Rental Solution for Crowd Control
Event Accessory Rental in Montreal
The pieces that finish a build: velvet ropes that rent without posts, toppers that cap your belt stanchions, free-standing sign stands and sandbag ballast. All of it leaves Montreal with the rest of the order.
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What we stock
Four items, one page — go straight to the one that brought you here.
Velvet ropes
Five feet of velvet, a carabiner at either end, and no post required.
See velvet ropes
Toppers
A sign frame that seats into the head of a belt stanchion.
See toppers
Sign stands
A post carrying its own frame, needing nothing at all to stand up.
See sign stands
Sandbags
Twenty-five pounds on a buckled strap, pinning a barrier foot to the ground.
See sandbags
Velvet ropes
Velvet ropes are 5 ft, velvet, and carry a carabiner clip at each end. They go out on their own too: if the posts are already yours, order rope and nothing else.
Polished chrome hangs silver ends; gold and black posts both hang gold. The two are never mixed. Silver comes in three colours — red, navy and black. Gold runs to nine.
Posts as well? Rope stanchions → carry exactly these ropes, already matched to a gold, black or polished chrome post.
Red
Gold ends
Gold and black posts
Black
Gold ends
Gold and black posts
White
Gold ends
Gold and black posts
Dark green
Gold ends
Gold and black posts
Pink
Gold ends
Gold and black posts
Navy
Gold ends
Gold and black posts
Blue
Gold ends
Gold and black posts
Green
Gold ends
Gold and black posts
Purple
Gold ends
Gold and black posts
Red
Silver ends
Polished chrome posts
Navy
Silver ends
Polished chrome posts
Black
Silver ends
Polished chrome posts
Toppers
A topper is a frame that mounts on the head of a belt stanchion. It takes an 8.5 × 11 in sheet, which you print and supply yourself.
The topper puts the instruction exactly where a waiting person is already looking: at the head of the line, at reading height, on the post they are standing against. "Line starts here", "Registration A–M", "Guest check-in". Because it travels on the post, moving the lane moves the sign with it, and nobody comes back for the signage afterwards.
It is also the cheapest way to run sponsor panels along a route, since every frame sits on a post the layout was going to need anyway.
The printed sheet comes from you — a letter-size page out of an office printer drops straight in — which means the artwork can change on the morning of the event with nothing to reorder.
A topper needs a belt stanchion underneath it — order those from belt stanchions → on the same quote.
Sign stands
A sign stand is a free-standing post carrying its own frame. It takes the same 8.5 × 11 in sheet, but it stands alone instead of mounting on a post: that is the whole difference from a topper.
Standing alone is precisely the point: it works where there is no queue to clip to. Beside a registration counter, at the lobby junction where guests choose a direction, in a doorway carrying entry conditions, next to an activation.
Against a topper the distinction comes down to one sentence: a topper requires a post, a sign stand requires nothing at all. Most orders take both — toppers along the routes that already have posts, sign stands at every other spot that has to carry a message.
Bring your own printed letter-size sheets. Only the frame is rented; an 8.5 × 11 in page drops in exactly as printed, needing no trimming and no special stock.
Sandbags
Sandbags are 25 lb ballast weights. Each carries a nylon strap that buckles around a barrier foot, and a handle so one person can move several at a time.
On grass and on broken ground a barrier run holds itself. Poured concrete, a paved square, an exposed riverside, or any run that ends in open air instead of closing against a wall: those are the cases where the feet want pinning, and a buckled strap does it without a stake or a drill bit going near the surface.
The same bag settles everything else on site that must not move: a free-standing sign, a lighting stand, a marquee leg. It buckles rather than knots, so striking goes as fast as rigging.
The covers are water-resistant, so a morning build is still weighted after a wet evening. How many you need follows the surface and the exposure of the site rather than the length of the run; send the layout and they are counted on the quote.
Weighting a barrier run? See crowd control barriers →. Stage barricade is held down by the weight of the crowd on its base and needs none — see stage barriers →.
Our accessories in action
Accessories where they end up once the build is finished.
FAQ
Can velvet ropes be rented without the posts?
Yes. If the posts are already yours, order the rope alone and nothing else. Each one is 5 ft of velvet, carabiner at both ends, so it will hang from any standard rope post. Check the end cap before ordering: gold ends for gold and black posts, silver for polished chrome.
What sheet size fits the frame?
Letter size — 8.5 × 11 in — in either frame, portrait or landscape depending on the model. Anything from a print shop or an office printer fits as it comes, with no trimming.
Who prints the signage?
You do. The frame is what we rent; the printed sheets come from you. There is no special stock and no artwork template to work to — letter paper is letter paper — which also means your wording can change on the morning of the event.
Topper or sign stand — what really changes?
Where it stands. A topper seats onto the head of a belt stanchion, so it requires a post and it follows the lane whenever you move it. A sign stand is a free-standing post with its own frame and requires nothing: a counter, a doorway, a lobby junction. The sheet size is the same for both: 8.5 × 11 in.
Does a barrier run need sandbags?
On grass or uneven ground, usually not — the run holds itself. Bags earn their place on concrete, on a paved square, on an exposed site, or anywhere a run ends in open air rather than closing against a building. Stage barricade never calls for them, since the crowd standing on its base is the ballast — see stage barriers →. Send the surface and the layout and the bags are counted on the quote.
How are accessories quoted?
Nothing on this page carries a fixed rate, because a dozen ropes for one doorway and two hundred for a festival are nowhere near the same order. Send the dates, what you need and in what quantity, and the event address: back comes an itemised quote covering the lot, with delivery and collection on their own line.
Do accessories have to be booked as early as the posts?
Accessories follow whatever they attach to, so the dates that fill first are the ones the posts and barriers fill on: gala season and the summer wedding months. Outside those there is no minimum notice — send the dates you have and we will tell you what is possible.