{"id":10786,"date":"2025-11-20T11:34:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/?p=10786"},"modified":"2025-11-20T11:34:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T11:34:04","slug":"marquee-hire-businesses-during-the-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/marquee-hire-businesses-during-the-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Marquee hire businesses during the winter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It doesn\u2019t matter how big a company you are winter months for a marquee hire business are going to be quieter than the summer. A fool could tell you that. In fact a fool is telling you that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Business will have gradually slowed down in October and November will be very quiet. It depends on your market whether you\u2019re busy at Christmas (corporate events, parties and New Years Eve bashes). January and February will be quiet (though a very busy time meeting people if you specialise in weddings). March and April will be like October, not really busy but enough work to get you by and warm up for the summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So during the winter quiet months you need to think what you\u2019re going to do. Here\u2019s some suggestions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Take up skiing. Holidays during the summer are difficult, learn to enjoy winter holidays<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maintain your stock, clean what needs cleaning, repair any holes etc you\u2019ve been putting off when you just didn\u2019t have the time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>PAT test all your electrical equipment. Unless you fancy going on a one day course this will mean getting an electrician in.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Make any new stock you want for next season that it\u2019s feasible to make. Seat pads are a good, easy one to do. Even building your own tables is possible.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Make any new carry boxes or containers you may want next year, make racking or whatever\u2019s likely to be needed in your storage facilities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>While you\u2019re coming up with ideas of what to do in preparation for next year you should also plan what stock you\u2019re likely to need. With VAT going up in the New Year any purchases you make (even if you don\u2019t have it delivered until next year) will be at a 2.5% discount. If you\u2019ve got the cash flow available it\u2019s worth getting organised quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spencer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn\u2019t matter how big a company you are winter months for a marquee hire business are going to be quieter than the summer. A fool could tell you that. In fact a fool is telling you that! Business will have gradually slowed down in October and November will be very quiet. It depends on [&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-10786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10786","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=10786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}