Built to Do the Work Right.
Since 1978, TT&L has been fabricating architectural sheet metal in one shop in Beaverton — building a team, a process, and a reputation around custom work that doesn't come off a shelf.
OUR STORY
In 1978, Tony VanDomelen bought Peter's Sheet Metal — a small Beaverton shop focused on residential gutters and custom flashings. Two years later, the name changed to TT&L: Tony, Tom (his son and current owner), and Loraine (his wife).
The early years were small jobs and repair work. That grew into roofing partnerships, then commercial subcontracting, and eventually K–12 schools through the 1990s. By the 2000s, TT&L had become one of the first custom sheet metal fabricators in the Northwest to offer continuous lengths up to 26 feet — and one of the first in the country to bring in a double-folding brake.
Today, the company is third-generation owned. Three of Tom's children are in the business, including Lauren VanDomelen, who runs operations, alongside her two brothers. Several other families on the floor span multiple generations as well. The shop runs on people who learned the trade from people who learned it before them — a level of bench depth most shops don't have.
What comes next is straightforward: keep building the same way. The next generation is already close to the work, and the goal is to remain a fourth-generation company — still in Beaverton, still doing the work right.
HOW WE WORK
Three things have stayed constant across almost five decades:
Talent and technology, together.
The equipment matters — but without people who know how to run it, it's just a shop full of expensive machines. We invest in both. Many of our fabricators have been here for decades, working alongside equipment that's been refined and expanded over time.
Custom is the standard, not the exception.
No catalogs, no minimum runs, no standard-only profiles. If an architect draws something unconventional, our answer is usually yes — and then we work through how to fabricate it.
One shop, end to end.
Most architectural sheet metal projects pass through multiple hands — designer, supplier, fabricator, painter, installer. At TT&L, it can be one. Same crew. Same shop. Same standard of work.
BY THE NUMBERS
48
years in business, three generations of ownership
25,000
square feet of shop space in Beaverton, dedicated to architectural sheet metal
300+
coils and 100+ flat-sheet pallets in rack storage
12
full-time fabricators backed by a long-tenured field crew
26' 4"
continuous panel lengths
$15 — 12M+
Projects ranging from small custom work to multi-million-dollar builds
INVESTING IN THE NEXT GENERATION
The work we do takes years to learn. There's no shortcut — no quick certification that turns someone into a fabricator who can run a custom panel without it showing in the field.
We don't hire off job boards. Most of our crew comes through word of mouth — families, referrals, people connected to the shop. From there, they learn the trade either through our BOLI Registered Apprenticeship Program with the Northwest College of Construction, or through supervised on the job training.
It's a slow path on purpose. The shop runs on people who know what they're doing because they've spent the time to learn it.
MEET THE TEAM
TT&L is a third-generation company, but the team goes deeper than that. Multiple families work in the shop across generations — fabricators, installers, and leadership who've spent years learning the trade side by side.
It's a crew built on experience, consistency, and people who know how the work is supposed to look — because they've been doing it long enough to know when it's right.
