About Us

The Cranco counter at 255 Spinnaker Way in Concord
255 Spinnaker Way, Unit 2, Concord

Family owned · Since 2020

Building Store Inc. trades as Cranco. We are a family-owned building supply company, and we sell to the people doing the work.

Our customers run from contractors to manufacturers. That is the installer buying three tubes of caulking on his way to a job, and it is the window, door and siding plants buying mouldings, flatstock and sealant by the pallet. Same counter, same price list, same stock: what changes is the size of the order, not the terms you get.

We have grown from one counter to three since 2020 — Concord, Barrie and Mississauga — and the range grew with them, from caulking and foam to mouldings and plywood, aluminum and vinyl, and the hardware that goes with all of it.

Our list price is the contractor price. There is no trade tier to qualify for and no haggling at the counter: the price on the shelf is the price the trade pays, whoever is standing there.

If it is not on the shelf, we can usually have it in one or two days. Every brand on this site is one we order from, so a product we do not stock is a question of when, not whether. Tell us what you need and when you need it, and we can bring it in and deliver it to your site rather than leaving you to collect it.

Building strong relationships

Strong relationships build strong business

Good client relationships are the heart of any business. These are the six we hold ourselves to, written as what they mean at our counter.

  • TrustWe tell you when a product is wrong for your job, including when that costs us the sale. A contractor who has to come back and redo the work does not come back to buy.
  • RespectWe ask about the job before we recommend the material. You know your trade better than we do; our part is knowing what is on the shelf and what it will and will not do.
  • Self-awarenessWhen we get an order wrong, we say so and we put it right. No arguing at the counter about who said what.
  • InclusionOur staff and our customers work in several languages, and so do we. Everyone gets the same answer and the same price.
  • Open communicationIf a special order will take three weeks, we say three weeks. A date we cannot meet is worse than a date you do not like.
  • Knowing what we sellAsk what the difference is between two products and you get an answer, not a shrug. We carry a range we can advise on rather than a catalogue we have never opened.

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