[SML] Folding chair rental questions--

[Stephen Rees]

SUNY Fredonia purchased about 2000 non-folding plastic very heavy wire
stacking chairs for use at the field house commencement.  They each had
welded on "hooks and receivers" that allowed them to be ganged. Regardless,
the AHJ requires each them to be zip-tied at 3 points upon setup.  They
stack about 20 chairs to a cart and they are stored in the services complex
warehouse between uses. Sorry I don't have a photo. They have been in use
for at least 15 or more years with good success.  I can suss out the vendor
if you ask me to.
Steve

Stephen E. Rees
RAC Addition Project Shepherd
State University of New York at Fredonia
716.673.3208 Office
716.680.1565 Mobile


On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 3:47 PM, gbierly--- via Stagecraft <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

> > I’m curious what other venues do in this situation?
> > Do you own your own chairs?
> > Where do you rent from?
> > Do you budget for the cost of the nicer chairs or go with the cheap ones?
>
> We are a high school and rented metal tube/plastic chairs for our
> graduation for years.  We did two set ups, 1 for indoors and 1 for
> outdoors.  We rented @700 for each location.  About 15 years ago the
> district bought 700 black all metal folding chairs and racks to set up the
> indoor set-up and still rented for outdoors.  After graduation the 700 and
> racks were distributed between the 10 schools in the district for special
> events.  All were to be brought back together at the end of May each year
> to set up graduation.  We now hold graduation at a local college field
> house and they provide 3000 metal tube/plastic chairs (800 they own and
> then rent the rest).
>
> Typically college graduations are a couple of weeks prior to high
> schools.  Look at working out a deal with the local high school(s) (or
> churches), you each buy a percentage of the total number needed of the
> nicer chairs and then lend them back and forth for large events such as
> graduations.  My college owned around 40 Wenger Showmaster decks.
> Armstrong corporate bought around 40 for their trade shows/business
> meetings back in the 80’s.  They would lend decks and accessories back and
> forth for years until the corporate meeting market dropped off in the 90’s
> and Armstrong sold off that division.  Their decks stayed local and still
> get merged with the colleges on occasion.
>
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> Greg Bierly
> Performing Arts Center Manager
> Hempfield High School
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