Warehouse
Heating Solutions
From small industrial units to the largest distribution centres, warehouse heating presents a unique set of challenges. Open doors, high ceilings, mixed-use layouts, and vast floor areas all demand a heating system designed around the specific requirements of your building. We design and supply tailored solutions that deliver efficient, reliable warmth while keeping running costs under control.
THE CHALLENGE
Why Warehouses Are Hard to Heat
Warehouses combine vast floor areas, high ceilings, frequent door openings, and mixed-use layouts into a single building. Racked storage, open spaces, mezzanine floors, packing zones, and even small manufacturing areas may all sit under the same roof, each with different temperature requirements. Loading bay doors open and close throughout the day, allowing cold air in and warm air out. The heating system must cope with all of these demands efficiently and cost-effectively.
Vast Floor Areas
Warehouses can cover thousands of square metres. Heating such large spaces evenly and efficiently requires systems designed for the scale and layout of the building.
Loading Bay Door Openings
Loading bays open and close throughout the day as goods arrive and leave. Each opening allows large volumes of cold air in and warm air out, creating draughts and temperature drops.
High Ceilings & Stratification
Warm air rises to roof level, leaving the working area at floor level cold. The higher the ceiling, the worse the problem, with vast volumes of expensive warm air trapped where nobody is working.
Mixed Use Layouts
Racked storage, open picking floors, mezzanines, packing zones, and office areas under one roof. Each area has different occupancy levels and temperature requirements.
RECOMMENDED SOLUTIONS
How We Heat Warehouses
The most effective approach for warehouses typically combines warm air heating (for fast, even heat distribution across large open floors), radiant heating (for targeted warmth in specific zones like packing and marshalling areas), air curtains (to protect loading bay doors from heat loss), destratification (to recover warm air trapped at ceiling level), and air rotation (for the very largest spaces).
Warm Air
Warm air heaters provide cost-effective heating for warehouses of all sizes, delivering fast, even heat distribution across large open floor areas. Available as suspended or floor-standing units in free-blowing or ducted configurations, with a wide choice of fuels including Natural Gas, LPG, oil, HVO, LPHW, and electric. When paired with destratification fans, they maintain even temperatures from floor to ceiling.
Radiant Heating
Radiant heating offers economical operation by warming people and surfaces directly rather than heating the entire air volume. This makes it ideal for targeted zones such as marshalling areas, packing stations, and picking zones where staff work for extended periods. Heat specific areas where people are working without the cost and energy waste of heating the entire warehouse.
Air Curtains
Loading bay doors are one of the biggest sources of heat loss in any warehouse. Air curtains create an invisible barrier of air across the doorway, preventing cold air from rushing in and warm air from escaping each time a door opens. Positioned horizontally above or vertically beside frequently used doors, they dramatically reduce heat loss and keep draughts away from the working area.
Destratification
In warehouses with high ceilings, warm air rises and accumulates at roof level, leaving the working area at floor level cold. Destratification fans recirculate this trapped warm air back down to floor level, recovering heat that would otherwise be wasted. This eliminates temperature gradients from floor to ceiling, improves comfort, and significantly reduces running costs.
Air Rotation
For the very largest warehouses and distribution centres, the Hadar Cyclone air rotation unit provides an effective variation on warm air heating. Delivering up to 600 kW from a single unit without the need for ductwork or additional destratification fans, it circulates heated air efficiently to cover vast spaces. Ideal for buildings where the sheer scale demands maximum output from minimum equipment.
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