Porta Potty Rental in New Orleans, LA

A standard portable toilet in New Orleans, LA starts at $270 for a weekend rental (up to 7 days) or $320 per month, with 4 service visits included in every 28-day rental. Upgrades: deluxe flushing units run $374/weekend, ADA-accessible units $374/weekend, luxury restroom trailers from $1610/weekend. Every New Orleans rate is all-inclusive: delivery, pickup, fuel, and environmental and local fees are built into the one price, so there are no surprise line items. Online orders are $0.39 higher than the phone price; either way, a vetted local partner delivers and services the unit, with one point of contact: us. Enter your ZIP for your exact New Orleans rate.

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OSHA's construction sanitation rule, 29 CFR 1926.51(c)(1), sets the floor: 1 toilet for 20 or fewer workers; 1 toilet seat and 1 urinal per 40 workers from 20 up to 200; and 1 toilet seat and 1 urinal per 50 workers above 200. OSHA also expects a worker to reach a toilet within about a 10-minute walk. On a busy New Orleans jobsite, where a humid subtropical climate keeps crews hydrating and using the unit more than a bare headcount suggests, we recommend sizing above the OSHA minimum, adding a hand-wash station at the break area, staging the unit on ground that drains rather than in a spot that ponds after an afternoon storm in a city that drains by pump, handling the City of New Orleans right-of-way permit when a French Quarter or downtown site forces the drop into the public right-of-way, and, on soft delta ground with a high water table where saturated ground will not hold a loose unit, anchoring units on firm ground clear of the water path. Tell us the crew size and we will size the order to the standard.

Our standard New Orleans monthly rental includes 4 service visits over the 28-day period, roughly weekly. Each visit pumps the tank, sanitizes the interior, and restocks paper, soap, and hand sanitizer. In this humid subtropical climate that weekly interval is the floor, not the ceiling. Constant heat and humidity keep waste breaking down fast, so odor control depends on the service interval rather than the deodorizer, and on high-traffic jobsites and food-service events, and across a large festival, we add mid-week or daily service rather than stretch the schedule. Two local notes: we route service around the summer afternoon-storm pattern, scheduling the visit for the morning rather than the afternoon convection window, and after a hurricane-season storm or a flood event we prioritize getting crews a serviced, compliant unit fast. Service is built into the rate, so compliance never depends on anyone remembering to call.

For an event open to the public, yes. The 2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design require that at least 5 percent of the single-user portable toilets in each cluster be accessible, with a minimum of one, and each accessible unit is marked with the International Symbol of Accessibility. (Units provided only for construction workers are exempt.) In practice a small New Orleans event needs at least one accessible unit; a larger one needs one per every 20 standard units. ADA units in New Orleans run $374 for a weekend. The accessible unit has ground-level entry, interior grab bars, and a full wheelchair turning radius, and it needs firm, level ground with a clear approach path. Tell us your guest count and we will build the right ratio in.

On genuinely private property with clear truck access, a driveway, a fenced construction site, a parking lot, or a private yard, you generally do not need a city permit for a portable toilet in New Orleans. The rules change the moment any part of the unit sits in the public right-of-way, which is common on French Quarter and downtown event sites and jobsites with no private staging room. The City of New Orleans requires a permit to locate a dumpster or container in public view in the right-of-way, issued by the Department of Public Works Traffic Division at 1300 Perdido Street; the city's schedule lists a $40 application fee plus $10 per day for each 22 feet of space in non-metered areas, with full metered-space rental where parking meters are involved, and any container on the right-of-way must carry the owner's name, address, and phone number plus safety markers. Under the City Code the unit can never obstruct the public right-of-way and must stay at least 20 feet from an intersection and 15 feet from a fire hydrant, and it cannot block a sidewalk, a curb ramp, a driveway, or the clear pedestrian route. Large festivals and French Quarter events run through the City's separate special-event permitting process. Tell us the exact address and whether the drop is private or in the right-of-way, and we confirm what your spot needs and coordinate the permit before delivery.

A standard unit is the jobsite and everyday-event workhorse: enclosed, stocked, and cost-effective at $270/weekend. A deluxe flushing unit adds a foot-pump flushing bowl and an in-unit sink for guest-facing events like weddings and corporate functions at $374/weekend. A luxury restroom trailer is a climate-controlled, multi-stall unit with porcelain toilets, running-water sinks, and mirrors, indistinguishable from a fine-venue bathroom, from $1610/weekend. Pick by how guest-facing the site is and how long the rental runs.

Yes. We deliver and service portable toilets throughout New Orleans and the surrounding Orleans Parish area, with same-day and next-day drop-offs available in most of the area when you book early. Weekend event units are delivered clean before your event and picked up after. Enter your ZIP or call (866) 858-3867 and we will confirm the soonest available delivery for your address.

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Yes. A freestanding hand-wash station pairs with any toilet unit and needs no power or water hookup: it has a foot-pump faucet, soap, and paper towels, stocked at delivery and every service visit. One station serves roughly four toilet units, the ratio most health departments expect. For food and drink events in New Orleans, plan a station near the vendors and one near the toilets to cover both inspection points.

Plan for the water, because New Orleans drains by pump, not by gravity. Roughly half the city sits at or below sea level in a bowl between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain and stays dry only because the Sewerage & Water Board's drainage pumps lift rainwater out, so low streets flood when a hard rain outpaces the pumps. Hurricane Katrina in 2005, when levees and floodwalls were overtopped and breached and about 80 percent of the city flooded, is the sober benchmark for the hazard here, and Atlantic hurricane season runs June 1 through November 30 with the local peak from August into October. On soft, wet delta ground with a high water table, the practical rule is placement: if your site sits low, near a canal, or near the lake, tell us and we set the unit on firm ground and anchor it clear of the water path rather than leaving it loose, because a tank that floats or tips in a storm is a hazard and a mess. Book a little earlier in the June-to-November window too, since demand for cleanup-crew units spikes after a storm exactly when inventory is tightest.