Ottawa, Ontario
Stanchion rental in Ottawa
Posts, ropes, steel barricades and printed sign frames for hire across Ottawa and Gatineau, for ceremonial, official and conference events.
For hire in Ottawa
What you can rent
Black Belt Stanchion Rental
Chrome Belt Stanchion Rental
Chrome Rope Stanchion Rental
Gold Rope Stanchion Rental
Black Rope Stanchion Rental
Velvet Rope Rental
Red Carpet Rental
Sign Holder Rental
T-Stand Sign Holder Rental
Galvanized Steel Barricade Rental
Stage Barrier Rental
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Rental prices
Stanchion rental prices in Ottawa
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 Ottawa hires
The layout is agreed before the equipment is allowed to stand.
A large share of what goes out in this city is going to an event where somebody else decides where the line may be. A protocol officer, a building manager or a security lead walks the route first, and what they agree is a diagram: where a barrier may cross, which doors stay clear, how wide a route has to be and which side of it a camera stands on. That changes how a hire is quoted, because the count follows the diagram rather than the room, and it usually changes at least once between the brief and the doors opening.
A count that can move
Runs are quoted with room in them, because a route agreed on a walk-through is rarely the route that was drawn a week earlier.
Bilingual panels as standard
Sign frames here carry English and French on the same panel rather than on two, so a route reads the same from both directions.
Barricade where a perimeter is required
Interlocking steel for a controlled outer line, rope and posts inside it where the event is meant to look like an event.
Where we deliver
Over the bridges, and quoted as one order.
Deliveries run across the city and into Gatineau, which is one delivery area in practice and two provinces on paper. Delivery, setup and collection are quoted on their own lines; for an event with a signed-off layout the setup line is usually taken, because a run built to a diagram is easier to hand over than to explain.
- Ottawa
- Gatineau
- Kanata
- Orléans
- Nepean
- Barrhaven
- Stittsville
- Gloucester
- Vanier
- Manotick
- Rockland
- Aylmer
Deliveries go to the places an Ottawa date is usually held:
- the convention centre and the conference floors beside the canal
- the arena out west and the stadium at Lansdowne
- the museums and galleries along both banks of the river
- the ceremonial lawns, forecourts and plazas downtown
- hotel ballrooms in Centretown and across the river
- the campus halls and the exhibition grounds
Send the diagram you have been given along with the brief, and the count is quoted against it rather than against the floor area.
Worth asking
What an Ottawa brief usually asks first.
- What is the rental rate for stanchions in Ottawa?
- $19 a day, $29 for three days or $39 for a week, for either a black post with retractable belt or a gold post with velvet rope. Bilingual printed panels, delivery, setup and collection are added as separate lines, so the quote shows exactly what the ceremony is paying for.
- Can the panels be in English and French?
- Yes, and on one panel rather than two. Sign frames take a printed sheet and the wording is set out in both languages on the same sheet, so a route reads correctly whichever direction somebody approaches it from. Send the French wording you want used rather than leaving it to be translated, because official events usually have wording that is already agreed.
- The layout may change after the site walk. Is that a problem?
- No — it is expected here, and it is the reason a count is quoted with room in it rather than exactly. Tell us at the brief stage which parts of the route are still being agreed, and the run goes out with enough in it to be rebuilt on site instead of a second order having to be raised.
- Do you deliver across the river into Gatineau?
- Yes. It is one delivery area in practice, and an event that uses a site on each bank is quoted as one order rather than as two. Say which side each drop is on and roughly when each has to land, because the bridges decide the order the stops are made in.
- What holds an outdoor perimeter on a hard forecourt?
- Interlocking steel barricade, which stands on its own feet and holds a continuous line without anything being fixed to the ground. Nothing is drilled, pegged or anchored into a surface, which is usually the requirement on a heritage or government forecourt. Belt posts outdoors take a weighted base, and that base is a separate item on the order.