Barn & Metal Building Buildouts

Your building already has four walls and a roof. We do the rest.

If you have a barn, metal building, large detached garage, or pole barn with exposed rafters, you already have the hardest part. We rig Cimarron cage netting from your existing structure, lay a sport turf floor, and build out a practice space that rivals a commercial facility — and still lets the building be a building.

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How it works.

Freestanding outdoor cages need a frame because there is nothing to attach to. Inside a barn or metal building, the existing roof structure does that job. We thread stainless Cimarron cables through your rafters or purlins and clip Cimarron cage netting down from them. The result is a full batting cage suspended from your building — no concrete footings, no steel uprights, no permanent modification to the structure.

The netting clips on and unclips. Push it to the side when you need to move vehicles or equipment in and out. The floor turf stays down; the cage disappears against the wall. When you are ready to hit, pull it back out and clip it down. The whole thing sets up in minutes.

Step 1

Free site visit

We measure ceiling height, rafter spacing, and building dimensions. We tell you exactly what cage size fits and what the install will involve before any money changes hands.

Step 2

Cable & netting install

Cimarron cables run through the rafters. Cimarron cage netting hangs from them. Hardware is attached without cutting or compromising the structural members. Most installs take 1–2 days.

Step 3

Turf & finish

Sport turf goes down inside the cage footprint. Custom batter's box inlay and optional LED lighting added on request. The cage is ready to use the same day the turf is finished.

What we install.

Cimarron cage netting

Cimarron is the standard for serious residential cage installs. High-tenacity polyethylene netting in #42 or #60 gauge, pre-cut to standard cage dimensions. Clips to the cable system and unclips when you need the building back.

Stainless cable rigging

Cimarron cables thread through existing rafters and purlins, distributing the netting load across the structure. No welding. No drilling through structural members. Attachment hardware is removable if you ever need to take the system out completely.

Sport turf floor

Performance Pro or comparable short-pile sport turf installed inside the cage footprint. Dense enough to take cleats and machine use without matting. The rest of the barn stays concrete — we only turf the area that needs it.

Custom batter's box inlay (optional)

A second turf color (typically maroon or red) cut and inlaid to create a real batter's box setup with painted lines, home plate diamond, and pitching rubber marking. The hitter steps into the same visual setup they see on a real field. Takes the install from "a cage in a barn" to a proper training environment.

LED lighting (optional)

Puck or flush-mount LED fixtures installed in the ceiling above the cage. Most barns have some existing electrical — we work with what's there. Proper lighting makes the cage usable year-round at any hour, not just daylight hours in summer.

Coated & epoxy floors (optional)

Flake or solid-color epoxy for the rest of the building — the walkway, storage area, or viewing space around the cage — installed by our partner Professional Garage Concepts. Can also go under the turf itself if the whole slab needs it.

Partner install

Concrete coating for the rest of the floor.

Turf covers the cage footprint. Everything else in the barn is still bare concrete unless you want it coated too. We partner with Professional Garage Concepts (DFW, since 2001) to add a durable flake or solid-color epoxy floor to the rest of the building. Two ways to do it:

Coat the whole slab, turf on top

The entire floor gets diamond-ground, moisture-checked, and coated first, then we lay turf over the cage footprint. Makes sense when the existing slab has real wear or you want a sealed floor everywhere, not just around the edges.

Coat around the cage only

Turf goes down inside the cage as usual; Professional Garage Concepts coats the surrounding walkway, storage, or viewing area. The more common choice — it upgrades the look of the whole building without paying to coat square footage the turf already covers.

Professional Garage Concepts prices this directly at their published retail rate — we don't mark it up. Full systems and starting pricing are on our concrete coatings page. Add it as an upgrade below, or ask about it at your free site visit.

Fixed-price barn packages

Pick a size. Reserve it online.

Three turnkey indoor systems, sized for a typical DFW barn or metal building. Cage, turf, batter's box, backstop, and L-screen all bundled into one flat price — no configurator, no waiting on a callback. Reserve your build slot now with a deposit; we settle any upgrades and the remaining balance at your free site visit.

A recent Full Indoor System build — suspended netting, turf, and batter's box in a customer's barn.

With the epoxy-flooring add-on: flake floor across the whole building, not just the hitting turf.

40 × 12 × 10

Full Indoor System 40

40 ft long, 12 ft wide

Tee work and short-toss in a tighter building footprint

$7,500 cage system

No-haggle pricing

What's included

Cimarron 40×12×10 #24 Twisted Poly cage net (turnkey)
55' Premier 1/4″ cable kit w/ cable rollers — cage hangs from existing structure, no concrete
42×13 TurfHub Performance Pro padded artificial turf (546 sqft)
12×4 clay batter’s box turf inlay with 5mm pad underneath
6×8 Heavy Duty rubber backstop w/ 4 hanging ropes & carabiner clips
7×7 #84 L-screen, Premier frame w/ wheels, padding & black powder coat
Full Bearcat install
One-year install warranty · manufacturer net warranty

Upgrades

Tick what you want. Total updates live — settled at your site visit.

Concrete coating (rest of the floor) Quote required Flake, solid color, or metallic epoxy — installed by our partner Professional Garage Concepts at their published retail rate, priced after they review the slab.
Glue down the turf Quote required Permanently adhered instead of loose-laid — priced at your site visit.
Carpet edging around turf Quote required Requires gluing the turf down first — priced at your site visit.
Lighting package Quote required Priced at your site visit based on fixture count and existing electrical.
Pitching machine Quote required Priced at your site visit based on machine and mount.

Your total $7,500

Cage system · no add-ons selected

Reserve with $750 deposit →

750 due now · remainder + add-ons at site visit · fully refundable before install

55 × 14 × 12

Full Indoor System 55

55 ft long, 14 ft wide

Machine pitching and short-BP work, turnkey in one price

$10,500 cage system

No-haggle pricing

What's included

Cimarron 55×14×12 #24 Twisted Poly cage net (turnkey)
Premier 1/4″ cable kit w/ cable rollers — cage hangs from existing structure, no concrete
57×15 TurfHub Performance Pro padded artificial turf (855 sqft)
12×4 clay batter’s box turf inlay with 5mm pad underneath
6×8 Heavy Duty rubber backstop w/ 4 hanging ropes & carabiner clips
7×7 #84 L-screen, Premier frame w/ wheels, padding & black powder coat
Full Bearcat install
One-year install warranty · manufacturer net warranty

Upgrades

Tick what you want. Total updates live — settled at your site visit.

Concrete coating (rest of the floor) Quote required Flake, solid color, or metallic epoxy — installed by our partner Professional Garage Concepts at their published retail rate, priced after they review the slab.
Glue down the turf Quote required Permanently adhered instead of loose-laid — priced at your site visit.
Carpet edging around turf Quote required Requires gluing the turf down first — priced at your site visit.
Lighting package Quote required Priced at your site visit based on fixture count and existing electrical.
Pitching machine Quote required Priced at your site visit based on machine and mount.

Your total $10,500

Cage system · no add-ons selected

Reserve with $1,050 deposit →

1,050 due now · remainder + add-ons at site visit · fully refundable before install

Best Value

70 × 14 × 12

Full Indoor System 70

70 ft long, 14 ft wide

Turnkey build — cage, turf, batter’s box, backstop, and L-screen all bundled in

$12,000 cage system

No-haggle pricing

What's included

Cimarron 70×14×12 #24 Twisted Poly cage net (turnkey)
Premier 1/4″ cable kit w/ cable rollers — cage hangs from existing structure, no concrete
72×15 TurfHub Performance Pro padded artificial turf (1,080 sqft)
12×4 clay batter’s box turf inlay with 5mm pad underneath
6×8 Heavy Duty rubber backstop w/ 4 hanging ropes & carabiner clips
7×7 #84 L-screen, Premier frame w/ wheels, padding & black powder coat
Full Bearcat install
One-year install warranty · manufacturer net warranty

Upgrades

Tick what you want. Total updates live — settled at your site visit.

Concrete coating (rest of the floor) Quote required Flake, solid color, or metallic epoxy — installed by our partner Professional Garage Concepts at their published retail rate, priced after they review the slab.
Glue down the turf Quote required Permanently adhered instead of loose-laid — priced at your site visit.
Carpet edging around turf Quote required Requires gluing the turf down first — priced at your site visit.
Lighting package Quote required Priced at your site visit based on fixture count and existing electrical.
Pitching machine Quote required Priced at your site visit based on machine and mount.

Your total $12,000

Cage system · no add-ons selected

Reserve with $1,200 deposit →

1,200 due now · remainder + add-ons at site visit · fully refundable before install

Need a different size or a double-wide lane? Get a free site visit and we'll quote it directly.

Why a barn cage over an outdoor cage.

Year-round use

DFW summers hit 105 degrees. DFW winters bring cold fronts and mud. An outdoor cage shuts down for both. An indoor cage runs 365 days regardless of what the weather is doing.

No frame cost

A freestanding outdoor cage needs steel uprights, anchors, and a concrete pad. Your barn already has the structure. The install cost reflects that — you're paying for netting, hardware, turf, and labor, not the frame.

Building stays functional

The cage clips on and unclips. Push the netting to the wall and the barn is a barn again. Vehicles, equipment, and storage all share the same footprint — the cage doesn't take anything away permanently.

Private facility access

No facility membership. No scheduling around other teams. No driving. The cage is on your property, available whenever the player wants to swing, at any hour, any day of the week.

Recent project

Argyle, TX — barn batting cage buildout

A dad with a baseball-playing son in Argyle wanted to use the barn he already had. We rigged a 15x30 Cimarron cage from the rafters using Cimarron cables, laid Performance Pro sport turf inside the cage footprint with a custom maroon batter's box inlay, and left the rest of the barn exactly as it was. The cage pushes to the side when the UTV needs in. Argyle is one of the most baseball-crazed towns in North Texas — the setup matches the level of commitment the player already has.

See the full project →

Statewide reach

Batting cages & indoor facilities, built across Texas.

We're Aledo-based, in the Fort Worth / DFW area, and that's where most backyard cage installs happen. For school and ISD programs, training facilities, metal-building and barn conversions, and larger commercial builds, we travel across Texas — including:

North Texas / DFW (home base)

Fort Worth, Dallas, Aledo, Weatherford, Denton, Plano, Frisco, Prosper, McKinney, Allen

West Texas

Abilene, Wichita Falls, Midland, Odessa, Lubbock, Amarillo, El Paso

Central Texas

Waco, Temple, Austin, San Antonio

East Texas

Tyler, Longview, Athens, Nacogdoches, Texarkana

Houston & Gulf Coast

Houston, The Woodlands, Katy, Beaumont

Oklahoma: Oklahoma City metro

Oklahoma City, Norman, Edmond, Moore, Yukon, Mustang

Oklahoma: Tulsa metro

Tulsa, Broken Arrow, Owasso, Jenks, Bixby

Oklahoma: Southern & western Oklahoma

Lawton, Ardmore, Durant, Duncan, Altus

Oklahoma: Northern & eastern Oklahoma

Stillwater, Enid, Muskogee, Bartlesville, McAlester

Don’t see your city? Ask anyway — tell us where the build is and we’ll scope it during the consult.

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Barn & metal building cage FAQ

Can you install a batting cage inside a barn or metal building? +

Yes. If the building has exposed rafters or purlins, we rig Cimarron cage netting directly from the structure using Cimarron cables — no freestanding frame required. Wood frame barns, metal buildings, large detached garages, and pole barns all work. The building structure replaces the frame, which keeps the cost below a comparable freestanding outdoor cage.

Does the cage take over the whole building? +

Not unless you want it to. The netting clips to cables and can be pushed to the side when you need the space for other things — the UTV, vehicles, storage, or whatever else lives in the building. The footprint during practice is only the cage area. When you are done, the building goes back to being a building.

What size batting cage fits inside a typical barn or metal building? +

A standard single-lane batting cage runs 12 to 15 feet wide and 55 to 70 feet long for a full pitching-machine setup, or as short as 30 feet for a tee and short-toss configuration. Most residential barns can fit a 12x35 to 15x55 cage depending on ceiling height and building length. We measure the building during the free site visit and size the cage to what actually fits.

What goes on the floor inside the cage? +

We install sport turf inside the cage footprint — typically Performance Pro or a comparable short-pile sport turf designed for training surfaces. The turf handles cleats, repeated foot traffic, and dropped equipment without matting down. We can inlay a custom batter's box section (a different color turf with painted lines, home plate, and pitching rubber marking) so the hitter steps into a real setup. The rest of the barn floor stays as concrete.

How high does the ceiling need to be? +

A minimum of 12 feet of clear height is needed for a functional batting cage. 14 feet or higher is better for pitching-machine setups, and 16+ feet allows high-arc ball flight without restricting the swing. We check the clear height at the ridge and at the sidewalls during the site visit — many standard barns and metal buildings in the 30x50 to 40x70 range have 14 to 16 feet of clear height.

Does the netting damage the building structure? +

No. We attach cables to existing rafters or purlins using hardware that does not compromise the structural members. The load from the netting is distributed across multiple attachment points. We have installed cages in wood-frame barns, metal buildings, and post-frame structures without any structural modification required.

What does a barn batting cage build cost in DFW? +

A typical residential barn cage build in 2026 DFW pricing runs $8,000 to $18,000 depending on cage size, netting gauge, turf footprint, and whether you add a batter's box inlay or LED lighting. It is generally less expensive than a comparable freestanding outdoor cage build because the building provides the frame. Get a free site visit and we'll put a firm number on it.

Have a barn or metal building?

Free site visit anywhere in the DFW metroplex, and by appointment statewide for larger builds. We measure, spec the cage, and put a real number on it — no obligation.

Schedule a Free Site Visit Call 817-803-1445

Also see: Batting cage packages · Commercial training facilities · Full facility construction