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How much room do you need for theatre style seating in a marquee? If a customer comes along and says they want to hold a ceremony in one of your marquees, how are you going to work out the size they need? Like most things to do with marquees it’s very easy, assuming you’re using […]

Unusual seating plans can call for some head-scratching calculations. 95% of the time people will want standard seating arrangements that you’ll have done many times before but just occasionally you get a someone who wants something a bit different. This generally involves unusual shapes or combinations of tables – you may hire them or make […]

There are times when you’ll be asked to put marquees up on all sorts of different surfaces, one of which is sand. There are a couple of things to be aware of: Anchoring the marquee down. If the marquee is going up on a sand school then the ground will probably be solid enough under […]

Nearly all marquee dance floors go together in the same manner using a brick type pattern for strength: All of this may seem common knowledge but to others it could prove interesting. I remember going on site to find one lad so frustrated with the hour that he’d spent trying to edge a dance floor […]

The design of marquee dance floors are all very similar, battens across the back and small battens/teeth at one end. This enables the dance floor to lay nicely and each board to lock in with each other: Back of dance floor board There are a few issues with storing and transporting dance floors. If not […]

A very common question. The way to work it out is to multiply the number of guests by 2.5 and that’s the square footage dance floor area you would typically need. There are some caveats to add to that though: Some examples: As always if in doubt just contact us and we’ll be more than […]

If there’s one thing that you want to get right it’s heating, if people are cold it’ll ruin their night no matter what the marquee looks like. So here are things to bear in mind with marquee heaters: It’s got to be said the ideal heaters are indirect ones, they’re large units that sit outside […]

Very simply one this, to raise a marquees temperature by 20degrees you require 1KW/3500BTU for 5 cubic metres. Some examples: Some things to point out: In short, I would always treat this number as a bare minimum, much better to have more heating than required so it can be turned down than risk having a […]

Working outdoors as a marquee erector you become a little more conscious of the weather than most. As mentioned previously when helping to plan weddings I found it useful to take along a list of that years sunset times to help plan lighting etc. In my experience (obviously this is purely my experience with no […]

Even though the weather is still relatively mild any marquee hire will now be going out with heating. The question is how much fuel do you allow for and what is reasonable? As with many things it is best to preempt any potential head ache by telling the customer in advance. We would usually specify […]