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Picking The Right Bleachers For Your Team

Bleacher seating is time-tested solution for many different sorts of public events, such as theatrical productions, football games, city council meetings and even the ballet, so why not consider bleachers for your indoor or outdoor occasions? For performance, durability and simplicity, bleachers are the best choice for those who anticipate brisk attendance at a given event and want a sturdy, flexible seating structure that can be reconfigured at will.

The term “bleachers” was coined by the Chicago newspapers describing the stands in the city’s Wrigley Field baseball park, located behind the outfield and not shielded from the sometimes punishing summer sun that has a definite “bleaching” effect on spectators.

In short, bleachers are plank seating arrangements with rows that go up in height for clearer spectator viewing of the playing field, meeting, concert or whatever kind of event is being attended. Stairs can usually be attached to bleachers, particularly those that have many rows, and the seats are supported by an aluminum or steel framework, but are otherwise hollow.

Aluminum and steel are both durable as well as reasonably light in weight, which makes them the smartest choice for building supportive seating structures such as this. Wooden planks used to be the standard for bleachers, until more contemporary times when aluminum and molded plastic planks became almost the only kind constructed.

Unfortunately, wood plank seating is found to sag over time, and if your seating solution fits into the category of retractable portable bleachers, you might have a hard time telescoping the seats in when it comes time to move them. Bleachers that are moveable, that is, designed to be retracted or otherwise altered to reconfigure the space that they occupy, are usually set up with rubber foot pads or casters to help facilitate movement and to avoid damaging the surface on which they are placed. Go ahead and paint your club’s colors or insignia on the aluminum or molded plastic planks, because those materials are welcoming surfaces for most commercially available paints.

In addition to the plank seating and stairs that are often built into bleachers, other equipment that can be applied to bleachers are scorer platforms, which can give score keepers, officials or photographers a clear view of the action, or “BleaChairs”, which provide spectators with back rests without sacrificing any seating capacity. Several details should be debated, as you decide which seating solution to opt for, so think carefully about portability, storage and your future requirements for seating capacity, and then choose the system that best suits your needs.

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