Doing business with Bass & Hays® “We got you covered®”
All sales are subject to the following terms…
- By approved credit- net 30 days, subject to all terms & conditions on our credit application.
- Cash sales- cash, check, credit or debit card.
- No C.O.D.’s or third party checks.
- No returns on cash sales or special non-stock items.
- Other returns are subject to our RMA/return policy.
Forms you may need to do business with us…
- Texas Sales and Use Tax– please use this current form, we will not accept any other.
- To request a current W-9 form from us, call us at 1-800-258-2278 or e-mail us
- To apply for credit, call us at 1-800-258-2278 or e-mail us to request a form.
- To request a new 9th Edition Catalog, digital or physical, CLICK HERE.
- Send e-mail to us using our secure online contact form.
- Call us toll free at 1-800-258-2278 or 972-263-1360 DFW metro.
To send completed forms or other files…
Please use the online contact form
- Fill out form completely, attach files using the “SELECT FILES” button.
- Copy/paste or drag and drop files directly into app & click “SUBMIT”
- Note- the server automatically rejects any malware or virus.
- We will reply on our basshays.com exchange email system which is hosted by Microsoft, 100% trustwave compliant, secure & virus free.
- Do not send incomplete forms- we cannot reply w/o all required info.
If you do not want to use the contact form…
- Please bring your completed and signed forms to our office in person.
- You may send your doc’s via USPS or FedEx.
- Send it certified & signature required with return receipt.
- We cannot be held liable for misdirected, slow, lost, or stolen mail.
- Our office is at 238 S. Bagdad Rd. Grand Prairie TX 75050.
- Regular business hours, Monday-Friday 6:30 am to 4:00 pm.
- We are closed on Saturdays, Sundays & most legal holidays. Holidays we observe are generally posted on the main page, indicating the days we give our employees to take time off.
- HR, purchasing, invoices, general questions ask for Sam Hays.
- Sales inquiries or returns ask for Paul Mayfield.
- Website and technical info ask for Matt Hays.
- Si hablas español, simplemente para pedir los españoles interpretor en nuestro personal. 1-800-258-2278
Want to join our team?
- Clerical & Accounting
- CDL delivery drivers
- Forklift operators
- Product assembly
- Other positions may be available
- For more information call 1-800-258-2278 ask for HR
We offer good pay, excellent benefits, advancement opportunities and equal opportunity!
To apply for a position…
- Download and fill out the application for employment
- Send us your resume (resume is not required but may be very helpful to us)
- E-mail your doc’s to us using our secure online contact form.
- Or bring your paperwork by- 238 S. Bagdad Rd. Grand Prairie.
- Please do not physically mail your personal or private data and information.
- Mark all your documents “Attn: HR” in subject lines.
Company history…
Bass & Hays founder Marvin Hays, was born in 1904 “somewhere around” Wichita Falls, Texas. Raised by his daddy and his oldest sister, he grew up chopping wood and picking cotton. He met his wife Mary in Wichita Falls in the early 1920’s where he worked on her daddy’s farm. While still in Wichita Falls he apprenticed for the foundry trade at Taylor Foundry. The two of them moved to the Grand Prairie Texas area in the 1930’s, bought land and built a homestead. Marvin ran a part time backyard foundry behind the Hays home. This was the original Hays foundry location. Later during the 1940’s, he became foreman at Dallas Foundry, and continued to run his home foundry “part-time” making castings for hobby and local trade.
Marvin’s son Jack, learned the basics of the trade by doing work in the family wood pattern and machine shop. In the early 1950’s, he apprenticed on the U.S. Navy’s “U.S.S. Grand Canyon”, which was a destroyer converted into a tender ship. On board there was a complete working foundry and machine shop. Anything the Navy needed for any ship could be made, fixed or rebuilt, anywhere in the world with “can do” WW2 hard work, sweat and ingenuity- on the water wherever in the world they happened to be called to go. By that time Jack had learned to be an excellent machinist, pattern man, and craftsman. Coming home from serving his country he got a job at Dallas Foundry where Marvin was still foreman, and their good friend Don Bass was the sales manager.
In 1958, Dallas foundry was in the process of closing it’s business and terminating it’s manufacturing. Marvin, Jack and Don decided to pool their resources and convert Marvin’s part time backyard foundry into a new business called Bass & Hays Foundry. Bass & Hays bought many of Dallas foundry’s working patterns and expired patterns. In 1966, Bass & Hays incorporated with the State of Texas and became Bass & Hays Foundry, Inc. The old Hays house was then converted into the 238 S Bagdad office. Marvin’s business slogan was “If it’s cast iron, we make it”. He insisted on nothing less than total honesty and integrity, and selling the highest quality products while providing the best service around. He believed in putting in an honest day and full work week, Monday thru Friday. He insisted on reserving his weekends and allowing his employees time off for taking care of “important” things like “hunting and fishing”, and of course family and church. He was an avid sportsman, and enjoyed the great outdoors.
Located in Grand Prairie, by the train tracks and the old US Naval Air Base, Bass & Hays Foundry and Bass & Hays Foundry, Inc. produced high quality, competitively priced gray iron municipal castings for many years to the five state area. Fast forward to sixty-seven years later, and Bass & Hays Foundry, Inc. remains 100% Texas family owned and operated, continues to sell high quality cast iron products and durable goods for the water and sewer industries, manufacture our own lines of galvanized and plastic water meter boxes and water meter lids, and we have an outstanding sales force and work crew that are committed to the same high standards and values as our founder. We go the extra mile and “we are committed to providing you with the absolute best quality in American made municipal products and durable goods, with superior unmatched customer service.” – Sam Hays, President/CEO
Bass & Hays has been creating solid partnerships with the nation’s top castings manufacturers for our great customer base. We are firmly committed to the highest quality and durability in everything we do. Proud to offer “Made in the USA”. We are a stocking manufacturer’s representative of some of the biggest players in the industry. We maintain the largest inventory of this type in the State of Texas. We know cast iron, and it’s what we do. Insist on genuine Bass & Hays brand products. Just look for the BH initials or the Bass & Hays Foundry name.
At Bass & Hays Foundry, Inc. We got you covered®
