Flower Cooler Sizing Calculator

Cooler sizing here works backward from how long flowers actually sit before they sell: peak bucket count is your weekly bucket intake scaled by the fraction of a week your inventory turn represents (so a 4-day turn on 30 weekly buckets yields roughly 18 buckets on hand at any moment, not the full 30), and that peak count is then divided by your number of shelving tiers to get real floor footprint, since stacking buckets on 2–3 shelf levels lets you store more inventory per square foot than floor-only storage. A separate allowance adds space for finished event arrangements awaiting pickup or delivery, estimated at half a week's worth of your weekly volume times each arrangement's footprint. Both space needs are summed and then inflated by your working-space percentage (aisles, room to maneuver) before being turned into suggested width and depth by taking the square root of total area and rounding up — a simplification that assumes a roughly square footprint, which won't match every physical space constraint.

From that footprint, the calculator estimates cooling capacity at roughly 1,500 BTU per 100 square feet (appropriate for floral cold-storage temperatures of 34–38°F, not general refrigeration) and a rough installed-cost range of $125–$175 per square foot for a walk-in unit. Treat the dimensions as a starting point for a contractor conversation, not a final floor plan — real coolers need to account for door swing, compressor placement, and ceiling height for hanging or tall arrangements, none of which this model considers.