Sound blankets are the cheapest way to calm a room with hard walls, and almost nobody wants to own fifty of them. This list gathers United States rental houses that keep sound blanket stock for film sets, ready by the bundle. The pads go by many names on price lists: furniture pad, furnie pad, moving blanket. On set they do the same three jobs: soak up echo, block a window, protect gear in the truck.
Selection was simple. A company had to list the item as a rental, not only sell it, and had to serve real productions in its region. After that the comparison looked at coverage, at how fast a quote comes back, at delivery to location versus pickup only, and at how deep the stock goes when a scene needs forty pads instead of four. Where a shop says what the blanket is made of, that counts too: cotton shell with recycled filler behaves better than a thin nylon pad.
Places here are set by community votes, not by the editors, so the order moves as people share their experience. Read the cards rather than the numbers: pros, cons and reviews say more about sound blanket rental houses for film sets than any position in a list. Freight cost, weekend hours and honest quantity limits are the details worth checking before the call sheet goes out.
A Florida rental house that has been packing grip trucks since 1987. Offices sit in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Orlando and Tampa, so a stack of furniture pads can reach almost any set in the state. The blankets show up on the price list as one line, furni pad or sound blanket, and the crew treats them as an everyday item: quilted, heavy, used for wrapping gear, softening echo in a hard room and killing light bounce off a wall. Delivery runs seven days a week.
Good fit for productions already renting camera or lighting here, because pads ride along with the rest of the order at no extra trip. Less handy if the shoot is outside Florida: this is a regional shop, not a mail order supplier. Quantities are worth confirming by phone when a big location job needs fifty pads at once.
400 NW 26th St, Ste. 100, Miami, FL 33127
West Los Angeles rental house founded in 2003, working with independent crews and visiting international teams. Sound blankets have their own page in the grip and electric section, next to the small odds and ends that always get forgotten on a prep list. Pickup is local in Los Angeles, and the shop will also ship an order anywhere in the country for an added fee, which is rare for something as bulky as blankets.
Handy for a small crew that needs eight or ten pads for a dialogue scene in a bare apartment and does not want to buy them. Camera, lighting, sound and a stage sit under the same roof, so one call covers most of the day. Shipping cost on a heavy pad bundle can outgrow the rental itself, so out of town clients should ask for the freight number first.
11318 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90025
A Washington DC area supplier working since 2011 and serving Maryland and Virginia as well. Sound blankets get a full product page: a woven cotton and polyester shell around recycled cotton filler, offered in bulk for productions that need to quiet a whole location, not just one corner. The rest of the catalogue leans toward the practical side of a set, from walkie talkies to vans and generators.
A sensible call for shoots in government buildings, offices and old row houses around the capital, where hard floors and hallways ruin a track. Requests go through a quote form and the office answers on weekdays within a couple of business hours, so a Saturday emergency is not their strong point. Crews outside the DC, Maryland and Virginia area should look closer to home.
Laurel, MD
Camera, lighting and grip rentals from a company with branches in Minneapolis, Madison, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Lanham and Alexandria, and more than forty rental technicians on staff. The furniture pad page is honest about how the item is really used on set: packing, padding for gear and vehicles, floor protection at a location, and sound attenuation when a room rings.
Useful for crews in the upper Midwest and the mid Atlantic who want one account for two coasts of that corridor. Vans deliver to set, and the Philadelphia branch keeps a small customer lot. Pricing is not printed for every item, so a pad count has to go through an agent. Anyone shooting far from those six cities will pay for transport, and that kills the value of a cheap blanket.
2601 49th Ave N, Ste 500, Minneapolis, MN 55430
Grip and electric house with a Phoenix warehouse and a second location in Culver City, in business for about three decades. Furniture pads are on the rental list beside stands, flags and cable, and the shop is open about being indie friendly: send a gear list, get a quote back within one business day. Orders can be picked up locally or shipped elsewhere in the country.
Worth a call for desert shoots and for Los Angeles crews who need overflow stock when the usual house is cleaned out. Because the Arizona branch carries the bigger inventory, blanket counts there are easier to fill than in California. The quote by email routine takes time, so last minute orders are better placed by phone.
3902 E Broadway Rd, Phoenix, AZ 85040
A family run rental shop on the Ridgewood and Bushwick border, working around the clock and aimed at small New York crews. Sound blankets sit in the grip and rigging section together with stands, clamps and rigging hardware from American Grip, Modern Studio, Advantage Grip and Arri. Ordering is old fashioned in a good way: email, text or call, and a quote comes back written by a person.
Good for a two van shoot in a Brooklyn loft that needs pads by morning, since the 24/7 line is real and pickup is close to most city locations. Not the place for a hundred blanket rig on a stage: the inventory is sized for indie and commercial work. There is no shopping cart, so anyone who wants instant online booking will find the process slow.
Ridgewood, Queens, New York, NY
A Brooklyn stage complex that also runs a rental department, so sound blankets can be booked with the room they will hang in. The grip list has a separate sound blanket entry alongside stands, flags and expendables. The stages carry cycloramas, lighting grids and three phase power, and the same office handles lighting, electric and camera orders for location work as well.
Convenient for a shoot that films in house: pads are already on site and nobody pays for a truck. For a location crew the pickup in East Williamsburg is workable but parking near the building is not generous. Rental rates depend on the package and the stage booking, so the blanket line is rarely quoted on its own.
1298 Willoughby Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11237
A New Jersey based rental company serving New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania with lighting, grip and video packages. Sound blankets live in the utility part of the grip catalogue, the section with apple boxes, sandbags and cribbing that keeps a set running. The company owns trucks and holds an interstate carrier registration, so an order can be driven to a location rather than picked up.
Sensible for East Coast productions that want gear and crew from the same call, including jobs that move between the city and Pennsylvania. Prices come by quote and the catalogue pages are short on numbers, so the first conversation takes a little patience. For a single bundle of five pads the delivery minimum will usually make pickup the cheaper way.
Jersey City, NJ
The equipment arm of Parlay Studios, a Jersey City stage business running since 2010. The utility page of the grip catalogue lists sound blankets next to sandbags, furniture dollies and hand trucks, and the warehouse sits at the same address as the stages, minutes from the Holland Tunnel. Orders go to a plain rentals mailbox, which makes a blanket count easy to confirm in writing.
A practical option for commercial and photo crews shooting in the studio or nearby in Manhattan, since a pad order can be added to a stage booking without a second vendor. Location crews further out in New Jersey or upstate will pay for the trip. As with most stage rental arms, the grip stock is broad rather than deep, so large quantities should be checked before the call sheet goes out.
6 Senate Place, Jersey City, NJ 07306
A Utah shop that rents motion picture equipment and sells expendables, with the furniture blanket, called a furnie pad on the site, listed in the grip essentials section. Camera, sound, grip and lighting all come from the same counter in West Jordan, and a truck package is available through the connected studio for bigger jobs. A membership program gives members a discount on rentals.
The obvious choice for crews working around Salt Lake City and the surrounding canyons, where the nearest big rental house is a long drive away. The inventory keeps growing but is still modest next to the coastal shops, so a large blanket order deserves a phone call first. Anyone outside Utah gains little here, because pads are heavy and freight eats the saving.
2578 Cassidy Circle, West Jordan, UT