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New Covers for Hoop Barns

We make new covers for almost ANY BRAND, ANY SIZE, and most COLORS of hoop buildings. We make custom color and color combination fabric building covers.

What are Building Covers?

While properly called some fancy name like fabric tensile building covers or such, what you call our shed covers probably depends on what part of the country you hail from. Our friends from further South than our Dakota location usually ask about building tarps or shed covers. We’ve even supplied hut canvas in our day and we’re glad to help you with whatever you want to call the fabric thing that covers your building.

What are Our Building Tarps Made From?

Our new building fabric covers as well as hoop barn replacement covers are made of HDPE polyethylene plastic. This fabric is not a canvas tarp but consists of woven poly strips which make up the core and poly sheets which make up the two surfaces. The tarp will not rip or tear easily because the core is interwoven.

Polyethylene covers are also more waterproof than canvas building covers. Water cannot penetrate through these covers.

All of our fabric building covers are also UV treated. The UV coating helps to extend the life of a cover in constant outdoor exposure to the harmful rays coming from the sun and the weather. The top coat treatment also resists mold and mildew.

What Types of Shed Tarps Do We Have Available?

Our standard covers are pro-rata warranted for 15 years. We now have a 20 year cover also available for replacement covers and on some of our hoop buildings.

We can make different levels of fire-resistant fabric covers . We make covers for high tunnels and all types of roll up or down side curtains for livestock buildings as well as all types of livestock and agricultural shade structures.

How Soon Can You Get a Custom Building Cover?

Our hoop covers can be shipped to most locations in as little as two to three weeks.

Do you need a hoop cover quickly? Go fill out our Online Worksheet or Click Here to give us a call.

How Long Does a Building Tarp Last?

Many people ask us how long they can expect their cover to last. Where we are located in the Upper Midwest we often find we are replacing covers older than 20 years. However, cover life largely  depends on exposure to UV sun rays. Tarp shed covers in areas such as Florida, Arizona, Texas and Southern California, will have a shorter service life.

It’s an unfortunate fact of life that hoop barn covers wear out or otherwise need to be replaced. Whether a building’s exterior is clapboards, shingles or even steel, they need maintenance and, eventually, replacement.

How to Measure for a Hoop Building Cover

Careful Measuring is Required!

We understand that you can’t always have all the information we need, maybe you just got this frame at the auction or the tornado took your cover, but the more information you can provide about what you need, the more accurate the quote. We will not actually make a cover without at least the basic information.

We’ll want to know your building manufacturer (if you know it) and nominal size; i.e. Coverall, 30′ x 60′.

If your building is a Rushmore, that’s it! We can take it from there. If not, it’s time to proceed to the building and get some measurements. For most buildings, a 100′ foot tape, a length of rope and a helper comes in handy here.

One of the measurements we need is the total length of the building, from outside to outside. We will also want the spacing of the trusses or bows apart, center to center, which you can get at the same time.

While you are doing this, note how your building is fastened down on the length of the building. Do you have pipe and ratchets or D-rings and lacing? If it’s D-rings, how far are they apart? If pipe, are the ratchets fastened inside or outside of the building? We’ll ask those things too.

Now that’s done, measure across the width of your building from frame bottom to bottom. Easy enough, right?

The next one is the hardest. We need the measurement of the arc of your building.

One way to do this is to tie something to the end of the rope, toss it over the hoop, and have your helper hold it at the bottom of the pipe pocket or where the D-rings attach to the cover bottom. Now, mark that spot on the rope on your side, pull the rope back off the building and measure the distance.

Now, you only need to measure any flap of cover that hangs below where your building is attached to the sides (ground flap) IF you have one and how far the cover comes over the ends of your building, in what we call the Conestoga or chuckwagon ends.

While you are doing the Conestoga, note how it is fastened. Is it steel cable in the pocket or a 1″ or 2″ strap? Maybe you have D-rings and we will need to know the spacing of those.

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