🔧 Skilled Trades & Blue Collar: 9 Businesses For Sale 🔧
Welcome to the first stop in our new industry vertical series. Private equity has spent five years rolling up HVAC, plumbing, and fabrication for one reason: essential work, sticky customers, and margins that do not care about the news cycle. This issue puts every trades and construction deal in our 68-deal pipeline in one place, from a $450K cash flow welding shop to a steel fabricator with real estate included. Reply to this email with the deal number(s) and we will send you the details.
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In this week's issue:
⚡ Featured: Stainless Steel Welding & Fabrication (Rutherfordton, NC) - $450K cash flow at a 37% margin
🌲 Featured: Timber & Sawmill Operation (New Straitsville, OH) - priced at appraisal with a built-in expansion project
🔧 7 more trades and construction deals including a CVT clutch shop with a waiting list and a steel fabricator with real estate included
📅 What to Watch: August 2026
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#45 - Stainless Steel Welding & Fabrication Shop
📍 Location: Rutherfordton, NC 🏷️ Asking Price: Negotiable 🆔 Business ID: Confidential 💰 Cash Flow: $450,000 📈 Gross Revenue: $1,200,000 📊 Business Type: Specialty Stainless Steel Welding / Fabrication 🏠 Ownership: Owner Operated 🔥 37% Cash Flow Margin! | No Anchor Price! | Retirement Sale!
✅ Key Highlights:
• $450,000 in cash flow on $1,200,000 in revenue is a 37% margin, exceptional for a fabrication shop and evidence of specialized, higher-value work.
• Stainless steel work serves food processing, pharmaceutical, and sanitary industries, clients who cannot substitute on quality.
• The owner named no fixed number, which puts a prepared buyer in control of structuring the conversation.
• Up-to-date financials are available on a retirement-driven 3-6 month timeline.
🚀 Growth Opportunities:
• Fabrication shops with this margin profile become platform acquisitions; add estimators and welders and the book of business scales.
• Seller has signaled openness to discussing financing structure.
📌 Summary:
A specialty trades business earning software-adjacent margins with a retiring owner and no anchor price. For a buyer who knows how to value a shop like this, the opening is right now.
🔒 Confidentiality: Financials available upon NDA.
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#50 - Timber & Sawmill Operation
📍 Location: New Straitsville, OH 🏷️ Asking Price: $1,975,000 (appraisal value) 🆔 Business ID: Confidential 💰 Cash Flow: $300,000 (5-year average) 📈 Gross Revenue: $1,500,000 (5-year average) 📊 Business Type: Timber / Construction Materials Manufacturing 🏠 Ownership: Owner Operated 🔥 Priced At Appraisal! | Land and Equipment Included! | Biochar Project Ready to Go!
✅ Key Highlights:
• The $1,975,000 ask is the appraised value, not a hope number. Asset-heavy deals priced at appraisal give lenders something concrete to underwrite.
• $1.5M average revenue and $300K average cash flow across five years demonstrates consistency through multiple market cycles.
• The owner has a biochar project underway that he says is bigger than he can take on at his age. The growth plan comes with the keys.
• ASAP timeline from a motivated seller who wants a clean, fast process.
🚀 Growth Opportunities:
• Biochar and specialty wood products command premiums over commodity lumber; the groundwork is already laid.
• Construction materials demand in Appalachian Ohio remains steady with limited local competition.
📌 Summary:
A durable, asset-backed operation where the seller's constraint is age, not the business. The buyer who executes the expansion the owner already mapped gets paid twice.
🔒 Confidentiality: Financials shared during diligence.
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📅 What to Watch: August 2026
• The Trades Premium Is Widening. Consolidators keep paying up for HVAC, electrical, and fabrication platforms with $500K+ in cash flow. Deals #45 and #48 sit exactly in that strike zone; individual buyers who move before the platforms find them get better pricing.
• Lenders Like Steel and Dirt. Asset-heavy trades deals with equipment, real estate, or appraisals attached (like #10 and #50 below) underwrite more smoothly because collateral backstops the loan. If your buy box is trades, your financing conversation is easier than you think.
• Q4 Closings Start Now. A typical SBA acquisition runs 60-90 days from LOI to close. LOIs signed in August become businesses owned by Thanksgiving.
🕵🏼♀️ Direct-From-Owner Pipeline: Trades & Construction
Every listing below came straight through our seller intake. These owners contacted us directly; none of these are broker listings. Figures are owner-reported and verified during diligence. Reply with the deal number(s) to request an introduction.
🏭 Manufacturing & Fabrication
#9 - CVT Clutch Repair & Modification Shop
📍 Weston, West Virginia (95% ship-in / ship-out, relocatable)
🏷️ Asking: $2,500,000 | 💰 ~50% pre-tax margin | 📈 Revenue: $850,000 - $1,000,000
📝 Single-operator motorsports niche with a standing backlog and customer waiting list. Owner retiring; believes this is easily a $2M-$3M business with staff added.
#10 - Structural Steel Fabrication & Erection Company
📍 Massachusetts
🏷️ Asking: $3,000,000 (includes real estate) | 💰 Cash Flow: $250,000 | 📈 Revenue: $2,000,000
📝 Miscellaneous steel construction products with property included. Retirement sale, open to seller financing.
#11 - Custom Wood & Metal Fabrication Studio
📍 Denver, Colorado
🏷️ Asking: $700,000 | 📈 Revenue: $1,300,000
📝 Design-driven fabrication shop. Owner has other ventures pulling him away and wants a fast, clean exit; open to seller financing.
#14 - Specialty Electrical Connector Supplier
📍 Baton Rouge, Louisiana
🏷️ Asking: $300,000 | 💰 Cash Flow: $125,000 | 📈 Revenue: $650,000
📝 Niche electrical connector business at under 2.5x cash flow. Owner is 78 and ready to retire ASAP.
🏠 Construction & Home Services
#24 - Residential Construction & Remodeling Company
📍 Ohio
🏷️ Asking: $565,000 | 💰 Cash Flow: $250,000 | 📈 Revenue: $500,000
📝 Renovation contractor at 2.3x cash flow. Retirement sale, ready ASAP, open to seller financing.
#25 - Residential Garage Renovation Company
📍 Buffalo, New York
🏷️ Asking: $1,000,000 | 💰 Cash Flow: $63,048 | 📈 Revenue: $1,150,000
📝 Focused garage renovation brand with a seven-figure top line. Retirement sale, open to seller financing.
#68 - Exterior Construction & Remodeling Company
📍 Wichita, Kansas
🏷️ Asking: $500,000 | 💰 SDE: $100,000 | 📈 Revenue: $400,000
📝 New to the pipeline this week. Established exteriors contractor; owner is burned out and wants out ASAP, open to seller financing.
🤌🏼 Learnings Of The Week
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Next in the vertical series, Friday: Automotive & Transport, eight deals from a $150K used auto exchange to a two-location tire and repair group.
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