That search lands on two different trades. Event hire supplies the tall propane umbrella lamps for gatherings, which is not this counter; equipment yards hire temporary heat for work, meaning radiant units, forced air heaters and indirect fired machines that keep a crew and a slab warm. Those run roughly $45 to $180 a day depending on output.
Radiant, forced air or indirect fired
Radiant heaters warm people and objects in line of sight and suit an open deck or a fixed work station. Forced air units blow hot air and suit an enclosure. Indirect fired heaters burn outside the airstream and vent their exhaust, which is what to hire when the space is sealed or the work is moisture sensitive.
Sizing by output rather than by lamp
Yards quote BTU per hour: small radiant units near 35,000, construction forced air around 175,000, towable indirect machines well into the millions. Outdoors there is no envelope to hold heat, so radiant coverage area is the honest measure and wind is the enemy. Shelter the work rather than buying more output.
Fuel is your line, not the yard's
Propane cylinders, kerosene or diesel come from you or from the counter at a markup, and the machine returns with the fuel level it left on. A construction heater at full output empties a hundred pound cylinder inside a working day, so book two and rotate them instead of stopping the job at noon.
Ventilation and combustion products
Any direct fired heater puts its combustion products into the air it warms. Outdoors that is manageable; inside a shaft, a partly sheeted frame or a covered walkway it is not, and that is the situation that hurts people. The federal construction limits on air contaminants apply, and indirect fired units exist for exactly that case.
Questions people ask about outdoor heating lamp rentals
Can I hire patio heaters from an equipment yard?
Some general rental centers keep a handful for the event side of the business, but the fleet is built around work heat. If you want twenty umbrella lamps for a gathering, an event hire company is the right call and will price it better than a machinery counter.
What size heater warms an open work area?
Outdoors, work to coverage radius rather than to volume. A 35,000 BTU radiant unit warms a small crew standing within a few yards of it. Two smaller heaters placed either side of the work usually beat one large unit aimed from a distance.
Do rental heaters come with a thermostat?
Construction forced air and indirect units usually accept one, and the yard may charge for the cord and stat separately. Radiant units generally do not. Ask, because on an overnight cure a thermostat is what stops a full day of fuel disappearing by breakfast.