Events & hospitality
How much hanging rail should I provide at coat check?
Multiply peak attendance by the coat-check share and round up to whole coats. Multiply by the measured spacing per coat and convert centimetres to metres. Treat the available rail as continuous usable length and count only a positive shortfall.
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Worked example
With the example inputs below, the calculator returns these results.
Coats at peak 270
- Peak guests present together
- 600 guests
- Guests checking one coat
- 45 %
- Rail space per hanging coat
- 7 cm
- Usable continuous rail available
- 15 m
Other results
- Required rail length (m)
- 18.9
- Additional rail required (m)
- 3.9
Use your own figures
Measure the extra rail required before finalising the cloakroom layout. Open the worksheet, replace the example values, then copy or print the result.
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