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Structure Options

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We don’t bend any steel before we get an order. This allows us to customize our products for your structure requirements. We use 7 different lengths of steel, and can interchange the way we bend them to give you the same shape, with less height, or slightly different width if that’s what you require. You can see more about the profile shapes and heights on our profile page

We have engineered drawings for our standard buildings to help you get a building permit. It is impossible to have them for all the variations we offer though, but we do have them for most of our standard buildings. Please let us know if this is something you will require. PLEASE REVIEW OUR 2021 UPDATED BUILDING PERMIT ARTICLE

We have provided sample prices on each of these pages to give you a starting point, but have any width available from 10-36′, and can go any length you require. We’ve done them up to 300′ long! Typically we do structures at 3′ and 4′ spacing between hoops, but can go 2′ spacing for extremely high snow areas and 6′ spacing if it will be left uncovered in the winter.

Our structures have a standard Gothic Profile that comes to a peak, to shed snow more efficiently. Our structures are Canadian built for Canadian seasons. We add wind braces to ensure stability in windy areas, and can give you other tips for winter maintenance and snow if you are especially concerned.

gothic frame

We also offer our High Profile structures, which give around 2′ more clearance than our regular standard Gothic profile. Up to 20′ wide our high profile uses 1″x2″ steel, and we offer a heavy high profile option that is 20′ wide and uses 1″x3″ steel. 24′ and wider uses 1″x3″ steel as standard.

high profile

We have also created our Cathedral Series, which is our standard gothic arch flipped around, to give more usable height, with less floor space (for RVs as an example). see here. It is more susceptible to wind, because of the straight sidewalls. No snow stays on this shape at all, unless there has first been a wet slushy rain/snow, and then a freeze. This style is available in widths of 18′, 16′, 14′ and 12′

Cathedral frame

We welcome your unique challenge and look forward to helping you find your shelter solution!

Structure Options

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We don’t bend any steel before we get an order. This allows us to customize our products for your structure requirements. We use 7 different lengths of steel, and can interchange the way we bend them to give you the same shape, with less height, or slightly different width if that’s what you require. You can see more about the profile shapes and heights on our profile page

We have engineered drawings for our standard buildings to help you get a building permit. It is impossible to have them for all the variations we offer though, but we do have them for most of our standard buildings. Please let us know if this is something you will require. PLEASE REVIEW OUR 2021 UPDATED BUILDING PERMIT ARTICLE

We have provided sample prices on each of these pages to give you a starting point, but have any width available from 10-36′, and can go any length you require. We’ve done them up to 300′ long! Typically we do structures at 3′ and 4′ spacing between hoops, but can go 2′ spacing for extremely high snow areas and 6′ spacing if it will be left uncovered in the winter.

Our structures have a standard Gothic Profile that comes to a peak, to shed snow more efficiently. Our structures are Canadian built for Canadian seasons. We add wind braces to ensure stability in windy areas, and can give you other tips for winter maintenance and snow if you are especially concerned.

gothic frame

We also offer our High Profile structures, which give around 2′ more clearance than our regular standard Gothic profile. Up to 20′ wide our high profile uses 1″x2″ steel, and we offer a heavy high profile option that is 20′ wide and uses 1″x3″ steel. 24′ and wider uses 1″x3″ steel as standard.

high profile

We have also created our Cathedral Series, which is our standard gothic arch flipped around, to give more usable height, with less floor space (for RVs as an example). see here. It is more susceptible to wind, because of the straight sidewalls. No snow stays on this shape at all, unless there has first been a wet slushy rain/snow, and then a freeze. This style is available in widths of 18′, 16′, 14′ and 12′

Cathedral frame

We welcome your unique challenge and look forward to helping you find your shelter solution!

NEW Shipping Crate & Scissor Door

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Shipping Crate

shipping crate

NEW SHIPPING CRATE!!

We have developed a simpler way for shipping our structures when our truck is not able to get there. This is great news for customers out West or in Newfoundland. Hear what Sleepy G Farm in Thunder Bay had to say!

“In all the years of farming and receiving shipments, this was the most well packed awkward shipment I have ever seen. I already have plans how I can reuse the crates when they are empty. It was a bit challenging in getting it off the truck but it did an excellent job in protecting the product”

scissor door

**5/19/20 please note with the global situation, and a level of domestic interest and quote requests like we have not seen before, we do not have the capacity at the current time, to quote and ship to the United States. We are grateful for your interest, understanding and patience

NEW SCISSOR DOOR

The framing of a scissor door consists of 2 vertical pieces of round steel which pivot on the hoop, immediately to the left and right of the ridge. The plastic is fastened to the “door posts” with the MSS roll up strip and along the hoop with the wirelock. The vertical framing will swing out until it matches the top profile of the hoop. This is not a solution for areas prone to significant winds. The advantage of the scissor door is its simplicity and ability to open most of the end.

Call today for more information on either of these new add ons that MSS can provide! We will be happy to help you find your complete shelter solution!