Buy the unit outright from £1,055 ex-VAT instead of paying week after week to hire it. These are free-standing single toilets, showers, urinal stations and a wheelchair-accessible unit, manufactured in Britain and delivered fully assembled. Most need no water, drainage or power at all: stand it on firm ground and it works. On a site that runs longer than a few months, buying beats hire on cost inside the first year, and the unit is yours to move between jobs afterwards. Whether you call it a portaloo, a chemical toilet or a site toilet, it is the same unit, and buying one outright is usually cheaper than six months of hire.
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CW-0907Full spec sheets: recirculating toilet (no basin) · HSE-compliant toilet · wheelchair-accessible toilet · shower cubicle · mains-connected toilet · 4-bay urinal station
Need something plumbed and permanent? If the site has mains water and drainage and the crew is bigger than a handful, a steel toilet cabin with flushing WCs, basins and heating is the next step up. From £3,200 ex VAT.
See toilet & sanitary cabinsA single site toilet on hire runs roughly £50 to £120 a week before emptying. Buy the same unit outright and you are ahead within the first year on most sites, then it costs you nothing but servicing.
Every unit except the mains model is fully self-contained: the flush recirculates from its own tank and the basin runs off its own fresh water. Stand it on firm, level ground and it works, with no plumber and no power supply.
Our HSE-compliant unit carries the large full-forearm wash basin site inspectors look for, fitted as standard rather than as a paid upgrade. Shower and mains units ship with an electrical test certificate to BS 7671.
Only need it for a weekend event? Hire is cheaper. Buying wins once the unit stays on site for months, or when you'll reuse it job after job.
Talk it through: 020 8135 0799When you own the unit rather than hire it, servicing is yours to arrange, and it is worth knowing what that means before you buy. The waste sits in a sealed 225 litre tank moulded into the base of the unit. Any local sanitation contractor will pump it out and recharge it with fresh water and chemical, the same visit they make to every hire unit in the country. On a small working crew that is typically once a week.
Waste has to go to a licensed carrier or an authorised disposal point, never into a surface drain. The shower cubicle is grey water only, which is a much simpler disposal question, and the mains-connected unit plumbs into drainage like an ordinary WC and never needs emptying at all.
Not sure which unit suits your site? and we'll point you at the right one. For the full arithmetic on buying against hiring, read the portable toilet buyer's guide.
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