You got a great deal. Now you need someone who knows how to put it together. We install fabric buildings from every auction platform in North America — missing parts handled, no manual needed.
Auction-bought fabric buildings save you thousands on the kit and leave you with zero post-sale support. We install from every major platform — IronPlanet, Ritchie Bros, BigIron, GovPlanet, AuctionTime, TractorHouse, Weaver, MachineryTrader, Kijiji, eBay, Facebook Marketplace, Princess Auto — and we plan for missing parts as the default. Same flat-rate pricing as a factory-direct kit. The brand on the sticker is irrelevant; the frame design tells us what we need.
Thousands of fabric storage buildings sell through auction every year in Canada and the US. The prices are good. The support is nonexistent. When you win a building on IronPlanet or Ritchie Bros, what shows up at your yard is a crated pallet of steel trusses, a roll of fabric, a hardware bag, and maybe a PDF manual — sometimes for a different revision, sometimes in a language you can't read, sometimes nothing at all.
That's the trade-off: unbeatable price, zero hand-holding. We exist to close that gap. You save money on the building. You hire professionals for the install. The total cost is still well below a factory-direct purchase with installation included, and the building goes up to spec.
This is the number-one issue on auction kits. Buildings — especially used or refurbished ones — frequently arrive with missing bolts, tensioning clamps, anchor hardware, or full truss sections. We do a full parts inventory at the start of the build before any lifting starts. Most missing hardware is standard size and we keep common pieces on the truck. For the rest we source locally. Build doesn't stop because the auction listing was light a hardware bag.
A significant share of auction buildings ship with no documentation, a manual for a different revision of the kit, or a manual in a language you can't read. None of that matters to us — we don't work from manuals. We identify the building by its frame type, truss design, fabric weight, and bolt pattern. We've assembled enough budget-brand and unbranded fabric buildings that the bolt sequence and tensioning pattern are second nature.
If you bought a used fabric building at auction or off a private seller, we handle disassembly, transport, and re-erection too. We inspect the frame and fabric condition before we pull it apart and flag anything that needs repair or replacement before we load. Used-building work is quoted on the same footprint-based pricing, with disassembly and transport billed separately based on distance and crew time.
A lot of auction buildings ship branded as "Storage Shelter," "Premium Storage Buildings," "Dynamic Shelters," or with nothing on the label at all. Most of them come out of the same handful of Chinese OEMs — Suihe and Gold Mountain are the two largest. The construction is fundamentally the same: galvanized steel trusses, PE or PVC fabric, bolt-together assembly. We know these platforms by frame design. Brand on the sticker doesn't matter.
Installation covers full crew, frame assembly, fabric tensioning, doors, and anchoring to your prepared foundation. Equipment (manlifts), travel beyond same-day Alberta drives, and crew lodging on multi-day builds are billed through at cost — no markup.
Pricing is set by footprint, not by where the building came from. An auction-bought 40×80 costs the same to install as a factory-direct 40×80. The full pricing table is on the homepage. For more on what to expect during the build itself, our installation guide covers the full process; the Hills Industrial page, Suihe page, and Gold Mountain page cover the brands you'll most likely have if you bought through auction.
Same pricing applies regardless of where you bought it. Find your size, that's your price.
Written by the MAX Contractors crew. Auction installs are a meaningful share of our annual schedule — we've put up kits from every major platform and most of the unbranded white-label imports as well. Got a building from auction and need a crew? Message us and we'll get back same day.
Last updated: April 30, 2026
Yes. Auction-bought kits are one of the most common things we install. We work from frame design rather than manufacturer manuals — the frame layout, truss spacing, bolt patterns, and fabric routing are consistent across the budget brands sold through IronPlanet, Ritchie Bros, BigIron, GovPlanet, AuctionTime, TractorHouse, Weaver Auctions, MachineryTrader, Kijiji, eBay, Facebook Marketplace, and Princess Auto. As long as the components are on site, we can put it up.
Missing parts is the number-one issue on auction kits and we plan for it. We do a full inventory at the start of the build before any lifting starts. Most missing hardware is standard size and we keep common pieces on the truck. For larger missing components — a tube, a truss splice, end-wall framing — we source locally before continuing. If something fundamental is unrecoverable (the cover itself, an entire arch), we'll tell you straight what your options are before you spend more money.
Pricing is by footprint, not by where the building came from. The full table runs from 20×40 up to 70×200 on our homepage. The posted price covers full crew, frame assembly, fabric tensioning, doors, and anchoring to your prepared foundation. Equipment (manlifts), travel beyond same-day Alberta drives, and crew lodging on multi-day builds are billed through at cost — no markup.
We don't work from manuals. We identify the building by its frame type, truss design, and fabric spec — those tell us everything we need to build it. We've assembled enough budget-brand and unbranded fabric buildings (Suihe, Gold Mountain, Hills Industrial, SKLP, K&J, Chery, white-label imports) that the bolt sequence and tensioning pattern are second nature.
Yes. We disassemble at the seller's site, transport, and re-erect on yours. We inspect the frame and fabric condition before we pull it apart and flag anything that needs repair or replacement. Used-building installs are quoted on the same footprint-based pricing, with disassembly and transport billed separately based on distance and crew time.
A lot of auction buildings ship as "Storage Shelter," "Premium Storage Buildings," or with no label whatsoever. Most of these come out of the same handful of Chinese OEMs (Suihe and Gold Mountain are the two biggest). The construction is fundamentally the same — galvanized steel trusses, PE or PVC fabric, bolt-together assembly. The frame design tells us what we need to know. Brand on the sticker isn't relevant.