Porta Potty Rental in Boston, MA

A standard portable toilet in Boston, MA starts at $295 for a weekend rental (up to 7 days) or $345 per month, with 4 service visits included in every 28-day rental. Upgrades: deluxe flushing units run $399/weekend, ADA-accessible units $399/weekend, luxury restroom trailers from $1610/weekend. Every Boston 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 Boston 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 Boston jobsite we recommend sizing above the bare OSHA minimum so crews never wait, adding a hand-wash station at the break area, and in the winter months winterizing the unit so a frozen tank or a Nor'easter never takes it out of service. Tell us the crew size and we will size the order to the standard.

Our standard Boston 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. That weekly interval is the floor, not the ceiling: we add a mid-week visit on high-traffic jobsites and food-service events, and in the cold months, when about 10 days a year never rise above freezing and a curbside unit sits out in the wind exposed to Nor'easters, we hold service on schedule and winterize the tank so waste never sits and freezes solid between visits. 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 Boston event needs at least one accessible unit; a larger one needs one per every 20 standard units. ADA units in Boston run $399 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 access, a private lot, a fenced construction site, or a rare property with off-street parking, you generally do not need a city permit for a portable toilet in Boston. Placement here is driven less by permits than by the colonial city itself: Beacon Hill, the North End, the South End, and much of Back Bay are narrow, crooked, one-way streets with brick sidewalks and no driveways, so on most of these blocks the only spot is the curb, and that curb is full of parked cars. The moment the unit has to sit on a public street, curb, or sidewalk, a permit comes into play. The City of Boston Public Works Department issues the Street Occupancy Permit that authorizes temporarily occupying the roadway or sidewalk for dumpsters, containers, staging, and similar equipment, applied through the city's online permit portal with at least seven business days of lead time, a base fee plus a per-square-foot daily charge, and a surety bond held by the company placing the equipment. The Boston Transportation Department shares jurisdiction where metered spaces or a travel lane are involved. The unit can never block a curb ramp, a hydrant, a building entrance, or the clear pedestrian path. This is the same Public Works right-of-way authority that governs on-street dumpster placement in the city. Tell us the exact address, whether the drop is private or at the curb, and whether it is construction or an event, and we confirm the requirement and coordinate the paperwork before delivery.

A standard unit is the jobsite and everyday-event workhorse: enclosed, stocked, and cost-effective at $295/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 $399/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 Boston and the surrounding Suffolk County 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 Boston, plan a station near the vendors and one near the toilets to cover both inspection points.

As early as the calendar allows, especially around Marathon Monday in April or the September 1 university move-in. The Boston Marathon fields about 30,000 runners on Patriots' Day, the third Monday in April, finishing on Boylston Street in Back Bay, and tens of thousands of college students move across the city on the same September 1 weekend, so both windows pull units and delivery slots off the market fast. A winter date also needs freeze planning. Give us the event or project date, the guest or crew count, and whether the site is a private lot, a campus, a park, or the public street, and we lock the unit count, any winter considerations, the delivery-and-pickup timing, and any city permit around your event.