Auto shops & service bays

Service-bay metal — from a quick-lube pit to a collision campus.

LoTec, Inc. has designed, fabricated, and installed structural and miscellaneous steel for over 30 years. Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, we deliver projects nationwide and internationally — hundreds of completed jobs across 40+ U.S. states. The company was built on industrial turbine and low-noise systems. That engineering standard is what general contractors get on commercial work.

LoTec is committed to complete customer satisfaction through the quality of our products, engineering, and service. Whether the project is a remodel or work at an existing site, the requirement does not change: efficient, cost-effective fabrication in complete compliance with the specifications, and quality that meets or exceeds what the drawings call for. Bonded and insured.

A service bay is not a parts store. LoTec’s automotive work is in the pit, the platform, the wheel guard, and the ladder that the technicians use every shift. LoTec partners with the GC so that steel is delivered on schedule, so contractors can stay on track.

Neighborhood quick-lube bays, dealership remodels, and larger collision or training campuses use the same fabricator. On a lube shop the work we’re tasked with is usually the pit: stairs, service platform, wheel guards, and the guardrail at the pit ladder. Collision and training buildings more often take rooftop exhaust penetrations, embedments, and bollards. A dealership remodel can be the column-and-beam frame only.

Metal we typically take in a service bay

METAL FABRICATION

  • Shelf angles at masonry or bay openings
  • Pipe wheel guards
  • Pit openings and related pit metal
  • Bay, roof, and pit ladders
  • Site bollards
  • Dumpster and personnel gates

RAILINGS & STAIRS

  • Guardrail with gate at pit ladders
  • Pit stairs and stairs to service platforms

STRUCTURAL STEEL

  • Pipe columns with beams
  • Service platforms

Request a metal bid

Send the drawings. LoTec will scope the steel and miscellaneous metal. We can further coordinate with the other trades. Bonded and insured.

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