
How Often Should Theatrical Curtains Be Flame Tested? Code Compliance and Best Practices
TLDR: Theater curtains should be tested annually as a part of your theatrical rigging inspection. We offer it for free with our rigging inspections. Theatrical
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Our ETCP Certified Theater Riggers provide detailed theater rigging inspection report to document existing conditions, recommend repairs, and provide you with the documentation you need to solicit multiple bids for any recommended repairs.
We provide the expertise to help you determine which bid provides the best value for your performing arts center.
We inspect theatrical rigging systems for compliance with national codes and standards.
We document current conditions, key findings, and recommendations to comply with existing codes, standards, law, and regulations.
Our reports enable you to solicit bids from multiple vendors and we help you select the best partner to bring your venue back into compliance.
Some of the codes and standards we use as a basis of our inspections include the following:
Requirement for an annual inspection by a competent person.
We assess your curtains to confirm they are in compliance with NFPA requirements.
Manual counterweight rigging systems
Whenever and wherever you need us. When we show up at your facility, we check every lineset, we look at every curtain, and we document everything.
Our documentation is thorough, clear, concise, and accurate. We want you to bring your venue into compliance with the current standards, and we know the report needs to be understood by everyone, not just theater practitioners.
We want every space to be safe. When you schedule a high school rigging inspection we offer discounted inspections for all elementary and middle schools which feed in to that high school.
Elementary and Middle schools are often neglected during annual rigging inspections. Therefore we offer our best pricing when we inspect multiple buildings in a school district; during the same trip.
We are happy to extend the discount across multiple organizations. If there is a University, Multiple School Districts, or a nearby Performing Arts Center, we will give everyone the discount as long as the inspections can be completed during the same trip.
We are based out of Kansas City, Missouri, and can quickly reach all areas of the United States.
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