Types of portable restrooms

Are portable restroom trailers an important feature of an event? This article contains some basic tips and information to facilitate the decision making process and is designed in a way to assist the event organizers to choose the most appropriate type of portable restroom for the event. A large number of suppliers are available to provide portable toilets to the event industry. Supplier could be local or regional or nationwide as the companies vary in the sizes.

Different type of portable toilets available for the events:

Tardis Portable Toilets: The single re-circulating chemical unit is the most basic portable restroom for an event. This is also as “The Tradis” in the portable industry because of its uncanny similarity to Doctor Who's time-machine of the same name.

A tardis is always ideal for smaller outside events such as point-to-point meetings, barbeques, Small budget or local events, local fetes and is essentially called a budget box. In festivals also, they are used widely.

Portable Toilets Mounted with Trailers: Portable toilets mounted with trailers are the other type of restroom available for an event. These types of portable toilets contain a combination of urinals & cubicles and are also much larger in the size in comparison to the tardis portable toilets.

Washbasins are equipped in the cubicles. Between ten to twenty five feet in length for the trailers is the industry size range. The industry size range for the trailers is between ten to twenty five feet in length with urinals as imaginable and cubicles with washbasins.

In General, portable toilets mounted with trailers start in size as 1+1 units, i.e. on cubical with washbasin for men’s and one for women’s. Portable toilets mounted with larger trailers can accommodate configurations such as ten urinals and three cubicles or two urinals for men’s and three cubicles for women’s. Facilities for disabled people could also be incorporated with this type of portable restroom.

There is a large range in the quality of restrooms units mounted with trailers as a person might expect. Top end portable restroom units are supplied to weddings and up-market gatherings, corporate events and promotions. The basic portable restroom units could found at less grand events or festivals. In any kind of outdoor corporate hospitality, VIP portable restrooms play an important feature and are mostly seen behind the scenes.

It is also possible to connect or re-circulate the trailer mounted portable loos to the mains. How many portable restroom trailers should be hired for an event? It totally depends on the person, how many portable toilets he wants to hire. One portable restroom for per fifty guests at an event is more comfortable rather than the general rule according to which, one portable restroom per hundred guests is sufficient.