Blog posts tagged with 'party rental'

The 2016 Rental Show is fast approaching with less than a week to go! We're excited to be in the Party/Event Rental section in booth 333 – right next to two major tent players Aztec Tents and Warner Shelter Systems.

Click here for an easy to print map of how to find us!

We're going to be at the show exhibiting our tabletop items, plastic and wood folding tables, event chairs and polyester / spandex table cloths.

NEW this year and featured in the booth are:

• Rustic and Dark Fruitwood Stacking Crossback Chairs
• Stemware washing racks
• Banquet Chairs
• Cruiser Table Cart
• Folding Bar Chair Cart
• Spun Polyester Table Cloths
• Spandex Folding Chair Covers
• Melamine Rectangle Serving Bowl

Make sure you stop by booth 333 to check out our show special pricing on our wood / plastic folding tables and event chairs and pick up a copy of our new catalogue!

We are also sponsoring the following events and would love to see you there to chat about the current industry trends:

Canadian Rental Association Hospitality Event at the Rental Show

Date / Time: Sunday, February 21st, 2016 from 7:00 - 10:00 pm
Location: Hard Rock Café, 215 Peachtree St. NE, Atlanta, GA 30303

Region 10 Reception

Date / Time: Monday February 22, 2016 5:00PM – 6:30PM
Location: TBA – look for signs at the Rental Show

We look forward to seeing you at the show!

Many Canadians use online shopping these days to purchase household items or gifts. In fact, according to Canada Post, 76% of Canadians shopped online in 2014; a number that is sure to have increased in 2015 due to how fast we’re seeing the adoption of online shopping. So when a customer orders a product off our website to either pick up at our warehouses or get shipped, it is understandable that the perception is they will receive a shipment like the below:

I’m going to show you just how big shipping (or picking up) special event equipment can get by using some common orders as an example.

Here are 80 white resin folding chairs:

This skid measures 40” L (3ft 4”) x 48” D (4ft) x 77” H (6ft 5”) and weighs approximately 900lbs.

Here are 72 chiavari chairs – an average order volume would be 100 chiavari chairs:

100 chiavari chairs would roughly be 3 skids of chairs, with skid dimensions of 52” W x 48” D x 81” H and weighing roughly 1200lbs each skid.

Here is 10 – 20 6ft rectangle plastic folding tables:

Since we generally average around 10 to 20 6ft rectangle plastic folding tables in one order, I am going to give dimensions for both quantities.

10 tables has a skid dimension of 32” L x 72” D x 25” H and an approximate weight of 370lbs. 20 tables has a skid dimension of 32” x 72” x 45 ¾” and an approximate weight of 700lbs.

The 6ft round folding tables (wood or plastic) tend to surprise customers the most. They have to be skidded on a custom-sized skid of 74” (6ft 2”) x 74” so they take up 148sqft of truck space. The skid itself is 40lbs and each table is also heavy – with the wood table weighing in at 78lbs and the plastic table weighing in at 73lbs. They’re a sight to behold and really the below photo doesn’t do it justice.

Harvest tables have been gaining steam throughout the past year and into 2016. Weddings are popping up all over the place with industrial rustic, romantic rustic, rustic elegant, rustic vintage, and so on. Basically any wedding theme you can think of went on a date with the rustic theme for the past year’s weddings. At the centre of those weddings was almost always the solid wood harvest table.

Let’s all take a minute to drool over this table. It is gorgeous in all its solid woody, walnutty goodness. It is a perfect table for serving family-style dinners or having lots of room for centerpiece action. Generally holds 8 people comfortably and doesn’t require linens (another bonus). Naturally rental companies and event venues are getting asked a lot whether they have harvest tables in inventory. And then rental companies are wondering what the average cost of harvest tables in Canada is.

Here’s what you can expect:

The average cost of solid wood harvest tables in Canada ranges from $499 - $1500.00.

Why the huge range?

The range is a combination of things – we’ve heard a lot of rental companies couldn’t find harvest tables and built their own – which actually costed towards the higher end of the range when all was said and done. Another reason for the range is retail vs. wholesale pricing. Pricing of wholesale harvest tables will be cheaper than buying in a home décor store. The third reason for the range will be the type of wood used.

The ownership of National Event Supply recognized early-on into buying the business that there was a lack of replacement parts that existed in the market for event chairs and folding tables. Many party rental companies would rather replace parts then having to pay for an entirely new table. This definitely makes sense for minimizing the business expenses required – especially when the folding table or chair is still in good rental condition. So we brought in folding table and event chair accessories like the plastic leg clips for folding tables.

These plastic leg clips for folding tables help ensure the folding table legs are secured to the tabletop when the table is folded. It makes the table way easier to transport – a huge issue to rental companies as well as church groups, community centres or anywhere else that is consistently setting up and moving folding tables.

The problem with the plastic leg clips that we sell is that they are very specifically made for our NES Reliable plastic folding tables – meaning they may not fit your folding table. Two ways they may not fit: the diameter of your folding table leg may be smaller or bigger in diameter or the underside of the table doesn’t have a place to attach the plastic leg clip to.

Example of folding table leg clip smaller than the folding table leg:

Example of the specific place the plastic leg clip attaches to:

These are two perfect examples of why we always say that the plastic table leg clips are only guaranteed to work on our plastic folding tables.

We always like questions on how to use our products. They’re a great way to find out more about how our products should be used in their intended. Over the past two weeks we have shared the answer to the reader questions “how far apart should rows of chiavari chairs be?” and “how far apart should rows of white resin folding chairs be?” We've also had a reader ask “how far apart should rows of plastic folding chairs be?” and I thought it worth sharing the answer. From a guest’s point of view, having chair rows too close together can be uncomfortable. I know I have attended many hockey and baseball games where the stadiums cram rows of seating in and going to get a drink or to the restroom is an awkward experience to say the least. On the flip side of this, if chairs are spaced too far apart, guests won’t be able to adequately interact with one another and the room feels like there is wasted space.

The rule of thumb for how far apart rows of plastic folding chairs: 33.25 inches from chair back to chair back.

Our Plastic Folding Chairs are 15.25 inches deep. We need to leave an additional 18 inches between the back of the chair row in front to the plastic folding chair front of the row behind.

The rule of thumb for how far apart each plastic folding chair should be in a row: each plastic folding chair in a row should be spaced 2 inches apart so guests don’t feel crowded or uncomfortable.