Portable Stage Tips: Eliminate Those Annoying Creaks

After assembling your portable stage, you might notice it sometimes emits creaks or cracking sounds when in use. This can be quite disconcerting, especially if your performance requires complete silence. Fortunately, there’s a simple and cost-free solution to this problem.

When setting up portable stages, it’s not uncommon for them to produce unsettling noises as you walk across them. Some stage modules are more prone to creaking than others. The last thing you want during a quiet performance is a noisy stage.

To address this, watch below our portable staging video, which demonstrates a few easy techniques involving simple lifts and taps. These actions help the stage settle into its proper seated position. Given the numerous moving parts in portable staging, it sometimes needs a bit of encouragement to fully settle.

By performing these straightforward lifts and taps, you can ensure the stage is securely seated, eliminating those bothersome creaks and cracks.

Another hot tip, during stage assembly, is to check that the silver location pillars on the four corners of the riser legs, are screwed down tight. Over time these can work loose, and then leave gap, under-which your 2 and 4 hole braces plate connectors can slide. See the images here, where a 2 hole brace plate has slid under the silver pillar. Avoiding this can ensure the assembly goes smoothly and doesn’t bend the brace plates. DID YOU KNOW …. we supply adhesive rubber pads that can be applied to the bottom of riser leg blocks to give a rubber grip, that also deadens sounds. view here