Is a Hoop Building a Quonset Hut?

The short answer is no.

"Quonset", when it comes to buildings, is a trade mark owned by the Great Lakes Steel Corporation since 1946. They are frameless steel buildings. They were not designed as fabric buildings.

These are Quonset huts:

Maybe the trademarked name is why there are so many variant spellings. People ask us about our kwanset, quasi, kwanzaa and many other spellings of q huts (also a recent inquiry). The truth is...

2024 End of Season Sale

Our annual end of season sale is here!

We are discounting any building ordered before November 15th, 2024 for delivery by March 15th, 2025. The good news is our single-pipe buildings are included this year but the discount is smaller. In times such as we're experiencing though, it all helps

We are also, for the first time, discounting our covers sold before November 15th, 2025. No sense trying to make it through another winter with a leaking, ripped, hoop building cover.

New Website, Same Friendly Faces

We've recently been re-educated in some new things. Yes we still have some old dogs here but we're learning.

One of the new things we learned is just how green hoop buildings are. So we had to write about that , of course. Then, we found out that more of you are using your cell phone to visit us so we changed our navigation to make it easier for you!

Maybe the most important thing we found out though is that our annual "End of Season Sale" is going to be earlier and run longer...