A rental yard cannot supply analytical instruments, so this search splits in two. Microscopes, centrifuges and chromatographs come from scientific dealers and instrument lessors, a different trade to this one and outside what this site covers. What an equipment counter does hold is everything around the laboratory: temporary power from about 5 kW to 60 kW, spot coolers, dehumidifiers, air scrubbers and material handling.
The half a rental counter can answer
Fit out, relocation and building work around a laboratory are ordinary rental jobs. Generators keep a freezer or an incubator alive through a shutdown. Spot coolers hold a room while the building system is down. Dehumidifiers and air scrubbers handle a leak or renovation next door. Moving the heavy instruments is pallet jacks, stackers and a set of machinery skates.
Temporary power needs a real number
Sizing a generator by guesswork is how a hire fails. Total the running watts of everything that must stay alive, add the starting surge of anything with a compressor or a motor, and give the counter that figure with the voltage and phase. A cold room and two freezers outgrow a small portable unit quickly, and undersizing shows up as nuisance tripping.
Cooling a room the building will not
Portable spot coolers move heat out of the space they cool, so they need ducting to somewhere else and a drain or a condensate pump. Sizing follows the heat the equipment gives off rather than the floor area, which is why an instrument room needs more capacity than its size suggests. Say what is running in there when you book.
Where to send the instrument question
If what you need is the instrument itself, the counter cannot help and will say so plainly. Manufacturers, scientific dealers and specialist lessors run those rentals, usually with calibration records attached. That sits outside this site, which covers machines hired by the day and the week from equipment yards and general rental centres.
Questions people ask about lab equipment rental
Can I rent a centrifuge or a microscope from an equipment yard?
No. Those come from scientific suppliers and instrument lessors who can also supply calibration and service records. An equipment rental counter stocks plant, tools, power and climate machines, so it will point you elsewhere for anything that belongs on a bench.
What size generator keeps a freezer running?
Add up the running watts, then allow for the compressor's starting surge, which can be several times the running figure for a moment. Give the counter both numbers and the supply voltage. For more than one unit, ask for a machine with headroom rather than one sized exactly.
Will a portable spot cooler hold an instrument room?
Often yes, provided the hot air is ducted out of the space and the condensate has somewhere to go. Size it on the heat the equipment produces rather than on room area, and put the discharge duct into a ceiling void or a window kit, never back into the same room.