Is a Marquee Warm Enough in Winter?

Is a Marquee Warm Enough in Winter?

Is a marquee warm enough in winter?  Let’s make sure your guests for your winter event stay warm and cosy…

People can’t get their heads around it being nearly freezing outside but nearly 25 degrees warm inside a marquee.  To make sure your guests are nice and warm and toasty, there are a few things inside the marquee you will need to have equipped with it.  These include:

• A carpet & hard flooring system (This helps prevent losing heat through the ground – preventing a loss of heat through the ground)
• Linings (this acts as a second skin further insulating the marquee keeping it warm in winter)
• A good & powerful heating system.

Having these interior options installed within your marquee will make sure it’s warm enough, even if your event is in the coldest winter period.

The flooring will ensure we don’t lose any heat straight into the ground.  It will also make sure the floor stays dry if it’s raining during your event.

The lining will act as a second skin further insulating the marquee to make sure the heat generated by the heaters was stayed within the structure itself.

Is a Marquee Warm Enough in Winter?

Diesel Heating System

Powerful diesel heaters, situated outside the marquee provide warm air into the structure, which is regulated by a thermostat just like in your own house.  It’s a fully automated system which will control the temperature of the marquee automatically throughout the course of your event – so don’t worry you won’t be going back and forth turning the heater on and off continuously throughout your event.

Diesel Heaters are situation outside the marquee and blow fresh, warm air into the structure until the specified temperature is achieved.

Is a Marquee Warm Enough in Winter?

These powerful diesel heaters tend to heat the marquee up within 10 or 15 minutes. You don’t need to be having it turned on hours before to preheat the marquee.  The heaters have enough fuel for the heater to run continuously for 12 hours – however once the initial 15 minute pre heating of the marquee, these heaters tend to turn themselves on every half an hour or so for 5 minutes to simply top up with some more warm air.

For larger scaled events, or events going on for more than one day/night – additional jerry cans of fuel or 900l external fuel cube tanks can also be installed.

If your marquee is free-standing, i.e., the entrance to the marquee is not from a building, we would recommend having a set of entrance doors that could easily open and shut rather than accessing the marquee via an open panel to avoid any cold draughts coming through.

You may even want a small 3m x 3m entrance tent installed so you effectively have two sets of openings to go through.  This is how large supermarkets avoid having cold draughts near their entrances, because you have two sets of openings to go through further prevents any cold draughts.  This entrance tent acts as a great cloak area too.

For larger events where you are requiring external toilet trailers, it is absolutely possible to have these toilet trailers installed within your marquee, usually via dividing wall to keep it well hidden.  So guests won’t even have to leave the warm marquee for a loo break.  Our fabulous luxury loo suppliers at Fortis Hire have toilet trailers than can fit inside marquees.

Is a Marquee Warm Enough in Winter?  Toilet trailers can be installed within the marquee, with a dividing wall for privacy, meaning guests have no reason to leave the warm marquee at all.

Lighting also plays a big part in helping guests feel warmer too.  Avoiding blue hues within lighting systems for winter events can work wonders with the guests’ first impressions when they walk into the marquee for the first time.

Is a Marquee Warm Enough in Winter?

We install more marquees in December than we do in any other months of the year – mainly due to Christmas functions.   So we know what it takes to make sure your guests are completely comfortable.

A site visit would always be my first recommendation so I can give friendly advice to what you need for your winter event.  You can book your site visit online right here.

Or give our team a call on 01462 262011 and we can guide you through exactly what you need for an unforgettable winter event!

Mark