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Madame-Zingara London 2008 Event Heating
Watkins Hire Events were asked by the event organisers to supply heating for the nomadic restaurant and cabaret Madame Zingara, which set up camp in the shadow of London’s Battersea Power Station...
Emergency Temporary Heating for Superstore
After receiving a call at 12.30pm on a Friday afternoon from a contractor enquiring about emergency heating Watkins Hires Business Development Manager Jason Campbell arrived on site less than 1 hour later at a large superstore who’s heating system had broken down during refurbishment work, and if no solution could be found to heat the store that day then it would have to close costing the store significant amounts of lost income...
Warm Air Heating for a Construction Site Drying at Height
A large construction and civil engineering company contacted Watkins Hire Ltd to advise and quote on a building drying using warm dry air temporary heating system. The customer had undertaken the complete renovation of the historic Council buildings in Glasgow’s city centre; this included replacing the entire roof of the structure. Unfortunately this had left the building and in particular the top floors open to the elements, saturating the wooden framework of the infrastructure leaving it almost impossible for the next phase of the works to continue.
Watkins Hire 500kw Warm Air-Handling Unit For First Great Western
When First Great Western wanted help to replace portable heaters, They contacted Watkins Hire for a hire solution that provided them with equipment that had no naked flame but can still provide large volumes of safe, dry, fume-free heat air to heat the train maintenance shed at Plymouth. The building was 150m long by 50m wide and 20m high.
KwikHEAT Events Heating Hire
KwikHEAT were contacted by an event manager who had five marquees and one big top marquee which is the main stage area , all needed to heated for approx three hours each night to keep the costumes from getting damp and keeping the performers warm, the event would run for four weeks...
Tank / Pressure Vessel Drying
Our customer was awarded a contract at a Petro chemical plant to chemically clean, dry, test and reline a tank which holds ammonia for the production of chemicals. These processes usually take around six weeks to complete with the removal of the old lining the cleaning, drying and testing...
Military Heating
During last winter Watkins Hire’s heat for hire division KwikHEAT received a call late on a Friday afternoon to provide an emergency heating system to a helicopter maintenance hanger as the installed radiant tube heating had failed, an engineer was dispatched immediately to assess their requirements...
Industrial Building Heating
A manufacturer based in South East of England presented Watkins Hire heating hire division KwikHEAT with the task to replace existing on site temporary heaters with a noise level of 76dba @ 3 metres, whilst the heat from the existing hired heaters was acceptable the noise level generated was unacceptable to the building occupants...
Events & Marquee Heating
KwikHEAT provides a fast and cost-effective solution for the entertainment industry and for a wide range of indoor and outdoor event environments requiring 100% fume-free dry heating. Whether it's keeping the production team in operation or the audience comfortable, creating a warm and inviting marquee for your guests...
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