{"id":10700,"date":"2025-11-20T10:56:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/?p=10700"},"modified":"2025-11-20T10:56:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:56:55","slug":"marquee-hire-out-of-hours-marquee-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/marquee-hire-out-of-hours-marquee-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Marquee Hire: Out of hours marquee cover"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Out of hours marquee cover is a nice selling point to offer customers, especially weddings. The downside to that is you have to man an out of hours number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whilst the most important thing to emphasis to customers is that their marquee will meet their expectations everyone realises that problems can occur. Offering customers a number to contact you on out of hours is always received well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But\u2026 that kind of means you can\u2019t go out drinking on a Saturday night in case you have to drive to one of your jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My solution? Take it in turns with someone who works for you to give yourself a break. Rotating it between 2,3 or 4 of you makes life a lot easier and manageable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t want to overplay this, getting called out happens very very rarely. At our peak we were doing say 10 weddings per weekend, over the course of a year I\u2019d guess we were called out around 6 times. 6 times a year really isn\u2019t that many considering the scale of the operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From memory I\u2019d guess these are the common reasons for getting a call out together with percentages for each:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>80% Fault with the power. Generally someone else\u2019s equipment, be it a faulty earth that keeps tripping your RCD or they\u2019ve just overloaded your power leads so a fuse needs changing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>15% Heating. The most common reason is they\u2019ve run out of fuel. Always make sure you leave plenty of gas\/diesel and specify in your original quotation that any heater includes a minimum of 12 hours fuel (that way you\u2019re covered if they use it for 3 evenings beforehand)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>5% Leaking. As long as you use good quality marquees (like our DIY Marquees!!) then this will happen very very rarely. Very very few call outs were for genuine leaks, mainly it was just severe condensation from uncovered grass or plants incorporated inside the marquee.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally as anyone who\u2019s tried to phone my mobile out of hours will have learnt we don\u2019t offer any call out facility. If you need an answer urgently then email me as I try to check that regularly, otherwise weekends and evenings are for my daughters \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks for reading, I\u2019m off on holiday next week so if you need anything speak to my Dad, Rich or Mary or whoever else fancies picking up the office phone..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spencer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of hours marquee cover is a nice selling point to offer customers, especially weddings. The downside to that is you have to man an out of hours number. Whilst the most important thing to emphasis to customers is that their marquee will meet their expectations everyone realises that problems can occur. Offering customers a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}