All About Ballasts - Securing Custom Inflatables

How Do You Keep Your Inflatable Securely in Place?

The answer in one word? Ballasts.

Made of heavy materials like sand and concrete, ballasts provide weight and stability to help anchor your custom inflatable safely in its place.

What Are Your Options?

Ballasts come in all shapes, sizes, and varieties. You can choose something as simple as tent stakes or as complex as customized weights built into your display's internal trusswork. Other possibilities include:

Free weights
Sandbags
Concrete blocks and barricades
PDI blocks – lighter and more aesthetically pleasing than concrete – made of resilient plastic with interior water chambers
Water-filled plastic barrels
Even stationary vehicles!

Want to learn more? Download our free guide.

"Ask Landmark - Guide to Ballasts"

Featured in Landmarketing Issue 63

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What Others Say About Landmark Creations

"Landmark created two inflatable Truman the Tigers for us, and they were incredibly easy to work with, as well as very affordable."

- Michelle Froese, Missouri University

"We received our inflatable and gave it a test run Saturday afternoon. To be short; Excellent Work. Thanks again for all your efforts."

- Curtis Gadula, Brock University

“The likeness to our company mascot was amazing. We used the balloon at the Winn Dixie Home & Garden show ... and we have had rave reviews.”

- Christy Bernard, Tony Chachere’s

"After speaking to a number of vendors, Landmark Creations had the professionalism, customer service, ingenuity, and creativity that we did not find elsewhere."

- Sean Conway, Arch and Loop

"Our giant peach is brand new to us and will help us gain name recognition in our community at health fairs, county fairs, farm markets, school events and almost any event we take it to."

- Greg Stone, Peach Tree Healthcare

“[The inflatable arch] created a wonderful backdrop to brand our events, capture our sponsors in the photos used by the participants, and made it easy to travel down the coast of California without taking up too much space on our trucks.”

- Amy Daugherty, California Coast Classic