Porta Potty LA

Porta potty rental in Mar Vista and West Los Angeles

A neighborhood in the middle of a long renovation wave, on lots that were not designed to hold a construction project and a household at the same time.

The three unit types drawn to one scale A standard single unit about four feet square and seven and a half feet tall, an accessible unit about five and a half feet square with a level entry, and below them a towed restroom trailer about sixteen feet long and eleven feet tall, several times the bulk of a single unit. Standard 4 ft × 4 ft, 7½ ft tall 1 per 50 people, 4 hours Accessible 5½ ft × 5½ ft, same height level entry, needs flat ground Restroom trailer 16 ft long, 8 ft wide 11 ft tall with the roof unit needs a tow vehicle and room to turn
Three products, three prices, three delivery problems. A trailer is not a larger version of a standard unit: it needs a tow vehicle, turning room, and usually power and water.

What drives demand in Mar Vista and West Los Angeles

West Los Angeles has been renovating and rebuilding steadily for years: additions, second stories, and teardowns on lots originally laid out for single-story houses. The result is a great many small, long residential projects on occupied streets, where a portable restroom is a fixture of the block for months and the neighbors have opinions about where it sits.

Covering Palms, Culver City line, Venice line, Sawtelle, Cheviot Hills and the rest of Mar Vista and West Los Angeles.

Getting a unit onto the site

Front setbacks are shallow and driveways are short, so the realistic placements are the driveway, the parkway strip or the street. The parkway and the street are public right-of-way, which is a permission question rather than a delivery question. A unit behind a gate needs the gate width checked before delivery rather than on the day.

When the bookings happen here

Residential projects here run long, which makes the rental long, and the practical issue becomes servicing rather than scheduling. On an occupied street a unit that is serviced on time is a non-event and one that is not becomes a complaint, which is the main reason to ask about the service schedule rather than assume it.

What moves the price in Mar Vista and West Los Angeles

Long residential bookings are priced monthly, and the monthly rate is where quotes diverge. The other variable is what happens at the end: whether pickup is included, how much notice is required, and whether the rate changes if the project overruns: which, on a West Los Angeles renovation, it usually does.

Six questions make two quotes comparable to each other:

  • How often is the unit serviced, and what does a service visit include?
  • How is the rental period counted, and what is the minimum?
  • Are delivery and pickup both included in the figure quoted?
  • What does a mid-rental extra service call cost?
  • If the job runs past its expected end date, does the rate change?
  • Is relocating a unit on site billable?

Before you book

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Units staged at a rental yard between jobs. What is on the ground is what decides whether a date can be covered, which is why availability is worth asking about before price when a booking is close.
Rows of portable restrooms lined up across a fenced rental yard, with a service building and a delivery trailer behind them