A hoop or fabric building is a cost-effective, versatile structure with an arched steel pipe frame and a durable, UV-resistant fabric tension membrane, creating an open, obstruction-free space for a wide range of uses across many industries. You can find a more detailed explanation here.

Hoop barns are typically about half as expensive per square foot as a finished pole shed.

Pole barn roofs, whether steel or shingles, have about the same useful life as a fabric roof. You can re-roof your fabric shed at way less than half the cost.

Wood rots faster than metal corrodes. It’s a no-brainer for a lot of folks.

There are so many potential cost savings from a hoop shed compared to most conventional buildings that it’s hard to know where to start.

•  The cost of hoop buildings is far less than conventional barns or even pole barns. A hoop barn’s cost per square foot can be less than half that of other buildings. 
• Construction cost of a hoop building is another big plus. Hoop barns, depending on size, can be erected in a matter of hours or, at most, days. Many people DIY hoop building construction. Putting up a hoop barn saves both time and $.
• Almost zero maintenance costs in time or money. Once erected, the only maintenance required is to check the cover tension occasionally. Twenty years down the road, when you may have to replace your cover, you’ll find that the cost to replace your whole building cover is about the same as replacing shingles or tin on a similarly sized building, but the labor cost is a mere fraction of that for other buildings. 
• You should ask your tax professional about possible state and federal tax savings on a hoop building. 

We want our customers to feel confident in their purchase, so our Manufacturer’s Warranty fully covers all of our hoop barns, ensuring peace of mind.

All of our Rushmore buildings are fully 100% guaranteed for 3 years. A prorated warranty covers our truss buildings for a total of 15 years, and our mono-tube buildings for a total of 5 years.

To access detailed warranty terms, click the link below to download a copy of the Manufacturer Warranty document.

Mono-tube Building Warranty

Truss Building Warranty

Our hoop barns are available in White, Blue, Green, Red, Sandstone, Grey, Silver, Brown, and Fog, or combinations of these colors. Custom stripes are available free.

We use 4 feet as a “standard height,” but that’s quite flexible. We recommend that you first decide what kind of clearance height you require and what building you need; then it’s easy to decide how high you want to build your wall, i.e., if you have a 12’ tall building but need 18′ clearance, you need a 6′ wall.

You do need at least a 2′ wall to properly tension your cover, however. We also do not recommend a pony wall higher than 8′ except in special circumstances.

Clear span is an architectural term used to describe the open space between load-bearing supports or posts. The spaces in a clear-span building can be divided with walls, but they don’t have to be; the exterior structure can support its own weight.

It is easy for a small building to be a clear span building. It doesn’t take very strong walls to hold up the roof on a 20′ wide or even 40′ wide shed. When you get into much wider, clearspan buildings that are often needed, lumber structures just can’t cut it. It generally requires very heavy steel to span long distances with no support. We go into more detail about clearspan buildings here.

We have Rushmore clear-span buildings up to 140′ wide, which are much more economical than a similar-sized steel building.