When making your next building purchase, there are many financial considerations. There are many ways a fabric building from FastCover Buildings can help you save money as described below.
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Reducing maintenance and utility costs associated with your storage buildings is a smart way to improve the operational efficiency of your business operations. Making a smart purchase decision includes not only taking into account the upfront capital cost of the building but also the on-going operational costs of the building.
Setting aside the capital outlay for the building, there are a number savings that a FastCover fabric building will provide which may not be immediately obvious. The first is the time and expense saved to erect the building. Because the building is shipped in modular components, on-site construction time is drastically reduced where buildings can be completed sometimes in days as compared to weeks or months with buildings which must be completely constructed on-site. This also means your building is finished and ready for use in your business sooner.
Now consider the post-construction state of your building, as this is expected to last for many years. You will have recurring monthly expenses for utilities and maintenance on any style of building. A FastCover fabric building can help to reduce a number of monthly expenses due to the nature of the materials used to manufacture the building. The most obvious difference between a fabric building and steel or wood construction building is the use of a fabric cover. This fabric cover offers numerous advantages. The first is that it allows a tremendous amount of natural daylight to pass through the cover to the building’s interior, virtually eliminating the need for daytime artificial lighting. Even on cloudy days, there is often ample light to perform most activities inside the building without flicking on the light switch and having the power meter spinning. In early morning hours and nighttime when we no longer have the free benefit of the suns light, artificial lights can be used more efficiently as the bright white underside of the cover reflects and disperses light so that typically fewer light fixtures are needed.
Unlike a metal roofed building often used for storage buildings, a fabric building cover will not radiate the heat and cold of the extreme weather conditions we experience. Combine this with a cover that is effectively a one-piece sealed membrane and there will be substantially less air through cracks and perforations traditional buildings tend to have.
Some building styles require that the roofing and siding materials such as roof tar or shingles and exterior wall paint must be frequently maintained or replaced on a periodic basis. With a FastCover fabric building chosen for your storage building, there is no need to paint or shingle the roof and walls. The covers should be checked for tension periodically but are otherwise virtually self maintaining. Dirt and dust have a difficult time adhering to the polyethylene fabric and normally wind and rain are enough to blow off or wash off any that does manage to sit on the covers.
The building’s steel superstructure is post-weld powder-coat painted in our own paint booth. The extremely smooth finish helps to prevent cover wear and protects the steel framework from rust and corrosion.
One cost saving factor that few other storage buildings can match is the ability to take your investment with you if your business circumstance result in a move of locations. A FastCover building is designed with an exclusive continuous base rail frame system which affords it a tremendous range of options in regards to foundations. So flexible are these options that the foundation itself may be temporary and if the need arises, a FastCover storage building can be disassembled, building and foundation moved, and re-erected at the new site.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Start with a Fast Cover building in mind and the first thing you will notice is how the fabric building covers permit a
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.
All 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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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.
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.
We have developed the perfect solar power solution for your new FastCover portable fabric structure. A small 14×28 foldable solar panel is mounted onto a unique bracket that does not alter or affect your main fabric cover whatsoever. The bracket gets mounted onto the upper truss with self tapping screws and drops down below the storm flap and back up with a mounting bracket for the solar panel. Angle brackets allow you to adjust the angle on the solar panel depending on the light availability in your particular area. The solar power can be harnessed to generate lighting or light duty power use. This particular application plugs into a round fan that is mounted to the upper side end wall of the FastCover, allowing us to extract air out of the building in order to keep the humidity level lower in your brand new FastCover building. To encourage air movement we installed vents on the opposing end wall to draw in fresh air as the fan extracts humid air. Check out our YouTube video to learn more about getting a solar powered building.
New Brunswick’s largest boat show sets sail this spring at the Moncton Coliseum. From fishing boats to cruisers, runabouts, personal watercraft and so much more, this show has it all. The water is waiting! Discover all the ways you could be spending time on the region’s waterways. Shop for the boat of your dreams, with something to satisfy every taste and budget.
More and more recreational boaters and commercial fishermen are protecting their assets with a new FastCover fabric building. With the initial investment of boats and related equipment these days it makes complete sense to protect your investment from the harsh climate when they are not in use. A FastCover fabric building is the perfect cold storage facility for your boat storage and assets, plus it gives you the perfect environment to clean, repair, replace and do maintenance on your boat. Many of our commercial fishermen store their boat off-season along with all their traps. They love the fact that everything is out of the elements making off-season work a pleasure. Protecting boats from the elements increases the longevity of their asset which ultimately gives them more productive time on the water and greater re-sales value when it’s time to upgrade. At FastCover we are protecting your boat, one at a time!
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Call us today at 1-866-657-7172 or go online for more information or a request a quote on your new FastCover. See you at the Moncton Boat Show Booth # 120.
Visit FastCover at Booth #1327 at the upcoming Winnipeg Home and Garden Show from April 6th to 9th, 2107 at the RBC Convention Centre Downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba. If you are seeking assistance on a home improvement project or looking for a new and better way to store your tools, gardening or recreational equipment, look no further than your new FastCover Fabric Structure at the Show. You’ll find Canada’s most popular Designers, Gardeners, Realtors and Home Improvement Specialists at the show, including Celebrity presenters Bryan and Sarah Baeumler plus Carson Arthur, host of HGTV’s brand-new series “Home to Win”.
FastCovers are becoming the fabric structure of choice for workshops to bring your home improvement projects to completion without worrying about the weather. How many times have you pulled out all your tools to work on your fence, deck, gazebo, BBQ stand, etc.. and it starts to rain! We know this because as avid Do-it-Yourselfers, it’s a pain. There is no need to worry about Mother Nature on the only 2 Saturday’s you have available to complete your project or no need to clean up your stuff on Saturday night when you want to finish your project Sunday morning. Call us or see us at the Winnipeg Home and Garden Show to see what FastCover solution best fits your needs and budget for all your upcoming projects
FastCovers Buildings are a great solution for storing your Gardening or Recreational Equipment. Keeping your assets out of the elements is a great way to keep them in pristine condition. Leaving valuable items such as tools, garden or recreational equipment outside makes them prone to rust, cracked hoses, warped plastic components and peeling paint. They deteriorate faster, don’t work properly and lose resale value when its time to upgrade, if left out to the elements. Call us or see us at the show to see what FastCover solution best fits your storage needs.
Call us today at 1-866-657-7172 or request a quote today. See you at Booth #1327 at the Winnipeg Home and Garden Show.
At FastCover, we know that you work your commercial, industrial, agricultural and recreational equipment hard! What you do with your equipment during business hours and playtime is your business! How you store your equipment is our business!
We have been manufacturing fabric covered steel structures for decades. When you purchase your new FastCover it comes with everything you need. Our Fully Portable single and engineered truss structure FastCovers come complete with end walls, roll-up doors, all hardware and anchors to erect and mount your building to the ground. Don’t pay for optional items that are actually required to complete your project….. or worse yet, purchase a fabric building not knowing what you are really getting or whether it will survive North America’s extreme weather conditions. All FastCovers are produced in our Canadian Welding Bureau and A660 certified manufacturing facility in the center of North America. All FastCovers leave our facility completely powdercoated at our in-house powdercoat paintline. Not only do we manufacture and sell our products Factory Direct, we also provide full installation services to ensure your new FastCover looks great for many years to come to store your equipment.
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Seeking sweet relief on a home improvement project or looking for new ways to store your tools and gardening equipment. Look no further than Canada’s most popular designers, gardeners, realtors and home improvement specialists on The Urban Barn Main Stage. Celebrity presenters include Bryan & Sarah Baeumler, and Carson Arthur, host of HGTV’s brand-new series Home to Win will be at this years Winnipeg Home and Garden Show.
FastCovers are fast becoming the fabric structure of choice for boat storage, recreational & gardening equipment storage or simply a workshop where you can work on that home improvement project without worrying about mother nature ruining your tools and the only Saturday you have to finish the project. Our structures are designed and manufactured in Manitoba, Canada to truly withstand the weather extremes of North America. Believe us, when we say we are not worried about what mother nature will throw at us!
Call us today at 1-866-657-7172 or go online and request more information. See you at the Show Booth #1327 at the Winnipeg Home and Garden Show.
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FastCover is pleased to offer the following show specials to all WRLA members attending the 2017 WRLA Buying Show in January:
#1: With the purchase of any portable engineered truss main structure and end walls, FastCover will include At No Cost, 1 complete man door frame kit and 1 pre-hung steel insulated 36″x80″ door c/w brickmold & keyed latch set. This has a value of over $500.00
#2: With the purchase of any FastCover* we will provide a complete set of graphics for you to adhere to the side or end of the structure allowing you the opportunity to generate leads and ultimately sales from having a FastCover at your location for storage and re-sale purposes. Graphics are bold with “ItsaFastCover.ca”, Your Company Name and your company phone or email address. The exposure is amazing and it will drive customer traffic to you.
#3: Year End Blow Out Specials:
Click here or call us at 1-204-791-5510 to take advantage of the year end blow out special. The sale expires January 27.
FastCover has the ability to provide products and services ranging from supply only, installation, dismantle and move and maintenance, all direct to you. As a full line manufacturer of complete fabric covered structures, FastCover is your one stop shop . Call us today at 1-866-657-7172 or visit our website; fastcoverbuildings.com.: Check us out on Instagram.
This years WRLA Buying Show is being held in Calgary, AB from January 18th through to the 21st, 2017. It is an exclusive show for WRLA members where suppliers of the lumber, building products and hardgoods have the opportunity to showcase and sell their products to members. The WRLA provides the “YardStick”, a professional industry news magazine six times per year. It provides leading edge information on business practices, new technology, trends, new legal and legislative issues and new products & services that impact the building supply industry in Western Canada.
FastCover Fabric Structures Ltd., a full line manufacturer of Fabric Covered Buildings, is a proud member of The Western Retail Lumber Association Inc. (WRLA) which provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and information in the building supply industry. Comprised of about 1,200 member firms, WRLA represents the interests of members in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, NW Ontario, Yukon and Nunavut. WRLA serves the needs and promotes the common interests of the Canadian lumber, building materials and hardgoods industry in Western Canada.
FastCover provides WRLA members a unique opportunity. Our affordable fabric structures can not only be sold by members to generate profitable sales and increase members volume, but can also be used for storage of member owned equipment and other products for re-sale. Keeping valuable inventory and equipment stored properly out of the harsh elements ensures that no losses, devaluation or further depreciation occurs. Many building products retailers take full advantage of using FastCover quality fabric structures for storage with the added bonus of having a fully erected FastCover as a sales tool, on site, for display purposes. Our customers, along with us, know that this type of storage is a tremendous sales tool that sells FastCovers.
FastCover portable fabric buildings provide excellent value for temporary storage. Our portable structures are fully movable in the event your business is constantly growing and expanding. Permanent structures can limit your ability to “change on the fly” as so many business owner/operators must do in today’s volatile economy. What works today may not work tomorrow! You may need to move, shift and re-think your storage needs depending on what the market and your customer dictates, and your new FastCover has the ability to accommodate the changing face of business.
FastCover Fabric Structures Ltd is at the 7th Annual Cottage Country Show at the Red River Exhibition Park in Winnipeg, MB Apr 22-24. ?Come on down and find us at Booth # 60, we’re proudly showcasing our NEW 10×10 Shack-in-a-Box with a greenhouse fabric.
