Site Canteen Hire: How to Choose the Right Size for Your Workforce
All sites need somewhere for the team to properly stop, eat and warm up, and getting the size of that space right makes more difference than you may expect. Our site canteen hire comes in a vast range of sizes, from a compact 10ft portable canteen to a large 32ft portable canteen, so it’s worth thinking through what actually suits your team before you book, as part of your wider accommodation solutions.
Making Sure that You Choose the Right Size
When opting for a size too small for your site, you’ll find workers taking breaks elsewhere, squeezing in together, which will make it uncomfortable, or even heading off-site to take breaks. Ultimately, the portable site canteen that you hired for the team becomes ineffective.
On the other hand, an oversized unit can eat into your budget or even site space, neither of which helps when you’re attempting to run a site efficiently.
Smaller Sites and Tighter Teams
Space is often tight on smaller sites, and that’s exactly what our 10ft and 12ft portable canteens are built for. Insulation, heating, and proper seating are all included, just scaled down to suit a site where vast amounts of space aren’t required. For a smaller workforce, one of our compact options is usually all that’s needed.
Portable Canteens for Medium-Sized Teams
In the mid-range is where our 20ft and 24ft portable canteens sit. There’s enough room here for a proper break without taking up too much space.
Double glazing, PIR lighting and a steel underdrawn base come together on all sizes of our portable canteens to create a well-insulated and efficient unit.
Scaling Up for Bigger Teams
A larger workforce requires a bigger canteen, and our 30ft and 32ft portable canteens are designed with that in mind. When a lot of people need to take breaks around the same time, having a spacious area to relax is necessary for site welfare, rather than somewhere where there’s always a queue to make a coffee. This makes a huge difference to how a site runs daily.
On a large site with a lot of people, having a bigger-sized unit keeps daily operations running much more smoothly.
Matching Your Canteen to the Rest of Your Welfare Setup
A site canteen may not always sit in isolation. Instead, it’s worth considering pairing it up, for example with a portable office for separate site management space, or, depending on the work, a portable drying room for wet gear or extra storage close by. Carefully considering your accommodation solutions as a whole, rather than choosing everything separately, tends to give you a much better result than adding facilities one at a time as problems arise.
If you need advice on which size canteen will be best suited for your site, contact our team, who will talk you through the options and help you land the right fit before you commit to a hire.