(Build Supply Outlet owner Danny Wachsnicht | Photo by Jeff Spry)
Fortified with an impressive inventory of high-quality discount building supplies for amateurs and professionals, Bend’s Build Supply Outlet is a one-stop lumber, fencing, and flooring emporium stocked to the rafters and ready to meet most any needs.
Owner Danny Wachsnicht has owned and operated this bustling midtown business with his wife Nikki since 2019. They have a sterling reputation for exceptional customer service while offering premium, low-priced products for their loyal client base in Central Oregon.
“I went to school in Vancouver and started going to a lot of auctions at the time,” Wachsnicht tells CBN on how he began. “I started a company called Olympic Surplus so I’d buy a lot of manufacturing equipment, petrochemical equipment, CNC equipment, and resell it online. I graduated college in 2015, and in 2016, my wife and I had a young daughter at the time and decided Bend was where we wanted to set our roots. It became more difficult to travel back and forth to Portland for auctions and to buy surplus materials. That’s when I brought in my first load of flooring to sell out of my house and shop in Deschutes River Woods.”
Further elaborating on his business’s origins, he explains that his father-in-law once had a discount floor and door shop in Vancouver. He cites this family contact as probably his greatest influence for Build Supply Outlet and he remains an incredible resource to this day.
“I source all over the country for truckload deals of materials, so everything we sell is going to be cheaper than it is at any other lumber yards or even the box stores. In 2019 the business had grown to the point that I needed a bigger space. So we acquired this building and I believe it was built in the 1950s. I know the old Bell telephone company was the original tenant. We tried to do some updates on the building but maintain its original look.”
Build Supply Outlet sells dimensional lumber (framing lumber), plywood, decking, siding, fencing, lots of flooring, and premium pattern stock, which is tongue and groove pine and cedar.
“We’re a young business and still in a growth trajectory,” he adds. “In a good economy people want a good deal. But in a bad economy people need a good deal. The way I explain our business is that we’re the Grocery Outlet of building materials. When building slows down and people need a good deal, it helps us in a way. Including myself, we have about six employees so we’re a very lean team compared to other lumber yards. What’s fun for me is I meet customers who still remember meeting me when I was selling materials out of Deschutes River Woods.”
Maintaining contractor relationships is of paramount importance to Wachsnicht and his crew because they’re the repeat customers that make the company’s future bright.
“Looking further into 2026, we’re in the middle of a major reorganization of our yard space. We’re bringing in cantilever racking into our warehouse to make us more efficient and get customers in and out quicker. One of the new products we’ve moved into are metal roofing and siding panels. It’s hard to source good deals on those because the steel mills are on the East Coast.
“So we started a different division where we’re bringing in metal coils and rolling our own panels. We’ve got a facility in La Pine and it’s a big 20-foot roll forming machine. We’re also getting into metal deck railing and expanding our Japanese cedar and redwood offerings for decking and fencing. We find products nobody else is offering, or those we can find better deals on. People who shop here are grateful and those interactions are really positive.”
Build Supply Outlet is located at 127 SE Fifth St. in Bend. Contact them at 541-693-1313.
