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Are you planning an outdoor event like a wedding, party, or corporate function? Why rent an expensive marquee when you can create a stunning outdoor space yourself with a DIY marquee kit from DIY Marquees UK? Our high-quality marquee kits allow you to set up a beautiful marquee in your own backyard or event venue with ease.

Building your own marquee comes with a range of benefits. When you build your own marquee, you have complete control over the size, layout, and design. You can customise your marquee to your exact requirements. Buying a marquee from DIY marquees is also more cost effective than hiring a marquee. You can create your ideal venue while staying on budget, and get continued use year on year. Since you own the marquee, you can reuse it for future events because marquees from DIY Marquees are durable and built to last. They are easy to build and come with simple instructions to assist you.

The true beauty of a DIY marquee is you can customise every detail to fit your event’s colour scheme and theme. Once you have your marquee from DIY Marquees built and ready to use, the fun really begins. Our marquees are customisable and easy to decorate. You can buy linings for any part of your marquee from our wide range of high-quality fabric linings. Our linings are flame retardant, machine washable and easy to install, and are just what you need to elevate your venue. You can also add a personalised archway entrance, raised staging area, or bar units.

Wondering how to heat your marquee? We provide convenient, safe and highly effective heating packages for hire, should your event require it. We know how cold a marquee can be in winter, but our marquee heaters allow you to host your dream event without compromising on comfort. 

Our website has all the advice you could need to help you to host your dream event with DIY Marquees. Our guides can help you choose what you need.

Don’t settle for an expensive marquee rental that limits your options. With a DIY marquee kit from DIY Marquees, you can affordably build the perfect outdoor space for making memories at your next event.

Browse our marquee collections online today and get ready to take your event to another level! Installation video guides and marquee raising services are available for extra convenience.

A marquee is undoubtably the smartest event venue. A marquee can be a venue for all reasons, in all seasons which is one of the main reasons why people across the UK choose to invest in a marquee as a solution to their venue or catering needs. What is quite common this time of year, is seasonal weather changes, excellent quality marquees are guaranteed to withstand any weather considerations while being particularly practical for anyone in business and in the market for a purpose-specific Traditional DIY Marquee. Using the DIY Marquee buyers guide along with the interactive planner buyers can experiment with designs and layouts to suit their needs before they put any pennies down. DIY Marquees offer a simple and interesting alternative to the common indoor venues while offering far more flexibility.

The 9x9m traditional DIY marquees, is a highly recommended 4-season marquee which is strong under almost any weather condition. Other aspects which contribute to the strength of DIY Traditional marquees are the high quality PVC material and the use of high-frequency welding to seal the joins, rather than stitching which might lead to unwanted wear and tear of the material should the marquee come under strain. This also contributes to the weather-proofing of the marquees which is ideal for the wet UK climate.

Marquees are adaptable, functional, multi-purpose and can be dressed up or down, depending on the tone of the event. Add a red carpet or a glittering chandelier and your marquee is transformed into a fairy wonderland. Add a heater and some closed panels and your marquee becomes the coziest spot in town during the crisp winter months. Separate your main marquee dining area from the catering area to create separation between preparation areas and serving areas offering a bespoke and unique dining out event. And while the dance floor hots up, caterers can clean away without disturbing the event so that you can party the night away.

DIY marquees offer marquee flooring packages are designed to be an easy lay, upgrading the look and feel of your marquee venue by using a new carpet, available in a variety of party-suitable colours. Wach package comes with a non-breathable underlay, to be placed underneath the carpet to prevent a build-up of condensation during your event since grass gives off water vapour if not covered. Marquee flooring is secured in place with nails which are included in the package.

DIY Marquee carpet packages include:

• One (or more) 2m wide rolls of carpet in red, green or honey beige
• Waterproof underlay (may require folding to fit your size of marquee)
• 6″ nails, hammer, cutting knife and tool belt
• Instructions (as with all DIY Marquee products)

Watch the marquee flooring video to see how easy it is to do.

Other strength enhancing features include eave braces and gable uprights which support the marquee under hard-wearing conditions, ensuring that the DIY marquee and Duracoretex™ PVC are well supported during any event.

When people come to DIY Marquees for the first time, with the goal of starting up their own marquee business, we are always thrilled to provide advice based on our own experiences of being in the marquee business. Those who are just starting out are often in a position where they have recently decided to go out on their own, leaving an employment situation to go it alone and we love this as it gives us an opportunity to be able to support you in your ventures with marquee hire advice.

One of the things that we believe that has made DIY Marquees so successful in the past is that we are fully invested in your successes and your business so this is why we are happy to provide any advice that you need. What makes is uniquely qualified to give you advice? Simple. That is because we have been there, done that. When starting any new venture people often don’t know what they don’t know so we say, let us help you with what you don’t know! Our experience of the products and services can benefit your marquee hire business plus we have an abundance of products all of which we know intimately so you can reply on our knowledge, to see you through the start up phase until you become the expert of your own business.

As a trusted family business, we have built up a reputation for being reliable and offering value for money which we back up with what we believe is excellent service. Not only do we provide you with a large selection of marquee type, we can also answer your questions about what size of marquee do I need? Wwe offer a large variety of spares and replacement parts for unfortunate times when accidents happen and a spare part is needed. As much as our marquees are extremely durable, there are times when a spare is needed and often with a quick turnaround time. This is why we keep a large stock in case of emergencies.

We also provide a choice of accessories for your marquee which, while you may not need this in the beginning, you will find useful to have as time goes by and your hiring company starts to expand. Its best not to start out with too many options when you first start out but soon you will find exciting opportunities come your way and this is a great time to invest slowly but surely into expanding your marquee offerings.

Not only are we here to help you with the physical aspects of your marquee business but with providing you with insights into how to other aspects such as erecting, marquee lighting and warming, dismantling and Marquee Electrical Courses. These aspects of your business can be time consuming and you will learn as you go, but don’t be shy to reach out to us for assistance when it comes to anything that is new to you. We have many people phone through and ask for help or input and we are more than happy to do what we can to help you make your business work for you!

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Useful information from DIY Marquee will help you make the right decision in purchasing a marquee. This can be especially useful if you are looking at purchasing a commercial DIY Marquee.

6x4m marquee or 4x6m marquee?

In the marquee industry there is not a huge amount of terminology for someone new to the scene to get used to. One is getting used to feet and metres and how to switch between the two (3m=10ft essentially), most customers prefer everything in metres but you still get some that need it in feet.

Another standard to get used to is that when talking marquees the width comes first and the length second. A 4x6m marquee is very different to a 6x4m one for example.

4x6m Classic DIY Marquee

A 4x6m Marquee means that the A-frames are 4m wide and it is 6m long (three 2m bays).

6x4m Classic DIY Marquee

A 6x4m marquee on the other hand has 6m wide A-frames and is 4m long (two 2m bays).

Why offer both?

The most popular way of covering a 4x6m area is with a 4x6m marquee, there are however times when this is not the best option.

• If you already own a 6m wide marquee or have spare 6m metalwork then you can just buy a 6x4m roof and therefore increase your hiring potential without buying a complete new 4x6m marquee.
• If the marquee is going up against a house then it is far easier having the gable butted up for weathering and access purposes. If the customer needs the 6m side of the marquee up against the house then it is best practice to go with a 6x4m marquee rather than a 4x6m one.

So if you looking for a DIY Party Tent or any other Marquee look no further DIY Marquees will assist with the right Marquee to buy.