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dwpineal
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Building portable sidewalls for an EZ-Up Canopy for festival vending
#14434571 - 05/11/11 11:59 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Not sure if anyone here has any ideas or input, so I figured I'd throw this out there.
I've been doing some vending at festivals for about 2 years, still very much a newbie at it and learning something each time I go out. One day I was at this show and I saw the guys in the canopy next to mine securing plastic net fencing to the sides of their EZ-Up. They rolled it out and zip tied it to each pole on the EZ-up so it made a U shape, covering 3 sides of the EZ-up and leaving the front side open for customers to walk in. They were displaying art/paintings/2D stuff. The fencing stuff looked exactly like this;

It worked for them and they were able to display their art. I didn't really like the way it looked though, kinda ghetto-rigged, but it was functional.
I really liked the use of vertical real estate as opposed to putting everything on tables, like I usually do. If I could create the side walls as displays, then I can hang up a lot of my inventory and create more room on the tables for pendants, patches, jewelry, etc.
So here is what I am thinking;
Taking a 20ft x 6ft roll of 75% shade cloth from Home Depot, and putting in grommets (you can buy these little snap on grommets, they look pretty cool. And cutting the shade cloth down into two 10 foot pieces. Fitting the 2 pieces with the grommets and then using zip ties to secure it tightly to 2 of the sides of the EZ-UP, leaving the front open for customers, and the back open for me to go out and re-stock or whatever...
An alternative thought is that I can try to make it so that I create a little "fold-over" on the edges that would allow me to slide the shade cloth over the poles, tehn connect the poles to have a nice tight, secure sidewall, and then using zipties to secure the walls to the EZ-UP (it's a 10 x 10 ft canopy)
Kinda want to create something like this, but for my canopy -

I'm hoping it will hold the weight of framed art stuff, not too heavy, but I'm sure they have some weight...
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Re: Building portable sidewalls for an EZ-Up Canopy for festival vending [Re: dwpineal]
#14435323 - 05/11/11 03:01 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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shade cloth has too much give, the crap from home depot will degrade pretty quickly, try hardware cloth, the 1"x1" wire mesh
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Re: Building portable sidewalls for an EZ-Up Canopy for festival vending [Re: Prisoner#1]
#14438705 - 05/12/11 05:13 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Thanks so much!!! Can I buy the hardware cloth anywhere OTC or does it have to be ordered online?
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Re: Building portable sidewalls for an EZ-Up Canopy for festival vending [Re: dwpineal]
#14439187 - 05/12/11 08:57 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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you can buy it otc
i dont know how much room you have to transfer your stuff to trade shows but my girl and i use old reclaimed window screens either spray painted of replaced with copper screen works great and it has a great earthy feal to it down side they take up alot of room up side you can sell them also so everything in your booth is for sale
well hope this helps have fun
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Re: Building portable sidewalls for an EZ-Up Canopy for festival vending [Re: Mike711]
#14439380 - 05/12/11 09:59 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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That's a really cool idea But yeah we're limited on space, one of the reasons I thought the cloth would be cool, as it folds up to pretty small.
I looked at the wire mesh, but that looks too industrial for me...not sure what we'll do, but you know what they say about necessity!
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Re: Building portable sidewalls for an EZ-Up Canopy for festival vending [Re: dwpineal]
#14444918 - 05/13/11 11:05 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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maybe there is a plastic coated version of hardware cloth? I really like hardware cloth as a way to hang stuff. I used to use it on a ceiling in grow rooms so I could reposition lights in seconds.
http://www.louispage.com/blog/bid/7970/Hardware-Cloth-Vinyl-Coated-Welded-Wire-Mesh
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Re: Building portable sidewalls for an EZ-Up Canopy for festival vending [Re: argg]
#14448720 - 05/13/11 11:28 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Canvas tarps?
I liked the hardware cloth idea Going industrial at the festival
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Re: Building portable sidewalls for an EZ-Up Canopy for festival vending [Re: Carl Sagan]
#14449748 - 05/14/11 06:13 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Canvas Tarps look cool! I waited until the last minute, so I'll have to find something local, but I do live in a major Metro area...I hope I find SOMETHING before next Friday...
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Re: Building portable sidewalls for an EZ-Up Canopy for festival vending [Re: dwpineal]
#14450448 - 05/14/11 10:33 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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If your going to buy it local check out any/all landscaped suppliers in you area As far as ordering online, Im sure you can order today and have it by friday.  This company has canvas and nylon mesh
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