Kitchener, Ontario
Barricade rental in Kitchener
Steel barricades, belt posts and printed sign frames for hire in Kitchener and Waterloo Region, delivered to beer halls, festival tents and club floors.
For hire in Kitchener
What you can rent
Rental prices
Stanchion rental prices in Kitchener
Posts + Ropes
Gold post + velvet rope
Price per post, with its velvet rope
- Per day
- $19
- 3-day
- $29
- Weekly
- $39
Posts + Belts
Black post + retractable belt
Price per post, with its retractable belt
- Per day
- $19
- 3-day
- $29
- Weekly
- $39
Delivery, setup and collection are available and quoted on their own lines. The final price is confirmed in your quote.
What Kitchener hires
Three checks before the first pint, and a way back in.
The region has a long habit of beer halls and festival tents, and a licensed event of that kind is a sequence of checkpoints rather than one queue. Somebody checks identification at the gate, somebody else fastens a wristband, the bar draws a separate line, and sooner or later people step outside and expect to be let back in without starting again. Each of those points needs a lane that feeds it and a lane that leaves it, and the two must never cross — otherwise the wristband desk ends up serving people who were never checked.
A lane into every check
Barricade at the gate funnels arrivals into single file for identification, then opens onto the wristband desks behind it.
Belt posts at the bars
Retractable belt splits the drinks line from the crowd around it, and is reset in a few moves when a second bar opens.
A marked route for re-entry
A separate lane for banded guests coming back in, signed on a printed panel so nobody mistakes it for the main queue.
Where we deliver
Kitchener, Waterloo and the townships around them.
Tents go up on parking lots, market squares and fairgrounds as often as festivals fill a hall, so a drop here is planned against what is underfoot: asphalt, grass or a temporary floor. Delivery, building the lanes and taking them down afterwards are quoted as three distinct charges; a tent with a crew of volunteers often takes the barricade stacked and lays it out from a drawing.
- Kitchener
- Waterloo
- Cambridge
- St. Jacobs
- Elmira
- Breslau
- Baden
- New Hamburg
- Ayr
- Woolwich
- Wilmot
- Wellesley
Deliveries go to the halls, tents and floors a Kitchener crowd gathers in:
- the club halls that host the autumn beer festival
- festival tents on market squares and parking lots
- the auditorium and arena complex on the east side
- the two university campuses in Waterloo
- the farmers market and its surrounding lots north of the city
- the downtown squares and the plaza by city hall
Draw the gate, the bars and the door people leave by for a smoke, and each checkpoint is quoted with the lanes that lead into it.
Worth asking
What a festival tent needs answered.
- How much is stanchion hire in Kitchener?
- $19 for a single day, $29 across three days and $39 over a week — the same for a gold post with velvet rope as for a black post with retractable belt. A festival running several nights sits on the weekly rate. Delivery to the tent, building the lanes and clearing them away are priced separately and appear under the hire.
- How should an ID check and a wristband desk be laid out?
- In sequence, never side by side. Barricade narrows the crowd to single file at the identification check, and only people who have passed it can reach the wristband desks behind. If both desks face open ground, somebody will walk straight to the second one. Send a sketch of the gate and the desks and the lanes are counted from it.
- How do you handle re-entry?
- With a lane kept apart from the main queue from the door onwards, and a printed panel at its mouth so banded guests find it. It usually runs beside the exit rather than the entry. A re-entry lane that shares barricade with the arrivals line gets used as a shortcut, so it is quoted as a separate run.
- Will barricade stand on a tent floor or on grass?
- Yes. Galvanized sections sit steady on asphalt, a boarded floor or level grass, and they hook together so the run keeps its shape when people lean on it. Belt posts are better kept to hard floors inside the tent; on grass they need a heavier base, which is a separate item on the order.
- Can the barricades carry sponsor branding?
- Yes — printed covers fit over each section and turn the gate line into a banner for whoever is pouring. Belts in the bar lines can be printed as well, and sign frames take panels for the menu and the house rules. Artwork is produced for each order, so it travels with the brief.