Budget table hire can save money upfront but often creates problems on the day and costs more overall. Here's why quality matters.
Budget table hire can save money upfront but often creates problems on the day and costs more overall. Here's why quality matters.
At Expo Hire, quality takes precedence over price. It matters to us that we offer the best tables and chairs we can, which is why this blog is the only place on this website where you will find the words cheap table hire.
We understand that event budgets are under pressure. Energy prices, food costs and general inflation have all tightened what people have to spend. But our experience in furniture hire consistently shows that ordering the cheapest available option tends to cost more by the end of the event.
The word cheap carries an implication of low quality, and with furniture that usually holds true. Cheap products tend to use cheaper materials, cheaper manufacturing and fewer quality checks.
We hire out thousands of tables and chairs each year. The most popular products can go out to multiple customers per week. This means our furniture needs to look good and hold up to repeated use, which cheap chair and table hire cannot deliver over time.
Cheaper furniture made from inferior materials will fail sooner. A chair collapsing under a guest, or a table splintering during service, is embarrassing for the customer and for us. We use furniture made to exacting standards to prevent this. Our banqueting tables, for example, have a single-piece wooden tabletop and folding legs built to handle repeated use without failing.
Customers sometimes ask if they can collect furniture from us rather than pay for delivery. We understand the motivation, but from experience customer collection is not the saving it appears to be.
Our warehouses are not set up for customer access, which creates insurance problems on our side. From the customer's perspective, most vehicle insurance does not cover transporting commercial hire equipment. If furniture is damaged in transit in an uninsured vehicle, the cost of replacement falls entirely on the customer.
There are also practical problems. Banqueting tables fold flat but are still large enough to be impossible to fit into an ordinary car. Arriving without the right vehicle wastes time for everyone and often forces customers to hire a van, which usually costs more than the original delivery charge would have.
We have done what we can to reduce costs for customers ordering furniture hire from us. By running a fully online ordering system, we have reduced our own overheads and passed those savings on. All pricing and stock availability is shown online with no quotation required, and our checkout process is transparent.
We do not charge a damage deposit, and every order includes a free slight damage waiver. This reduces the amount of cash required upfront and removes the risk of minor damage creating unexpected costs.
We may not offer cheap table and chair hire, but we do offer the best prices we can on quality furniture.
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