Hire or buy? The case for rental equipment – purchase, maintenance, inspection intervals, storage space – and what you can hire from photon.
If you produce a major event every week, it might be worth having your own equipment warehouse. For everyone else: hiring lighting, sound and stage technology instead of buying it almost always makes more financial sense. We run our own warehouse in Wesseling, so we know exactly what owning technology means – maintenance, inspection intervals, space requirements, loss of value. You can see what hiring costs instead – depending on the rental period and scope, with all rental prices in the shop – on our event equipment hire: costs and rental prices page.
High-quality event technology is expensive to buy – and it keeps costing money while it sits on the shelf. If you hire, you save purchase costs, maintenance fees and storage space and only pay when the technology is actually working. Especially for one-off events or changing requirements, this quickly pays off. On top of that, the industry is developing rapidly. What you buy today will be outdated in three years – when you hire, you always get up-to-date equipment, tailored to the specific event. If you would still rather buy, we also offer inspected used event technology.
Every event is different. A gala might only need an elegant lighting concept, while an open-air event needs a complete sound reinforcement system with weather protection. With rental technology, you can match the equipment exactly to your needs – without ending up with boxes in the basement that will never be used again. We’ve seen that often enough with clients who had bought equipment before.
Event technology can be tricky – and nothing is more annoying than a microphone that fails at exactly the most important moment. That’s why, on request, we provide not just the equipment but also the people to go with it: our technicians take care of setup, soundcheck and support during the event. You don’t have to worry about storage, maintenance and inspections either – that’s our job, not yours.
From a small company party to a major event – with the right rental equipment, your event runs professionally and without unnecessary stress. And if you’re unsure what you really need: that’s exactly what the advance consultation is for. Better to spend half an hour on the phone than to improvise on the day of the event.
If you would like to hire event technology – tailored to your event, delivered and fully supported on request: contact us and we’ll put together the right rental solution for you.
For help working out which technology you really need for your event, see our Event technology checklist: 10 points that can save any event. And to see how even a little equipment can achieve a lot in small spaces, read Technology for small venues. Just want the equipment and plan to set it up yourself? We explain what’s behind this model on our dry hire page.
Related: Event equipment hire – equipment and daily rates at a glance.
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