Edmonton, Alberta
Stanchions in Edmonton
Belt stanchions, sign frames, storage carts and printed belts to buy or to rent, delivered across Edmonton and the towns on its edge.
What Edmonton orders
Posts by the dozen, and the parts that go with them.
An order for a long queue is not an order for posts. It is posts, plus the belt length that decides how many of them there are, plus the signage that stops people asking staff where the line starts, plus somewhere for all of it to live between the setup and the strike. Leaving any of the three off makes the first one wrong.
Belt length before post count
A longer belt covers the same line with fewer posts. Decide the belt first and the post count answers itself.
Sign frames on the head posts
The first post of each leg carries the wording. It is what keeps a switchback readable from the back of the room.
Carts for the strike
A run of forty posts has to go somewhere at the end of the night. A cart moves twenty at a time instead of two.
Where we deliver
Edmonton and the ring of towns around it.
Deliveries cover the city and the communities on its edge, including the industrial park south of the airport where a lot of the region’s events are staged rather than held. Large orders arrive on carts where the venue allows them, because forty posts carried by hand is a different job from forty posts wheeled in.
- Edmonton
- St. Albert
- Sherwood Park
- Spruce Grove
- Stony Plain
- Leduc
- Beaumont
- Fort Saskatchewan
- Nisku
Orders go to the rooms that hold the numbers:
- the convention centre stepping down into the river valley
- the arena and the entertainment district around it
- the shopping centre in the west end
- the exhibition grounds in the northeast
- the legislature precinct and the government buildings
- the airport terminal south of the city
Send the floor dimensions and the number of people you expect through, and we will come back with the post count rather than asking you for one.
Working out the count
Measure the line, not the room.
The usual mistake is to count the floor. A hall gives you an area; a queue is a length, folded. What decides the order is how long the line is when it is stretched out straight, how wide each leg has to be for people to pass, and how many turns that folding produces — because every turn is a post that carries two belts instead of one and cannot be spaced like the rest.
Legs wide enough to pass
A leg that is too tight means people step over the belt rather than walk to the end of it, and then the queue is not a queue.
Corners cost extra posts
A turn needs its own post and it cannot be stretched to the full belt length. Count the corners separately from the straights.
An entry and an exit
Both ends need a post that is not holding a belt in two directions, which is what stops the whole run being dragged when the line surges.
Worth asking
What a large Edmonton order asks.
- How many posts does our queue need?
- Send the length of the line when it is straightened out, the width the legs have to be, and the shape of the space, and we will work it back for you. Doing it the other way round — picking a number and seeing whether it fits — is how a room ends up with a run that stops short of the door.
- Does a longer belt save money?
- It saves posts, which is usually the same thing. A longer belt covers more line between two points, so the same queue takes fewer posts to build. Where it does not help is on the turns, because a corner needs its own post regardless of how long the belts either side of it are.
- How does a big order get moved once it is on site?
- On carts, where the venue lets them through. A cart takes a stack of posts in one trip instead of an armful, and for a run in the dozens it is the difference between a setup and an afternoon. They are ordered alongside the posts rather than assumed.
- What stops people ducking under the belt?
- Making the line readable rather than making it stronger. Signage on the head post of each leg, and legs wide enough that walking to the end is not obviously slower than climbing over. Where ducking is a real problem, a twin belt post is the answer.
- Can we hold part of the order back for a second room?
- Yes — a large order can be split across drops if the venue has somewhere to keep the rest. Tell us which room is built first and the delivery follows that order rather than arriving as one pile at the loading door.
Ask for a quote
Send us the floor plan and we will count the Edmonton posts.
Add what you need with the Buy or Rent button on each product, then open the order and say how many and where. You get a written quote back with the options laid out. Delivery, setup and collection are quoted on their own lines, so you can take them or leave them.