and Concrete Anyone can look these up. I have linked each one to its original source and written down what it shows and what it does not. Third-party report Checked September 17, 2026 ### Better Business Bureau business profile - Listed as L & G Building and Concrete LLC, Asheboro, NC, with the alternate name L&G Buildings and Concrete. - BBB shows the business as started and incorporated on January 12, 2017, and the BBB file as opened October 11, 2017. - Under business management BBB lists Santos Garcia as owner and Michel Recendez as marketing manager. David Cosme Lopez is also listed, without a title. - BBB lists Carolina Concrete and Custom Carports as a related business. - The business is not BBB accredited. On the day I checked, BBB displayed an A+ rating alongside a customer review average of 2 out of 5 stars from 4 reviews. BBB says it does not verify information supplied by third parties, and that some businesses are unaccredited simply because they never applied. BBB profile Third-party report Checked September 17, 2026 ### Related business at the same address - BBB lists Carolina Concrete and Custom Carports at 1110 E Salisbury St, Suite B, Asheboro, with David Lopez as owner and L & G Building and Concrete LLC as a related business. - My L&G contract shows the same street address, 1110 E Salisbury St, Asheboro. I have not confirmed the ownership of either company through Secretary of State filings yet, so I am not describing anyone’s role beyond what BBB itself lists. BBB profile, Carolina Concrete and Custom Carports Official record Checked September 17, 2026 ### Federal motor carrier enforcement case (trucking, not construction) - The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s closed enforcement table lists L&G Buildings And Concrete LLC, USDOT 3372164. - Case NC-2025-0015-US1895, closed November 15, 2024, citing 49 CFR 385.325(c), with a settlement amount of $5,180. This is a trucking-registration matter about the company’s commercial vehicles. It says nothing about concrete or building workmanship, and I am not suggesting it does. I include it because it is a public enforcement record under the company’s name. FMCSA closed enforcement cases, 2024 Official record Checked September 17, 2026 ### Federal lawsuit naming L&G (motor vehicle injury, not construction) - Tilley v. Carolina Concrete & Custom Carports, LLC et al., case 4:25-cv-00099, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. - The docket shows it arrived in federal court on August 15, 2025 and is categorized as a motor-vehicle personal-injury case. - Defendants shown on the docket are Carolina Concrete & Custom Carports, LLC; L&G Building and Concrete, LLC; and an individual driver. A lawsuit is a set of allegations. A docket entry is not a finding that anyone did anything wrong, and this case has nothing to do with building quality. Justia docket Official record Checked September 17, 2026 ### A 2021 Guilford County permit listing “Owner Contractor” - An October 2021 Guilford County permit report includes an application named “L & G Building and Concrete” for a detached garage or storage building valued at $66,945. - The contractor field on that permit reads “Owner Contractor.” One permit proves nothing about anyone’s licensing and does not show wrongdoing. I note it because my own project was also permitted with me, the owner, holding the permit, and I am looking at how common that is. Guilford County permit report (PDF) ## General contractor license: still checking North Carolina requires a general contractor license when a project is $40,000 or more. My project was $98,750. I have not yet been able to match a license to L&G Building and Concrete for this job. That is not the same as saying none exists. I have asked the board directly and will post its answer here, whichever way it comes out. Records I have requested or am searching, with results to be posted here: - North Carolina Licensing Board for General Contractors: license number, status on the dates of my project, classification, limitation and qualifier, if any. - North Carolina Secretary of State: formation date, status, registered agent and annual reports for L & G Building and Concrete LLC and the related company. - Alexander County Building Inspections: my complete permit file, including every inspection result and who requested each inspection. - Certificates of general liability and workers’ compensation insurance covering the crews on my lot. Why the license question matters on a $98,750 job --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/faq/ # Questions people ask about this site, the project and buying a metal building in NC Short answers, each linked to the page with the records behind it. ## About this site Who runs lgbuildingandconcretereview.com? The customer and property owner on a 2026 L&G Building & Concrete project in Alexander County, North Carolina. The site is noncommercial, carries no advertising, sells nothing and is not connected to any competitor of L&G. The author is not named by default; the sourcing rules explain why. Read more . Is this site affiliated with L&G Building & Concrete? No. It is an independent customer review. L&G’s own website is lgbuildingsandconcrete.com. The company is invited to respond and its reply will be published unedited on the company response page. Read more . How do I know which statements are fact and which are opinion? Every claim carries one of four flags: official record, my project record, company statement, or third-party report. Opinions say “I believe,” “in my view” or “I contend.” Where a document is still on its way, the page says so. Read more . Can L&G correct something on this site? Yes. It can send documentation to the corrections address. Material corrections supported by reliable records will be made and logged publicly with the original and new wording. Read more . ## The project What did the L&G Building & Concrete project cost? $98,750: $50,551 for a certified 50×80×16 vertical-roof building with two lean-tos, and $48,199 for the concrete, including a 6-inch slab under the building, 4-inch lean-to pads, footers, grading and a vapor barrier. Read more . How much has been paid? About $93,000 as of the last update, including charges for a footing correction and a concrete pump that appear on no signed paperwork. A payment ledger with wire confirmations is being assembled. Read more . Where is the project? Alexander County, North Carolina, with a Hickory mailing address. The street address is deliberately not published. Read more . What happened with the footings? The engineered plans L&G supplied call for 14-inch footings. The crew dug 12. The county inspection failed and I was charged extra for the correction under a clause that makes the customer pay if the inspector wants footers deeper. Read more . Did you get the 6-inch slab you paid for? Unknown. When I was told the pad was ready to pour, a tape on the vapor barrier read about 4½ inches at the string line. Only core samples will settle the finished thickness, and I intend to have them taken. Read more . What is the telehandler dispute? My order listed a 7k telehandler as customer-provided at $0 for one week. L&G’s contact agreed by text that anything longer “runs through us.” I rented one for $2,000. The crew arrived five days after the scheduled date, put up half the frame, and I was told a different machine was needed. L&G has not supplied one. Read more . What is the current status? As of September 17, 2026, day 209 after signing: slab poured with cracking, plumbing stub-ups damaged, about half the steel frame standing, no roof or walls, and work stopped. The timeline will be updated when anything changes. Read more . ## The contract Is the L&G deposit refundable? The terms say all down payments are non-refundable and all sales are final, with one exception for a written permit rejection letter from the county, minus the salesperson’s commission. My deposit was $19,700, 38.97% of the building price; the same terms describe a 10% minimum. Read more . Does L&G take credit cards? My contract says L&G accepts only bank wire transfers and no personal checks. Every payment in my packet was a wire. A wire cannot be reversed. Read more . Does L&G warranty its concrete? No. A separate signed sheet states there is no warranty of any kind on concrete and that cracks are bound to happen. The building has a 90-day workmanship warranty and 10 years on sheeting. Read more . Who pulls the permit on an L&G job? The customer. The contract says L&G will not provide permits and that “we are manufacturers not contractors.” I applied as the owner, which in North Carolina means signing an owner exemption affidavit. Read more . Is there a completion date in the contract? No. There is no start date, no completion date and no remedy for delay. The only time estimate is that engineered plans “can take up to 20 weeks.” Read more . What does the contract say about damage to my property? The customer agrees to hold L&G harmless for damage to yards, pets, submerged lines, pipes and cables during construction, and is responsible for marking underground lines. Read more . ## Licensing and permits in North Carolina Does L&G Building & Concrete have a North Carolina general contractor license? I do not know yet and will not guess. North Carolina requires one at $40,000 and up; my project was $98,750. I have asked the licensing board to confirm in writing and will publish the answer either way. Read more . What is the $40,000 rule? The North Carolina Licensing Board for General Contractors requires a general contractor license when a project costs $40,000 or more. The threshold was $30,000 until October 2023. Work on the same property at the same time is generally treated as one project. Read more . What is an owner-builder or owner exemption affidavit? A sworn statement a property owner signs to pull a permit as their own general contractor, promising to personally superintend and manage all aspects of construction and not delegate that to anyone unlicensed. It is designed for owners who are actually running the job. Read more . How do I check a contractor’s license in NC? Search the exact legal name, any other names and the owner’s name on the licensing board’s site, confirm the license and the qualifier are active, then check the Secretary of State and ask for insurance certificates. It takes about ten minutes. Read more . Which office issues metal building permits where I live? It depends on the county and sometimes the town. Mooresville, Morganton, Shelby and North Wilkesboro run their own inspections; Gastonia and Salisbury require a city zoning permit before the county building permit; a Hickory address can fall in four counties. The county guides have the offices. Read more . ## For other buyers What does a 50×80 metal building cost in North Carolina? Mine, certified, 16-foot legs, fully enclosed, with two lean-tos, was $50,551 installed in 2026, about $10 per square foot under roof. With the slab the project was $98,750, about $19.67 per square foot under roof. Read more . What does the concrete slab cost? My concrete contract was $48,199 for about 5,384 square feet of pads plus footers, grading and vapor barrier, roughly $8.95 per square foot all in, before two charges that were not on the contract. Read more . How do I check slab thickness? Before the pour, measure from the string line or form top down to the prepared base in many places and photograph the tape. After the pour, only cores or ground-penetrating radar will tell you. The edge of a slab tells you very little. Read more . What should I ask a metal building company before paying? Fifteen questions are on this site, starting with the exact legal name and the license number and ending with what happens if the job stops halfway. Read more . What should a payment schedule look like? Payments tied to passed inspections and counted deliveries, a deposit at the company’s own 10% minimum, and retainage of at least 10% held until final inspection. Mine had 91% due before completion, triggered by arrival and scheduling. Read more . My contractor stopped work. What do I do first? Stop paying, secure the site, document its state today, reread the contract for notice language, send a written notice, request the county file, and talk to a construction attorney. The full sequence is on this site. Read more . Where do I complain about a contractor in North Carolina? Your county inspections office, the NC Licensing Board for General Contractors (for $40,000-plus projects), the NC Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Division, BBB, and the courts. Each does something different. Read more . --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/other-customer-reports/ # L&G Building & Concrete complaints and reviews from other customers These are other people’s accounts, posted publicly under their own names. I have summarized them in my own words, placed L&G’s reply beside each one, and linked the originals so you can read both sides in full. I do not know these customers and cannot verify what they wrote. BBB states that it does not verify the accuracy of information provided by third parties. Read these as allegations. Where L&G answered, its answer is given equal space. Third-party report BBB review by David U November 24, 2025 ★ ☆☆☆☆ - The reviewer wrote that he was promised a finished shed within 60 days of receiving his county permit and that, close to 100 days in, only the concrete pad existed. - He alleged he was given repeated excuses when he asked for a start date and that the office had begun screening his calls. L&G’s reply , December 19, 2025 L&G replied that the project was completed in full, including the shed, and that the delays came from permitting timelines, weather and scheduling. It said the job was never abandoned and called the claim that only concrete was completed incorrect. Read the original on BBB Third-party report BBB review by Ashley V November 12, 2025 ★ ☆☆☆☆ - The reviewer said L&G installed her buildings as a subcontractor for another company, and alleged it demanded $1,500 for a lift rental even though her contract listed the lift at $0. - She alleged that when she withheld that amount at the end, the crew parked a work truck across her driveway and would not move until she paid. - She also alleged damage to her driveway, gaps under the ridge cap, and a slab left stained with mud and tire marks. L&G’s reply , November 18, 2025 L&G replied that as a subcontractor much of the pricing and paperwork came from the main contractor, that it requested nothing beyond what had been discussed, and that its workers stayed on site only to sort out payment and never blocked or threatened anyone. It said the ridge cap met the manufacturer’s guidelines, that the slab condition was typical of construction, and that it would review proof of any damage. Read the original on BBB Third-party report BBB review by Ryan H April 12, 2024 ★ ☆☆☆☆ - The reviewer alleged L&G asked for payment before the crew arrived although his contract said payment was due on arrival. - He alleged the crew came to dig footers without the right equipment, so he rented it himself that day, and that a gravel truck damaged his driveway. - He alleged that on pour day he was asked for more money because the concrete truck could not use his driveway, despite a site visit weeks earlier. No company reply was posted with this review when I checked. Read the original on BBB Third-party report BBB review by Kristin O January 6, 2024 ★★★★★ - A five-star review. The reviewer praised the finished job, called the crew hard-working and said the company was a pleasure to deal with. No company reply was posted with this review when I checked. Read the original on BBB Third-party report BBB complaint - A BBB complainant who hired L&G for concrete and a metal building alleged paying more than $26,000 up front, then receiving concrete that cracked, chipped and peeled, a frame that arrived bent and was welded on site, and panels that did not match in color. L&G’s reply L&G replied that upfront payment is its standard practice and is set out in the contract, that concrete carries no warranty because of the nature of the material, and that it had nonetheless agreed to repair the concrete but the customer kept withholding final payment and changing the terms. Read the complaint and full reply on BBB Third-party report Yelp Mixed. Includes a detailed positive account of a 30×40 building put up in one day, and negative accounts alleging long delays, leaks and poor communication. Read the reviews on Yelp ## What I take from these, and what I do not A handful of reviews cannot tell you how a company treats most of its customers. L&G has been operating since 2017 and has presumably put up a lot of buildings. People with a bad experience are more likely to write about it than people with a good one. What struck me, reading them after my own job went wrong, was how familiar some of the subjects were: money wanted before work, equipment the customer ended up supplying, a lift listed at $0 that one reviewer says later became a charge, cracked concrete answered with “no warranty,” long stretches without a date. Those are the same subjects my own records deal with. That is my observation and you may weigh it differently. If you were an L&G customer, good experience or bad, the most useful thing you can do is post your own review where you hired them and, if you have a dispute, use the channels on the complaint guide . --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/nc-contractor-license-rules/ # North Carolina’s $40,000 license rule, and what happens when you pull the permit yourself I learned these rules after I signed. If you are buying a metal building and slab in North Carolina for $40,000 or more, learn them before. ## The $40,000 rule Official record The North Carolina Licensing Board for General Contractors says a general contractor must hold a state license when the cost of the project is $40,000 or more. The threshold was $30,000 until October 2023. The board also accepts complaints about unlicensed contracting when the contract is at or above that figure. A licensed contractor has passed an exam and shown the board a minimum level of financial strength, either through its balance sheet or by posting a surety bond: $175,000 for a limited license, $500,000 for intermediate and $1,000,000 for unlimited. A limited license covers single projects up to $750,000. North Carolina does not require every licensed contractor to carry a bond or liability insurance, so you still have to ask for a certificate of insurance yourself. You can look up any company or person on the board’s website in about a minute. Search the exact legal name on your contract, the owner’s name, and any other company name that appears on the paperwork or the trucks. NCLBGC consumer FAQ License classifications and limits License search ## The owner-builder exemption Official record North Carolina lets a property owner act as their own general contractor on their own land. To do it you sign an Owner Exemption Affidavit at the permit office. Alexander County’s version has the owner swear that they will personally superintend and manage all aspects of the construction, that they will not hand that duty to anyone who is not properly licensed, and that they will be present for the inspections. The licensing board’s guidance to permit clerks describes what a real owner-builder does: hires the subcontractors and suppliers, manages them, gets invoiced by them and pays them directly, schedules the inspections and shows up for them. Put plainly, the exemption is for an owner who is running the job. It is a sworn statement, and the person swearing it is you. When your name is on the permit as owner-contractor, the county looks to you when an inspection fails. Alexander County Owner Exemption Affidavit (PDF) NCLBGC FAQ for permit clerks ## How this played out on my project My project record My contract with L&G Building & Concrete totals $98,750. It covers grading, footers, three concrete pads, and the supply and erection of an engineered steel building. One company priced all of it and took payment for all of it. Company statement The same contract says: “L&G Building and Concrete LLC will not provide permits, we are manufacturers not contractors.” It makes the customer solely responsible for the permit and has the customer indemnify L&G for any code violation. So I pulled the permit, in my own name. I do not know yet whether L&G holds a North Carolina general contractor license that covered this work, and I am not going to say it does not until the licensing board tells me. I have asked. I have also asked Alexander County for my complete permit file, which will show what was signed at the counter and who called in each inspection. Both answers will be published on the public records page . Here is the practical lesson, and it holds no matter how my questions get answered. If a company that is doing $40,000 or more of work on your land asks you to pull the permit yourself, stop and ask why, ask for its license number, and call your county permit office before you sign anything. It takes ten minutes. ## Questions to ask any metal building seller in North Carolina - What is the exact legal name of the company I am contracting with, and what is its NC general contractor license number? - Will the crews on my land be your employees or another company’s? Which company? - Who pulls the permit? If you want me to, why? - Who schedules inspections and who meets the inspector? - Can I have a certificate of general liability insurance and workers’ compensation naming my project? - If an inspection fails, who pays to correct it, and where does the contract say so? This page describes my understanding of public rules and is not legal advice. For your own situation, talk to a North Carolina construction attorney or the licensing board. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/before-you-sign/ # Ten checks before you sign a metal building contract I opened my contract packet one afternoon and had signed it by the next. Every item on this list comes from a specific line in that contract that I did not think hard enough about. Use it with any seller. - ### Search the license before the first phone call In North Carolina, a project of $40,000 or more needs a licensed general contractor. Look up the exact legal name from the quote on the licensing board’s site. If nothing comes up, ask the salesperson for the number and look that up too. A slab and a 40×60 building will clear $40,000 almost anywhere in the state in 2026. Mine was $98,750. - ### Treat “you pull the permit” as a question, not a formality When you sign an owner-builder affidavit you are swearing that you are running the job. Call your county permit office, describe the deal exactly as it was offered to you, and ask whether that is how they expect it to be permitted. - ### Do not pay 39% down on a contract whose own terms say 10% My terms describe a minimum deposit of 10%. My deposit was $19,700, which the order form calculates as 38.97% of the building. It was non-refundable the moment it left my account. Negotiate the deposit down, and get the number of weeks until engineered plans arrive in writing. - ### Avoid wire-only if you can. If you cannot, slow everything down A wire cannot be disputed or reversed. A credit card can. If the seller only takes wires, make every payment contingent on something you can see and verify: stamped plans in your hand, a passed inspection, material on your lot. - ### Tie payments to passed inspections, not to “scheduling” or “arrival” My schedule had 91% of the money due before the building was complete. Ask for the concrete balance to be due after the slab inspection passes and the pour is finished. Ask for a real retainage, 10% or more, held until final inspection. - ### Get a start date, a finish date and a consequence My packet has no dates in it at all. Write in a start window, a completion date, and what happens if it is missed: a daily credit, or the right to cancel and recover unearned money. - ### Match the footing on the plans to the footing on the concrete contract My concrete contract says “1x1 footers.” The engineered plans L&G gave me call for 14 inches. The crew dug 12, the inspection failed, and I paid extra for the fix, because the contract says that if the inspector wants deeper footings, the customer pays. Make the concrete contract reference the engineered plans by date and sheet number, so the price you sign covers the footing the engineer drew. - ### Be there with a tape measure before the pour I paid for six inches. When I was told the pad was ready, my tape read about 4½ at the string line. Measure form height and subgrade in several places before the truck arrives, photograph the tape, and send the photos to the office in writing the same hour. Ask the inspector what they check and what they do not. A slab inspection is not a thickness guarantee. - ### Read every $0 line as “your problem” My order lists a 7k telehandler as customer-provided at $0. That put a $2,000 rental on me, and when the crew came five days late and did not finish, I was told to supply a different machine. Get the lift size, the number of days and who pays for crew delays written into the contract itself. I only had it in texts. Ask what each $0 line will really cost and who pays if the schedule slips. - ### Ask about the concrete warranty before you see the signature page L&G’s packet includes a page stating it offers no warranty on concrete, and its building workmanship warranty is 90 days. Some concrete contractors will warranty their work for a year. If the answer is “none,” you should know that while you can still walk away, and you should price an independent concrete contractor for comparison. ## Where each of these comes from The clauses behind this list are quoted on the contract page , the prices and payment schedule are on the costs page , and the licensing background is on the NC license rules page . If something has already gone wrong on your own project, go to how to file a complaint . None of this is legal advice. For a contract this size, an hour of a construction attorney’s time before signing is cheap. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/how-to-file-a-complaint/ # How to file a complaint about a contractor in North Carolina If your own project with L&G Building & Concrete, or with anyone else, has gone wrong, these are the doors to knock on, in the order I would knock on them. - ### Get your file in order first Every agency will ask for the same things. Gather the signed contract, every invoice and payment confirmation, your permit and inspection reports, dated photos, and every text and email. Export text threads to PDF so the dates show. Keep originals untouched and work from copies. Then write the company one calm letter or email that says what is wrong, what you want done and by what date. Agencies and judges want to see that you gave the company a fair chance. - ### Your county building inspections office If there is a permit, the inspector is the one person with authority over whether the work meets code. Ask for your complete permit file; it is a public record. Ask the inspector, in writing, what has passed, what has failed and what remains open. For projects in Alexander County: Building Inspections, 151 West Main Ave., Taylorsville, NC 28681, (828) 632-1000. County website . - ### NC Licensing Board for General Contractors The board takes complaints against licensed general contractors, and against unlicensed ones when the contract is $40,000 or more. It can discipline a licensee and can seek court orders against unlicensed contracting. It cannot get your money back, but a board finding carries weight everywhere else. (919) 571-4183. How to file with NCLBGC . - ### NC Attorney General, Consumer Protection Division The Attorney General’s office takes consumer complaints about businesses operating in North Carolina, forwards them to the company for a written response and tracks patterns across complaints. File online at ncdoj.gov or call 1-877-5-NO-SCAM (1-877-566-7226). - ### Better Business Bureau BBB has no enforcement power, but complaints and the company’s replies are public, which helps the next customer. L&G has responded to BBB complaints in the past. File with BBB . - ### A construction attorney, and the courts For a dispute in the tens of thousands of dollars, talk to a North Carolina construction attorney early; many will do a first consultation for a modest flat fee. Small claims court in North Carolina handles disputes up to $10,000 without a lawyer. Larger claims go to district or superior court. Deadlines apply, so do not sit on it for a year. - ### Write an honest public review Stick to what you can prove, say what is opinion, keep it free of insults, and post it where you found the company. If you want to see how I approached that, the methodology page explains the rules this whole site follows. ## What I have done so far I have requested my full permit file from the county and asked the licensing board to confirm license status for my project. As each step produces a document, it goes on the timeline and the public records page . This page is general information from one customer’s experience. It is not legal advice. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/company-response/ # L&G Building & Concrete’s side, and how to correct this site This page is reserved for the company. Anything it sends that bears on the facts will be published here, in its own words. ## Response from L&G No response has been received as of the last update to this site. If L&G Building & Concrete believes a factual statement on this site is inaccurate, it may submit supporting documentation. Material corrections supported by reliable records will be reviewed and, where appropriate, incorporated. A written statement from the company will be posted on this page in full, unedited, provided it does not publish my private information. Send responses and documentation to corrections@lgbuildingandconcretereview.com . ## What would change this review I would much rather have a finished building than a website. If L&G completes the building to the engineered plans, it passes final inspection, and the slab and plumbing problems are made right, I will say so at the top of the home page, with photos, as prominently as anything else here. ## Corrections log No corrections have been made yet. When one is, the date, the original wording and the new wording will be listed here. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/sources/ # How this site is sourced The rule is simple: let the records do the talking. Here is how that rule is applied. ## Four kinds of source Official record Government, court or regulator records. Linked to the original. My project record My contract, photos, payments, messages and what I saw on my own lot. Company statement L&G’s own words: its contract, website or written replies. Third-party report Reviews and complaints by other people. Allegations, not findings. ## The rules I hold myself to - Facts about my project come from documents I hold: the signed contract, payment confirmations, my photos, my messages, and county inspection records. - When I quote L&G, I quote its exact words and say which page they came from. - When something is my opinion, the sentence says “I believe,” “in my view” or “I contend.” - Other customers’ reviews are summarized as allegations, linked to the original, with L&G’s reply alongside. - Court and agency records are described for what they are. A trucking fine is a trucking fine. A lawsuit is an allegation. - If I do not know something yet, including whether L&G holds a general contractor license, I say I do not know. - When a document is still on its way, the page says what is coming. Blank is better than wrong. ## What I leave out My street address, phone number and email. L&G’s bank and wire details, which appear in my packet. The names of salespeople and office staff, who are not the decision-makers. Anyone’s home address, even where a public record shows it. Exact location data is removed from photos before they are posted. ## Who is behind this I am the customer and property owner on this project , in Alexander County, North Carolina . This site is noncommercial. It carries no advertising, sells nothing, and I have no connection to any competitor of L&G Building & Concrete. The name “L&G Building & Concrete” is used only to identify the company being reviewed. No logos or branding of the company are used. Corrections: see the company response page . Last updated November 1, 2026 . --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/areas/ # Metal building permits, county by county My contract made the permit my problem, and I learned how my county works the hard way. These guides cover the counties around my project and around L&G Building & Concrete’s home base, so the next buyer starts out knowing more than I did. ## Hickory, Lenoir, Morganton and Statesville ### Alexander County Taylorsville, Bethlehem, Hiddenite, Stony Point This is the county where my own project sits, so this is the guide I can write from experience. My mailing address says Hickory. My permit says Alexander County. ### Catawba County Hickory, Newton, Conover, Maiden, Claremont, Long View In Catawba County one office issues building permits for everybody, but you cannot get one until the right zoning office has signed off, and which zoning office depends on where your lot is. ### Caldwell County Lenoir, Granite Falls, Hudson, Sawmills Caldwell County keeps permitting simple: one Building Inspections office in Lenoir, reachable by phone and email. The part that deserves your attention is a single line on the application. ### Burke County Morganton, Valdese, Hildebran, Connelly Springs, Drexel, Glen Alpine, Rutherford College Burke County has two building inspections departments, and a metal building buyer needs to know which one they belong to before signing anything. ### Iredell County Statesville, Mooresville, Troutman, Harmony, Union Grove Iredell County changed how it permits in 2023, and out-of-town metal building sellers are not always aware of it. ### Lincoln County Lincolnton, Denver, Iron Station, Vale, Westport Lincoln County runs a single Planning and Inspections office out of downtown Lincolnton, and it has moved almost everything online. That is convenient until you are the owner-applicant on a job you did not plan to manage. ### Wilkes County Wilkesboro, North Wilkesboro, Millers Creek, Moravian Falls, Ronda Wilkes County puts its permit offices on three different floors of one building and tells you which order to visit them. For a metal building on a septic lot, that order matters. ### Rowan County Salisbury, China Grove, Landis, Rockwell, Granite Quarry, Cleveland Rowan County is the one place I found where the permit application itself explains the licensing rule. If you are buying a metal building here, the form will ask the question my contract never did. ### Gaston County Gastonia, Belmont, Mount Holly, Dallas, Cherryville, Stanley, Bessemer City Gaston County consolidated building permits for the whole county in 2022. Gastonia kept zoning. If you are buying a metal building inside the city, you deal with both, in order. ### Cleveland County Shelby, Kings Mountain, Boiling Springs, Lawndale, Fallston, Casar Cleveland County and the City of Shelby both have building inspections offices a few miles apart. Which one you call depends on which side of the city line your lot sits. ## Asheboro, Greensboro and High Point ### Randolph County Asheboro, Archdale, Randleman, Trinity, Ramseur, Liberty, Seagrove Asheboro is where L&G Building & Concrete is based. If you live in Randolph County, you are its home market, and this is the office your permit will run through. ### Guilford County Greensboro, High Point, Jamestown, Pleasant Garden, Summerfield, Oak Ridge Guilford County is the one place where I found L&G Building & Concrete’s name in a public permit record, and the way that permit was filed looks a lot like mine. ## Why a review site has permit guides Because the permit is where my project went sideways first. L&G’s contract says the company does not provide permits and that the customer is solely responsible. I pulled mine as the owner without understanding what that meant on a $98,750 job. Every county handles it a little differently, and none of the sellers explain it. So I looked it up, office by office, and wrote it down. More counties will be added as I verify them. I only publish an office’s details after checking them against that office’s own website. How the $40,000 rule and owner permits work --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/areas/alexander-county/ # Buying a metal building in Alexander County , NC This is the county where my own project sits, so this is the guide I can write from experience. My mailing address says Hickory. My permit says Alexander County. ## Who issues the permit Official record Alexander County Building Inspections 151 West Main Ave., Taylorsville, NC 28681 (828) 632-1000 Official website Zoning and other jurisdictions Contact Alexander County (unincorporated areas, including Bethlehem) Start with Building Inspections at (828) 632-1000 and ask who handles zoning for your parcel Checked against the offices’ own websites and forms on September 17, 2026. Phone numbers change. Confirm on the official site. Serves: Taylorsville, Bethlehem, Hiddenite, Stony Point . ## A Hickory address does not mean a Hickory permit The Bethlehem community on the north side of Lake Hickory carries Hickory mailing addresses and a 28601 ZIP code, but it is in Alexander County. If you live there and a salesperson writes “Hickory” on your order form, as mine did, your permit still runs through Taylorsville. Look up your parcel on the county GIS before you call anyone. ## The owner exemption affidavit is a sworn statement My contract with L&G Building & Concrete said the company “will not provide permits” and made the permit my job. When an owner pulls a permit in Alexander County for a project of $40,000 or more, the county has them sign an Owner Exemption Affidavit. It has you swear that you will personally superintend and manage all aspects of construction and will not hand that duty to anyone who is not properly licensed. Read it before you sign it, and think about whether it describes your deal. On mine, one company priced and scheduled everything. I have asked the state licensing board how that fits, and I will publish the answer. ## Footing inspections are real here The engineered plans L&G gave me call for 14-inch footings. The crew dug 12. The county inspector did not pass them, and I was charged extra for the correction. I am grateful to the inspector. That inspection is the only reason I know what is under my slab edge. Be on site for your footing inspection with your plans in your hand. Ask the inspector what depth and width they measured, and write it down. ## Before you sign with any metal building company in Alexander County I am a customer, not a contractor. I signed a $98,750 contract with L&G Building & Concrete in February 2026 and, seven months later, have a cracked slab and half a frame. Everything I learned is on this site. Ten checks before you sign The $40,000 license rule Read my L&G review ## Sources and other counties - Alexander County Building Inspections - Alexander County Owner Exemption Affidavit (PDF) Other guides: Catawba County , Caldwell County , Burke County , Iredell County , Randolph County , Guilford County , Lincoln County , Wilkes County , Rowan County , Gaston County , Cleveland County . This page is general information from one customer’s research and experience. It is not legal advice, and the permit office has the final word on your lot. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/areas/catawba-county/ # Buying a metal building in Catawba County , NC In Catawba County one office issues building permits for everybody, but you cannot get one until the right zoning office has signed off, and which zoning office depends on where your lot is. ## Who issues the permit Official record Catawba County Permit Center 100-A Southwest Blvd., Newton, NC 28658 (828) 465-8399 permit_center@catawbacountync.gov Official website Zoning and other jurisdictions Contact City of Hickory (828) 323-7410 City of Newton (828) 465-7400 City of Conover (828) 464-1191 Town of Maiden (828) 428-5007 Town of Long View (828) 322-3921 City of Claremont (828) 459-7009 Town of Catawba (828) 241-2215 Unincorporated Catawba County County Planning, (828) 465-8380 Checked against the offices’ own websites and forms on September 17, 2026. Phone numbers change. Confirm on the official site. Serves: Hickory, Newton, Conover, Maiden, Claremont, Long View . ## Zoning first, then the permit The county’s own handout lists what the Permit Center needs before it will issue a building permit for an accessory building: zoning approval from the proper jurisdiction, Environmental Health approval if the lot has or will have a septic system or well, a set of plans, and an application completed by the owner or contractor. A metal building seller who tells you “permits are easy here” is skipping the first two. ## The rule that surprises people buying a shop for empty land In the county’s residential zoning areas, the Unified Development Ordinance says an accessory structure such as a garage or outbuilding cannot be permitted unless a house already exists on the same lot, or a house permit is issued at the same time. If you are planning a metal building on a vacant residential parcel, call County Planning before you put down a deposit. My contract’s deposit was only refundable with a written permit rejection letter, minus the salesperson’s commission. ## Hickory crosses county lines The City of Hickory reaches into Burke and Caldwell counties, and Hickory mailing addresses extend into Alexander County, where my project is. The county line decides who inspects your footings. Check your parcel on the Catawba County GIS site and confirm the county before you apply. ## Towns in Catawba County with their own rules Hickory : My own project has a Hickory mailing address and an Alexander County permit. Hickory is the one place in this region where the address on the order form tells you almost nothing about who inspects your footings. ## Before you sign with any metal building company in Catawba County I am a customer, not a contractor. I signed a $98,750 contract with L&G Building & Concrete in February 2026 and, seven months later, have a cracked slab and half a frame. Everything I learned is on this site. Ten checks before you sign The $40,000 license rule Read my L&G review ## Sources and other counties - Catawba County permit procedure for dwellings and accessory buildings (PDF) - Catawba County residential accessory structure requirements (PDF) Other guides: Alexander County , Caldwell County , Burke County , Iredell County , Randolph County , Guilford County , Lincoln County , Wilkes County , Rowan County , Gaston County , Cleveland County . This page is general information from one customer’s research and experience. It is not legal advice, and the permit office has the final word on your lot. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/areas/caldwell-county/ # Buying a metal building in Caldwell County , NC Caldwell County keeps permitting simple: one Building Inspections office in Lenoir, reachable by phone and email. The part that deserves your attention is a single line on the application. ## Who issues the permit Official record Caldwell County Building Inspections 2345 Morganton Blvd., Lenoir, NC 28645 (828) 426-8585 or (828) 426-8365 buildinginspections@caldwellcountync.org Official website Zoning and other jurisdictions Contact City of Lenoir zoning and code enforcement (828) 757-2168 Other towns and unincorporated areas Ask Building Inspections which office reviews zoning for your parcel Checked against the offices’ own websites and forms on September 17, 2026. Phone numbers change. Confirm on the official site. Serves: Lenoir, Granite Falls, Hudson, Sawmills . ## The contractor line on the application Caldwell County’s permit applications ask for the estimated cost of construction and then for contractor information, including a license number. On a metal building with a slab, that cost will usually be over $40,000, which is the point at which North Carolina requires a licensed general contractor. If the company selling you the building tells you to leave that section blank and apply as the owner, ask why. My L&G Building & Concrete contract said “we are manufacturers not contractors” and put the permit on me. I did not understand what I was taking on. You can read how that went on the rest of this site. ## Slopes, fill and the two-hour grading line Much of Caldwell County is foothills. My L&G concrete contract included grading “up to 2 hours only,” with $150 for each additional hour, made fill dirt and compaction the customer’s responsibility, and said L&G is not responsible for a failed compaction test. On a sloped lot, those lines can add up to more than the slab upgrade you were debating. Get the site graded and compacted by someone you chose, and get it in writing who is responsible if the county asks for a compaction test. ## Before you sign with any metal building company in Caldwell County I am a customer, not a contractor. I signed a $98,750 contract with L&G Building & Concrete in February 2026 and, seven months later, have a cracked slab and half a frame. Everything I learned is on this site. Ten checks before you sign The $40,000 license rule Read my L&G review ## Sources and other counties - Caldwell County commercial building permit application (PDF) Other guides: Alexander County , Catawba County , Burke County , Iredell County , Randolph County , Guilford County , Lincoln County , Wilkes County , Rowan County , Gaston County , Cleveland County . This page is general information from one customer’s research and experience. It is not legal advice, and the permit office has the final word on your lot. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/areas/burke-county/ # Buying a metal building in Burke County , NC Burke County has two building inspections departments, and a metal building buyer needs to know which one they belong to before signing anything. ## Who issues the permit Official record Burke County Building Inspections (828) 764-9020 Official website Zoning and other jurisdictions Contact Burke County Planning and Zoning (828) 764-9030 City of Morganton Building Inspections (city limits and its extraterritorial jurisdiction) permits@morgantonnc.gov, 305 E. Union St., Morganton Checked against the offices’ own websites and forms on September 17, 2026. Phone numbers change. Confirm on the official site. Serves: Morganton, Valdese, Hildebran, Connelly Springs, Drexel, Glen Alpine, Rutherford College . ## Morganton inspects its own The City of Morganton’s Building Inspections Division enforces the state building code inside the city and in the city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction, the ring of land just outside the limits. Everywhere else in the county goes through Burke County Building Inspections. A lot with a Morganton address can fall on either side of that line. ## Eastern Burke and the Hickory overlap Portions of Hickory, Long View and Rhodhiss sit inside Burke County. If you are in Hildebran, Connelly Springs or the Burke side of Hickory, a seller based in another part of the state will not know which office you belong to, and under a contract like mine they do not have to: the permit was entirely my responsibility. Make the phone call yourself. ## Ask who will be on the permit When you call, tell the office the full project value, building and concrete together. Mine was $98,750. Ask whether they expect a licensed general contractor on a project that size and what they require from an owner who applies instead. Then put the same question to the seller and compare the answers. ## Towns in Burke County with their own rules Morganton : Morganton inspects its own buildings. Burke County inspects everyone else’s. The line between them runs through neighborhoods with Morganton addresses on both sides. ## Before you sign with any metal building company in Burke County I am a customer, not a contractor. I signed a $98,750 contract with L&G Building & Concrete in February 2026 and, seven months later, have a cracked slab and half a frame. Everything I learned is on this site. Ten checks before you sign The $40,000 license rule Read my L&G review ## Sources and other counties - Burke County Building Inspections - City of Morganton Building Inspections Division - Burke County fast facts and department phone list Other guides: Alexander County , Catawba County , Caldwell County , Iredell County , Randolph County , Guilford County , Lincoln County , Wilkes County , Rowan County , Gaston County , Cleveland County . This page is general information from one customer’s research and experience. It is not legal advice, and the permit office has the final word on your lot. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/areas/iredell-county/ # Buying a metal building in Iredell County , NC Iredell County changed how it permits in 2023, and out-of-town metal building sellers are not always aware of it. ## Who issues the permit Official record Iredell County Building Standards (Statesville) Official website Zoning and other jurisdictions Contact Town of Mooresville Building Permitting & Inspections (town limits and ETJ) One Mooresville Center, 750 W. Iredell Ave., Mooresville Everywhere else in the county Iredell County Building Standards, Statesville Checked against the offices’ own websites and forms on September 17, 2026. Phone numbers change. Confirm on the official site. Serves: Statesville, Mooresville, Troutman, Harmony, Union Grove . ## Mooresville split off on September 5, 2023 On that date the Town of Mooresville’s own Building Permitting & Inspections Department took over plan review, permits and inspections inside the town and its extraterritorial jurisdiction. Before that, everything went through Iredell County Building Standards in Statesville. The town’s system is separate from the county’s online portal, so a permit started in the wrong one goes nowhere. If your lot is near Mooresville, Lake Norman or the Brawley School Road peninsula, confirm which side of the ETJ line you are on before you apply. ## Septic fields and big slabs A lot of rural Iredell is on well and septic. A 50×80 slab with lean-to pads, like mine, covers more than 5,000 square feet. Where that sits relative to your drain field and repair area is an Environmental Health question that has to be settled before a building permit. My L&G contract made marking underground lines my responsibility and had me hold the company harmless for damage to pipes. I ended up with damaged plumbing stub-ups anyway. ## Towns in Iredell County with their own rules Mooresville : If your lot is in Mooresville or the ring around it, your permit does not come from Statesville anymore. Sellers who worked Iredell County before 2023 do not always know that. ## Before you sign with any metal building company in Iredell County I am a customer, not a contractor. I signed a $98,750 contract with L&G Building & Concrete in February 2026 and, seven months later, have a cracked slab and half a frame. Everything I learned is on this site. Ten checks before you sign The $40,000 license rule Read my L&G review ## Sources and other counties - Town of Mooresville Building Permitting & Inspections Other guides: Alexander County , Catawba County , Caldwell County , Burke County , Randolph County , Guilford County , Lincoln County , Wilkes County , Rowan County , Gaston County , Cleveland County . This page is general information from one customer’s research and experience. It is not legal advice, and the permit office has the final word on your lot. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/areas/randolph-county/ # Buying a metal building in Randolph County , NC Asheboro is where L&G Building & Concrete is based. If you live in Randolph County, you are its home market, and this is the office your permit will run through. ## Who issues the permit Official record Randolph County Building Inspections (Central Permitting) 204 E. Academy St., Asheboro, NC 27203 (336) 318-6565 permits@randolphcountync.gov Official website Zoning and other jurisdictions Contact Randolph County Planning and Zoning (336) 318-6555, same building Archdale, Randleman, Trinity and other towns Town zoning permit first, then the county building permit Checked against the offices’ own websites and forms on September 17, 2026. Phone numbers change. Confirm on the official site. Serves: Asheboro, Archdale, Randleman, Trinity, Ramseur, Liberty, Seagrove . ## One county office covers most towns Randolph County Building Inspections issues permits and inspects in the unincorporated county and also for Archdale, Franklinville, Liberty, Ramseur, Randleman, Seagrove, Staley and Trinity. In those towns you typically need the town’s zoning permit first. Archdale, for example, requires a zoning permit for accessory structures such as sheds and carports, then sends you to the county for the building permit. ## Who can apply online as an owner The county’s ePermits portal says resident access is for permits obtained by the property owner living in the home the permit is for, and that contractors must be registered with the county and in good standing to get an account. That tells you how the county thinks about owner permits: they are for people working on their own place. If a company building a $50,000 structure wants you to be the applicant, ask the permit office whether that is what they expect. ## Buying local is not the same as buying safe L&G’s office is on East Salisbury Street, a few minutes from the permit office. I was nearly a hundred miles from that office, and I doubt living next door would have changed much. What would have helped is what this whole site is about: a license number checked, payments tied to inspections, dates in the contract. See the checklist. ## Before you sign with any metal building company in Randolph County I am a customer, not a contractor. I signed a $98,750 contract with L&G Building & Concrete in February 2026 and, seven months later, have a cracked slab and half a frame. Everything I learned is on this site. Ten checks before you sign The $40,000 license rule Read my L&G review ## Sources and other counties - Randolph County Building Inspections - Randolph County ePermits portal - City of Archdale: permitting for individual buildings and lots Other guides: Alexander County , Catawba County , Caldwell County , Burke County , Iredell County , Guilford County , Lincoln County , Wilkes County , Rowan County , Gaston County , Cleveland County . This page is general information from one customer’s research and experience. It is not legal advice, and the permit office has the final word on your lot. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/areas/guilford-county/ # Buying a metal building in Guilford County , NC Guilford County is the one place where I found L&G Building & Concrete’s name in a public permit record, and the way that permit was filed looks a lot like mine. ## Who issues the permit Official record Guilford County Planning and Development (permits and inspections) Official website Zoning and other jurisdictions Contact Greensboro and High Point Each city runs its own inspections department. County permits cover the unincorporated areas and the towns that contract with the county Checked against the offices’ own websites and forms on September 17, 2026. Phone numbers change. Confirm on the official site. Serves: Greensboro, High Point, Jamestown, Pleasant Garden, Summerfield, Oak Ridge . ## What the 2021 permit record shows A Guilford County permit report from October 2021 lists an application named “L & G Building and Concrete” for a detached garage or storage building valued at $66,945. In the contractor field, the record says “Owner Contractor.” One record proves nothing about anyone’s license and does not show that anything improper happened. I include it because nearly five years later my own $98,750 project was permitted the same way: the company’s paperwork put the permit on me, the owner. If you are a Guilford County customer being asked to do the same, you now know it is a question worth asking out loud. ## Three jurisdictions, three counters Greensboro and High Point each issue their own building permits. Guilford County handles the unincorporated areas. Towns such as Summerfield, Oak Ridge and Pleasant Garden have their own zoning ordinances covering accessory buildings, even where the county does the inspecting. A seller’s “we build in Guilford all the time” does not tell you which set of rules your lot falls under. ## Before you sign with any metal building company in Guilford County I am a customer, not a contractor. I signed a $98,750 contract with L&G Building & Concrete in February 2026 and, seven months later, have a cracked slab and half a frame. Everything I learned is on this site. Ten checks before you sign The $40,000 license rule Read my L&G review ## Sources and other counties - Guilford County permit report, October 2021 (PDF) Other guides: Alexander County , Catawba County , Caldwell County , Burke County , Iredell County , Randolph County , Lincoln County , Wilkes County , Rowan County , Gaston County , Cleveland County . This page is general information from one customer’s research and experience. It is not legal advice, and the permit office has the final word on your lot. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/areas/lincoln-county/ # Buying a metal building in Lincoln County , NC Lincoln County runs a single Planning and Inspections office out of downtown Lincolnton, and it has moved almost everything online. That is convenient until you are the owner-applicant on a job you did not plan to manage. ## Who issues the permit Official record Lincoln County Planning and Inspections 115 W. Main St., 3rd Floor, Lincolnton, NC 28092 (704) 736-8440 (Planning and Inspections Manager) Official website Zoning and other jurisdictions Contact Office hours 8 am to 5 pm, Monday through Friday Inspectors available by phone 7 to 8 am and 2:45 to 3:30 pm, Monday through Friday Chief Building Official (704) 736-8436 Permit applications OpenGov Permitting & Licensing portal, linked from the county page Checked against the offices’ own websites and forms on September 17, 2026. Phone numbers change. Confirm on the official site. Serves: Lincolnton, Denver, Iron Station, Vale, Westport . ## Two windows a day to reach an inspector Lincoln County publishes the hours its inspectors answer the phone: 7 to 8 in the morning and 2:45 to 3:30 in the afternoon. Outside those windows they are in the field. If you are the permit holder, as L&G’s contract made me, you are the one the inspector calls when a footing fails or a question comes up at the slab. Plan to be reachable in those windows on inspection days, and ask the crew lead the day before which inspection they are calling in. ## Online applications put your name on everything Applications in Lincoln County go through the OpenGov portal under an account you create. The account holder is the applicant, the fee payer and the person who requests inspections. On a project priced like mine, $98,750 for building and concrete, read what the application asks about the contractor before you submit it as the owner. If a company is doing the work and taking the money, the county expects that to be reflected, and the state expects a licensed general contractor at $40,000 and up. ## The Denver and lake side of the county The east side of Lincoln County along Lake Norman, around Denver and Westport, is close enough to Mooresville and Huntersville that sellers from several counties work it. The permit still comes from Lincolnton. Confirm your parcel is in Lincoln County and not across the line in Iredell or Catawba before anyone quotes you a permit timeline. ## Before you sign with any metal building company in Lincoln County I am a customer, not a contractor. I signed a $98,750 contract with L&G Building & Concrete in February 2026 and, seven months later, have a cracked slab and half a frame. Everything I learned is on this site. Ten checks before you sign The $40,000 license rule Read my L&G review ## Sources and other counties - Lincoln County Planning and Inspections - Lincoln County building inspectors directory Other guides: Alexander County , Catawba County , Caldwell County , Burke County , Iredell County , Randolph County , Guilford County , Wilkes County , Rowan County , Gaston County , Cleveland County . This page is general information from one customer’s research and experience. It is not legal advice, and the permit office has the final word on your lot. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/areas/wilkes-county/ # Buying a metal building in Wilkes County , NC Wilkes County puts its permit offices on three different floors of one building and tells you which order to visit them. For a metal building on a septic lot, that order matters. ## Who issues the permit Official record Wilkes County Building Inspections 110 North Street, Room 311, Wilkesboro, NC 28697 (336) 651-7303 Official website Zoning and other jurisdictions Contact Environmental Health (septic and well), Room 308 (336) 651-7530 Planning and Zoning (zoning, watershed, flood), 2nd floor (336) 651-7582 or (336) 651-7563 New address assignment, after footers are in (336) 651-7388 Town of North Wilkesboro Runs its own Building Inspections office; check the town site if you are inside the limits Checked against the offices’ own websites and forms on September 17, 2026. Phone numbers change. Confirm on the official site. Serves: Wilkesboro, North Wilkesboro, Millers Creek, Moravian Falls, Ronda . ## Septic first, then zoning, then the building permit The county’s own permit handout lays out the sequence: Environmental Health for septic and well, Planning and Zoning for zoning, watershed and flood, then Building Inspections. A 5,000-square-foot slab like mine has to clear the septic repair area before anyone will talk about footings. A seller who schedules your concrete before you have been to Room 308 is scheduling around a step the county will not skip. Have your parcel ID ready. The handout says so twice. ## Watershed and flood review are routine here Much of Wilkes County drains to the Yadkin and W. Kerr Scott Reservoir, and the Planning office reviews watershed and flood status as part of zoning. A large impervious slab can trigger questions that a carport dealer from the Piedmont will not anticipate. Ask Planning about built-upon-area limits for your lot before you commit to a pad size. ## What this has to do with my project Nothing directly: my building is two counties south. But the contract I signed with L&G Building & Concrete says the customer is responsible for the permit and for marking every underground line, and it would say the same to a buyer in Millers Creek. In Wilkes, that means three offices, in order, before a truck should be on your lot. Read what my contract made me responsible for before you sign one like it. ## Towns in Wilkes County with their own rules North Wilkesboro : North Wilkesboro is small enough that its building inspector works by appointment, and precise enough that its website tells you paying online does not get you a permit. ## Before you sign with any metal building company in Wilkes County I am a customer, not a contractor. I signed a $98,750 contract with L&G Building & Concrete in February 2026 and, seven months later, have a cracked slab and half a frame. Everything I learned is on this site. Ten checks before you sign The $40,000 license rule Read my L&G review ## Sources and other counties - Wilkes County residential and commercial permits handout - Town of North Wilkesboro Building Inspections Other guides: Alexander County , Catawba County , Caldwell County , Burke County , Iredell County , Randolph County , Guilford County , Lincoln County , Rowan County , Gaston County , Cleveland County . This page is general information from one customer’s research and experience. It is not legal advice, and the permit office has the final word on your lot. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/areas/rowan-county/ # Buying a metal building in Rowan County , NC Rowan County is the one place I found where the permit application itself explains the licensing rule. If you are buying a metal building here, the form will ask the question my contract never did. ## Who issues the permit Official record Rowan County Building Inspections Department 402 North Main St., Suite 207, Salisbury, NC 28144 (704) 216-8619 Official website Zoning and other jurisdictions Contact City of Salisbury zoning permit (required first inside the city) Land and Development Services, 132 N. Main St.; (704) 638-5208; 1stop@salisburync.gov Unincorporated county and most towns Rowan County Building Inspections, Salisbury Checked against the offices’ own websites and forms on September 17, 2026. Phone numbers change. Confirm on the official site. Serves: Salisbury, China Grove, Landis, Rockwell, Granite Quarry, Cleveland . ## The form asks who is licensed, and for how much Rowan County’s building permit application has a certification on page two. The applicant confirms they are the contractor of record and the holder of a North Carolina contractor’s license under the general-contractor statutes. Below that is a separate box labeled “Unlicensed GC,” for a contract under $40,000, where the owner acknowledges the contractor is unlicensed and acting under the exemption for projects below that amount. Read that against a metal building quote. A 50×80 with a slab, like mine at $98,750, cannot use the under-$40,000 box. So either a licensed general contractor signs as contractor of record, or the owner takes the permit personally. L&G’s contract chose the second route for me without saying so in those words. ## Detached garage and carport square footage is its own line The application has a specific field for detached garage or carport square footage and a checkbox for accessory work. Fees run off those numbers. Bring the pad dimensions from your concrete contract, including lean-tos, so the permit matches what gets poured. Mine covered about 5,384 square feet across three pads. ## Salisbury: city zoning permit first, county building permit second Inside Salisbury the city’s own page says almost all development must receive a city zoning permit before a building permit from the county. Zoning questions go to Land and Development Services on North Main Street; the building permit still comes from Rowan County Building Inspections. China Grove, Landis, Rockwell and Granite Quarry go through the county as well. Check the parcel before calling either one. ## Towns in Rowan County with their own rules Salisbury : Salisbury’s own site says almost all development must get a city zoning permit before a county building permit. For a metal building, that is two stops in a fixed order. ## Before you sign with any metal building company in Rowan County I am a customer, not a contractor. I signed a $98,750 contract with L&G Building & Concrete in February 2026 and, seven months later, have a cracked slab and half a frame. Everything I learned is on this site. Ten checks before you sign The $40,000 license rule Read my L&G review ## Sources and other counties - Rowan County building permit application (PDF) - City of Salisbury: zoning permit first, county building permit Other guides: Alexander County , Catawba County , Caldwell County , Burke County , Iredell County , Randolph County , Guilford County , Lincoln County , Wilkes County , Gaston County , Cleveland County . This page is general information from one customer’s research and experience. It is not legal advice, and the permit office has the final word on your lot. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/areas/gaston-county/ # Buying a metal building in Gaston County , NC Gaston County consolidated building permits for the whole county in 2022. Gastonia kept zoning. If you are buying a metal building inside the city, you deal with both, in order. ## Who issues the permit Official record Gaston County Building and Development Services Official website Zoning and other jurisdictions Contact City of Gastonia zoning permit (required first inside the city) (704) 866-6729, option 3; Garland Municipal Business Center, 150 S. York St., Gastonia, 8 am to 5 pm Construction permit, all 13 municipalities and the county Gaston County Building and Development Services, through the county’s Self Service portal Checked against the offices’ own websites and forms on September 17, 2026. Phone numbers change. Confirm on the official site. Serves: Gastonia, Belmont, Mount Holly, Dallas, Cherryville, Stanley, Bessemer City . ## August 29, 2022: one permit system for the county On that date Gaston County took over construction permits and inspections for the City of Gastonia, which until then had its own department. The city’s announcement said the goal was one centralized system for permitting and inspections across all 13 municipalities in the county. Metal building sellers who last worked in Gastonia before 2022 may still have the old process in their heads. ## Zoning permit first, then the county Inside Gastonia you need the city’s zoning permit before you apply to the county for the construction permit, and the county will not issue a certificate of occupancy without the city’s certificate of completion where one applies. Zoning is where setbacks, lot coverage and whether an accessory building is allowed get decided, so this is also where a 50×80 shop on a residential lot gets its first real look. ## The owner statement is for small jobs Gastonia’s forms include a notarized owner’s statement for permits under $30,000, in which the owner affirms the work is for their own use. That is the scale the owner-permit route was built for. A building and slab priced near $100,000 is a different kind of project, and if a seller is steering you to apply as the owner on one, call the county and ask what it expects to see on a project that size. ## Towns in Gaston County with their own rules Gastonia : Gastonia gave up building inspections to the county in 2022 but kept zoning. For a buyer that means two applications, two offices and one order to do them in. ## Before you sign with any metal building company in Gaston County I am a customer, not a contractor. I signed a $98,750 contract with L&G Building & Concrete in February 2026 and, seven months later, have a cracked slab and half a frame. Everything I learned is on this site. Ten checks before you sign The $40,000 license rule Read my L&G review ## Sources and other counties - City of Gastonia: consolidation of building inspection and permitting with Gaston County - City of Gastonia permits and inspections - Gastonia notarized owner statement for permits under $30,000 (PDF) Other guides: Alexander County , Catawba County , Caldwell County , Burke County , Iredell County , Randolph County , Guilford County , Lincoln County , Wilkes County , Rowan County , Cleveland County . This page is general information from one customer’s research and experience. It is not legal advice, and the permit office has the final word on your lot. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/areas/cleveland-county/ # Buying a metal building in Cleveland County , NC Cleveland County and the City of Shelby both have building inspections offices a few miles apart. Which one you call depends on which side of the city line your lot sits. ## Who issues the permit Official record Cleveland County Building Inspections 1333 Fallston Rd., Shelby, NC 28150 (980) 484-4997 Permits.Office@clevelandcountync.gov Official website Zoning and other jurisdictions Contact City of Shelby Building Inspections (inside the city) 315 S. Lafayette St., Shelby; (704) 484-6805 Unincorporated county and other towns Cleveland County Building Inspections, Fallston Rd. Checked against the offices’ own websites and forms on September 17, 2026. Phone numbers change. Confirm on the official site. Serves: Shelby, Kings Mountain, Boiling Springs, Lawndale, Fallston, Casar . ## Two offices, one county The county office on Fallston Road handles permits and inspections for the unincorporated county. The City of Shelby runs its own Building Inspections office at City Hall on South Lafayette Street and links applicants straight to the state licensing boards for general, electrical and plumbing contractors. If a salesperson tells you the permit is simple here, ask which of the two offices they mean. ## Call before you drive The county asks that you call 980-484-4997 or email the permits office for application and scheduling instructions. That is also the right call to ask what the county wants to see from an owner applying for a permit on a project the size of a metal building with a slab, and whether it expects a licensed general contractor on the application at that value. My contract with L&G put the permit on me and said the company was a manufacturer, not a contractor. I wish I had asked that question in Alexander County before I signed. ## Workers’ compensation paperwork Shelby’s permit resources include a workers’ compensation insurance form. That is a reminder of something the metal building contracts rarely mention: the crews standing trusses on your lot should be covered. Ask the seller for a certificate of insurance naming general liability and workers’ compensation before the first truck arrives. If the answer is vague, that tells you something. ## Towns in Cleveland County with their own rules Shelby : Shelby keeps building inspections at City Hall and points applicants straight at the state licensing boards. Cleveland County’s office is two miles north. Know which one owns your lot. ## Before you sign with any metal building company in Cleveland County I am a customer, not a contractor. I signed a $98,750 contract with L&G Building & Concrete in February 2026 and, seven months later, have a cracked slab and half a frame. Everything I learned is on this site. Ten checks before you sign The $40,000 license rule Read my L&G review ## Sources and other counties - Cleveland County Building Inspections - City of Shelby building permit resources Other guides: Alexander County , Catawba County , Caldwell County , Burke County , Iredell County , Randolph County , Guilford County , Lincoln County , Wilkes County , Rowan County , Gaston County . This page is general information from one customer’s research and experience. It is not legal advice, and the permit office has the final word on your lot. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/areas/iredell-county/mooresville/ # Buying a metal building in Mooresville , NC If your lot is in Mooresville or the ring around it, your permit does not come from Statesville anymore. Sellers who worked Iredell County before 2023 do not always know that. ## Who you deal with Official record Town of Mooresville Building Permitting & Inspections One Mooresville Center, 750 W. Iredell Ave., Mooresville, NC 28115 Official page Town limits and the extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ). Everywhere else in Iredell goes through the county in Statesville. Checked against the town’s and county’s own sites on November 1, 2026 . Confirm before relying on a phone number. ## What changed on September 5, 2023 On that date the Town of Mooresville’s new Building Permitting & Inspections Department took over plan review, permits and inspections for the town and its ETJ from Iredell County Building Standards. The town’s announcement said the point was to stop residents from having to drive to Statesville and to put planning, permitting and the fire marshal under one roof at One Mooresville Center. The town’s permitting software is separate from the county’s Self-Serve portal. An application started in the wrong system is simply not received by the right office. ## The ETJ is where buyers get caught The extraterritorial jurisdiction is unincorporated land around the town where Mooresville still controls zoning and, since 2023, building permits. A Mooresville mailing address does not tell you whether you are inside it, and neither does being on county water or septic. The town’s planning department can tell you from your parcel number in one call. ## Lake Norman lots and big slabs The Brawley School Road peninsula and the lake side of town are where large shop buildings and RV garages get built, often on lots with septic systems and steep grades. Septic review runs through Iredell County Environmental Health even when the building permit is the town’s. A 5,000-square-foot slab like mine needs the septic repair area settled first, and the grading clause in a contract like mine (two hours included, then $150 an hour) matters more on a sloped lake lot than anywhere else. ## What to ask before you sign Which office will issue this permit, town or county? Who is applying, you or the company? What is the company’s license number? My contract with L&G Building & Concrete put the permit entirely on me and described the company as a manufacturer, not a contractor. I did not ask any of those questions. Mooresville’s department is new enough that its staff expect to be called; call them. ## Before you sign with any metal building company in Mooresville I am a customer, not a contractor. My $98,750 L&G Building & Concrete project, a county over, is a cracked slab and half a frame as of the last update. The county guide for Iredell County has the full picture for your area. Iredell County guide Ten checks before you sign Questions to ask Sources: Town of Mooresville Building Permitting & Inspections . General information, not legal advice. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/areas/burke-county/morganton/ # Buying a metal building in Morganton , NC Morganton inspects its own buildings. Burke County inspects everyone else’s. The line between them runs through neighborhoods with Morganton addresses on both sides. ## Who you deal with Official record City of Morganton Building Inspections Division 305 E. Union St., Morganton, NC 28655 permits@morgantonnc.gov Official page City limits and the city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction. Outside that, Burke County Building Inspections, (828) 764-9020. Checked against the town’s and county’s own sites on November 1, 2026 . Confirm before relying on a phone number. ## Two inspections offices, one zip code The city’s Building Inspections Division reviews and enforces the state building code inside Morganton and its ETJ, and its staff review plans with applicants before construction. Burke County’s office handles the rest of the county, including Valdese, Drexel, Glen Alpine, Hildebran and the Burke side of Hickory. The 28655 zip code covers lots in both. ## Plan review before you pour The city says its inspections staff work with citizens to review plans during the pre-construction phase. Use that. Take the engineered foundation sheet from your building package to the division before the concrete crew is scheduled and ask what they will measure at the footing inspection. On my project the plans said 14 inches and the crew dug 12; a conversation like that beforehand would have cost nothing. ## Who signs the application Ask the division what it expects to see from an applicant on a project at the value of a metal building and slab, which on mine was $98,750, and whether it expects a licensed general contractor on the application. Then ask the seller the same question. If the answers do not match, you have found the problem before you have paid for it. ## Before you sign with any metal building company in Morganton I am a customer, not a contractor. My $98,750 L&G Building & Concrete project, a county over, is a cracked slab and half a frame as of the last update. The county guide for Burke County has the full picture for your area. Burke County guide Ten checks before you sign Questions to ask Sources: City of Morganton Building Inspections Division · Burke County Building Inspections . General information, not legal advice. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/areas/gaston-county/gastonia/ # Buying a metal building in Gastonia , NC Gastonia gave up building inspections to the county in 2022 but kept zoning. For a buyer that means two applications, two offices and one order to do them in. ## Who you deal with Official record City of Gastonia zoning permit (first step) Garland Municipal Business Center, 150 S. York St., Gastonia, NC 28052 (704) 866-6729, option 3 Official page Then the construction permit from Gaston County Building and Development Services through the county portal. Hours 8 am to 5 pm, Monday through Friday. Checked against the town’s and county’s own sites on November 1, 2026 . Confirm before relying on a phone number. ## Zoning permit first The city’s own page says it plainly: construction permits are issued by Gaston County, and you first need a zoning permit from the City of Gastonia, which serves as the city’s approval. Zoning is where lot coverage, setbacks and whether an accessory building is allowed on your lot get decided. A metal building seller cannot answer those questions for you; the city can, from your parcel. ## No certificate of occupancy without the city’s sign-off Under the consolidation, the county will not issue a certificate of occupancy on a permit unless the city has issued a certificate of completion where one applies. So the city stays involved from the first form to the last. If a contract puts the permit and the inspections on you, as mine did, you are the one walking between the two offices. ## The under-$30,000 owner statement Gastonia’s building services forms include a notarized owner’s statement for permits under $30,000. That is the scale at which the owner-applicant route is designed to work. A certified metal building with a slab is several times that. Before you sign an affidavit as the owner on a project that size, call the county and ask what it expects. ## Before you sign with any metal building company in Gastonia I am a customer, not a contractor. My $98,750 L&G Building & Concrete project, a county over, is a cracked slab and half a frame as of the last update. The county guide for Gaston County has the full picture for your area. Gaston County guide Ten checks before you sign Questions to ask Sources: City of Gastonia permits and inspections · City of Gastonia: consolidation with Gaston County . General information, not legal advice. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/areas/rowan-county/salisbury/ # Buying a metal building in Salisbury , NC Salisbury’s own site says almost all development must get a city zoning permit before a county building permit. For a metal building, that is two stops in a fixed order. ## Who you deal with Official record City of Salisbury Land and Development Services (zoning permit) 132 N. Main St., Salisbury, NC 28144 (704) 638-5208 1stop@salisburync.gov Official page Then Rowan County Building Inspections, 402 N. Main St., Suite 207; (704) 216-8619. Walk-ins at the city office are Wednesdays, 9 am to 5 pm. Checked against the town’s and county’s own sites on November 1, 2026 . Confirm before relying on a phone number. ## Two offices on the same street The city’s Land and Development Services sits at 132 North Main and handles the zoning permit; the county’s Building Inspections office is a few blocks up at 402 North Main and handles the building permit. The city takes walk-ins on Wednesdays and runs a self-service portal the rest of the week. ## The county form asks the licensing question Rowan County’s building permit application has a certification where the applicant confirms they hold a North Carolina contractor’s license, and a separate box for an unlicensed contractor on a contract under $40,000. A metal building with a slab will not fit under that box. So either a licensed contractor signs as contractor of record, or you apply as the owner. Read the Rowan County guide on this site for what that second choice means. ## What to settle before the deposit Zoning approval for an accessory building of the size you want, in writing from the city. The name and license number of whoever will sign the county application. A written plan-delivery date from the seller, because the city and county both want drawings and my contract allowed twenty weeks for them. ## Before you sign with any metal building company in Salisbury I am a customer, not a contractor. My $98,750 L&G Building & Concrete project, a county over, is a cracked slab and half a frame as of the last update. The county guide for Rowan County has the full picture for your area. Rowan County guide Ten checks before you sign Questions to ask Sources: City of Salisbury permits · Rowan County building permit application (PDF) . General information, not legal advice. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/areas/wilkes-county/north-wilkesboro/ # Buying a metal building in North Wilkesboro , NC North Wilkesboro is small enough that its building inspector works by appointment, and precise enough that its website tells you paying online does not get you a permit. ## Who you deal with Official record Town of North Wilkesboro Planning and Inspections (336) 667-7129 ext. 3009 (building inspector) inspections@northwilkesboronc.gov Official page Inside town limits, inspections are by appointment. In the ETJ, all building inspections go through Wilkes County Building Inspections, (336) 651-7303. Checked against the town’s and county’s own sites on November 1, 2026 . Confirm before relying on a phone number. ## In town versus the ETJ The town’s page is explicit: building inspections in the extraterritorial jurisdiction are conducted through Wilkes County, and inspections for in-town properties are done by appointment with the town’s inspector. Wilkesboro proper, across the river, is a separate town. Three jurisdictions within a few miles; check the parcel. ## Paying is not applying The town lets you pay building and zoning permit fees online, and then says that payment does not issue a permit and that you must contact staff first. It is a small sentence that describes a large principle: a permit exists when the office issues it, not when money moves. The same principle applies to a seller who tells you the permit is “handled.” Ask for the permit number. ## By appointment means you are present When inspections are by appointment, the applicant books them and the applicant is expected there. If the contract makes you the applicant, as mine did, you are the one standing at the trench with the plans. Bring them, and ask the inspector to tell you what he measured. ## Before you sign with any metal building company in North Wilkesboro I am a customer, not a contractor. My $98,750 L&G Building & Concrete project, a county over, is a cracked slab and half a frame as of the last update. The county guide for Wilkes County has the full picture for your area. Wilkes County guide Ten checks before you sign Questions to ask Sources: Town of North Wilkesboro Building Inspections · Wilkes County permits handout . General information, not legal advice. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/areas/cleveland-county/shelby/ # Buying a metal building in Shelby , NC Shelby keeps building inspections at City Hall and points applicants straight at the state licensing boards. Cleveland County’s office is two miles north. Know which one owns your lot. ## Who you deal with Official record City of Shelby Building Inspections 315 S. Lafayette St., Shelby, NC 28150 (704) 484-6805 Official page Inside the city. Outside it, Cleveland County Building Inspections, 1333 Fallston Rd.; (980) 484-4997; Permits.Office@clevelandcountync.gov. Checked against the town’s and county’s own sites on November 1, 2026 . Confirm before relying on a phone number. ## The city links you to the licensing boards Shelby’s building permit resources page links directly to the state boards for general contractors, electrical contractors and plumbing, heating and fire sprinkler contractors, plus a workers’ compensation form. That is the city telling applicants what it expects to see. On a metal building and slab over $40,000, the general contractor board is the one that matters, and the license search there takes a minute. ## Workers’ compensation is on the list for a reason A crew standing trusses sixteen feet up on your lot should be covered by someone’s workers’ compensation policy. My contract said orders might be filled by an independent installer and said nothing about insurance. Ask the seller for a certificate of insurance from its agent, and if the installer is a separate company, ask for theirs. ## Kings Mountain and Boiling Springs Both are separate towns with their own zoning. Confirm with each town hall whether building inspections are done by the town or by Cleveland County before you tell a seller which office to expect. ## Before you sign with any metal building company in Shelby I am a customer, not a contractor. My $98,750 L&G Building & Concrete project, a county over, is a cracked slab and half a frame as of the last update. The county guide for Cleveland County has the full picture for your area. Cleveland County guide Ten checks before you sign Questions to ask Sources: City of Shelby building permit resources · Cleveland County Building Inspections . General information, not legal advice. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/areas/catawba-county/hickory/ # Buying a metal building in Hickory , NC My own project has a Hickory mailing address and an Alexander County permit. Hickory is the one place in this region where the address on the order form tells you almost nothing about who inspects your footings. ## Who you deal with Official record City of Hickory zoning (828) 323-7410 Official page Building permits for the Catawba County part of Hickory come from the Catawba County Permit Center, (828) 465-8399, after city zoning approval. Burke, Caldwell and Alexander portions go through those counties. Checked against the town’s and county’s own sites on November 1, 2026 . Confirm before relying on a phone number. ## Four counties can answer to “Hickory” The city limits reach into Catawba, Burke and Caldwell counties. Hickory mailing addresses and the 28601 zip code extend north across Lake Hickory into Alexander County’s Bethlehem community, which is where my lot is. Catawba County’s permit handout lists the City of Hickory as a zoning jurisdiction and the county Permit Center as the issuer of the building permit. Burke County, the City of Morganton, Caldwell County and Alexander County each run their own offices for their pieces. ## Find the county before you find a seller Look up your parcel on the county GIS site, not a map app. If it is Catawba, you need city zoning approval and then the county Permit Center, plus Environmental Health if you have a septic system or well. If it is Alexander, Burke or Caldwell, read those county guides on this site. My sales order said “Hickory, NC.” My inspector drives from Taylorsville. ## What the location mistake can cost A seller who assumes Catawba rules on an Alexander County lot, or the other way around, will give you the wrong permit timeline, the wrong zoning expectations and possibly the wrong footing depth for the frost line. On a contract where the customer carries the permit, the inspections and the indemnity for code violations, those errors land on you. Mine put “Permit Required: Customer To Verify” on the order form. Verify it with the county, not with the salesperson. ## Before you sign with any metal building company in Hickory I am a customer, not a contractor. My $98,750 L&G Building & Concrete project, a county over, is a cracked slab and half a frame as of the last update. The county guide for Catawba County has the full picture for your area. Catawba County guide Ten checks before you sign Questions to ask Sources: Catawba County permit procedure handout, listing zoning jurisdictions (PDF) · Alexander County Building Inspections . General information, not legal advice. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/guides/ # Guides for anyone buying a metal building and slab Written by a customer, using the actual numbers, clauses and photos from my own project with L&G Building & Concrete. ### What a metal building costs in North Carolina Real 2026 numbers for a 50×80×16 with two lean-tos: $50,551, or about $10 per square foot under roof, and how the “discount” pricing works. ### What the slab costs $48,199 for 5,384 square feet of pads, footers, grading and vapor barrier. Per-square-foot math and the extras that were not on the contract. ### How to check slab thickness Before the pour with a tape and a string line, and after the pour with cores. I paid for 6 inches and measured about 4½. ### Footing depth for a metal building in NC My plans said 14 inches. The crew dug 12 and failed inspection. How to keep that from becoming your bill. ### Ten checks before you sign The short version of everything I wish I had asked. ### Permit guides by county Who issues the permit where you live, around Hickory and Asheboro. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/guides/metal-building-cost-north-carolina/ # What a metal building costs in North Carolina, from a real 2026 contract Dealers do not publish prices, and online calculators are lead forms. This is an actual signed order for a 50×80 shop building, with the math done. ## The short answer Company statement: L&G sales order, February 2026 My certified 50 ft × 80 ft × 16 ft vertical-roof building, 14-gauge frame, fully enclosed, with a 12×35 and a 12×50 lean-to, was priced at $50,551 installed , with no sales tax charged. Main building footprint 4,000 sq ft Under roof including lean-tos 5,020 sq ft Building price per sq ft under roof about $10.07 Building plus concrete, per sq ft under roof about $19.67 The concrete was another $48,199, so the project was $98,750. If a quote for a building this size comes without a slab price, you are looking at roughly half the bill. ## What drives the price On my order the base 50×80 shell was $36,300 at list. The expensive upgrades were height and enclosure: going to 16-foot legs added $8,400, closing both ends $9,420 and both sides $8,060. The two lean-tos added about $18,350 with their heights, gables and side walls. Garage door frame-outs ran $400 to $600 each, and that is the opening only. Roll-up doors themselves were not on my order. Site-specific engineered blueprints were a $3,000 line. You need them for a certified building that has to pass county inspection, and the terms say they “can take up to 20 weeks.” That wait is the longest lead item in the whole job, so ask for the plan delivery date in writing. ## Ignore the discount My line items add up to $92,182.50. Then a single line, “Manufacturer Discount,” removes $41,631.50, about 45%. I doubt anyone pays list. When you compare dealers, compare the bottom line for the same width, length, leg height, gauge, roof style and certification, and pay no attention to who is offering the bigger discount. ## What the price did not include - The lift. “7k Telehandler Lift (customer Provided), $0.” I paid $2,000 for a week’s rental, and then the crew came five days late. The texts are here . - Roll-up doors. My order prices ten framed openings and no doors to go in them. Insulation, electrical and interior work are also not part of it. - Permits. Entirely the customer’s job under L&G’s terms. How that works in your county . - Site work. Fill dirt, compaction, stump and rock removal, and grading beyond two hours. - A finish date. There is none in the contract. Mine is unfinished 209 days after signing. Also look at how the money moves. My schedule put $90,182 of $98,750 due before completion, all by bank wire. See the payment schedule . ## Where these numbers come from From my own signed contract with L&G Building & Concrete of Asheboro, NC, and what happened on my lot afterward. I am a customer, not a contractor or an engineer, and this is not professional advice. Prices are from February 2026 in western North Carolina. Read the full review Every line item Permits by county --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/guides/concrete-slab-cost-metal-building/ # What the concrete slab for a metal building costs Slab quotes are hard to compare because every contractor bundles them differently. Here is mine, unbundled. ## The contract price Company statement: L&G concrete contract, February 2026 Pads: 50′7″ × 80′7″ at 6 in., plus 12×47 and 12×62 at 4 in., 3,500 psi $37,380 Footers: “1x1” plus 47 ft and 62 ft strip footers $9,594 Grading, up to 2 hours $1,000 6 mil vapor barrier $225 Total $48,199 That is about 5,384 square feet of concrete. The pads alone work out to roughly $6.94 per square foot , and the whole concrete contract to about $8.95 per square foot . L&G’s standard slab is 4 inches at 3,000 psi with fiber. Mine was specified thicker and stronger under the building. ## What I was charged that was not on it My project record Two things. First, the crew dug the footings to 12 inches when the plans called for 14. They failed the county inspection, and I was charged extra for the correction. Second, I was charged for a concrete pump. There is no pump line on the contract above. The contract also allows $150 per hour for grading past two hours, a $300 return-trip fee if the crew finds the site out of level, and says the customer supplies all fill dirt and gravel before scheduling. Ask any concrete contractor, before signing, whether the price assumes the truck can reach the forms or whether a pump will be needed. Get the answer written on the contract. ## Paying for six inches and getting six inches Two extra inches across 4,000 square feet is about 25 cubic yards of concrete. That is real money, and once the slab is poured you cannot see it. When I was told my pad was ready to pour, I stood a tape on the vapor barrier and the string line crossed it at about 4½ inches. How to check slab thickness before and after the pour P-01 Before the pour. The tape stands on the vapor barrier, and the yellow string line crosses it at about 4½ inches. The white plumbing stub-ups in the background are standing straight. April 2026, before the pour . Notes on this photo ## No warranty, and payment before the pour L&G’s packet has a separate page you sign agreeing that it offers no warranty on concrete. Payment was structured as $10,594 when the crew arrives for footers and grading, and the remaining $37,605 when the pour is scheduled. So the concrete was fully paid before it was placed, and nothing was held back against cracks, thickness or finish. If I were doing it again I would hire a concrete contractor directly, with a license I had checked, a written one-year warranty, and the last 10% due after the slab inspection passes and the forms are stripped. More on structuring payments . ## Where these numbers come from From my own signed contract with L&G Building & Concrete of Asheboro, NC, and what happened on my lot afterward. I am a customer, not a contractor or an engineer, and this is not professional advice. Prices are from February 2026 in western North Carolina. Read the full review Every line item Permits by county --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/guides/how-to-check-concrete-slab-thickness/ # How to check the thickness of a slab you are paying for Thickness is the one thing about a slab you cannot see once it is poured, and it is the easiest place for a job to come up short. You have one good chance to check it. ## What I found on mine My project record My contract with L&G Building & Concrete specifies 6 inches under the building. When I was told the pad was ready for concrete, I stood a tape measure on the vapor barrier and read it where the string line crossed: about 4½ inches. The photo is below. It shows one spot, and it does not prove what the finished slab measures. It is the reason I intend to have the slab cored. P-01 Before the pour. The tape stands on the vapor barrier, and the yellow string line crosses it at about 4½ inches. The white plumbing stub-ups in the background are standing straight. April 2026, before the pour . Notes on this photo ## Before the pour - Find the top-of-slab reference. It is the top edge of the form boards, or a string line pulled between them. Ask the crew lead to show you, and ask what thickness they are set for. - Measure down to the prepared base with the tape standing on the vapor barrier or the compacted stone. Do it in the middle of the pad as well as the edges. The middle is where a high subgrade hides. - Take at least ten readings on a grid and write them on a sketch. A slab is only as thick as its thinnest area. - Photograph every reading with the tape face and the string both in the shot, and something in the background that shows where on the pad you are. - Send the photos to the company in writing before the truck is loaded. Say what you measured and that the contract calls for more. A text or email with a time stamp is what you will want later. - Do not count on the inspector for this. Ask your county what its slab or under-slab inspection covers. It may be the vapor barrier, reinforcement and plumbing, and nobody may measure depth across the pad. Also check that the reinforcement is held up off the base on chairs or blocks so it ends up inside the concrete, and that the vapor barrier matches the contract. Mine specified 6 mil. ## After the pour The accepted way to measure an existing slab is to drill cores and measure their length. A concrete testing lab or a geotechnical engineering firm can take a handful of small-diameter cores, measure them, patch the holes and give you a signed report. The same cores can be tested for compressive strength, which tells you whether you got the 3,500 psi you paid for. There are non-destructive methods too, such as ground-penetrating radar, which are useful for mapping where a slab thins out between core locations. If the numbers are going to matter in a dispute, have an independent firm choose the core locations and do the work, and do not rely on measurements taken by either party. The edge of a slab tells you very little. Edges are often thickened, and the form board sets that dimension. The question is the field of the slab, where the base may have been left high. ## Put it in the contract Ask for one sentence: minimum slab thickness of X inches measured anywhere in the field, to be verified by the customer before placement, with the contractor to correct the base at its own cost if it is short. My contract had the thickness. It had nothing about verifying it, no warranty on concrete, and full payment due before the pour. What my slab cost · All project photos ## Where these numbers come from From my own signed contract with L&G Building & Concrete of Asheboro, NC, and what happened on my lot afterward. I am a customer, not a contractor or an engineer, and this is not professional advice. Prices are from February 2026 in western North Carolina. Read the full review Every line item Permits by county --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/guides/metal-building-footing-depth-nc/ # Footing depth for a metal building: the number on the plans is the number that counts Nobody thinks about footings until an inspector is standing in the trench with a tape measure. By then the contract has already decided who pays. ## What happened on my job My project record I bought a certified building, which means site-specific engineered plans, $3,000 on my order. The plans L&G provided call for 14-inch footings. L&G’s own concrete crew dug them to 12. The Alexander County inspector did not pass them. I was then charged extra to have them corrected. The inspection reports have been requested from the county and will be posted on the timeline . P-02 Form boards at the edge of the pad before the pour, with rebar, vapor barrier and part of the footing trench visible. April 2026, before the pour . Notes on this photo ## The clause that put the bill on me Company statement My concrete contract describes the footings as “1x1 Footers,” which I read as 12 by 12 inches, and says: “If the inspector requires for footers to be dug deeper, the customer is responsible for paying any additional concrete/labor.” Read those two facts together. The company sold me engineered plans, and those plans say 14 inches. Its concrete contract says 12. When the inspector enforced the plans, the contract treated it as the inspector wanting “deeper” and sent the cost to me. In my view, a footing that does not match the seller’s own engineering is the seller’s mistake to fix. ## How footing depth gets decided For a certified or engineered metal building, the engineer’s foundation drawing sets the footing width, depth and reinforcement, based on the building’s size, the loads at each column and an assumed soil bearing capacity. The county inspects against those sealed drawings. North Carolina’s codes also set a minimum depth below finished grade so that footings sit below frost, which is deeper in the mountain counties than in the Piedmont. Your county inspections office can tell you the local minimum in one phone call. Whichever is greater governs. On my project that was the plans. ## What to do before you sign - Do not sign the concrete contract until you have the engineered foundation sheet in hand. If plans take 20 weeks, the concrete price can wait 20 weeks. - Make the concrete contract say “footings per engineered drawing dated ___, sheet ___,” and strike any generic size such as “1x1.” - Change the inspector clause so the customer pays only if the inspector requires more than the engineered drawings show. - Be there for the footing inspection with the drawing. Measure the trench yourself first. - Do not release the footing payment until the footing inspection has passed. Mine was due “on arrival.” Find your county inspections office · Read the clause in context ## Where these numbers come from From my own signed contract with L&G Building & Concrete of Asheboro, NC, and what happened on my lot afterward. I am a customer, not a contractor or an engineer, and this is not professional advice. Prices are from February 2026 in western North Carolina. Read the full review Every line item Permits by county --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/resources/ # Resources for anyone about to buy a metal building Everything here was written after the fact, by the customer, from a signed contract and a half-built frame. Use it before you sign, and you will be ahead of where I was. ### Questions to ask The questions I did not ask before wiring $19,700: license number, who pulls the permit, lift terms, slab verification, dates, and what happens if work stops. ### Contract red flags Clause-by-clause red flags from a signed 2026 NC metal building contract: non-refundable deposit, wire only, no concrete warranty, no dates, and more. ### Verify a license Step by step: search the NC licensing board, check the Secretary of State, confirm the qualifier, get insurance certificates and search eCourts before you sign. ### Owner-builder risk What the NC owner exemption affidavit says, why metal building sellers push the permit onto the customer, and the risks of holding the permit on a $40,000-plus job. ### Payment schedule My contract put $90,182 of $98,750 due before completion, by wire. Here it is next to a schedule tied to inspections and delivery, milestone by milestone. ### Document your project What to save, photograph and write down during a metal building or concrete job: dated photos, text exports, wire confirmations, inspection notes, an evidence log. ### Work stopped A step-by-step plan for NC customers whose metal building contractor stopped work: secure the site, stop the money, send notice, get the county file, call the board. ### Read a concrete contract What each line of a slab contract means, using a real one: pad size, 6 vs 4 inches, 3,000 vs 3,500 psi, footers, vapor barrier, grading hours, the warranty page. ### Glossary Plain definitions of the words on a metal building quote and slab contract: certified, vertical roof, 14 gauge, lean-to, frame-out, telehandler, psi, control joint. ### Certified vs non-certified A certified metal building comes with stamped site-specific plans. What that adds in cost and lead time, what it does not guarantee, and how my footings failed. ### How long it takes A realistic timeline for a metal building and slab in NC, from a project signed in February 2026 and still half a frame in September: plans, permit, pour, erection. ### Slab cracks Shrinkage cracks, control joints, and the crack that runs through the joint. What a customer can tell by looking, what takes an engineer, what “no warranty” means. ### Get your permit file Permit applications, inspection results and affidavits are public records in NC. What to ask for, how to word the request, and what the file can prove. ### Notice letter How to write a calm, dated, specific notice to a contractor who stopped work in NC: what to include, what to leave out, how to send it, and an outline to adapt. ### Licensing board complaint What the NC Licensing Board for General Contractors can and cannot do for a customer, the $40,000 threshold, what to include, and what to expect after you file. ### Telehandler rental What a 7k telehandler is, why tall or wide buildings need one, what a week cost me, and how a customer-provided lift at $0 became the center of my dispute. ### Damaged plumbing When PVC stub-ups are damaged during a metal building install: photograph, compare to pre-pour photos, notify in writing, get a plumber, read the contract. ### Log and manifest templates Copy-and-use templates for a homeowner’s daily construction log and evidence manifest, with the columns that mattered when my metal building job went into dispute. ### Out-of-area sellers L&G is based in Asheboro; my lot is about 100 miles west. What distance changes about permits, crews, equipment and getting anyone to come back, and what to ask. ### Read a quote Using my real L&G sales order: how list price and a 45% discount work, what the $0 lines really cost, which items are openings not doors, and what is missing. ### Business search What the NC Secretary of State search tells you about a building company: legal name, status, formation date, registered agent, annual reports and related entities. ## Also on this site Ten checks before you sign is the short version. The buyer guides have the real prices and measurements. The county guides have the permit offices around Hickory and Asheboro, checked against each office’s own site. How to file a complaint is for when it has already gone wrong. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/resources/questions-to-ask-a-metal-building-company/ # Fifteen questions to ask any metal building company before you pay a deposit Print this, call the sales office, and write the answers down next to each question. Then make the answers part of the contract. Anything a salesperson will say but will not write is not part of the deal. ## Where this comes from My project record I bought a $98,750 building and slab after a few phone calls and an e-signature packet. Every question below is one I either did not ask or asked and did not get in writing. The order follows the life of the job, from the first call to the last payment. - ### What is the exact legal name of the company I am contracting with? Not the brand on the truck. The name that will appear on the contract, the invoices and any lawsuit. Look it up on the North Carolina Secretary of State site before you call back. Mine was L & G Building and Concrete LLC. The BBB lists a related company at the same address under a different name; a buyer should know which one they are dealing with. - ### What is your North Carolina general contractor license number, and who is the qualifier? North Carolina requires a license at $40,000 and up. Ask for the number and the name of the licensed qualifier, then check both on the licensing board’s site. If the answer is “we are manufacturers, not contractors,” which is what my contract says, ask how a $40,000-plus job gets permitted and built without one. - ### Who pulls the permit, and in whose name? If the answer is “you do,” ask why. Then call your county inspections office, describe the deal exactly as it was offered, and ask whether that is how they expect it to be permitted. My contract made the permit entirely my responsibility. - ### Will the crews on my land be your employees or someone else’s? My order form says orders may be filled by an independent manufacturer or installer. That matters for insurance, for who you call when something breaks, and for who is standing in the trench when the inspector arrives. - ### Can your insurance agent email me a certificate of insurance directly? General liability and workers’ compensation, sent by the agent, not forwarded by the salesperson. If the crew is a subcontractor, you need theirs too. - ### When will the engineered plans arrive, in writing? My terms say site-specific plans “can take up to 20 weeks.” That is the longest lead item on the job. Get the date written on the contract, and do not pay for concrete until you have the foundation sheet in hand. - ### What footing size and slab thickness are on the plans, and does the concrete contract match? My plans said 14-inch footings. My concrete contract said “1x1.” The crew dug 12, the inspection failed, and the contract made the correction my cost. Make the concrete contract reference the engineered drawing by sheet number. - ### Will a concrete pump be needed, and is it in the price? I was charged for a pump that appears on none of my signed paperwork. Ask whether the truck can reach every form, and if not, who pays for the pump. - ### What is the lift arrangement: what size machine, for how many days, and who pays if your crew is late? My order listed a telehandler as customer-provided at $0 for one week. By text, L&G agreed anything longer “runs through us.” The crew came five days late, put up half the building, and I was told to supply a different machine. Get the lift terms into the contract itself, not a text thread. - ### What is the start date, the finish date, and what happens if you miss them? My packet has none of the three. Ask for a start window, a completion date, and a daily credit or a right to cancel and recover unearned money. - ### How much is the deposit, and when is it refundable? My terms describe a 10% minimum deposit. My actual deposit was 38.97% of the building price and non-refundable the moment it was wired. Negotiate the number down and get the refund conditions in plain words. - ### What payment methods do you take? L&G takes only bank wires. A wire cannot be reversed. If wire is the only option, tie every payment to something you can see: stamped plans in hand, a passed inspection, material on the lot. - ### What is the warranty on the concrete, and what is the warranty on the building? Mine: none on the concrete, by a separate signed page; 90 days workmanship and 10 years on the sheeting for the building. Ask before you see the signature page, and compare with an independent concrete contractor’s warranty. - ### If the building fails final inspection, who corrects it and who pays? My terms say the installation crew corrects anything on the inspection report. That is one of the few clauses in my favor. Make sure yours has it, and that it is not undone by a clause elsewhere. - ### What happens if the job stops halfway? Nobody asks this one. Ask it anyway. Who holds what money, who owns the material on the ground, how long before you can hire someone else to finish, and whether you need their permission. My building has been half a frame since September. ## Why a customer wrote this In February 2026 I signed a $98,750 contract with L&G Building & Concrete of Asheboro, North Carolina. By September I had a cracked slab, damaged plumbing and half a steel frame. This site documents it, with the contract, photos, texts and public records. The resources exist so the next buyer does not need to learn the same things the same way. Ten checks before you sign The clauses these questions come from Contract red flags General information from one customer’s experience and research. Not legal, engineering or financial advice. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/resources/metal-building-contract-red-flags/ # Twelve red flags in a metal building contract, with the real clauses None of these clauses is illegal. Each one shifts risk from the company to you. Reading them together, before you sign, is the whole point. ## Where this comes from My project record What follows is drawn from the actual packet I signed with L&G Building & Concrete in February 2026. The quotations are theirs. The commentary is mine, and where it is an opinion I say so. If you are holding a contract from a different seller, look for the same ideas in different words. ## 1. “We are manufacturers not contractors” The sentence appears in the permit clause. Its effect is to place the permit, the inspections and the licensing question on you. If a company that will grade your lot, pour your slab and erect your building describes itself as a manufacturer, ask what that makes you. ## 2. All down payments non-refundable, all sales final My deposit was $19,700, non-refundable the moment it left my account, with one exception for a written permit rejection letter, minus the salesperson’s commission. During months of delay I asked for a refund more than once and was refused. The clause worked exactly as written. ## 3. Wire transfer only, no personal checks A wire is final. A credit card has a dispute process. When a company will only take the payment method that cannot be reversed, the burden of every other protection in the contract gets heavier. ## 4. Payment on arrival, before the work Footers and grading were due when the crew arrived. The concrete balance was due when the pour was scheduled. Ninety-one percent of my project total was due before completion. Ask for payments tied to passed inspections instead. ## 5. No warranty on concrete A separate page, signed separately, says L&G offers no warranty of any kind on concrete and that cracks “are bound to happen.” That page covered $48,199 of my project. ## 6. “If the inspector requires for footers to be dug deeper, the customer is responsible” Read with the concrete contract’s “1x1 footers” and the plans’ 14 inches, this clause turned the crew’s shortfall into my bill. In my view it was written for an inspector demanding more than the plans, not for a crew digging less than them. Change the wording so you only pay for more than the engineered drawing shows. ## 7. The customer provides the lift, at $0 A $0 line on an order form is a cost that lives outside the contract. The lift, the fuel, the insurance and every day it sits unused while the crew is late were mine. ## 8. Grading “up to 2 hours only” Then $150 an hour, plus a $300 return trip if the site is found out of level, plus all fill, gravel and compaction supplied by the customer, with no responsibility for a failed compaction test. On a sloped lot these lines add up fast. ## 9. No start date, no finish date, no remedy The only time estimate in twenty pages is that engineered plans “can take up to 20 weeks.” Weather, crew availability and “other unforeseen occurrences” may affect scheduling. Nothing happens to the company if the schedule slips. Mine slipped for seven months. ## 10. Hold harmless for pipes, cables and lines The customer marks underground utilities and holds the company harmless for damage to yards, pipes, cables and lines during construction. My plumbing stub-ups came through the slab straight and ended up leaning and gouged during the install. ## 11. Security interest and repossession The customer grants the company a security interest in the structure and agrees it may repossess anything not paid in full. Combined with front-loaded payments, this means the company holds both the money and the claim on the building. ## 12. The indemnity for code violations The customer agrees to indemnify the company for any city or county code violation. On a project the customer did not design, engineer or build, that is a large promise to make. ## What was not in the packet at all A license number. A certificate of insurance. A dispute-resolution clause. A change-order process. A schedule. Their absence is not proof of anything, but on a contract approaching $100,000 each one is a question to ask before signing. ## Why a customer wrote this In February 2026 I signed a $98,750 contract with L&G Building & Concrete of Asheboro, North Carolina. By September I had a cracked slab, damaged plumbing and half a steel frame. This site documents it, with the contract, photos, texts and public records. The resources exist so the next buyer does not need to learn the same things the same way. The contract, clause by clause Questions to ask A safer payment schedule General information from one customer’s experience and research. Not legal, engineering or financial advice. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/resources/how-to-verify-a-contractor-license-in-north-carolina/ # How to verify a contractor’s license in North Carolina I did not do any of this before signing a $98,750 contract. It would have taken ten minutes. Here is the ten minutes. ## Where this comes from My project record North Carolina requires a general contractor license when a project costs $40,000 or more. That covers almost any metal building with a slab. The checks below are what a careful buyer, or a construction attorney, does before money moves. None of it requires an account or a fee. - ### Get the exact legal name and the license number from the seller Ask by email so you have it in writing. If the seller cannot or will not give a license number, that is your first answer. My contract contains no license number anywhere in twenty pages. - ### Search the NC Licensing Board for General Contractors Go to nclbgc.org and use the license search. Search the company’s legal name, then any other names on the paperwork or trucks, then the owner’s name. Confirm the license is active, note the classification and the limitation, and write down the license number and the qualifier’s name. - ### Check the qualifier too A company license rides on a qualifying individual who passed the exam. Search that person. If the qualifier has left the company or their status has lapsed, the company license can be in trouble even if it still shows. - ### Search the NC Secretary of State Look up the legal name in the business registration search. Confirm the entity is active, note the formation date and the registered agent, and check whether the name on your contract matches the name on file. Save a PDF of the record. - ### Ask for a certificate of insurance from the agent Request general liability and workers’ compensation certificates emailed to you directly by the insurance agent, not forwarded by the salesperson. If subcontractors will do the work, ask for theirs. - ### Search court records The NC eCourts portal lets you search civil cases by party name. Look for the company name and the owner’s name. One old case means little. A pattern of liens, judgments or defective-work claims means a lot. For federal cases, PACER or a free docket mirror will do. - ### Read the reviews, including the company’s replies BBB, Google and Yelp. Read the company’s responses as closely as the complaints. The themes that repeat are the ones you should address in the contract. - ### Watch for a job split to stay under $40,000 If a seller proposes separate contracts for the building and the concrete so that each one lands under the threshold, be careful. Work on the same property at the same time is generally treated as one project. - ### Call your county inspections office Describe the deal as offered: total price, who is doing the work, who is being asked to pull the permit. Ask whether that matches what they expect to see. The county guides on this site have the phone numbers. ## Questions this raises Does L&G Building & Concrete hold a North Carolina general contractor license? I do not know yet. I have not matched a license to the company for my project and have asked the licensing board to confirm in writing. The contract itself says L&G is a manufacturer and not a contractor. I will publish the board’s answer either way. What happens if a contractor is unlicensed on a job over $40,000? The licensing board accepts complaints about unlicensed contracting at that level and can pursue it. What it means for your contract and your money is a question for a North Carolina construction attorney, and the answer depends on the facts. This site does not give legal advice. ## Why a customer wrote this In February 2026 I signed a $98,750 contract with L&G Building & Concrete of Asheboro, North Carolina. By September I had a cracked slab, damaged plumbing and half a steel frame. This site documents it, with the contract, photos, texts and public records. The resources exist so the next buyer does not need to learn the same things the same way. The $40,000 rule and owner-builder permits Public records for L&G County inspections offices General information from one customer’s experience and research. Not legal, engineering or financial advice. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/resources/owner-builder-permit-risks-north-carolina/ # When the seller says “you pull the permit”: what an owner-builder takes on in North Carolina It sounds like a formality: fill out a form at the county, save the contractor a trip. On my project it meant I was the person legally responsible for a job I had paid someone else to run. ## Where this comes from My project record My contract with L&G Building & Concrete says the company will not provide permits. So I went to Alexander County and applied as the owner. I had no idea what I was agreeing to until months later, when I read the affidavit again with a failed footing inspection and a half-built frame behind me. ## What the affidavit says you will do Alexander County’s Owner Exemption Affidavit, like those in other North Carolina counties, has the owner swear that they will personally superintend and manage all aspects of the construction, that they will not delegate that duty to anyone who is not properly licensed, and that they will be regularly present for inspections. The licensing board’s own guidance to permit clerks describes an owner-builder as someone who hires and pays the subcontractors directly, schedules the inspections and shows up for them. Compare that to a deal where one company prices the whole job, takes the money by wire, sends its own crews and tells you when they will arrive. One of those descriptions is an owner-builder. The other is a customer. ## Why sellers want it this way I can only tell you what my contract says: “we are manufacturers not contractors.” A company that does not hold a general contractor license cannot pull a permit as the contractor on a $40,000-plus project. Having the owner pull it avoids that problem for the company. It does not avoid it for the owner. I am not saying that is why L&G does it. I am saying it is what the paperwork produces. ## What it cost me in practice When the footings came up two inches short of the plans, the inspector’s failure notice was addressed to the permit holder: me. When the crew dug them deeper, the contract made the extra concrete my cost. When the frame stopped halfway, there was no licensed contractor of record for the county, the licensing board or an attorney to point at. Just the owner, holding a permit for a project he was never allowed to manage. ## What to do instead - Ask the seller for a license number before you discuss permits at all. - If the seller still wants you to apply as owner, call the county, describe the arrangement honestly and ask whether it fits the affidavit. Let the county tell you. - If you do pull the permit, act like the owner-builder you are swearing to be: be present for every inspection, schedule them yourself, keep the inspector’s notes, and pay subcontractors against passed inspections. - Consider hiring an independent licensed general contractor to oversee the project, or at least the concrete, even if the seller supplies the building kit. ## Why a customer wrote this In February 2026 I signed a $98,750 contract with L&G Building & Concrete of Asheboro, North Carolina. By September I had a cracked slab, damaged plumbing and half a steel frame. This site documents it, with the contract, photos, texts and public records. The resources exist so the next buyer does not need to learn the same things the same way. The $40,000 rule in detail Alexander County, where my permit is Verify a license in ten minutes General information from one customer’s experience and research. Not legal, engineering or financial advice. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/resources/safe-payment-schedule-metal-building/ # A safer payment schedule for a metal building and slab The payment schedule is the only part of a construction contract that protects you after you sign. Mine protected the company. ## Where this comes from My project record Below is the schedule from my signed Balance Breakdown, and next to each line the version I would insist on if I were doing it again. The amounts are mine. The principle applies to any seller: money should follow something you can verify, not a date on the company’s calendar. ## What I signed - At signing: $19,700 building deposit, 38.97% of the building price, by wire, non-refundable. - When the concrete crew arrives: $10,594 for footers and grading. - When the pour is scheduled: $37,605, the rest of the concrete. - When the building is scheduled: $22,283 for materials, before delivery. - When the building is complete: $8,568 for installation. - Total before completion: $90,182 of $98,750, or 91%. ## What I would sign now - At signing: 10% of the building price, matching the minimum the company’s own terms describe, refundable if engineered plans are not delivered by the written date. - When stamped engineered plans are in my hand: a second building payment, because now there is something to build. - When the footing inspection passes: footers and grading. Not on arrival. After the inspector signs. - When the slab is poured and I have measured it: the concrete balance, less 10% retainage held until 28-day strength or cores, whichever we agreed. - When building materials are delivered and checked against the order: the materials payment. Count panels and trusses before releasing it. - When the frame is complete and the county’s framing inspection passes: a progress payment. - When the final inspection passes and the punch list is closed: the last 10 to 15%. ## Why arrival and scheduling are the wrong triggers A crew can arrive and dig the wrong depth. A pour can be scheduled and the pad can measure 4½ inches where 6 was sold. Both happened to me after the money for that step had already moved. An inspection is the only trigger that has a third party attached to it. Scheduling is just a date the company picked. ## The method matters as much as the timing L&G accepts only bank wires. If a seller will not take a credit card or a check, the schedule above is the only protection you have, and the retainage at the end is the only money you will ever have to negotiate with. Hold it. ## Why a customer wrote this In February 2026 I signed a $98,750 contract with L&G Building & Concrete of Asheboro, North Carolina. By September I had a cracked slab, damaged plumbing and half a steel frame. This site documents it, with the contract, photos, texts and public records. The resources exist so the next buyer does not need to learn the same things the same way. My full payment schedule The payment clauses Ten checks before you sign General information from one customer’s experience and research. Not legal, engineering or financial advice. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/resources/how-to-document-a-construction-project/ # How to document a construction project, from the first call to the last photo The reason this website exists is that I kept almost everything. The reason parts of it still say “date being confirmed” is that I did not keep it in order. Do both. ## Where this comes from My project record A documented project is one where every claim can be matched to a date, a photo or a piece of paper. You will not need most of it. If the job goes wrong, you will need all of it, and you will need it fast. P-01 Before the pour. The tape stands on the vapor barrier, and the yellow string line crosses it at about 4½ inches. The white plumbing stub-ups in the background are standing straight. April 2026, before the pour . Notes on this photo - ### Start a folder on day one One folder, cloud-synced, named for the project. Subfolders: contract, payments, plans, permits, photos, messages, invoices. Every file goes in the day you get it. - ### Save the contract as it was sent, not as it was printed The e-signature certificate shows who sent what and when it was completed. Mine shows the packet was sent February 13, 2026 and completed February 20. That is a date no one can argue with. - ### Keep every payment confirmation Wire confirmation numbers, bank screenshots, the email you sent the office with the confirmation. Build a ledger as you go: date, amount, payee, what it was for, which confirmation proves it. I am rebuilding mine after the fact, which is why the site says “about $93,000” instead of an exact figure. - ### Photograph every stage before it is covered The footing trench with a tape in it. The prepared pad with a tape at the string line. The reinforcement on chairs. The plumbing stub-ups standing straight. Each photo should have something in it that shows where on the site you are. Leave the camera’s date and location data on the originals; strip it only from copies you publish. - ### Measure and write it down Depth, width, thickness, in several places. A photo of a tape is good. A sketch with ten readings is better. Date it and send it to the company the same day so there is a time stamp on the other end. - ### Keep communications in writing, and export them After every phone call, send a short text or email: “Confirming what we discussed: crew arrives Monday, lift is on site through Friday, anything past that runs through you.” If they reply “yes,” you have a document. Export text threads to PDF monthly. Screenshots are good; a full export with time stamps is better. - ### Be at every inspection with the plans Ask the inspector what they measured and what they found. Write it down while you are standing there. Request the written report from the county afterward. The county file is a public record and it is the most neutral evidence you will ever have. - ### Log the days A one-line daily log: who was on site, what they did, what equipment was there, what you paid for. When a crew is five days late and the rented lift is burning money, the log is what turns a feeling into a number. - ### Keep an evidence manifest A simple table: ID, file name, date, who created it, what it shows, which claim it supports. When you need to hand a folder to an attorney, an inspector or a licensing board, the manifest is the first page. - ### Say only what the evidence shows A photo of a crack proves a crack. A photo of a leaning pipe proves a leaning pipe. If you write “they broke it,” be ready to show how you know. On this site, every photo caption follows that rule, and every opinion is labeled as one. ## Why a customer wrote this In February 2026 I signed a $98,750 contract with L&G Building & Concrete of Asheboro, North Carolina. By September I had a cracked slab, damaged plumbing and half a steel frame. This site documents it, with the contract, photos, texts and public records. The resources exist so the next buyer does not need to learn the same things the same way. How the photos on this site are captioned The sourcing rules this site follows Where to take the documentation General information from one customer’s experience and research. Not legal, engineering or financial advice. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/resources/contractor-stopped-work-what-to-do-nc/ # The contractor stopped work. What to do, in order My frame has stood half-finished since early September. These are the steps I took, the ones I wish I had taken sooner, and the order I would do them in now. ## Where this comes from My project record This is not legal advice. It is a sequence worked out by a customer from the contract, the county’s guidance and public sources. Your facts will differ, and a North Carolina construction attorney should see your contract before you send anything to the company. - ### Stop paying Do not send another dollar until you have advice. If the company is asking for a payment that the contract ties to completion, as L&G asked me for the installation payment on a half-built frame, that request is itself something to document. - ### Secure the site and the material Steel on the ground, loose panels, a rented lift, open plumbing. Photograph all of it, cover what can be damaged, and check your insurance about liability for an open structure. If equipment on the lot is rented in your name, decide quickly whether to keep paying for it. - ### Write down the state of the job today What is complete, what is partial, what is missing, with photos and a date. This is the baseline for everything that follows, including the next contractor’s estimate. - ### Reread the contract for notice, cure and termination language Many contracts require written notice and a chance to cure before you can treat the deal as broken. Mine has no dispute-resolution clause at all, which cuts both ways. An attorney will tell you what your version requires. - ### Send a written notice Calm, dated, specific. What the contract requires, what has not been done, what you expect by what date, and that you reserve all rights. Send it by a method with proof of delivery and by email. Keep the tone you would want read aloud in a courtroom. - ### Request the complete county permit file Every inspection result, every note, who requested each inspection, the affidavit you signed. It is a public record. It will tell you what passed, what failed and what is still open, in the inspector’s words. - ### Call the licensing board The North Carolina Licensing Board for General Contractors takes complaints about licensed contractors, and about unlicensed contracting when the contract is $40,000 or more. Ask whether the company holds a license, in writing, and ask how to file. - ### File with the Attorney General and BBB Neither will get your building finished. Both create a public record and both forward your complaint to the company for a response, which is often the first serious reply you will get. - ### Get a licensed contractor to assess the work Before anyone touches it. An independent assessment of the slab, the footings and the partial frame, in writing, with photos. If thickness or strength is in question, cores. This is what turns “I think it is wrong” into a report. - ### Talk to a construction attorney about completion Whether you can hire another contractor to finish, what happens to the security interest the first company claims in the structure, and what you can recover. On a dispute this size the first hour is worth every dollar. - ### Write it down publicly, carefully An honest, sourced account helps the next buyer. Stick to what you can prove, label opinion as opinion, give the company room to respond, and leave out insults. That is what this site tries to do. ## Why a customer wrote this In February 2026 I signed a $98,750 contract with L&G Building & Concrete of Asheboro, North Carolina. By September I had a cracked slab, damaged plumbing and half a steel frame. This site documents it, with the contract, photos, texts and public records. The resources exist so the next buyer does not need to learn the same things the same way. Where to file in North Carolina What happened on my site Documenting the project General information from one customer’s experience and research. Not legal, engineering or financial advice. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/resources/how-to-read-a-concrete-contract/ # How to read a concrete contract for a metal building slab A one-page concrete contract decides more about your building than the twenty pages that come with the steel. Here is mine, translated. ## Where this comes from My project record The concrete under a metal building is half the money and all of the foundation. My concrete contract with L&G Building & Concrete was one page plus a signed information sheet. Every line on it meant something I did not fully understand at the time. P-02 Form boards at the edge of the pad before the pour, with rebar, vapor barrier and part of the footing trench visible. April 2026, before the pour . Notes on this photo ## Pad size Mine reads 50′7″ × 80′7″ for the main pad, plus 12×47 and 12×62 for the lean-tos. The extra seven inches lets the building’s base rail sit inside the slab edge. Check that the pad dimensions match the building’s footprint plus the lean-tos on the order form, and that lean-to pads are included if you are paying for lean-tos. ## Thickness Six inches under the building, four under each lean-to. L&G’s standard is four inches. Six is an upgrade you pay for and cannot see once poured. When I was told the pad was ready, I measured about 4½ at the string line. If you pay for six, verify it before the truck arrives, and have the contract say the thickness applies everywhere in the field, not just at the edges. ## Strength 3,500 psi on my contract, against a 3,000 psi standard. Strength is specified at 28 days and verified by breaking cylinders or cores, which nobody on a residential metal building job does unless the customer arranges it. The ready-mix ticket from the truck shows what mix was ordered; ask for a copy on pour day. ## Reinforcement My standard sheet mentions fiber. The pre-pour photo shows a rebar grid on chairs. Rebar, wire mesh and fiber do different jobs and the engineered plans may require a specific one. Make the contract name it and reference the plan sheet. ## Footers “1x1 footers” plus strip footers along the lean-to lines, marked “inspection required.” The footing dimensions on the concrete contract must match the engineered plans. Mine did not: plans said 14 inches, contract said 12, crew dug 12, inspection failed, and the contract made the fix my cost. ## Vapor barrier 6 mil polyethylene, $225 on my contract. It keeps ground moisture out of the slab and is cheap. Check that it is actually under the whole pad before the pour. It is visible in my pre-pour photo. ## Grading “Up to 2 hours only,” then $150 per hour. Fill dirt, gravel, stumps and rocks are the customer’s job before scheduling, and the company takes no responsibility for a failed compaction test. On anything but a flat lot, get the site prepared by someone you chose before the concrete crew is scheduled. ## The information sheet you sign separately It says concrete cracks “are bound to happen,” describes shrinkage and crazing, and has you sign that there is no warranty of any kind. Read it as the company’s position on the crack that is coming. Then ask an independent concrete contractor what warranty they offer, and compare. ## What is not on the page A pump. Control joint layout. Finish tolerance. Curing method. The thickness verification. A sample of the ready-mix ticket. Who calls the inspection. Any of these can be added by hand before signing, and a company that will not add them has told you something. ## Why a customer wrote this In February 2026 I signed a $98,750 contract with L&G Building & Concrete of Asheboro, North Carolina. By September I had a cracked slab, damaged plumbing and half a steel frame. This site documents it, with the contract, photos, texts and public records. The resources exist so the next buyer does not need to learn the same things the same way. What the slab cost Checking thickness Footing depth General information from one customer’s experience and research. Not legal, engineering or financial advice. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/resources/metal-building-terms-glossary/ # The words on a metal building quote, explained by someone who learned them the hard way My order form used a dozen words I nodded along to. Each one carried a price or a risk. Here is what they turned out to mean. ## Where this comes from My project record Definitions below are a customer’s working understanding, checked against my own contract and what happened on my lot. Where a term has a precise engineering meaning, ask your engineer or county inspector; this list is to get you through the sales call without being talked past. ## Certified building A building supplied with site-specific engineered plans stamped for your location’s wind and snow loads, meant to pass county inspection. Non-certified buildings come without stamped plans. My order was certified, which is why the $3,000 plan line and the 20-week plan lead time existed, and why the county inspected the footings against those plans. ## Vertical roof Panels run from ridge to eave so water and debris shed downward, versus regular or A-frame horizontal panels. Vertical is the upgrade and the one most sellers push for larger buildings. My 50×80 was vertical roof, vertical sides and ends. ## Gauge The thickness of the framing tube or the panel steel. Lower numbers are thicker. 14 gauge framing is the heavier standard option; 12 gauge is heavier still. Mine was 14 gauge. ## Leg height and ladder-leg baserail Leg height is the wall height to the eave; mine was 16 feet, an $8,400 line. Ladder-leg baserail is a doubled base rail at the bottom of tall legs. Buildings over about 13 feet tall or 30 feet wide are where the contract starts requiring a telehandler. ## Lean-to A lower, attached roof section off one side or the back. Each is priced separately with its own height, gable, side closure and slab. My two lean-tos added about $18,350 to the building and two extra pads to the concrete. ## Frame-out The framed opening for a door, priced per opening. The door itself is separate. My order has ten garage door frame-outs and no garage doors. ## Telehandler A telescopic forklift used to lift trusses and panels into place. On my order it was “customer provided” at $0 for one week. It is the piece of equipment the whole telehandler dispute on this site is about. ## Engineered plans / site-specific blueprints Drawings stamped by an engineer for your building at your address, including the foundation sheet with footing sizes. They are what the county inspects against, and they are what a concrete contract should reference by sheet number. ## Footer / footing The thickened concrete under the slab edge and under columns that carries the building’s loads into the ground. Size comes from the engineered plans. “1x1” on my concrete contract meant 12 by 12 inches; the plans said 14. ## Strip footer A continuous footing along a wall line, as opposed to a pad under a single column. My contract had 47-foot and 62-foot strip footers under the lean-to lines. ## PSI Pounds per square inch, the specified compressive strength of the concrete at 28 days. 3,000 psi is a common residential standard; 3,500 was my upgrade. It is only verified if someone tests it. ## Vapor barrier / 6 mil Plastic sheeting under the slab, measured in thousandths of an inch. Six mil is the common spec. It keeps ground moisture out of the slab and shows up as the shiny layer under the rebar in my pre-pour photo. ## Control joint A saw cut or tooled groove in the slab that creates a weak line so shrinkage cracks happen there instead of at random. A crack running across a panel and through the joint, as in photo P-03, is the kind the joint was supposed to prevent. ## Owner-builder / owner exemption The legal status of a property owner who acts as their own general contractor and swears to personally manage the job. Pulling the permit as the owner puts you in this role whether or not you are actually managing anything. ## Qualifier The individual who passed the licensing exam and under whose name a company’s general contractor license is held. When you verify a license, verify the qualifier too. ## Certificate of insurance (COI) A one-page summary from an insurance agent showing a company’s general liability and workers’ compensation coverage, limits and dates. Ask for it to be sent by the agent directly. ## Retainage A percentage of each payment, or of the total, held back until the work passes final inspection. The thing my payment schedule did not have, and the thing a safer one is built around. ## Why a customer wrote this In February 2026 I signed a $98,750 contract with L&G Building & Concrete of Asheboro, North Carolina. By September I had a cracked slab, damaged plumbing and half a steel frame. This site documents it, with the contract, photos, texts and public records. The resources exist so the next buyer does not need to learn the same things the same way. These terms on my actual order Reading the concrete contract What a metal building costs in NC General information from one customer’s experience and research. Not legal, engineering or financial advice. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/resources/what-does-certified-metal-building-mean/ # What “certified” means on a metal building quote, and what it does not I paid $3,000 for site-specific blueprints and waited on them for months. Certified turned out to mean the plans would be right. It said nothing about whether the crew would follow them. ## Where this comes from My project record My L&G order was a certified 50×80×16 with “Other Certification (including lean-tos)” and a $3,000 line for site-specific blueprints at four-foot centers. Here is what each of those words bought, from the customer side. ## Certified means stamped plans for your address A certified building is engineered for the wind and snow loads at your site and comes with drawings sealed by an engineer. Counties that require permits for buildings this size generally require those drawings. A non-certified building is the same steel without the stamp, sold for places that do not inspect, and often not permittable where you live. ## What it costs and how long it takes On my order the plans were a $3,000 line and the terms say they “can take up to 20 weeks to receive.” That is the longest lead item in the project and it gates the permit, which gates the concrete. If a seller takes a deposit and then takes months to produce plans, the clock on your non-refundable deposit is running the whole time. ## What certified does not guarantee The plans L&G supplied call for 14-inch footings. The crew dug 12. The stamp on the drawing did not reach into the trench. Certified means the design was checked by an engineer; it does not mean the construction was. The county inspector is the only person who checks the second thing, and only at the inspections you schedule. Likewise, a certified building’s plans do not specify who is licensed to build it. That is a separate question with a $40,000 threshold attached in North Carolina. ## Questions to ask about the plans - When will stamped plans be delivered, in writing? - Will the concrete contract reference the foundation sheet by number? - Who submits the plans to the county, and in whose name? - If the county requires changes to the plans, who pays the engineer? - Can I see a sample set from a recent job in my county? ## Why a customer wrote this In February 2026 I signed a $98,750 contract with L&G Building & Concrete of Asheboro, North Carolina. By September I had a cracked slab, damaged plumbing and half a steel frame. This site documents it, with the contract, photos, texts and public records. The resources exist so the next buyer does not need to learn the same things the same way. Footing depth: plans vs trench The order, line by line Glossary General information from one customer’s experience and research. Not legal, engineering or financial advice. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/resources/how-long-does-a-metal-building-take/ # How long a metal building really takes, from one job that is still not done Salespeople talk in weeks. My contract allowed up to twenty weeks just for drawings, and the drawings were the fast part. ## Where this comes from My project record Nobody gave me a schedule, because there was not one in the contract. What follows is the sequence every metal building goes through, with the dates from my own project where I have them and the places where a buyer can make a schedule stick. - ### Contract and deposit: day 0 I signed February 20, 2026 and wired $19,700. From this point the deposit is non-refundable and the seller controls the pace. - ### Engineered plans: up to 20 weeks by contract My terms say site-specific plans can take up to 20 weeks. Nothing else can start without them. Ask for the actual expected date and get it in writing. - ### Permit: days to weeks With plans in hand, the county application takes days to a few weeks depending on the office, zoning review and septic. In my county I pulled it myself, because the contract made it my job. - ### Grading, footings and inspection: about a week, if it passes Mine did not pass. The footings were dug to 12 inches against plans calling for 14, failed inspection and had to be corrected, which added time and cost. A passed footing inspection is the first real milestone. - ### Pour and cure: one day to pour, weeks to cure The slab goes down in a day. Concrete reaches its specified strength at 28 days. Erecting a heavy frame on a slab that is a few days old is a question for the engineer, not the salesperson. - ### Building delivery and erection: the part with no date From the April pour to the first crew on site was about five months on my project. The building was scheduled for August 29, moved by text to “Monday at latest,” and the crew arrived September 3. A crew put up about half the frame in two to three days and stopped. - ### Final inspection and punch list Mine has not happened. The contract says the crew corrects anything on the final inspection report, which is a useful promise only if the crew comes back. ## Questions this raises How long does a metal building take to install once the crew arrives? A crew of four can stand and sheet a 30×40 in a day or two, according to one Yelp reviewer’s account of an L&G job. My 50×80 with lean-tos had about half its frame up after two to three days, with no roof or wall panels, when work stopped. What causes the long delays? On my project: plan lead time, a failed footing inspection, and months of rescheduling for the building crew with no date in the contract. The texts show the install date moving two days before it arrived. ## Why a customer wrote this In February 2026 I signed a $98,750 contract with L&G Building & Concrete of Asheboro, North Carolina. By September I had a cracked slab, damaged plumbing and half a steel frame. This site documents it, with the contract, photos, texts and public records. The resources exist so the next buyer does not need to learn the same things the same way. My timeline The scheduling clause Questions to ask General information from one customer’s experience and research. Not legal, engineering or financial advice. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/resources/concrete-slab-cracks-metal-building/ # Cracks in a new slab: what is normal, what is not, and why “concrete cracks” is not the end of the conversation The company’s sheet says cracks are bound to happen. That is true. It is also the beginning of the question, not the answer to it. ## Where this comes from My project record I am not an engineer. What follows is what I learned trying to understand the crack in photo P-03, from public references and from the people I asked. Where a judgment needs an engineer, I say so. P-03 A crack running from the front of the picture to the back, crossing a saw-cut control joint, beside the building’s base rail. Handwriting on the rail is blurred for privacy. Nothing else in the image is altered. Early September 2026 . Notes on this photo ## Why control joints exist Concrete shrinks as it cures and will crack somewhere. Control joints are cuts made into the slab, usually within a day of the pour, to create straight weak lines so the shrinkage cracks happen there, hidden in the joint, instead of wandering across the floor. A slab with well-placed joints can still have a hundred cracks; you just never see them. ## The kind of crack that raises questions A hairline crack following a joint is the system working. A crack that runs across a panel and through a joint, as mine does, means the joint did not control it. Common reasons in the references are joints cut too late or too shallow, panels too large for the slab thickness, poor subgrade compaction, or a slab thinner than designed. Which of those applies to mine is exactly what an engineer would be hired to say. ## Thickness and strength are the quiet variables A 6-inch slab tolerates larger joint spacing and heavier loads than a 4-inch one, which is why I paid for 6. If the slab is thinner than specified in places, the joint layout designed for 6 inches is wrong for what was poured. That is why the pre-pour measurement in P-01 and the question of coring matter to the crack question, not just to the price question. ## What “no warranty” does and does not settle L&G’s concrete information sheet has the customer acknowledge that there is no warranty of any kind on the slab and that cracks are bound to happen. In my reading that is the company’s position on shrinkage cracking. Whether it answers a slab that is thinner or weaker than the contract specifies is a different question, and one for an attorney rather than a sales sheet. ## What to do if your new slab cracks - Photograph it with a tape for scale and something fixed in the frame for location. Date it. - Measure the width, and whether one side is higher than the other. A vertical offset is a different problem from a hairline. - Note where it is relative to the control joints and the columns. - Write to the company the same day, with the photos. - If the crack is wide, offset, or growing, get a concrete testing lab or structural engineer to look. Cores will answer thickness and strength at the same time. ## Why a customer wrote this In February 2026 I signed a $98,750 contract with L&G Building & Concrete of Asheboro, North Carolina. By September I had a cracked slab, damaged plumbing and half a steel frame. This site documents it, with the contract, photos, texts and public records. The resources exist so the next buyer does not need to learn the same things the same way. The crack, with what the photo does and does not show The no-warranty clause Checking thickness General information from one customer’s experience and research. Not legal, engineering or financial advice. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/resources/how-to-request-your-county-permit-file-nc/ # How to get the complete permit and inspection file for your project from the county The county file is the most neutral record of your project that exists. Nobody involved in the dispute wrote it. Ask for all of it. ## Where this comes from My project record Under North Carolina’s public records law, the documents a county creates and receives in permitting your project are generally public and available on request. I have requested mine from Alexander County. Here is what to ask for and how. - ### Find the right office and your permit number The inspections office that issued the permit holds the file. Have the permit number, the parcel ID and the property address. The county guides on this site have the offices. - ### Ask for the complete file, and list what that means Application; issued permit; any owner exemption affidavit; all inspection requests and results, passed and failed; reinspection records; inspector notes and photos; approved plans and engineering; revisions; contractor and subcontractor information on file; workers’ compensation affidavits; records of who requested each inspection; current status; and any correspondence with the owner, the company, engineers or trades. - ### Put it in writing, by email A short email citing the North Carolina Public Records Act, naming the permit and parcel, and listing the items above. Ask for electronic copies. Ask what the fee is, if any, before they copy anything. - ### Ask who called the inspections This is the single most useful line in the file for a dispute over who was really running the job. If the company’s staff requested the footing inspection on a permit in your name, the file will show it. - ### Read the inspection results against the plans A failed footing inspection will usually say what was measured. Compare it to the foundation sheet. On my project that comparison is the difference between “the inspector wanted deeper” and “the crew dug less than the plans.” - ### Keep the file with your evidence manifest Save it as received, add each document to your manifest, and link the relevant ones to the claims they support. Then post the ones that matter, as this site will when Alexander County releases mine. ## Why a customer wrote this In February 2026 I signed a $98,750 contract with L&G Building & Concrete of Asheboro, North Carolina. By September I had a cracked slab, damaged plumbing and half a steel frame. This site documents it, with the contract, photos, texts and public records. The resources exist so the next buyer does not need to learn the same things the same way. County offices Documenting the project What the file will fill in on my timeline General information from one customer’s experience and research. Not legal, engineering or financial advice. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/resources/notice-to-cure-letter-contractor-nc/ # Writing the letter: notice to a contractor who has stopped work The letter is not where you win the argument. It is where you show, later, that you gave the company every chance and said exactly what you needed. ## Where this comes from My project record I am a customer, not a lawyer, and the right letter depends on your contract and your facts. What follows is the structure I put together from the contract, public guidance and the advice I have been given, and the mistakes to avoid. Have a North Carolina construction attorney read yours before it goes out. ## Before you write - Read the contract for any notice, cure or termination clause and follow it exactly. - Assemble the dates: contract, payments, inspections, the last day the crew was on site, every promise of a return date. - Decide what you actually want: completion by a date, a refund of specific amounts, or both. ## The outline - Heading: your name and address, the company’s legal name and address, the date, the contract number. Mine would cite Sales Order Contract ODR-001094. - One sentence stating the purpose: notice that the company is not performing under the contract. - The facts in order, each with a date and, where possible, a document: signed, paid, footings failed, poured, crew arrived, work stopped, payment requested. - The contract terms involved, quoted briefly: the completion payment “due upon building completion,” the final-inspection correction clause, the lift agreement by text. - What you require and by when: a crew on site by a date, a completion date, correction of specific items, return of specific amounts. - What you will do if that does not happen, stated plainly and without threats: pursue the remedies available to you, including filing with the licensing board and the Attorney General and seeking legal advice. - A reservation of rights, which your attorney will word. - A list of enclosures: photos, the Balance Breakdown, the texts. ## Tone Write it as if it will be read aloud to a judge who has never met either of you, because it may be. No adjectives about the company, no insults, no all-caps. Dates and documents do the work. The angrier the situation, the calmer the letter. ## How to send it Certified mail with return receipt to the address on the contract, plus email to every address the company has used with you. Keep the receipt, the tracking page and the sent email. Note the date it was delivered on your timeline. ## What not to do - Do not make legal conclusions you cannot support, such as calling the company unlicensed before the licensing board has confirmed it. - Do not threaten anything you would not do. - Do not negotiate by text afterward without keeping the thread. - Do not send another payment while the letter is outstanding without advice. ## Why a customer wrote this In February 2026 I signed a $98,750 contract with L&G Building & Concrete of Asheboro, North Carolina. By September I had a cracked slab, damaged plumbing and half a steel frame. This site documents it, with the contract, photos, texts and public records. The resources exist so the next buyer does not need to learn the same things the same way. The full sequence when work stops Where to file How this site invites the company’s reply General information from one customer’s experience and research. Not legal, engineering or financial advice. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/resources/how-to-file-nclbgc-complaint/ # Filing with the North Carolina Licensing Board for General Contractors The board cannot get your money back. It can answer the question my contract never did, in writing, and that answer carries weight everywhere else you go. ## Where this comes from My project record The North Carolina Licensing Board for General Contractors licenses and disciplines general contractors and investigates unlicensed contracting on projects at or above $40,000. I have asked it to confirm, in writing, the license status of L&G Building & Concrete for my project. Here is how a customer uses the board. - ### Check the threshold The board accepts complaints against licensed contractors, and complaints about unlicensed contracting when the contract is $40,000 or more. A metal building with a slab is almost always over. Mine was $98,750. - ### Search the license first Use the board’s license search for the company’s legal name, any other name on the paperwork and the owner’s name. Note what you find, including nothing. Your complaint should say what you searched. - ### Gather the contract and the payment trail The board will want to see who contracted to do what, for how much, and who got paid. The contract, the Balance Breakdown, wire confirmations and invoices. The question of whether the company “undertook” the project turns on documents like these. - ### Include the permit facts Who pulled the permit, what affidavit was signed, who requested inspections. If the county file shows the company’s staff calling inspections on an owner permit, say so and attach it. - ### File through the board’s complaints page nclbgc.org/complaints has the form and instructions. The board’s phone number is (919) 571-4183 and its complaints address is complaints@nclbgc.org. Keep a copy of everything you send. - ### Know what happens next The board can investigate, discipline a licensee, and seek court orders against unlicensed contracting. It does not award damages or order completion. What it gives you is a finding, and a finding from the board is the kind of document an attorney, a judge or the Attorney General’s office takes seriously. ## Questions this raises Does the licensing board handle concrete-only contractors? A concrete contractor doing only concrete under $40,000 may fall outside the general contractor license requirement. On a combined building-and-slab contract the total controls, and the board generally treats work on the same property at the same time as one project. Will filing with the board slow down my own lawsuit or settlement? That is a question for a North Carolina construction attorney, and one to ask before you file either. ## Why a customer wrote this In February 2026 I signed a $98,750 contract with L&G Building & Concrete of Asheboro, North Carolina. By September I had a cracked slab, damaged plumbing and half a steel frame. This site documents it, with the contract, photos, texts and public records. The resources exist so the next buyer does not need to learn the same things the same way. The $40,000 rule All the places to file in NC License status: still checking General information from one customer’s experience and research. Not legal, engineering or financial advice. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/resources/telehandler-rental-metal-building/ # The telehandler: what to rent, for how long, and who eats the days the crew does not show On my order form the lift was a $0 line that said “customer provided.” It turned into the most expensive sentence in the contract. ## Where this comes from My project record A telehandler is a telescopic forklift that raises trusses and panels to the crew. L&G’s terms say buildings 13 feet or taller, or wider than 30 feet, may need one because of the truss weight, and that a customer-provided lift must be available for one week unless otherwise specified. ## What “7k” means and what it costs The 7k refers to a machine rated for roughly 7,000 pounds of lift. Mine was listed as a 7k telehandler, customer provided. A one-week rental cost me $2,000, paid up front. Delivery and pickup, fuel and a damage waiver are often extra. Local rental yards around Hickory and Statesville will quote by the week; the number is close enough across them that the machine is not where the risk is. ## Where the risk is: the calendar The rental week starts when the machine is dropped, not when the crew arrives. My building was set for Saturday, August 29, and I had been told to have the lift there the day before. Two days ahead, L&G moved the crew to “Monday at latest.” The crew arrived Thursday, September 3. The texts on this site show L&G agreeing beforehand that if the crew needed the lift beyond my week, “it runs through us.” After half the frame was up I was told a different machine was needed. L&G has not supplied one. ## How to write the lift into the contract - Name the machine: capacity, reach, and who specifies it. - Name the days: the rental period begins on the crew’s confirmed arrival date, not before. - Name the delay rule: if the crew misses its date, the seller reimburses rental days lost or supplies the machine. - Name the overrun rule: if the crew needs the lift beyond the contract period, the seller supplies it at the seller’s cost. - Name the equipment rule: if the crew needs a different or larger machine than the contract specifies, that is the seller’s cost. - Put all of it on the order form or an addendum, signed. A text thread, even a clear one, is a worse place to keep a promise than a contract. ## Or let the seller supply it Some sellers price the lift into the job. It will cost more than a bare rental, and it moves the calendar risk to the party that controls the calendar. After my experience I would pay for that. ## Why a customer wrote this In February 2026 I signed a $98,750 contract with L&G Building & Concrete of Asheboro, North Carolina. By September I had a cracked slab, damaged plumbing and half a steel frame. This site documents it, with the contract, photos, texts and public records. The resources exist so the next buyer does not need to learn the same things the same way. The texts, word for word The lift clause Glossary General information from one customer’s experience and research. Not legal, engineering or financial advice. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/resources/contractor-damaged-plumbing-during-construction/ # When the crew damages the plumbing coming through your slab My stub-ups were straight in April and leaning, scuffed and gouged in September, with tire tracks around them. The contract I signed says that is my problem. Here is how I am handling it anyway. ## Where this comes from My project record Plumbing that comes up through a slab is the most exposed thing on a job site once the concrete is down. Crews move steel and equipment across it for days. If you did not photograph it before, do it now; if you did, as I did in photo P-01, you have the “before” that makes everything else possible. P-06 A capped PVC pipe where it comes up through the slab. It is leaning, with black scuff marks and gouges up one side. September 2026, during frame installation . Notes on this photo - ### Photograph everything the day you find it Each pipe from two angles, with a tape, with the slab and any tread marks in frame, and a wide shot that shows where on the pad it is. Date the photos. Mine are P-06 through P-08 on this site. - ### Pull your before photos Any pre-pour photo that shows the stub-ups standing straight. The comparison is the evidence. If you have none, ask the county whether its under-slab or slab inspection included photos. - ### Notify the company in writing that day What you found, when, with the photos attached, and a request that they tell you what happened and how they will make it right. Keep it factual: “I found the stub-ups in this condition this morning after your crew worked here yesterday.” - ### Get a plumber to assess below the slab A pipe leaning at the surface can be cracked at the joint below. A plumber can camera or pressure test it and give you a written finding and a repair estimate. That estimate is what turns the photos into a number. - ### Read the clause before you argue My terms have the customer indemnify L&G for damage to pipes and lines during construction. Whether that clause reaches plainly visible above-slab plumbing damaged by the installer is a question for an attorney. Know what your contract says before the conversation with the company, so you are not surprised by it. - ### Ask for the installer’s insurance If the installer is a separate company, its general liability policy is the one that would respond. Ask for the certificate. If the seller will not produce it, note that too. ## Why a customer wrote this In February 2026 I signed a $98,750 contract with L&G Building & Concrete of Asheboro, North Carolina. By September I had a cracked slab, damaged plumbing and half a steel frame. This site documents it, with the contract, photos, texts and public records. The resources exist so the next buyer does not need to learn the same things the same way. The hold-harmless clause The stub-ups before the pour Documenting the project General information from one customer’s experience and research. Not legal, engineering or financial advice. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/resources/daily-construction-log-and-evidence-manifest-templates/ # Two templates: a daily log and an evidence manifest The two documents I most wish I had kept from day one. Both fit in a notes app. Both take two minutes a day. ## Where this comes from My project record Everything on this site that has a date and a document behind it came from records like these. Everything that says “date being confirmed” is a day I did not write down. Use the templates; adapt the columns. ## Daily log One line per day the project is active, including days nothing happens. Nothing happening is a fact worth recording when a crew is late. - Date - Who was on site (company, how many, names if given) - Equipment on site (yours, theirs, rented, and who is paying for it) - What was done, in one sentence - What was said: any promise, date or instruction, and by whom - What you paid or were asked to pay - Photos taken (file names or IDs) - Open issues carried to tomorrow ## Example entries - Aug 27: No crew. Text from L&G contact 8:29 AM: crews behind, lift will be there “Monday at latest.” Install had been set for Sat Aug 29. Lift rental confirmed for delivery Fri. - Sep 3: Crew arrived AM, started standing frame. Telehandler on site (mine, day 6 of 7). Photos P-04, P-05. - Sep 4: Crew on site. Found stub-ups leaning and gouged, tread marks on slab. Photos P-06 to P-08. Texted company with photos. ## Evidence manifest One row per document, photo or message. Add rows as things arrive; never renumber. - ID (P-01, M-01, C-01: photos, messages, contract documents) - File name as stored - Date created, and how you know (EXIF, time stamp, postmark) - Source (your phone, the company, the county, the bank) - What it shows, in one neutral sentence - Public or private (bank details and addresses stay private) - Which claim or timeline entry it supports ## Rules that keep both useful - Write what happened, not what you think of it. The opinions go somewhere else. - Never edit an old entry; add a new one that corrects it. - Back both up somewhere that is not your phone. - When you hand the folder to an attorney or the licensing board, the manifest is the first page and the log is the second. ## Why a customer wrote this In February 2026 I signed a $98,750 contract with L&G Building & Concrete of Asheboro, North Carolina. By September I had a cracked slab, damaged plumbing and half a steel frame. This site documents it, with the contract, photos, texts and public records. The resources exist so the next buyer does not need to learn the same things the same way. Documenting the project How this site is sourced The log, turned into a timeline General information from one customer’s experience and research. Not legal, engineering or financial advice. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/resources/buying-a-metal-building-from-an-out-of-area-company/ # When the metal building company is a hundred miles from your lot Metal building companies sell across whole states. Counties inspect one at a time. The gap between those two facts is where my project fell. ## Where this comes from My project record L&G’s office is on East Salisbury Street in Asheboro. My project is in Alexander County, roughly a hundred miles west, with a Hickory mailing address. The company advertises packages well beyond North Carolina. None of that is unusual in this industry, and none of it is a problem by itself. It does change what you need to check. ## The seller will not know your county A company working a multi-state territory cannot know that a Hickory address can be in four counties, that Mooresville split from Iredell permitting in 2023, or that Wilkes wants you at Environmental Health before anyone else. My order form said “Hickory, NC.” My permit is in Taylorsville. When the contract makes the permit your job, the seller’s unfamiliarity becomes your risk. ## Crews travel, and travel decides the schedule A crew based two hours away comes when it has a run of jobs in your direction. That is why “crews are still behind” arrives by text two days before your date. It is also why a one-week lift rental is the wrong unit: the week starts on your calendar and the crew arrives on theirs. ## Coming back costs them more than it costs you A punch list, a failed inspection or a damaged pipe is a four-hour round trip for a distant company. The incentive to come back is weaker, and the contract I signed has no date by which they must. The final-inspection correction clause is only as good as the crew’s willingness to drive. ## Questions for a distant seller - Which office will permit my lot, by name? If they do not know, that is the answer. - Where is the crew based, and how many other jobs are on the same run? - If you miss the date, who pays for my equipment rental? - How many days after a failed inspection will a crew be back, in writing? - Who locally can I call: a foreman, a subcontractor, anyone within an hour? - Will you supply the lift so the schedule risk stays with you? ## The alternative Buy the building kit from whoever you like, and hire a licensed local general contractor or concrete contractor to do the foundation and, if possible, the erection. You lose the one-price convenience. You gain someone whose license, insurance and reputation live in your county. ## Why a customer wrote this In February 2026 I signed a $98,750 contract with L&G Building & Concrete of Asheboro, North Carolina. By September I had a cracked slab, damaged plumbing and half a steel frame. This site documents it, with the contract, photos, texts and public records. The resources exist so the next buyer does not need to learn the same things the same way. Permit offices by county Hickory: four counties, one address format The lift and the calendar General information from one customer’s experience and research. Not legal, engineering or financial advice. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/resources/how-to-read-a-metal-building-quote/ # How to read a metal building quote, line by line My order form has thirty lines, a discount bigger than a car, and a $0 line that cost me $2,000 and a dispute. Here is how to read one. ## Where this comes from My project record Metal building quotes are built from a configurator: pick a size, add options, apply a discount. The result looks precise. The precision is in the options list; the risk is in what the list leaves out. ## Start at the bottom My line items total $92,182.50. A single line, “Manufacturer Discount,” removes $41,631.50. The building total is $50,551. The discount is a pricing convention, not a bargain; compare bottom lines between sellers for the same size, height, gauge, roof style and certification, and ignore the size of anyone’s discount. ## Find the structure lines Base building ($36,300 at list for my 50×80, 14 gauge, vertical roof, 3/12 pitch). Height ($8,400 for 16-foot legs). Closed ends and sides ($9,420 and $8,060). Lean-tos with their own height, gables and side walls (about $18,350 for my two). These are the lines that decide what you are getting; everything else is detail. ## Openings are not doors My order has ten garage-door frame-outs, priced $400 to $600 each, and two walk-in doors. A frame-out is the framed hole. The roll-up door that goes in it is not on my order at all. Ask what every “frame-out” line will cost to fill. ## Read every $0 line as a cost “7k Telehandler Lift (customer Provided), $0.” “Other Certification, $0.” “Soffit, wainscot, J-trim, ladder-leg baserail, FREE.” The lift was $2,000 of rental and the center of my dispute. Zero on a quote means the seller is not charging for it, not that it is free. ## Look for the sales tax line Mine says none charged. The packet includes a North Carolina capital-improvement affidavit, which is the tax paperwork for treating the job as a real property contract. Understand what you are signing there; it describes the work as performed by a real property contractor. ## Five things a quote should have and mine did not - A license number. - A delivery date for engineered plans and a start window for construction. - Who supplies the lift and for how long, priced. - The concrete specification on the same page as the building, with the foundation sheet referenced. - A completion date and what happens if it is missed. ## Why a customer wrote this In February 2026 I signed a $98,750 contract with L&G Building & Concrete of Asheboro, North Carolina. By September I had a cracked slab, damaged plumbing and half a steel frame. This site documents it, with the contract, photos, texts and public records. The resources exist so the next buyer does not need to learn the same things the same way. My order, every line What a metal building costs in NC Glossary General information from one customer’s experience and research. Not legal, engineering or financial advice. --- URL: https://lgbuildingandconcretereview.com/resources/nc-secretary-of-state-business-search-contractor/ # Looking up a contractor on the North Carolina Secretary of State site The company name on the truck, the name on the contract and the name on the state’s books are three different things more often than you would think. Check all three match before money moves. ## Where this comes from My project record The Secretary of State search is free and takes a minute. It will not tell you whether a company does good work. It tells you whether the entity you are about to pay exists, how long it has, and who stands behind it on paper. - ### Search the exact name on the contract Mine reads L & G Building and Concrete LLC. Search that, then variations without the spaces and ampersand, then the DBA names you have seen. BBB lists an alternate name for L&G and a related company at the same address. - ### Check status and dates Current-active is what you want to see. Note the formation date. BBB shows L&G as incorporated January 12, 2017. A company formed last month, or one that has been administratively dissolved and reinstated, deserves more questions. - ### Note the registered agent and principal office The registered agent is who gets served with legal papers. The principal office address should match the contract. If the contract address is a different company’s, ask why. - ### Open the annual reports Annual reports list the company’s officers or managers as filed. This is where roles get confirmed. On this site I do not publish anyone as an owner or manager unless a filing or another reliable source says so; the reports are how I check. - ### Search the people Search the names of the principals you have been given as the name of a company officer. Related entities under the same people, at the same address, tell you who you are really dealing with and whether one has a license that another does not. - ### Save PDFs of what you find Filings change. A dated copy of the status page and the latest annual report goes in your evidence folder next to the contract. ## Questions this raises What did you find about L&G Building & Concrete? As of the last update, the corporate-records review is on my open list and I have not published roles beyond what BBB lists: Santos Garcia as owner, Michel Recendez as marketing manager, and David Cosme Lopez without a title. When the Secretary of State filings are pulled, what they show will go on the public records page. ## Why a customer wrote this In February 2026 I signed a $98,750 contract with L&G Building & Concrete of Asheboro, North Carolina. By September I had a cracked slab, damaged plumbing and half a steel frame. This site documents it, with the contract, photos, texts and public records. The resources exist so the next buyer does not need to learn the same things the same way. Public records so far Verify the license Why this site does not publish unverified roles General information from one customer’s experience and research. Not legal, engineering or financial advice.