Bradley County · Chattanooga area
Metal buildings in Cleveland, TN.
We supply shops, garages, barns, barndominium shells and more across Cleveland and Bradley County. Our work reaches from Ooltewah to Charleston and the farm ground toward Georgia, and anywhere else you’re building. Cleveland’s zoning allows accessory buildings in every district except downtown, as long as the use is allowed there.
Accessory buildings
All districts but downtown
State residential code
Houses, not shops
Farm buildings
Exempt from state minimums
Permits
Confirmed by address
Inside Cleveland, the city’s rules apply. On unincorporated Bradley County ground, we confirm the county’s requirements for your parcel.
What people build around Cleveland
Neighborhoods ring the city, and farm ground and acreage stretch across the rest of Bradley County.
Detached garages
Garages on city lots are sized around the house and the setbacks.
Acreage shops
Tubular is hard to beat on an unfinished shop up to sixty feet wide.
Farm buildings
Hay barns and equipment storage serve the farms across the county. Past eighty feet, red iron takes over.
Finished space
Steel truss takes drywall directly, so there’s no wood wall to build inside the steel.
We also work in cold-formed steel. See what a steel building costs.
Permitting metal buildings in Cleveland and Bradley County
Tennessee leaves most of the rules for shops and farm buildings to cities and counties.
Inside Cleveland
- Accessory structures are allowed in every zoning district except the central business district.
- The building’s use has to be one the district allows.
- We confirm the permit requirements and setbacks for your lot with the city before drawings.
Unincorporated Bradley County
- Tennessee’s statewide residential program covers new houses, not detached garages or outbuildings.
- Non-residential farm buildings are exempt from the state’s minimum building standards.
- We confirm the county’s requirements for your parcel.
Engineering
- We design to the wind, snow and seismic loads at your address using the ASCE 7 hazard tool.
- Our generic engineering packages are wet-sealed, and occupied buildings are Risk Category II.
The use comes first. In Cleveland, an accessory building has to serve a use the zoning district allows. A personal shop behind a house is one thing, and a business run out of it is another, so tell us how you’ll use the building and we’ll check it against your lot’s zoning.
We also serve Charleston, McDonald, Georgetown, Ooltewah and the farm ground between them. See the Chattanooga area or all of Tennessee.
Start with a conversation
Let’s talk about your Cleveland project.
Tell us what you’re planning and where you’re building. We’ll help you work out the next steps.
- Tell us what and whereSend us the size, how you’ll use the building and the address.
- We check the siteWe confirm who permits the address and which code and loads apply.
- You get a clear recommendationWe recommend the frame that fits and price it against the alternatives.
Or call
417-218-8348