What A Quote Is Built From
Stanchion Rental Quotes in Ottawa
Every order here is quoted rather than priced off a card, because the same equipment behaves like a completely different order at six posts and at six hundred. This page sets out what the figure is assembled from, so nothing on your quote arrives as a surprise.
- Ask for what the catalogue does not list
- We know what corporate clients and agencies need
- Orders taken right across Canada
Starting rates
Each factor listed here shifts the number. Your quote is built from them and answers your quantities, your dates and your address.
| Quantity | The main one | Six posts at a boardroom door and a switchback holding two thousand delegates are one product doing two unrelated jobs. |
|---|---|---|
| Rental period | Days to a month+ | A single-evening gala and a fortnight-long installation quote differently, and a long hire is not the daily figure multiplied out. |
| What the equipment has to do | Shape, not headcount | A straight lane, a switchback and a barrier perimeter are three separate orders for exactly the same number of people. |
| Delivery address | Anywhere in Ontario | Stock sits here in Ottawa. How far it travels — and what the crew finds when they get there — is built into the figure, not bolted on at the end. |
| Setup and pickup | Optional | Either the crew stays to place everything and returns to strike it, or the van unloads and leaves. Tell us which on the enquiry and it gets priced in. |
| Custom work | Quoted the same way | A runner cut to an awkward walk, a mixed run of belt and rope posts, a barrier line routed round a building — none of it is treated as an exception. |
What is already included
Three things people ask about most — two of them already covered, one that decides whether a date is yours:
Insurance
Covered by the rental itself. You will not find a second charge for it anywhere on the quote.
Pickup
Coming back for the equipment is part of the delivery line, not a second job. One line, both trips.
Booking
Your dates are locked against the stock only once payment has gone through in full.
Setup and teardown
Crew setup and strike is optional and never sold at a flat rate, for the obvious reason: eight posts inside a lobby has almost nothing in common with fencing a festival site. Request it on the enquiry and it appears as its own line on the quote.
Plenty of clients never bother. The posts are light enough to carry by hand and clip together with no tools at all, which puts a small run comfortably within reach of a venue team.
Delivery
Getting the equipment to you is quoted as part of the order, and picking it up again afterwards is inside the same line. Exactly two things move that number: where it goes and how much of it there is.
Dropping a handful of posts at a downtown lobby and loading out a field site are different jobs before anybody has driven anywhere. Once those two are settled, the remaining variable is mileage.
Our service areas → page lists where we drive. Or skip it — send the address and the dates and the delivery line arrives itemised with everything else.
Cancellation
Events get pulled. Here is what happens to the money when they do:
| 48 hours or more ahead of the rental date | Everything refunded. |
|---|---|
| Under 48 hours, but at least 24 | Half the order refunded. |
| Inside the final 24 hours | Nothing refunded. |
Everything above is a summary. Terms and conditions → carries the binding wording, and that is the version that governs.
Common questions about quotes
What does the number cover?
Equipment plus insurance — there is no second insurance charge stacked on the rental. Delivery is shown to you as a line of its own instead of appearing later as a surprise, and the collection run home is folded into that same line.
What should we send you?
Dates, what you want and how many of it, and where it is going — three things. An event rental specialist takes those, itemises the kit, prices the drive to that address, and comes back with a single figure for all of it.
At what point is the equipment ours?
When the order is paid in full. Until then it is quoted rather than held, which on a busy weekend is the whole argument for settling early.
How far ahead is worth booking?
The calendar fills where you would expect it to — award season, weddings from spring through summer, corporate evenings in December. Every other week has no cut-off whatsoever: give us the dates and we will tell you what is still uncommitted.