General Shelters: because YOUR building matters!

Category: Cabin Designs

  • We needed a mule to get the Guest House to its home

    As we have discussed before, there are a lot of factors that must be considered when evaluating suitability of placement on site. Width of entrance, width along route, ground conditions, and ability to extract the rig and trailer after unloading the structure. This is done during the Site Inspection.

    While the proper clearances were available for the truck and trailer, it was tight enough that using the mule made a lot of sense. Fortunately, the Guest House is a small unit that can be moved by the mule. Two sets of tires are positioned under the outtermost skids, and the mule grapples the opposite end of the cabin. Remote controlled, the mule is guided precisely along the path, making discreet turns when necessary.

    As one may see in the accompanying video from our YouTube page (smash those Like and Subscribe buttons!), Ken from Prestige Transport was able to place the cabin to the inch of the marked location!

    No voiceover or AI narration, just six minutes of raw video peppered with on-screen comments.

    The entire process of loading, delivering, blocking and levelling took about three hours. Enjoy the video!

    Please call or email us with any questions you may have, and if you are in the area make plans on stopping by to tour the cabins we have on location and available for sale.

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  • Check out this Promotional Video by General Shelters

    General Shelters has a lot to talk about, but sometimes pictures are worth thousands and thousands of words.

    Take this promotional video, for example.  Chock full of pictures submitted by customers, and featuring pictures of staged buildings, nothing tells the story of the coziness and quaintness of Genera Shelters’ cabins like seeing them in full color.  Rustic and individualized, General Shelters offers flexibility and durability to your building.

    Take four or so minutes and enjoy this overview!

  • Modular Buildings vs Portable Pier-and-Beam Buildings

    When being introduced to General Shelters buildings, a common question we are asked is if they are modular buildings.  This makes sense, in that they are manufactured elsewhere and brought to the installation site, same as General Shelters buildings.

    While they share this similarity, there is a larger, major difference,  While modular buildings are manufactured elsewhere, brought to the installation site, and then joined together, General Shelters buildings are brought roll-off-ready.  There is no crew or assembly required post-delivery.

    This turn-key approach is what makes General Shelters buildings fairly unique in the industry.  A follow up crew will visit the building to tie down anything that may have shaken loose during transport, if necessary. The simplicity of this one and done approach brings down costs, especially when the site is remote.

    Like everything else, there are exceptions.  For General Shelters, the exception is that customers can order buildings to join together for larger areas.  This would all be done post-delivery by the customer’s own contractor.  Below is an example of a skilled contractor adding a room and bathroom to a custom Maverick we delivered last year.

    While not a weekend project, the process is fairly straighforward.

    Please visit us at Trees of Central Texas, meet our design team, and see what we have immediately available for you!

  • Custom Portable Buildings in Texas

    A division of Trees of Central Texas, Texas Big Little Cabins designs custom portable pier-and-beam buildings manufactured by General Shelters of Texas. Recognized as a nationwide leader for portable buildings, General Shelters has been manufacturing portable metal buildings for fifty years.

    General Shelters cabins can be as large as 1188 square feet, and are delivered to your Texas property done and done (insulation, plumbing, electric, floors, walls, ceilingincluding appliances and central heat and air), or ready for you and your crew to finish out . As a Platinum Level dealer for General Shelters, we have helped hundreds of people with their portable buildings.

    Texas Big Little Cabins is a one-stop shop for your properties needs, also representing Bedrock Structures, Eagle Carports, and Star Carports for storage, barns, barndominium shells, garages, workshops and more!

    The goal of this blog is to spotlight the full range of buildings we offer at our property, what we are working on, and to explore what happy customers have done with their buildings.  Please visit us at http://www.treesofcentraltexas.com, and check back for updates. Smash that follow button!