Everything That Goes With It
Event Accessory Rental in Winnipeg
Rope with no post attached, sign frames that ride on the posts you already have, stands that need nothing at all, and ballast for open ground. Out across Winnipeg and Manitoba.
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What we stock
All four live on this page. Pick the one you came looking for.
Velvet ropes
Velvet, 5 ft of it, clipping at both ends. Bring your own posts.
See velvet ropes
Toppers
Slots into the top of a belt post and holds your printed sheet.
See toppers
Sign stands
Its own post, its own frame. Put it anywhere and it stands.
See sign stands
Sandbags
25 lb, a buckled strap, and a barrier foot that stops shifting.
See sandbags
Velvet ropes
Each rope is 5 ft of velvet finished with a carabiner clip at either end. There is no requirement to take posts with them — if you own the posts already, order rope by itself.
Which end cap you get is decided by the post: gold posts and black posts take gold ends, polished chrome takes silver. That gives you nine to choose from with gold ends, and three with silver: red, navy and black.
Need the posts as well? The same ropes come already matched to a gold, black or chrome post over at rope stanchions →.
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 seats on the head of a belt stanchion post and holds an 8.5 × 11 in sheet. The sheet is yours — you print it, we supply the frame.
Think about where somebody standing in a queue is actually looking — forward, roughly at head height, at the nearest post. A topper puts your wording there. "Line starts here." "Registration A–M." "Guest check-in this way." And because the frame travels on the stanchion, redrawing the lane redraws the signage at the same time; nobody has to double back for it.
For sponsor panels or branding down the length of a run, nothing else comes close on cost, since every frame is sitting on a post the layout needed regardless.
Ordinary letter paper straight out of an office printer drops into the frame, which has a useful consequence: the artwork can change on the morning of the event and there is nothing to reorder.
There has to be a belt post underneath one of these. Add them from belt stanchions → and it all lands on the same quote.
Sign stands
Same 8.5 × 11 in sheet, different mounting. A sign stand brings its own floor post, so it stands wherever you put it instead of clipping onto a stanchion. That is the entire distinction.
Being self-supporting is exactly what it is for — the places with no queue to attach to. Alongside a registration desk. At the point in a lobby where guests have to choose a direction. In a doorway carrying entry conditions. Beside an activation.
Put simply: one needs a post, the other needs nothing. Orders usually include both — toppers running down the lanes that have stanchions in them, sign stands covering every other place a message has to appear.
You bring the printed letter-size sheets; the frame is the rental. An 8.5 × 11 in page goes in exactly as it comes off the printer — nothing trimmed, no particular stock required.
Sandbags
Ballast weights at 25 lb apiece. A nylon strap buckles each one around a barrier foot, and a carrying handle means one person can shift several at a time.
Grass and rough ground hold a barrier run perfectly well on their own. Where you need bags is poured concrete, a polished plaza, an exposed shoreline, or any run that stands free rather than closing back against a building. Strapping a bag to the foot solves it, and nothing is staked or drilled into the surface to do it.
Anything else on site that will not stay put takes the same bag — a lighting stand, a pop-up leg, a free-standing sign. Since it buckles rather than ties, taking it off is as fast as putting it on.
The covers are water-resistant, which matters on a build that goes in during the morning and has to still be weighted after a wet night. How many you need follows the surface and the exposure, not the length of the run — send the layout and they get counted on the quote.
Ballasting a barrier line? Start at crowd control barriers →. Stage barricade is a different case entirely — the crowd standing on its own base is what holds it, so it takes no bags at all. See stage barriers →.
Our accessories in action
Small parts, photographed doing their job on site.
FAQ
Do velvet ropes go out on their own?
You can. Own the posts already and the rope goes out by itself. Every one is 5 ft of velvet with a carabiner at each end, so it hangs on any standard rope post. One thing to check before ordering: the end caps. Gold ends pair with gold and black posts, silver ends with polished chrome.
What size sheet goes in the frame?
Letter size, 8.5 × 11 in, for both the topper and the sign stand — portrait or landscape according to the frame. Whether it came off an office printer or out of a print shop, it fits as-is and needs no trimming.
Who prints the signage?
That part is yours. The rental is the frame; the printed sheets come from you. No stock requirement, no artwork specification to satisfy — letter paper is letter paper. Which is also why the wording can change on the day without costing anything.
What is the real difference between a topper and a sign stand?
What holds it up. The topper clips to the head of a belt stanchion, so a post is required and the sign moves whenever the lane does. The sign stand carries its own post and asks for nothing — put it by a desk, in a doorway, at a lobby split. The sheet inside is the same 8.5 × 11 in either way.
Does a barrier run need sandbags?
Usually not on grass or rough ground — the line holds itself there. Concrete, a polished plaza, an exposed site, or a run standing free instead of closing back on a building: those are where bags start to matter. Stage barricade is the exception and never takes them, because the crowd standing on the base is the ballast — see stage barriers →. Tell us the surface and the layout and they are counted on the quote.
How much do accessories cost to rent in Winnipeg?
Nothing on this page carries a fixed rate, and the reason is scale: twelve ropes for one doorway and two hundred across a festival site are different orders in every respect. Send dates, items and quantities, and the address. One itemised figure comes back for all of it, with both journeys inside.
Should these be booked as far ahead as the posts?
Since accessories travel with whatever they attach to, they fill on the same dates the posts and barriers do — award season, and the summer wedding stretch. Every other week is open with no cut-off, so send whatever dates you have and we will tell you what is possible.