{"id":10506,"date":"2025-11-19T16:43:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T16:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/?p=10506"},"modified":"2025-11-19T16:43:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T16:43:32","slug":"advice-for-marquees-in-the-snowy-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/advice-for-marquees-in-the-snowy-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice for marquees in the snowy conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This one should be relatively short and sweet; just like snowfall in the UK!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first think you need to know is that no marquee however big or strong is designed for snow-loading. The weight of all that frozen water is just too much!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second thing you need to know is that there are two main ways to prevent any damage to you structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Keep an eye on the weather forecast and dismantle the marquee before an excessive amount of snow gets the chance to form on the roof<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Use a heater to warm the marquee while the snow is falling to prevent any from forming on the roof. If it&#8217;s warm enough the snow will melt right off.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Types of marquee heaters to use:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Indirect diesel\/oil fired heaters (the best ones)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>LPG Blower\/Space Heaters<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ducted Heaters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Note: Don&#8217;t use electric or patio heaters; they&#8217;re not man enough!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about heaters here:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/diymarquees.co.uk\/how-to-heat-your-marquee.php\">How to heat your marquee<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks for reading!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one should be relatively short and sweet; just like snowfall in the UK! The first think you need to know is that no marquee however big or strong is designed for snow-loading. The weight of all that frozen water is just too much! The second thing you need to know is that there are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}