Three Key Questions to Determine your Portable Toilet Hire Needs

February 24th, 2010 | by admin |

Portable toilet hire is available for many different situations. The one need that will most certainly need to be addressed is that of a portable toilet. mark attwoodToilet hire needs vary, but portable toilets can be versatile enough to fit many different situational needs. There are three key questions you need to address to determine what you’ll need for your situation.
First you must determine the number of people you will expect to use your portable toilet. Because you can get maintenance on portable toilets you probably don’t need as many toilets for a long-term construction project as you may need for a two-day event. A good rule of thumb is ten people for each toilet hire per 40-hour workweek. For a large event you want to avoid having long lines for the portable toilets, but you don’t need one portable toilet per ten people either.

mark attwoodThe next question, how many days will you need the toilet for? Maintenance is available for long-term use of portable toilets, so you may not need more, but will need to figure in the need for cleaning and emptying. If it is the same number of people using the portable  facilities, but they are using them over a long period you will need more maintenance not necessarily more portable toilet hires. That will let you know how many portable toilet hires you will need and if they will need to be cleaned in the time that you have them; plan ahead.

Figuring out how much of your budget you can apply towards toilet hire is part of planning for your project. If you are using toilet hire for an event or to supplement for permanent facilities during construction, then look at the expense as part of your total project or event budget. If you toilet hire needs are more permanent then your budget line item should include monthly hire fees and maintained fees for cleaning and emptying the portable toilet.

Knowing what your situation will require in terms of portable toilets will help you determine what you can expect to spend. Knowing the number of people and the days the portable toilet will be used will help you determine parameters to give companies so you can gather quotes. Accurately answering the questions will get you proper quote and ultimately lead to you getting what you need for your situation.

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