From: "Balloon Decor Australia" <sales@balloondecor.com.au>
To: "Carey Wood" <balloonsfromtheheart@yahoo.com>, <balloondeco@balloonhq.com>
Subject: Re: Attaching Air-Filled Garland
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 11:03:38 +1000

Carey,

> Hi!!!

G'day

> First problem:  The poles are painted brown so I need
> to cover that up with ivory colored paper or plastic
> tablecloth.

After you tape it on to hold in position try tightly wrapping some monoline
around to top, middle and botton to hold it in place.
>
> Second:  I can't attach anything to the ceiling to
> hold the garland up except maybe clear packing tape,
> but the tape would have to be attached to pole also.

If the suggestion in problem One works you might be able to tie off onto the
lines wrapped around the pole.
>
> I am worried that the paper is going to fall down once
> the garland is spiraled around and that the garland
> just won't stay up.

It shouldn't if there are wnough lines wrapped around to hold it up.
>
> Any suggestions?  I have seen the done many times
> before so there must be a solution.

As an added suggestion there is a technique used for this situation where
instead of making a full 4 balloon cluster garland which can become verty
bulky around a pillar you might like to make a combination on the garland of
duplet - single - duplet - single - duplet - single  .......etc.

This combination allows you to wrap the garland pretty tightly around the
pillar and use just under half the amount of balloons.
When wrapped on the pillar it gives the appearance of a garland and is very
neat. Under some situations it looks better than a full garland.


I borrowed this concept from an Aussie Mate by the name of Roger Danne in
Sydney Australia.



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