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Rental Tents – 7 Types of Rental Tents For Your Next Meeting Or Party
By Tom Wodetzki

Rental tents come in a wide variety of types and sizes. Just as Microsoft offers a variety of products for their customers, tent and special event rental companies are constantly adding to their inventories and experimenting with new products based on customer demand. While there are dozens of tent styles on the market, they can all be classified into seven distinct types.

1. EUROPEAN STYLE CLEARSPAN TENT: This type of tent is identified by its box-beam design, A-shaped support structure and its lack of any interior supports or exterior tie-downs (guy-lines). It is designed for both short and long-term rentals (a few days to years) with minimal maintenance and is the strongest and most weather resistant tent on the rental market. It generally rents for more money than any other style tent, but since its use began in the U.S. 30 years ago it is fast becoming the predominant rental tent for a variety of uses. Clear span tents are modular and range in size from 100 square feet to over 100,000 square feet. The European style is by far the most popular tent rented or sold in the United States due to its great utility and ease of installation.

2. CURVED BEAM STYLE CLEARSPAN TENT: The curved beam clear span tent has many of the same features of the European style but utilizes a curved beam support structure instead of the classic A shaped frame. The curved beam style is utilized by mostly smaller rental companies and is not particularly popular.

3. TENSION TENTS (single center pole): This type of tent is characterized by its use of constant tension on all of the fabric (not just support bands) which is an integral part of the tents design and engineering. A tension tent traditionally has interior poles and exterior guy-lines for support and can be manufactured in a variety of shapes and sizes. The single center pole design only requires one row of center poles running down the center of the tent

4. TENSION TENTS (twin center poles): This type of tension tent is similar to the singe center pole design except that it utilizes two (twin) rows of center poles which allow for a much larger tent.

5. FRAME TENTS (hip roof style): Frame tents are manufactured from round tube aluminum and steel fittings creating a framework to which the fabric roof is attached. The framework carries the load and the fabric merely acts as a weather barrier. Frame tents generally are smaller, ranging in size from 100 square feet to 3,200 square feet.

6. FRAME TENTS (peaked roof style): Similar to the hip roof style tent except that it utilizes an aesthetically appealing peaked roof.

7. POLE TENTS: A pole tent is what we traditionally think of as a circus style tent. It is pole supported and is tensioned via guy-lines and stakes. It is still widely used but is losing favor to tension and clearspan tents for a number of reasons such as design, size, strength and weather resistance.

http://www.americanpavilion.com is a nationwide supplier of rental equipment including clear span tents, portable flooring, carpeting, lighting, mobile air-conditioning, mobile heat and generators. Since 1902, American Pavilion has supplied large party tents for national sporting events such as the Super Bowl, Major League Baseball and for dozens of Fortune 500 corporations.

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