Ceres Pipe & Metal

I love places like this. Local, authentic, and a little gritty. I worked with two of their sales reps and someone in the yard for a recent project and all three were knowledgeable, friendly and attentive. I suspect they mostly work with contractors and other professionals, but as end user I still received good service. They have a wide range of products and their prices are reasonable (although anything metal is relatively expensive). There is a rust-​for-​less yard with discounted pieces.
Tip: they close noon-​1pm for lunch, so plan ahead.

These people are super friendly and helpful, there prices are cheaper than other comparable steel suppliers, especially the «rust for less» section. I always go here when I don’t want the HASSLE of going to the other people who are usually and ordeal for me,

Modesto Steel or any other place is better than this company. The prices are the same as others but lets just say when you walk in and walk up to the counter you have to wait till the 6 guys (high school kids with no educations) play rock, papers, scissors to see whos gonna get up and off the computer to help you. most of them know nothing about steel or pipe or any metal for that matter. try going in and asking for 20 feet of 1 inch x ¾ inch flatbar and watch the dumbfounded look you get from the employee. take an example of the metal you want so they can know what you want; oh and tell them to make sure they have it in stock cause most of the time they’ll ring you up and charge you and then you go out to the lot and they don’t have the metal you just paid for. the funny thing to top it off is they have some poor employee lifting all this steel by hand all day and cutting it with a torch to the measurements you want. pay the extra 50 cents and go to Modesto Steel. The company I work for won’t do business because of these reasons anymore. I’ve gone here several times and every time is the same.