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Long-Term Obligations - Schedule of Long-term Debt (Parenthetical) (Detail)	6 Months Ended
	Jun. 30, 2014
Note Payable Collaterized by Asset [Member]
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Debt instrument, interest rate terms	Interest payable quarterly based on alternate base rate or LIBOR plus applicable margin (starting at 7.5% for alternate base rate and 8.5% for LIBOR) and increases by 25 basis points every quarter
Debt instrument, alternative base rate	7.50%
Debt instrument, LIBOR rate	8.50%
Debt instrument, variable rate	0.25%
Debt instrument, maturity year	2015
Note Payable Collaterized by Schuff's Real Estate [Member]
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Debt instrument, interest rate terms	Interest payable monthly at LIBOR plus 4% and principal payable monthly
Debt instrument, variable rate	4.00%
Debt instrument, maturity year	2019
Note Payable Collaterized by Schuff's Asset under Revolving Line of Credit Agreement [Member]
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Debt instrument, interest rate terms	Interest payable monthly at the LIBOR plus 3%
Debt instrument, variable rate	3.00%
Debt instrument, maturity year	2019

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Debt Instrument Alternate Base Rate

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Debt Instrument Libor Rate

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Debt Instruments Maturity Year

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Percentage points added to the reference rate to compute the variable rate on the debt instrument.

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Description of the interest rate as being fixed or variable, and, if variable, identification of the index or rate on which the interest rate is based and the number of points or percentage added to that index or rate to set the rate, and other pertinent information, such as frequency of rate resets.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher SEC

-Name Regulation S-X (SX)

-Number 210

-Section 02

-Paragraph 22

-Article 5



Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 210

-SubTopic 10

-Section S99

-Paragraph 1

-Subparagraph (SX 210.5-02.22(a)(1))

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6877327&loc=d3e13212-122682

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