Give Your Guests The Red Carpet Treatment !

Chrome Stanchions and Red Velour Rope are a great way to draw attention to a grand opening, movie premier, or theatre production. Two rows of Chrome Stanchions and Red Velour Rope run along the edges of a Red Carpet really make a statement at your entrance!

Other Uses for Stanchion and Rope:

Stanchions and rope can also be used for lining people up at graduations, ticket booths, expo registrations, and other events.

Car shows can use stanchion and rope to create a safe “no touch zone” around their prized possession. Other artistic or historical displays can use a semi circle of stanchion and rope to keep viewers' fingers off.

Define a space with stanchion and rope to create a temporary food court, café or waiting area. By creating an entrance in the proper place, pedestrian traffic is greatly improved by eliminating bottlenecks.

Trim your Budget and have crowd control:

Save money by renting chrome stanchions and buying small diameter white rope to pass between the stanchions. You will save the cost of the velour ropes (which can be as much as $1.25 per foot or more) and you can reduce the number of stanchions needed by lengthening the rope between stanchions. For example: A seventy foot long line of stanchion and velour rope can cost about $190 to rent. This is not a lot of money for a high profile event, but if your event has a tight budget and you need some crowd control, just space the stanchions ten feet apart and use white rope between the stanchions to stretch your budget dollars. The cost of the seventy foot run in this case would be about $80, which saves you $110 !! (This cost includes buying one hundred feet of white poly rope).

If you don’t think the narrow white poly rope will look right for your type of event, you can select a different color (check what is available from your supplier). You may even be able to rent the rope from your event rental company – just call and ask.

Rope weight can be an issue: If heavier velour ropes were clipped together, they could pull the stanchions down. By choosing a 3/8” poly rope or a ¼” cotton (clothesline type) rope, there would be no weight issue. However, if you got your hands on some free dock lines used to tie off boats – the stanchion line is sure to fall over.

Installing Stanchions and Rope:

When setting up your chrome stanchion line, you can “eyeball” the line straight, or use a long string taped to the floor to get the line perfect. Just figure out where your stanchion line should be and run a long string between two points. The string should be pulled fairly tight, but not so tight as to pull the tape up which is securing it. Warn people not to walk over your string or they may kick it loose before you are finished setting up.

You could also mark off the floor with tape every ten feet to get your stanchions evenly spaced. The edge of the stanchion base will be placed just beside the string (not on top of it – this will make the string removal easier) during the stanchion set-up.

When you are ready to run the long rope you bought, the easiest way to install it on the stanchions is to form it into a “U” shape and pass it up through the bottom of the rope ring near the top of the stanchion. Then put the loop over the crown of the stanchion to secure it.

This method will allow you to adjust the length of the ropes between the stanchions very easily. It will also eliminate tying knots at every stanchion (a time consuming task) and make for extremely easy rope removal - just push the loops up off each stanchion, drop them on the floor, untie both end stanchions, and coil the rope.

The above method can be used for stanchion and velour rope installation as well.



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