Resource Building Materials

These guys are a great resource at any level. DIY or professional. Great prices and excellent selection. I purchased Arizona River rock and the price was about 30% less than a local competitor.

My husband went to this location and Justin wowed him with his great customer service and honesty. We previously went to the Downey location and received minimal attention and had to seek out help.
Today we needed more stacking stones and Justin was there to help once again, but this time via telephone and email.
I’m impressed with their selection, prices and customer service. We will be back for other projects and will recommend to those who need stone :)

went to resource building materials on saturday looking for some hearthstone or slate for a fireplace at home. walked in and asked if they had anything like that and to my surprise the guy pointed out back and said if we have any it is in that back corner. they did have a nice selection but the bad review has to do with the customer service.3 gentlemen were behind the counter and god forbid i interrupted them. not one of them said here let me show you where it is. poor service so went somewhere else

I am a general contractor and my success has had much to do with Resource Building Material and its staff. The guys there have been able to direct me in product, application and quantity, very helpful! I am grateful for their willingness to help. I have been buying material supplies from them for three years and I will continue to do business with them for years to come. They have a variety of material; I mostly buy paving stones, veneer stack stone, base and sand, etc. Thanks Resource!

Great prices on stones, pavers and fixed slabs. Could be more competitive on the sand, gravel and concrete though. But the customer service is great. They are always willing to work with you and help the newbies out. Would definitely recommend and have!

Jim Pinedo is the best. It’s a shame the ratings here are so low for something that happened 5 years ago. Best customer service in the industry. Helpful, friendly and not snobby. I have shopped around and I wouldn’t go anywhere else.

We have been working on a fun project in the past few weeks. We built a pizza oven on our patio. It’s neato!
The form itself is concrete. I have been reading up on the nifty things you can do to concrete to change its appearance. The pizza oven is very heavy and we didn’t want to add any more weight with decorative stone so our goal was to find a topical application.
This lead me to the acid, man.
Acid stain is the coolest thing since sliced bread. It reacts to the lime in the cement. It gives this totally bitchen look, almost like marble. This is the new hip way to do cheap floors for a fraction of the price of laying down real stone.
The problem is, it’s hard to find sold to the public. If we wanted to pay a pro to come and do it, no problem, but finding the actual product has been tough. We’ve been all over Long Beach to no avail. Then I found a website about concrete stain and it had links of places you could buy this particular brand, one listed was Resource Building Materials in Huntington Beach. We were pretty excited!
We entered RBM on a Saturday. There were no other customers inside at the time. I immediately saw a wall of bottled treatments, from clear finishes to cement colors. The entire time I stood there reading the labels (clearly looking like I needed help) nobody offered any. There were 2 salesmen behind the counter within a stones throw (pun intended).
I finally walk over to the counter and say «Hi, can I ask you a question?». Now I see why I haven’t been acknowledged. The guy behind the counter is texting. He’s quite involved in it. He seems a bit bothered that I’ve interrupted his texting. I asked him, «Do you guys sell cement acid stains?» He says, «Uh, well, um, uh» and I continue «You can put it on cement and it gives a marble type look». He says, «That’s just technique» (which is absolutely not true, at all; marbling happens on its very own and is never the same twice, it’s reactive and you don’t have to do much but apply it).
Then he tells me they are «cracking down» on acid stains (Huh?) as he continues to text text text with his right hand. Now I know customer service is a thing of the past, but jeezus, will it kill you to stop your text message for two seconds?
He then, unenthusiastically, goes over to get a book to show me the company that makes the stuff I’m looking for. I told him, «yeah, I know that, they’re the ones who sent me to you».
I’m over it. We leave. We go home and I find it online and I pay $ 30 to ship it. Small mom and pop shops are worried that internet sales are taking their business. This is why.
So now we sit and wait for the acid, man. It’s going to be psychedelic.