I want to buy a bouncy castle, which one is best to start up with?

Date: 22 Apr 2009

Start in the Bouncy castle business... but what first?

As this bouncy castle business is very lucrative, new customers find it difficult getting proper advice from other local hirers who fear some competition is on the way. So here is some straight up advice for people who are thinking of starting in the bouncy castle hire business.

1. Crawl before you can walk.....start with the basics, 12x12, 12x14, 12x15 bouncy castles are the most popular by far for beginners. These are the back bone of the bouncing castle hire business. You WILL need these on your fleet. Don't think you should be adventurous by ordering a big slide first these take time to establish, unlike the garden hire 12ft bouncy castle. You can be in business the weekend you purchase a 12 bouncy castle by a simple local advert.

2. Choose arched bouncing castles, with a fitted rain roof. Though we offer many 4 poster bouncing castles as do others, these are good for sunny days and indoor winter hire, but the arch roofed bouncers are far better and will give you an advantage as most enquiries will ask for a rain-cover.

3. Velcro name panels, every ANDY J bouncing castle has a Velcro front for names numbers adverts and safety instructions. This additional free extra is essential as in the future you may wish to sell your bouncer and its value will be reduced if it has an unremovable name on it.

4. Buy new! It is highly recommended, there is a lot of rubbish bouncy castles for sale second hand that nobody wants. What is the point of saving a few pennies, only to receive a bad name from your hire customers. Remember this saying ' reputations take years to build....seconds to loose.'

5. Visit the factory you are thinking of buying your bouncy castle from, see the product in production. if you won't accommodate you, they are obviously hiding something or just importing poor Chinese bouncy castles.