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<p>[quote user="G Paine"]</p> <div class="quote-header"> </div> <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">BMMECNYC</div> <div class="quote-content">The firemarshal requires either 10ft or 12ft aisles for safety reasons</div> </blockquote> <div class="quote-footer"> </div> <p> </p> <p>The Amhurst folks are very strict about keeping aisle widths. They mark the floors with tape, and your booth or display had better inside those lines, or big trouble</p> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p>They use sidewalk chalk in the Young building, and its not always exact (this year the marks were off by 6-8 in one corner).  We have double marks on ours (barrier and layout marks).  We typically violate the layout marks, but the barrier marks are the ones you have to fit within for the fire marshal.  The barriers get pushed into the layout anyway. </p> <p>I suspect its because 1 guy does it without a helper (I came up early 1 year to assist in making the chalk marks, setting out tables etc).  When measuring long distances, it helps to have someone holding the dumb end of the tape.</p>
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