Bayshore Metals

Great place with a great selection. Nice folks, fast service. Not cheap, but that’s just the deal with metal. Highly recommended.

My day job when I’m not doing the professor thing is a handy person/​bldg maintenance for a Rainbow Grocery. I’ve often had to order work with Bayshore metal. The office staff and warehouse workers are top notch. Super helpful and friendly. Good selection of metal as well.

This place is awesome. Looks small from the outside, then you walk inside and its a long warehouse with every imaginable shape and size of stock you can imagine: cold rolled steel, stainless, various types of aluminum, you name it. The photos don’t really do it justice, I wish I had had the presence of mind to take some better ones. They have everything from thin, narrow bars, all the way up to huge, 20′ I-​beams and everything in between, and huge, impressive, industrial equipment to cut anything and everything on-​site. There is a small fee for cuts; I needed a dozen cuts or so and it was an additional $ 15. The alternative was driving much further or ordering online and paying for shipping, so it didn’t really bother me. Be warned you do have to buy the whole piece; they come in 12′ and 20′ lengths depending on the stock.
Other reviewers said there is a $ 50 minimum: this is false. If you pay with credit card, they have a $ 25 minimum, cash no minimum. They are a little pricier than Campbell Metal Supply which charges by the pound, but I live in the city and didn’t want to drive 90 miles round trip; plus I’ve read that Campbell has a no-​sell list and they aren’t friendly to people who aren’t pros/​commercial and buy regularly in volume.
The staff at Bayshore is very friendly, knowledgeable and helpful. I just had a small project to reinforce my wife’s desk; it’s about an inch of MDF on top of a ³⁄₁₆ inch frame of powder coating carbon steel with ¹⁄₈ inch of the same material for legs. She had put a bunch of heavy books on it for over year to make an ad hoc standing desk, and it eventually caused the middle of the desk, MDF and metal, to visibly sag about half an inch. I decided to reinforce it with aluminum; originally was going to use stainless, but that was much more expensive. I showed up at the very end of their hours, just before 4. I ended up getting aluminum plus a little bit of stainless to back it up because the aluminum pieces flexed more than I realized they would. No one ever complained about me showing up late. I apologized several times and they were totally cool about it. I ordered what I needed and they cut it on the spot. I asked about lubrication of cobalt bits for drilling into the material, and they just straight up gave me a home-​made bottle of machine lubricant they had mixed up as a bonus.
I can’t speak highly enough of these guys based on my experience.

Bayshore Metals is now a Certified DBE business how great is that!!! Not only do they have a great selection of materials and great service, I now get credit towards my Project’s DBE requirement.

Great place for ANYTHING. Tube, Bar, Mesh, you name it. I do a lot of auto reconstruction and these always have the materials at a price that keeps the project in budget. GREAT scrap bin thats CHEAP. CNC cutting, drilling, comes in really handy when the material is over .25″ thick. GOOD crew two thumbs up

they can’t open past 4pm,
so I’ll be waiting outside till my truck driver gets off work at 5pm
good people good prices

Went here the other day to pick up some steel for a custom fabrication project. Place is just off the 101 freeway very easily accessible location. I was in search of square tubing and angle iron. They have an EXTENSIVE selection of all kinds of material neatly and visibly organized inside warehouse. Material is only sold in 20′ foot lengths. They will provide cutting for a charge, and there is an on site welder/​fabricator setup inside as a separate business. Friendly staff willing to walk the yard as you select your product or fulfill an order if you already know what you need. I will definitely be back for future metal fabrication projects. Overall a good experience especially considering I’m the DIY type and not in the industry.
The negative reviews seem to be in the wrong place as «Ricardo’s Fabricatin/​welding» is a separate business from Bayshore.

I just joined Tech Shop in San Francisco and wanted to make a custom rim mount for my vintage rim. The employees there recommended Bayshore Metals. I arrived this morning and was met by a nice gentleman at the from desk. I explained what I wanted to build and had drawn out what I needed to make it. I gave him my template and he said they would call me when the circular flat plates were cut. He then told me he only sold 20 foot long aware tubing. My heart sunk, sine I needed only a 4 inch piece of 3×3. He then suggested I walk around the yard to see if I could find any scrap pieces of 3×3 tubing. I walked out of the office and walked around to the back of the shop. There before my eyes was a scrap piece of 3×3. I grabbed it and went inside to pay for my purchase.
The employees were very nice, smiled when they saw me and were extremely helpful. I am by no means any kind of builder or contractor. Just your average guy who walked in to a store to buy something they had. I would recomed them to anyone who is looking for metals for their project.

If I could give them zero stars, I would. I called yesterday to get a quote on a very simple procedure — cutting a backsplash for my kitchen. The guy said he’d come over, cut it and install it for $ 25, which was great — I thought. He said he’d come over between 3−4pm, then called after he was already over an hour late and said it’d be closer to 6:30 — 6:45pm. He called again at 8:30pm to say he wouldn’t be able to make it at all.
He was speaking to rapidly but not making a whole lot of sense, so I handed the phone to my husband, who was convinced the guy was on drugs. First he said he’d be here today in the afternoon; when my husband asked what time he said he’d be here at 10:30. Of course he never showed up. Big surprise.
My advice: take your business anywhere else but here.

WOW, i have been buying my steel from Bayshore for 2 years.
Today i placed an order, the same order i placed 3 months ago.
The first time they priced the material, cuts, and the brakes at $ 250 give or take, this time it was $ 600. I asked why the vast change in pricing, he started acting like a little boy that just got caught, he did not know i had ordered in the past. He then told me well it is very expensive to shear cut metal.
This was 20GA Sheet cut in to 5 sections.
This sucks, but I’m driving to Oakland from now on, and that sucks, another small biz getting Fed by greedy AH

If you are not professional and need steel for a small project this is a safe place to go, very friendly people work there. I came there when they were closing and they were so nice to help me out with my small order for well below $ 50.

Very helpful so far… no work done yet. Will update when the project is done.

They have a $ 50 or $ 100 minimum.
As long as you can meet that, you will be treated as kindly as you could possibly expect a huge metal yard to treat you.
They have all metals at almost all gauges and specifications.
They take down your order and the men in back will employ their well maintained and modern saws and tools to fabricate EXACTLY what you want.
As a metal supply shop, they typically deal with welders and professionals who know what they need to know.
BUT they will indeed take the time to explain different grades and different treated metals and alloys, allowing you a more informed option set.
They have handy size and price charts to make phone ordering very easy.
Also they aren’t sticklers on terminology, if you know what you want and can describe it — they won’t treat you like a dummy because you didn’t know the term «cold rolled» or whatever.
I love this place — they will also load the metal onto your vehicle for you and make sure that you have proper safety equipment and knowledge when handling the metal.
Five stars all the way.