Hills Industrial buildings show up on every auction platform in the country. We've installed more of them than we can count. Bought one at auction with no manual? That's the job we built our crew around.
Hills Industrial builds heavy-spec fabric buildings — 21oz triple-layer ripstop PVC, double-truss galvanized frames — and dumps a lot of stock through auction houses with no support and sometimes no manual. We install every size they make at the flat-rate price on our homepage (a 40×80 is $11,888, two days on prepared ground). Bought it on Ritchie Bros and you're staring at a crate? That's the call we get most.
Hills Industrial buildings end up on every auction platform in Canada — IronPlanet, Ritchie Bros, TractorHouse, Weaver Auctions, eBay, Facebook Marketplace. The kits are heavy-duty: 21oz commercial-grade triple-layer ripstop PVC, double-truss galvanized steel frames, and winch-driven roll-up end doors. The steel is thicker per foot of span than most of the budget brands, and the cover is one of the heavier weights on the market. As a building, it's solid.
The problem isn't the kit. The problem is what happens after you win the auction. There's no Canadian phone number to call for assembly help. No parts hotline. The manual that ships with it might be partial, missing, or written for a different revision. Hardware lists don't always match what's actually in the crate. If you find a damaged tube or a bag of bolts short, sourcing replacements from the manufacturer can mean weeks of waiting — assuming you can reach anyone at all.
That's the gap we fill. We've put up enough Hills Industrial buildings on enough Alberta acreages to know the frame layout, truss splice points, bolt patterns, and fabric routing without opening the manual. That's not marketing — it's the practical reason farmers and ranchers call us when an auction win arrives at the yard. For buyers still scoping the auction listing, our kit buyer's checklist walks through the questions to ask before you bid.
All of them. The catalogue is consistent — same double-truss design, same 21oz cover, scaled up by width and length. The sizes we see most often:
If you have something outside this list — a custom width, a longer run, a Hills variant we haven't named — message us with the auction listing or the data plate photo and we'll confirm we can install it. The brands-compared guide shows where Hills sits against TMG, Cover-Tech, and the other heavy-spec kits we install most often.
Yes — and that's the most common Hills install we do. We've assembled enough of them to know the frame layout, truss spacing, bolt patterns, and fabric routing by heart. If your kit arrived with a missing instruction sheet, a damaged tube, or hardware that doesn't match the parts list, we've dealt with it before and we'll deal with it again. We do a full parts check with you at the start of the build — before any lifting — so anything missing gets sourced or substituted before it costs us a day. Most of the missing pieces are common-spec hardware we already carry on the truck; the rest we source locally the same morning. The auction-kit playbook is the same one we use for Suihe, Gold Mountain, and Can Industrial kits — different brand, same crate-on-the-pad starting point.
Hills Industrial uses heavier PVC than most of the budget competitors. The 21oz triple-layer ripstop is extremely durable once installed — it's the cover spec we'd actually choose if we were buying a building for our own yard — but it's also heavy and stiff, especially in cold weather. Getting it up over the trusses and tensioned properly takes equipment, technique, and a crew that's done it before. This is not a "pull it over by hand and call your brother-in-law" situation on the larger models. Tensioning a 21oz cover wrong leaves wrinkles that flap in chinook winds and cut their own service life in half. Done right, that fabric is good for fifteen years on a Prairie site. If you want the longer technical read on cover weights, see what 750g PVC actually means — Hills' 21oz translates to roughly 712g/m², on the heavier end of what's sold in Canada.
For most rural ag installs in standard wind and snow zones, auger or helical anchors into compacted soil work fine on the 30- and 40-ft-wide units. Concrete piers or a continuous footing are recommended for the 50' × 100', for any high-snow region (north of 2.5 kPa ground snow load per the National Building Code of Canada), and for anything going through a municipal permit. We check the manufacturer's anchoring spec against your local snow load before we ship the crew, so the foundation requirement isn't a surprise on install day. If you're not sure what your county's permit threshold is, our setback and permit guide covers the common Alberta counties; for a deeper dive on prep, see the installation guide.
A 30×40 or 30×60 typically takes one to two days with a four-person crew on a prepared site. A 40×80 is two days. The 50×100 is two to three days depending on weather and door configuration. The 21oz fabric is heavier and stiffer than budget covers, especially below freezing, so cold-weather builds add time on the tensioning step. We confirm the date the day before we roll. If you want to know what actually happens hour-by-hour on a build day, see what to expect on install day.
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 brand. A Hills 40×80 costs the same to install as a TMG 40×80 or an Accu-Steel 40×80. The most-installed Hills sizes:
| Size | Install price |
|---|---|
| 30' × 40' | $6,888 |
| 30' × 60' | $9,888 |
| 40' × 60' | $10,888 |
| 40' × 80' | $11,888 |
| 50' × 100' | $14,888 |
Full table from 20×40 up to 70×200 lives on the homepage. For the methodology behind these numbers, see the installation cost guide.
Same pricing applies regardless of brand. Find your size, that's your price.
Written by Peter Huynh, owner-operator of Max Contractors, installing fabric buildings across the Prairies since 2018. Our crew has put up every major brand sold in Canada — and a long list of auction-yard kits without a manufacturer label. Hills Industrial is one of the kits we install most often. Bought a Hills and need a crew? Message us and we'll get back same day.
Last updated: May 4, 2026
Yes. We install every Hills Industrial size and configuration sold in Canada — the 30-, 40-, and 50-ft-wide double-truss frames with 21oz triple-layer ripstop PVC. Most of the ones we put up were bought at auction (Ritchie Bros, IronPlanet, TractorHouse, Marketplace) without manuals. We've assembled enough of them that the manual isn't required.
Pricing is by footprint, not by brand. 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.
Yes. That's the most common Hills install we do. The frame layout, truss spacing, bolt pattern, and fabric routing are consistent across the lineup, so a missing manual doesn't change our schedule. We do a full parts inventory at the start of the build and source any missing hardware locally before we start the lift — most of it is standard size and we keep common pieces on the truck.
The catalogue covers 30×40×22, 30×60×22, 40×60×24, 40×70×22, 40×80×24, and 50×100×26 as the common sizes. The 30×60 and 40×80 are the two we put up most often — they hit the sweet spot for grain, equipment storage, and rural shop space. All run double-truss frames with 21oz triple-layer ripstop PVC and winch-style roll-up end doors.
Auger or helical anchors into compacted soil work for most rural ag installs in standard wind zones. Concrete piers or a continuous footing are recommended for the 50-ft-wide units, anything in a high-snow region, or any building going through a municipal permit. We check the manufacturer spec against your local snow load (per NBCC) before the crew leaves the yard, so the foundation requirement isn't a surprise on install day.
A 30×40 or 30×60 typically takes one to two days with a four-person crew on a prepared site. A 40×80 is two days. The 50×100 is two to three days depending on weather and door configuration. The 21oz fabric is heavier and stiffer than budget covers, especially below freezing, so cold-weather builds add time on the tensioning step. We confirm the date the day before we roll.