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With most parts of the country suffering ‘a bit of rain’ recently cleaning your marquees suddenly shoots up your to-do list. And rightly so, storing your marquees away when wet ages them very quickly, especially windows. Firstly, there are two types of dirt you get on marquees For splashed on mud you need to get […]

If you’re out erecting marquees at the moment then it’s a bit cold but you should avoid using heaters to warm you up, at least until the flooring is down. Putting marquees up in bad weather isn’t the greatest but we do work in an industry that means once the marquee’s up we’re effectively working […]

If you’re out erecting marquees at the moment then it’s a bit cold but you should avoid using heaters to warm you up, at least until the flooring is down. Putting marquees up in bad weather isn’t the greatest but we do work in an industry that means once the marquee’s up we’re effectively working […]

There are basically five options for flooring a marquee: Wooden/suspended floor, carpet, matting, plastic tiling or breathable flooring (softex etc). The best finish is a wooden floor with new exhibition carpet on top, it’s also the most expensive. The worst in my opinion is breathable flooring as it allows condensation to build up. We once […]

Ever gone in to a marquee and the matting looks like the waves on an angry sea? Assuming it was laid correctly there’s actually a very simple reason. As mentioned in a previous post coconut matting is a very popular way of flooring marquees. Harder wearing and longer lasting than carpet, more attractive (in a […]

Marquee flooring: As we’re now supplying carpet it makes sense to run through how to lay it in a marquee. First off you need to lay out a groundsheet or tarpaulin. Why? Well this stops any moisture coming up and prevents condensation building up. As I’ve mentioned/ranted previously I just don’t understand why anyone would […]

This is how we and most of the marquee hire industry lay marquee flooring Any marquee flooring should have a non-breathable layer down underneath the main surface. This prevents the grass from giving off water vapour that will come back down as condensation and stops the surface getting muddy. Grass is tough stuff and covering […]

In an ideal world all gardens would be level as bowling greens and have vehicular access right next door. In reality gardens come in all shapes and sizes and most of the time marquees are erected well away from car parking. Most garden surfaces can be covered one way or another but there are a […]

We recently decided to put a range of marquee stakes to the test to determine which stakes are most suitable for anchoring down a DIY Marquee. What stakes did we test? In this test we tested a range of stakes including, longer and shorter stakes, J shaped stakes, rebar stakes, rusty vs new stakes and […]

With it being 2023 and the cost of living crisis in full swing you may think that a marquee wedding is out of the question. In fact, it’s well within reach and at much less than you would expect. One of the best solutions to a smaller, budget wedding is to purchase your own marquee […]