Will an office pod fit? Footprint, doorways and ceiling height

Most office pod dimensions land in a narrower band than people expect: a one-person pod stands on about a square metre and comes up a little under 7 ft 8 in. The number that actually decides whether it goes in, though, is none of those — it is the pod’s narrowest face, because that is the one that has to pass your doorway.

This page lists the published exterior sizes for the pods we rent, then works through the three things that stop a delivery: the door, the lift and the ceiling. Measure those four numbers before you order and the access survey holds no surprises.

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How much floor space does an office pod need?

A one-person pod takes roughly the floor a spare desk was taking. The Call Pod occupies about 11.8 sq ft, the Work Pod 14.5, and the Meeting Pod 16.1 — and that is the whole footprint, not a clearance figure.

Across the ranges we stock, the single booths sit within a few inches of each other. The Strata S is 1,080 × 1,000 mm on plan, about a square metre. The Framery One Compact publishes its floor area directly: 11.1 ft² (1.03 m²). The Silen Space 1 behind our Call Pod measures 43 × 43 in on the floor.

Step up a size and the depth grows more than the width. The Strata M is 1,660 × 1,375 mm. The Strata SL goes the other way at 2,300 × 966 mm — long and slim, which is why it can stand along a corridor rather than eating into the open floor.

Pod	Exterior H × W × D	Narrowest face	Weight
Strata S	91.6 × 42.5 × 39.4 in (2326 × 1080 × 1000 mm)	39.4 in	661 lb (300 kg)
Strata M	91.6 × 65.4 × 54.1 in (2326 × 1660 × 1375 mm)	54.1 in	1,080 lb (490 kg)
Strata SL	91.6 × 90.6 × 38.0 in (2326 × 2300 × 966 mm)	38.0 in	1,038 lb (471 kg)
Framery One Compact	88.6 × 40.7 × 39.4 in (225 × 103 × 100 cm)	39.4 in	—
Framery One	88.8 × 48.0 × 39.4 in (225.5 × 122 × 100 cm)	39.4 in	—
Framery Four	91.7 × 92.6 × 50.9 in (232.9 × 235.2 × 129.2 cm)	50.9 in	—

Weights are published for the Strata range and are worth reading before anyone books a lift. Full specifications for each model sit on its own page — compare the three sizes if you are still deciding which one the floor needs.

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Will a pod fit through a door?

Compare your narrowest doorway against the pod’s narrowest face, not its width. For the single booths that number is 38 to 39.4 in: 38.0 in on the Strata SL, 39.4 in on the Strata S, the Framery One and the One Compact. The two larger units are wider at the slimmest point — 50.9 in for the Framery Four and 54.1 in for the Strata M.

Measure the clear opening with the door standing open, not the frame. A door stop, a closer arm or a lever handle eats an inch or two, and an inch is the difference between a delivery that walks in and one that does not.

Lifts and corridors

A lift has three numbers that matter and most people check only one. The car depth and width decide whether the pod stands inside; the lift door decides whether it gets in there at all, and it is usually narrower than the car; the capacity plate decides whether it is allowed to. At 300 to 490 kg for the Strata range, the weight is rarely the binding constraint, but the door often is.

Corridors fail on the turn rather than the straight. The tightest point is wherever the route changes direction, and the length of the pod has to swing through it. Framery publishes an operating space for the One: 240 × 201.5 cm is needed to install it, which is a useful illustration that the pod needs more room to go in than it occupies once it is standing.

This is the whole reason delivery and installation are quoted on access rather than printed as a flat number. A ground floor with double doors and a loading bay is not the same job as a fourth-floor walk-up, and pretending otherwise on a price list would only produce a wrong number. Tell us the door, the lift and the floor when you ask for a quote and the figure comes back accurate the first time.

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What ceiling height does an office pod need?

The pods themselves run from 88.6 in to 91.7 in tall — roughly 7 ft 5 in to 7 ft 8 in. Every Strata unit is 2326 mm; the Framery range sits between 225 and 232.9 cm. Against a standard commercial ceiling that leaves a comfortable margin, but the ceiling is not usually what runs out first.

What runs out first is whatever hangs below it at the exact spot you have chosen: a bulkhead, a beam, a duct run, a sprinkler head, a light fitting. Measure to the lowest obstruction over the footprint, not to the ceiling tile two metres away.

Leave clearance above the unit as well. Every pod ventilates continuously, and the rates are not small: adaptive up to 36 l/s on the Framery One Compact, 26 l/s on the One, and up to 100 l/s on the Four. The Silen range runs a silent fan at about two air changes a minute, and the Strata range puts ventilation speed on the same controller as the lighting. A pod wedged hard under a soffit is working against itself.

One more clearance nobody thinks about: the pod has to come upright. The diagonal it swings through on the way to vertical is longer than its finished height, so a low ceiling at the install position can block an assembly that would otherwise fit.

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What to measure before you order

Six numbers, taken once, settle the question for good. Write them down and send them with the enquiry:

• The narrowest clear doorway on the route, measured with the door open, from the loading point to the final position.
• The lift car, the lift door and the capacity plate — all three, if the pod is not going on the ground floor.
• The corridor width at its tightest turn, not along the straight.
• Ceiling height at the install spot, measured to the lowest thing hanging over the footprint.
• The floor itself: what it is, and whether anything about it is raised, access or otherwise unusual.
• The nearest power socket, since the lighting, ventilation and charging all need a feed.

If the building is awkward, that is worth saying out loud rather than discovering on the day. Teams who cannot get a build-out approved often reach us for exactly this reason — see private rooms without a build-out for education teams in Austin for how that plays out when the alternative is a construction programme.

And once you know it fits, the next question is which one to rent. Our five things to look for when renting an acoustic office pod covers the specifications that matter after access is settled: the acoustic rating, the ventilation, the term and what the rental actually includes.