Porta Potty Rental in Winter Haven, FL 33881

Florida regulates portable restrooms directly, and it uses two different tables for two different jobs. Getting the right one is most of the work.

Building sites use the state building site table, which counts by people and assumes weekly service. It runs one restroom for up to ten people, two for eleven to twenty, three for twenty-one to thirty, four for thirty-one to forty, five for forty-one to fifty, then one more for every additional ten people. Twice-weekly service halves that count, and three or more visits a week divides it by three. The requirement reaches commercial and residential building sites alike, for the whole of construction, whenever workers are present. There is no new-build or remodel split, and the customer needs no permit for the unit itself at a building site or a temporary location.

Handwashing on a Florida job site comes from the federal rule rather than the state table: lavatories are required at every place of employment in the country, with a narrow carve-out for mobile crews. The state's own one-station-per-ten-restrooms ratio is a special event and remote location rule, so it does not apply to an ordinary Winter Haven building site.

Events use the state event table instead, and it is self-limiting in a way that matters. It applies only where no local or state code provides a minimum number of toilet facilities. So the first job is to check for a local minimum, and we have. Winter Haven's own code requires a carnival or fair operator to submit plans to the city outlining provisions for adequate parking, fire protection, police protection and sanitary facilities for the number of persons anticipated, with those plans conforming to current city standards and rules. That is a plan duty with no number attached. The city's event application publishes no ratio either. The county health department's environmental work covers sanitary nuisances, on-site sewage and related programs rather than event restroom counts. With no local minimum in play, the state event table governs.

That table counts by crowd and by hours and assumes one service visit a day. At the four-hour column, two hundred fifty people need two units, five hundred need four, a thousand need seven, two thousand need thirteen, five thousand need thirty-two and ten thousand need sixty-three. Longer events need more from the same crowd: a thousand people over six hours is eight units, and two thousand over eight hours is fifteen. Twice-daily servicing halves the count and three or more visits divides it by three. Always quote the hours with the crowd, because the same crowd gives a different answer in a different column.