Temporary Construction Warehouse

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In what instances does purchasing a fabric building make sense for you or your business?  This is hard to say, but a fabric building from Fast Cover isn’t the best building for all building uses.  Fabric buildings do not make good multi-floor office buildings.  Fabric buildings do not make good houses or good apartment buildings.  But when you are putting together your construction plan for these types of projects, consider how a fabric building as a Temporary Construction Warehouse can be an invaluable asset to your plan.

Protect Your Inventory

For a large-scale building project, you likely have a large-scale timeline, stretching into months, or more.  During your construction project, you have many types of materials arriving on-site, some for immediate use, some for future stages.  Similarly, you have many types of equipment on-site, some are needed continuously and some less frequently.  With the climate we experience here, your materials and equipment may be exposed to UV rays from sunlight, wind, dust, rain, snow, and hail, maybe even all within the same week.  With a temporary construction warehouse, you can have a secure on-site storage facility to protect your inventory and equipment from weather damage, theft, and accidental damage.

Location Flexibility

Fast Cover fabric buildings are built with their unique continuous base rail system.  This feature results in incredible flexibility in both where and how buildings can be erected.  The foundation options range from ground mounts, screw anchors, temporary concrete blocks, and more.  In fact, the whole building, foundation, steel trusses, fabric cover, end walls, and doors can all be assembled, disassembled, and moved to the next project location.  This also makes the location of the temporary construction warehouse an easier decision to make as you have more flexibility to locate it where it is most suits your needs.

Rapid Assembly/Disassembly Time

One of your concerns may be the additional time needed to erect a warehouse only to have to remove it at the end of the project.  But consider how having a temporary warehouse on site will give you the flexibility of scheduling material deliveries and eliminate delays due to any weather damaged materials.  Now also consider that many Fast Cover buildings, which are shipped in modular components, can be erected with a week, often less, including placement of foundations such as concrete blocks.

A Fast Cover building as a Temporary Construction Warehouse will pay for itself many times over as you use it for future construction sites.

Top 6 Reasons Fabric Buildings are Ideal Vehicle Storage Buildings

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When most people think of vehicle storage buildings often the image that comes to mind is a dark garage, cramped and dingy.  Wouldn’t you rather have a bright, wide-open space? When you are looking for your next vehicle storage building, your wish list is not as difficult to achieve as you might think.

Well Lit

Start with a Fast Cover building in mind and the first thing you will notice is how the fabric building covers permit a

Vehicle Storage Building
Wide Open Building for Vehicle Storage

tremendous amount of daytime lighting to enter the building interior and seems to fill up every corner with soft pleasant light.  So much light that there is no need for turning on the artificial lights, even on a cloudy day.  When darkness falls, the bright white underside of the covers helps to spread the light further, reducing both the number and size of light fixtures needed to light your building.  The covers include UV ray blocking properties to reduce the exposure to sunlight fading for your vehicles.

Wide Open

Personal Storage BuildingAll Fast Cover buildings are built 100% clear span.  The steel super-structure has no internal columns or low hanging rafters to obstruct your maneuverability.  Our building walls gain height very quickly leaving a maximum amount of space available for your storage needs.

Designed for Access

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Putt’s Transfer Commercial Storage Building

Our building designs provide for flexible door locations, from large overhead doors to personnel access doors.  Configure your access need according to your traffic flow.

Sized to Meet Your Needs

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18′ Wide portable fabric building garage or utility building

The Fast Cover product line has buildings available in widths from 18’ wide to 86’ wide and can be built to any length required.  We can even add on to most existing building if your storage needs grow in the future.

Put it Where you Need It

The unique Fast Cover Baserail system means tremendous flexibility regarding where the building can be erected and foundation options that range from screw anchors to concrete blocks to more permanent concrete bases.  If your business needs evolve and you need to move or re-configure your vehicle storage, a Fast Cover building can be relocated, preserving your building investment.

Durability

Our steel superstructure is powder coated at the factory after all welding has been completed to provide you with a corrosion resistant building.  The polyethelene building covers are made to withstand our harsh climate and will not rust.

Contact Fast Cover Buildings to learn more about the many advantages for your vehicle storage building.

Fabric Buildings Offer More Comfort for Animals

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Whether you are raising beef cattle, exotic livestock, goats or sheep, or running a dairy farm, the comfort and health of your herd is of critical importance to your farming operation.  A healthy herd leads to a more efficient farming operation which can contribute to the bottom line of your business.  When it is time to invest in your next livestock barns consider all the ways a Fast Cover fabric building can help keep your animals in greater comfort.

Better Light Day and Night

The semi-translucent covers on a Fast Cover building allow for a tremendous amount of natural light to pass through to the interior of the building, while blocking much of the UV rays of natural sunlight.  Daytime lighting fills every inch of

Cattle Handling Barn
Cattle Barn

the building and eliminates shadowy areas.  At night, the bright white underside of the covers helps to spread artificial light throughout the building, often with a lower energy requirement and few light fixtures than a non-fabric building.  This means in the short days of our winter months it is less expensive to extend the lighting period within the building.

Ventilation & Air Volume

Properly designed livestock barns should promote good fresh air exchange.  A Fast Cover fabric building is designed with a ceiling height resulting in a large air volume inside the building.  With properly placed exhaust vents, the warm moist air common in animal housing buildings will rise upwards and be exhausted out the vents.  Cooler, fresher air is drawn in from below in what is known as the venturi effect and helps to reduce the air borne pathogens in the building air.

 

Quiet, Hushed Atmosphere

A building with walls constructed of metal brick or wood can often be noisy inside with all sounds of machinery operations or other noises echoing off the walls.  In a Fast Cover building, sounds do not echo and are dampened

Riding Arena Instruction
Riding Arena Instruction

by the fabric walls and roof cover.  This quiet, hushed atmosphere is also easier on people working within the building making it easier to communicate over distances within the building.  Buildings with metal roofs can also be quite noisy during rain storms with a metallic “ping” sound from every rain drop and a deafening sound during a hail storm which can be quite upsetting to many animals.  Rain makes a quiet hushed sound and hail bounces off without a clang.

Temperature Moderation

Many building materials will quickly radiate heat and cold from the outside of a building to the interior making it quite uncomfortable inside especially during extreme hit and cold.  The fabric covers on a Fast Cover buildings have thermally non-conductive properties which help to moderate the temperature inside.

 

More Comfort, Better Herd

A more content, low-stressed herd will feed on a regular basis which promotes weight gain.

For dairy cattle or any animals raising young, natural light and ventilation can contribute to higher milk production helping the off-spring gain weight and strength early in life.

Contact Fast Cover Buildings to learn more about the many advantages for your farm.

Top 5 Fabric Building Advantages for Remote Locations

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Business operation in remote locations pose a number of challenges to many organizations, including those in the resource sectors such as Oil & Gas, Mining, Agriculture, Surveying, or Transportation.  Modern building technologies such as FastCover Fabric Buildings offer a number of unique advantages that are well suited for use in remote locations with limited access to resources and labour.

1. Portable Modular Building Design

A FastCover fabric building is made of modular components, steel truss sections, end wall and frame components, foundation connections, and a fabric cover. All of these components are designed to be transported efficiently to almost any location and then assembled on site.  The steel truss components are all factory welded and then are bolted together on-site meaning no requirement for on-site welding or steel fabrication. FastCover buildings can also be disassembled back to their component parts and then re-assembled at a different location. This portable aspect of FastCover buildings allows them to be a valuable asset as work operations move from one site to another.  See More.

2. Flexible Foundation Options

FastCover buildings feature the exclusive continuous Base Rail system so in many applications they can be installed without a permanent foundation.  This results in numerous foundation options to suit the building location and purpose such as using high strength screw anchors for ground mount applications or many temporary foundations such as concrete blocks or pressure treated posts using the Base Rail bracket. If the build is later required at another location, often the foundation or anchors can be reused as well.  See More.

 

 

3. Quick Installation by Our Team

A workshop or lumber building that normally takes months to complete takes days with a fabric building. Our crew comes to your location to level and install your fabric building under your specifications. Time is money, don’t let construction put a restraint on your productivity or a strain on your resources.  See More.

 

 

4. Low Electrical Requirements

Unlike other buildings, FastCover fabric structures use a material that is weatherproof, retains temperature, and also lets natural Cold Storage Buldinglight through. This reduces the need for lighting during the day and temperature regulation. For many building uses in remote locations such as warehousing, equipment storage or equipment storage, the light transmitted through the cover during daylight hours is often enough and the bright white underside of the covers helps to distribute artificial lighting lessening the number of lighting fixture and power requirements. See More.

 

 

5. Rugged and Durable

FastCover fabric buildings are designed and built in Manitoba, Canada and are ready to stand up to the harsh environmental

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Mine Site Storage Buildings

conditions of some remote locations.  Weather factors such as extreme winter cold or blazing summertime heat are no concern for the engineered fabric covers of the buildings. Elements such as water, dust, sand slide off the building so little maintenance is required on the building covers.  The building’s steel superstructure is welded in factory conditions and then post weld powder coat painted to protect from exposure to harsh environments, inside and outside the building. See More.

 

 

Making the decision to build a FastCover fabric building in your remote locations means you have chosen a building that will prove it’s value through savings in time and money and will perform beyond your expectations.

Lease Your New FastCover

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FastCover Grows with Your Business!

When your business, farm or enterprise is growing at a rapid rate, it is generally a result of you, as an entrepreneur, pouring all your energy into that growth. Attempting to determine what the next step is to house all that growth can be a daunting task. Do I add onto my building, do I move to larger facilities, how do I become more efficient, are all questions swirling through your mind. As your business grows, plans change, and you need to be able to shift your thought process just as fast. The beauty of a FastCover portable structure is that it allows you to accommodate the need today and be re-located, added onto, or re-configured to accommodate tomorrow’s needs. At FastCover we grow with your business!

As a family owned privately held business, FastCover understands that cash flow and your passion drives growth and that there is not always an abundance of free cash to renovate, upgrade or purchase / rent new facilities. Leasing a New FastCover can assist you by providing excellent space for light manufacturing and assembly, or storage of raw material, parts, equipment and finished goods. Leasing allows you to budget for a reasonable fixed “no surprises” payment schedule where all payments can be fully expensed by your business, farm or enterprise.

Call FastCover today to discuss your fabric structure project with us. We always appreciate the opportunity to be taken into consideration to work with you assisting in the right solution for You!

1-866-657-7172 fastcoverbuildings.com info@fastcover.ca

Manitoba Ag Days a Huge Success!

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A big Thank You to all those attendees who stopped by the FastCover booth

Manitoba Ag Days held in Brandon, MB is an annual event showcasing new and innovative products and services specifically designed for the Agricultural Sector. It is always well attended, as a no cost entry fee enables the show to draw from a very large surrounding area including other Provinces and States. It was an exceptional show for FastCover with new and existing customers looking at and making commitments to purchase new FastCovers. It is always satisfying to have existing owners of FastCovers bring acquaintances to our booth to talk about their positive experiences with their structures. There is nobody better than FastCover building owners to “sell” the benefits of FastCover ownership to new customers! Our booth was a 20′ wide x 15′ long FastCover fabric building complete with three styles of steel truss arches and the same fabric we use on agricultural and commercial buildings. We can demonstrate the real-life components of our fabric buildings and you can fell the sturdiness of the powder-coated, welded, truss building super-structure.

We are excited as to how the new year is starting with the opportunity to serve the Canadian and upper United States market. FastCover is currently serving clients in the Agricultural, Mining, Commercial/industrial, Oil/Gas, and Commercial Fishing sectors. In the event you or your business require a reasonably priced, long-lasting, Portable or Permanent Fabric Structure, we would greatly appreciate the opportunity to work with you on a solution that meets your needs.

Contact us at fastcoverbuildings.com, info@fastcoverbuildings.com or toll free 1-866-657-7172.

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See us at Agribition, November 19-24, Evraz Place, Regina, Saskatchewan

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FastCover Fabric Buildings is again excited to exhibit at the Canadian Western Agribition next week. Stop by and visit the full-size FastCover display structure located in AffinityPlex, booth #800. We encourage you to come by and have the opportunity to touch, feel and see a real FastCover Fabric Structure. Don’t just order from a brochure, we have designed this display structure to assist you in your decision making process. It’s a real structure, showing our fully portable baserail, hi-tension feature and powdercoat painted components.

See More Information on Fabric Buildings for the Agriculture Industry.  These portable fabric buildings can be used as a livestock shelter, equipment storage, riding arenas, and so much more.

 

Canadian Western Agribition Details

Canadian Western Agribition, located in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, is the best beef show on the continent and the largest livestock show in Canada. The show is anchored by beef cattle and features horses, bison, sheep, goats, and an extensive agribusiness trade show. Canadian Western Agribition is a blend of agriculture, Indigenous culture, and festive entertainment, featuring live music, shopping, and food. The event also hosts evening pro rodeo performances for action-packed entertainment! The event is an international hub of agriculture excellence, hosting over 1,200 international guests from over 75 countries. CWA is where the world meets.

At FastCover we have and continue to be extremely busy supplying and installing FastCover Fabric Buildings. Being the manufacturer with full in-house installation services, and with the advantage of full portability of many of our structures, we have the ability to erect structures throughout the winter months. So don’t be afraid to make a good buying decision today and purchase your FastCover, Factory Direct… because it looks like it’s going to be another long Winter!

 

Sales & Show Specials

Ask about our special Winter booking Sales starting on November 19th that will save you BIG MONEY when you order any complete FastCover before December 15, 2018 for immediate or Spring delivery and installation. Call 1-866-657-7172. Please refer to “Winter Booking Sale” when calling in.

Check out our Show Specials during the show. These can be 1 only New or Display buildings that have been drastically reduced to sell and are only available in person at the show or by calling this number only: 1-204-224-3269. Please refer to the “Agribition Show Special” when calling in. We’ll see you at AffinityPlex, booth #800 at the 2018 Canadian Western Agribition.

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See Us @ the North Atlantic Fish & Workboat Show, Nov 16-17

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FastCover is “fast” becoming the fabric building of choice for those involved in the commercial fishing industry. Our fabric structures are a perfect fit for off-season storage of boats, gear and traps. This is why we are proud to support and be an exhibitor at the North Atlantic Fish and Workboat Show in 2018. The show is a proud Maritime tradition held on November 16-17 at the Mile One Centre in St. Johns, Newfoundland. The show features new and innovative products in the commercial marine and fishing industries. Exhibitors include marine wear, electronics, survival equipment, engines, lighting, navigation equipment and of course FastCover storage facilities.

FastCover Fabric Structures for Commercial Fishing

FastCover has experience in providing fabric structures for the Commercial Fishing Industry across Atlantic Canada. Our fabric structures, prior to assembly are compact making them ideal candidates to be flown or ferried or trucked into any location. FastCover portable fabric buildings can then be erected on any relatively level site without the need for expensive foundations. These fabric structures can be secured to the ground in a variety of methods from screw anchors to rock brackets to concrete blocks. Whichever method best suits the location, the ground disturbance is minimal or non-existent. In the event the FastCover fabric building is no longer required at a specific location or site, they can be easily disassembled and re-erected elsewhere, making it the perfect portable storage solution for permanent or temporary Commercial Fishing or Workboat storage solutions.

See More Information on Storage Solutions for the Commercial Fishing Industry

Why a FastCover Portable Fabric Structure?

FastCover buildings provide protection against the elements for your boat, equipment, traps & pots and other important assets. Fastcovers provide an excellent environment to perform repairs and maintenance on your boat and equipment. Commercial boats and equipment are a vital asset to the current and future value of the business and need to be properly protected against the elements to minimize deterioration. FastCover fabric structures for Commercial Fishing Operations keep boats, trailers, marine equipment and other assets out of the elements, allowing for faster and easier startups. No more shoveling snow, unthawing, or digging out equipment anymore! FastCover fabric buildings are the ultimate shed storage solution to protect hoses, tires and paint on Commercial Fishing equipment from fading, cracking, and failing. This allows for longer life, less maintenance and better resale value of the equipment.

  • FastCover fabric buildings come with a full 15-year warranty for peace of mind.
  • Most FastCovers are completely portable, allowing you to erect them without the need for costly foundations.
  • FastCover fabric structures for commercial fishing operations can be easily relocated to another location on your property to adapt to the growth and expansion of your business.
  • FastCovers have great resale value, which is a huge cost benefit compared to a permanent building.
  • See what FastCover has done to provide others with boat storage building solutions at an Atlantic Commercial fishing business 

FastCover at the North Atlantic Fish & Workboat show, Visit us at the Chiasson Booth

Find FastCover Fabric Structures at the North Atlantic Fish & Workboat show and browse through our fabric building inventory to see which is best for your commercial fishing and workboat needs.

 

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See FastCover @ North American Mining Expo, Sudbury, Ont. Sept.12-13

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FastCover is excited to be exhibiting at “N.A.M.E.”, the North American Mining Expo in Sudbury, Ontario on September 12th and 13th, 2018. The event will include cutting edge suppliers and manufacturers offering end-to-end solutions for the mining industry. Open Tech Forums, free sessions, keynote presentations, live onsite demos plus the FREE 2 day Supplier Showcase. It will be a great opportunity for networking, to view supplier innovation, equipment demos and more.

FastCover Fabric Structures for Mining Operations

FastCover has experience in providing fabric structures for mining operations in the remotest of locations. Our fabric structures, prior to assembly are ideal candidates to be flown or ferried by plane, helicopter, or barge into remote locations. FastCover portable fabric buildings can then be erected on any relatively level site without the need for expensive foundations. FastCover’s fabric buildings can be secured to the ground in a variety of methods from screw anchors to rock brackets to concrete blocks. Whichever method best suits the location, the ground disturbance is minimal or non-existent. In the event the FastCover fabric building is no longer required at a specific location or site, they can be easily disassembled and re-erected elsewhere, making it the perfect storage solution for permanent or temporary mining site buildings.

See More Information on Buildings for the Mining Industry

Why a FastCover Portable Fabric Building?

FastCover buildings provide protection against the elements for equipment, core samples and other important assets left on sites. Core samples are a vital asset to the current and future value of the site and need to be properly protected against the elements to minimize deterioration. FastCover fabric structures for mining operations keep trucks, trailers, heavy equipment and other assets out of the elements, allowing for faster and easier startups. No more shoveling snow, unthawing, or digging equipment out anymore! FastCover fabric buildings are the ultimate machine shed storage solution to protect hoses, tires and paint on industrial, mining, transportation and, heavy equipment from fading, cracking, and failing. This allows for longer life, less maintenance and better resale value of the equipment.

  • FastCover fabric buildings come with a full 15-year warranty for peace of mind.
  • Most FastCovers are completely portable, allowing you to erect them without the need for costly foundations.
  • FastCover fabric structures for mining operations can be easily relocated to another location on your property to adapt to the growth and expansion of your business.
  • FastCovers have great resale value, which is a huge cost benefit compared to a permanent building.
  • See what FastCover has done to provide others with mining storage building solutions at a Northern Ontario mining site

FastCover at the N.A.M.E. Event, Visit us at Booth #A-58 in the Arena

Find FastCover Fabric Structures at A-58 in the Arena at the North American Mining Expo in Sudbury, Ontario and browse through our fabric building inventory to see which is best for your mining site needs.

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See us at the Canadian Mining Expo, Timmins Ontario June 6-7, 2018

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FastCover with our fabric buildings will be exhibiting at “The Big Event” Canadian Mining Expo, Timmins, Ontario on June 6th and 7th, 2018. The event will feature over 400 displays, on-site equipment demonstrations, exploration showcases, speaker forums, and jackleg drilling competitions. Outdoor and indoor showcases plus a career fair make this one event you won’t want to miss.

FastCover Fabric Buildings in the Mining Industry

FastCover has experience in providing storage facilities for the mining sector in the remotest of locations. Our fabric structures, prior to assembly are ideal candidates to be flown or ferried by plane, helicopter, or barge into remote locations. FastCover portable fabric buildings can then be erected on any relatively level site without the need for expensive foundations. FastCover’s fabric buildings can be secured to the ground in a variety of methods from screw anchors to rock brackets to concrete blocks. Whichever method best suits the location, the ground disturbance is minimal or non-existent. In the event the FastCover fabric building is no longer required at a specific location or site, they can be easily disassembled and re-erected elsewhere.

See More Information on Buildings for the Mining Industry

Why a FastCover Portable Fabric Building?

FastCover buildings provide protection against the elements for equipment, core samples and other important assets left on sites. Core samples are a vital asset to the current and future value of the site and need to be properly protected against the elements to minimize deterioration. FastCover portable fabric buildings keep trucks, trailers, heavy equipment and other assets out of the elements, allowing for faster and easier startups. No more shoveling snow, unthawing, or digging equipment out anymore! FastCover fabric buildings are the ultimate machine shed storage solution to protect hoses, tires and paint on industrial, mining, transportation and, heavy equipment from fading, cracking, and failing. This allows for longer life, less maintenance and better resale value of the equipment.

  • FastCover fabric buildings come with a full 15-year warranty for peace of mind.
  • Most FastCovers are completely portable, allowing you to erect them without the need for costly foundations.
  • FastCovers can be easily relocated to another location on your property to adapt to the growth and expansion of your business.
  • FastCovers have great resale value, which is a huge cost benefit compared to a permanent building.

FastCover at the Canadian Mining Expo in Timmins, Ontario

Find FastCover Fabric Structures at Pavilion- 03 at the Canadian Mining Expo in Timmins and browse through our inventory to see which fabric building is best for your needs.

New FastCover 50′ & 60′ Wide Straight Leg Super Structure… The SLSS Series

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FastCover introduces 2 completely new structures to meet customer demand. The FastCover SLSS series is available in 50′ and 60′ widths, and, of course, unlimited lengths. Both SLSS series FastCovers are available in “Portable” models.The FastCover Straight Leg Super Structure (SLSS) has been designed to maximize the interior volume with a massive 10′ high exterior straight wall truss leg. This feature virtually eliminates wasted interior space by allowing customers to get closer than ever to the interior wall with equipment placement, vehicle storage, or warehouse racking.  The SLSS series is designed for maximum width and height openings on end walls to accommodate more equipment, product or livestock. At 10′ high, the truss leg on the SLSS series easily accommodates side entrances making access to this FastCover significantly easier.

Len Peters, FastCover Auto Cad Draftsperson states, “The portability of the SLSS Series make them one of the most versatile and sought after structures that can be erected almost anywhere, without the need for a costly foundation, due to its ability to be erected on any relatively level surface area when incorporated with our anchoring system.” The beauty of portability allows customers to re-locate FastCover buildings to a location that best suits them. An initial location may no longer be suitable for commercial, mining, farm or ranch enterprises and a re-locatable building allows for FastCover buildings to grow along with the business. Portability also means that when customers no longer have need for their FastCover, re-sale value becomes very important. Great re-sale value comes with a FastCover that has the ability to provide decades of service,

Like all FastCover buildings, the SLSS series is available in a variety of truss spacing to meet the demands of North American snow, rain and wind loads. Powdercoat paint is standard on all FastCovers. Powdercoating is a great rust inhibitor and ensures years of service. All FastCover buildings, big or small, incorporate High Density Polyurethane fabric membrane with UV inhibitors, in 12 oz. weight and 23 mils thickness to provide protection for equipment, product and livestock against the elements.

Call today about the SLSS series and see why it might be the right FastCover for you!

Call 1-866-657-7172 or email us at info@fastcoverbuildings.com

Quick Ship Buildings from FastCover

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FastCover Fabric Structures announces the launch of their new Quick Ship building program. Neil Fast, President of FastCover states, “Quick Ship buildings are the same as our standard building products, complete with all the same components and full warranty, which we have made available for shipment within 48 hours.” The Quick Ship program places popular building models and sizes in an easy to reference place for customer to make a selection and place an order. Initially a short list of buildings is available in our Quick Ship program but this will be expanded to cover a larger assortment of building sizes and styles.