{"id":10550,"date":"2025-11-20T09:50:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T09:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/?p=10550"},"modified":"2025-11-20T09:50:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T09:50:46","slug":"how-much-heating-does-my-marquee-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/how-much-heating-does-my-marquee-need\/","title":{"rendered":"How much heating does my marquee need?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Very simply one this, to raise a marquees temperature by 20degrees you require 1KW\/3500BTU for 5 cubic metres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some examples:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>4x4m Commercial DIY Marquee (average height is 2.5m) = 4x4x2.5 = 40 cubic metres so requires 8KW\/28,000BTU\u2019s<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>6x12m Commercial DIY Marquee (average height 2.5m) = 6x12x2.5 = 180 cubic metres so requires 36KW\/126,000BTU\u2019s<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>9x12m Deluxe DIY Marquee (average height 3.05m) = 9x12x3.05 = 329.4 cubic metres so requires 66KW\/231,000BTU\u2019s<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Some things to point out:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Most room thermostats are around the 20degree mark so if it\u2019s below freezing outside allow for more heating<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If there are going to be lots of openings to the outside (rather than another marquee\/the house) then allow for more heating<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If it\u2019s a formal evening function (think ladies in evening dresses) then allow more heating<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Better to have several heat sources to create a more even room temperature than one large heat source which risks creating too hot and too cold areas in the marquee.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If it\u2019s an 18th birthday party where everyone will be drinking and\/or dancing then you can probably allow less heating<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In short, I would always treat this number as a bare minimum, much better to have more heating than required so it can be turned down than risk having a function ruined th<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sort of figures quoted here can only realistically be achieved using gas or diesel\/oil powered heaters. Save yourself a headache and avoid using any electrically powered heaters or infra-red heaters. They\u2019re fine for taking the chill off on a patio or outside a pub, they are inadequate (not to mention expensive to run) in a marquee of any decent size.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spencer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very simply one this, to raise a marquees temperature by 20degrees you require 1KW\/3500BTU for 5 cubic metres. Some examples: Some things to point out: In short, I would always treat this number as a bare minimum, much better to have more heating than required so it can be turned down than risk having a [&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-10550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10550","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=10550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10550\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marqueesforsale.uk\/diy2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}