Covermore Buildings Installation

Covermore — Family-Owned Oklahoma Manufacturer, Ships to Canada

Covermore Shelters is a family-owned company based in northeastern Oklahoma, founded in 2019. In a short time they've sold over 1,500 tension fabric buildings to customers in all 50 US states, and they ship to Canada — both direct from the website and through their established eBay store. The product is solid for the price point and the phone support during the buying process is responsive. Where Canadian buyers run into issues is post-sale: warranty claims and parts requests work US business hours, take longer than buying from an Albertan or Manitoban manufacturer, and assume you can ship parts back across the border if needed.

Share the exact manufacturer, model, dimensions, and kit documentation. We review the installation requirements and any site-specific constraints before confirming the scope.

What Covermore products do we install?

• Tension fabric buildings: 30'×40' through 50'×100' and beyond, single-truss and dual-truss configurations, PE or PVC fabric depending on tier and size. The mainstream Covermore product.
• Container shelters: 20'×20' through 40'×40', mounting onto sea cans with twist-lock fittings. Available in 15oz or 30oz PVC. Useful for temporary commercial sites, oilfield, and event-related shelter where the building needs to come down again later.
• eBay-purchased kits: same products as direct, sometimes priced differently and occasionally with different lead times or shipping options. We install eBay-sourced Covermore kits at the same flat rate as any other Covermore order.

What's the difference between Covermore's 15oz and 30oz PVC?

This is the spec that matters most on install day, and it's the spec Canadian buyers most often pick wrong on without realising it.

15oz PVC handles like a heavy tarp. Two crew members can move a folded panel. Tensioning is forgiving — small variations in ratchet pressure don't translate into visible distortion. Cold-weather installs are routine down to about -10°C, with care. Service life is 8–12 years in Prairie conditions if anchored and tensioned properly.

30oz PVC is a different animal. It's denser per square foot than most of the premium Canadian-made covers we install, including some 750g material. Three crew on a folded panel, minimum. The cover is unforgiving of sharp folds at temperatures below -10°C — the plasticizer goes rigid and the material can crack along a fold line if you don't unfold it patiently. Cover deploy slows down by 30–40% versus the 15oz spec. The trade-off is service life: 30oz outlasts 15oz by 3–6 years in identical conditions, sometimes more in heavy-snow regions.

We tension differently for each. 15oz gets ratchets every 4–5 feet along the eave with standard truss-line tension. 30oz gets ratchets every 3–4 feet, an extra eave-tension pass, and a 24-hour settle-and-retension visit on commercial sites. Plan accordingly.

What should I know about ordering Covermore from the US?

1. Covered storage can reduce exposure to sun and precipitation. The benefit depends on the equipment, shelter, maintenance, and site; there is no universal resale premium or protection percentage.
2. Hardware substitutions on cross-border kits. We've seen Covermore orders arrive missing tension straps that the manifest claimed were included. Likely a repack issue at the freight handler, not the manufacturer. The fix is the same either way: open the crate two days before crew day, inventory against the manifest, and call us if anything is short. We carry a backup hardware tray.
3. Warranty support takes patience. The buildings are good but the support phone tree is set up for US business hours and US shipping logistics. If you need a warranty cover replacement, plan for 4–8 weeks rather than the 2–3 weeks a Canadian manufacturer would target.

How much does professional installation cost for a Covermore building?

Flat rate by size — same as every other brand. Common Covermore sizes:

Base installation covers crew assembly of the frame, cover installation and tensioning, and anchoring to the agreed prepared base. Equipment rentals, travel, and lodging are assessed separately after discussing your project. The kit, site preparation, foundations, and permits are separate.

Can I install a Covermore building myself?

Duration is confirmed for the exact kit and site. Frame configuration, access, weather, parts, and equipment affect the installation schedule.

• 15oz on 30-wide and under: achievable for a competent crew of friends with one weekend and a flat site.
• 15oz on 40-wide: borderline. Manlift becomes mandatory; cover deploy needs 4 people minimum; the math on rented equipment usually closes the gap to our flat install rate.
• 30oz on any size: get a crew. The cover handling alone justifies it; cold-weather brittleness adds risk that an experienced crew prices in correctly.
• Container shelters, 20- and 30-wide: doable with crane or telehandler access and a couple of helpers comfortable working off containers.
• Container shelters, 40-wide: get a crew. The cover-deploy geometry above two cans is genuinely tricky.

How long does a Covermore install take?

• Duration is confirmed for the exact kit and site. Frame configuration, access, weather, parts, and equipment affect the installation schedule.
• Duration is confirmed for the exact kit and site. Frame configuration, access, weather, parts, and equipment affect the installation schedule.
• Duration is confirmed for the exact kit and site. Frame configuration, access, weather, parts, and equipment affect the installation schedule.
• Duration is confirmed for the exact kit and site. Frame configuration, access, weather, parts, and equipment affect the installation schedule.
• Duration is confirmed for the exact kit and site. Frame configuration, access, weather, parts, and equipment affect the installation schedule.
• Duration is confirmed for the exact kit and site. Frame configuration, access, weather, parts, and equipment affect the installation schedule.

What should I have ready before install day?

• Pad: level, compacted gravel sized to footprint plus 2-foot working perimeter. Container-mount sites need both containers level to each other within an inch.
• Anchoring: confirmed in advance. Concrete piers, helical piles, or compacted-gravel anchors all work for ground-mounted builds.
• Crate opened and inventoried: 48 hours before crew day, against the manifest. Cross-border kits especially.
• Cover spec confirmed: 15oz or 30oz PVC. Determines crew size, day count, and tensioning protocol.
• Access: 1-ton truck plus manlift on 40-wide and up; crane or telehandler for container shelters.

Our blog post on what to expect on install day covers the full site-prep checklist that applies to every brand we install.

Max Contractors installation information. Confirm the exact model, kit documentation, and site requirements before planning your build.

Last updated: April 28, 2026

Max Contractors is an independent installation company. We are not a dealer for, sponsored by, or affiliated with the manufacturers whose products we install — brand names are used only to identify the kits we work on. Where a commercial relationship exists, we disclose it.

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