Porta Potty Rental in Durham, NC

A standard portable toilet in Durham, NC 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 Durham 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 Durham 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 Durham jobsite, where humid subtropical summers keep 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, planning placement on medical-campus, lab, and downtown historic-district sites around active foot traffic, gates, and tight loading points, and for storm season and winter setting units on stable, well-drained ground away from tree fall lines, low spots, and the shaded areas where an ice glaze forms. Tell us the crew size and we will size the order to the standard.

Our standard Durham 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 Durham that weekly interval is the floor, not the ceiling. Humid Piedmont summers keep waste breaking down fast, so odor control depends on the service interval, not the deodorizer, and on high-traffic Duke and Duke Health medical-campus and biomanufacturing jobsites or busy dates like a Durham Bulls homestand or a downtown food festival we add a mid-week or same-day visit rather than stretch the schedule. Two Durham notes: on an active medical campus or a tight downtown historic-district site we route service around campus foot traffic, gates, and narrow loading points so the truck never conflicts with the work, and in storm season and winter we time and equip service so a remnant wind-and-rain event or an ice cold snap does not leave a unit out of use. 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 Durham event needs at least one accessible unit; a larger one needs one per every 20 standard units. ADA units in Durham 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 truck access, a driveway, a fenced construction site, a backyard, a parking lot, or a private medical, university, or corporate campus, you generally do not need a city permit for a portable toilet in Durham, and on a Duke or Duke Health campus, a lab or biomanufacturing site, or a fenced downtown lot there is usually room to set the unit well inside the property. The rules change the moment any part of the unit, or the truck servicing it, sits in or blocks the public right-of-way. In the City of Durham, any work that takes place within the city right-of-way requires a permit, and the city's Temporary Closure Permit is the one that covers the temporary closure of streets, sidewalks, and on-street parking areas, along with temporary dumpsters and the temporary placement of equipment on adjacent property, issued through the city's Minor Development Engineering group in Planning and Development. Streets that are state-maintained fall under NCDOT instead of the city, so the maintaining authority decides which office issues the permit. A sidewalk closure has to keep a safe path for pedestrians, and the unit can never block a curb ramp, a driveway, a fire hydrant, a bus stop, or the clear pedestrian route. Tell us the exact address and whether the drop is fully on private property or touches the sidewalk, street, or an on-street parking space, and we confirm whether the street is city or state maintained, tell you 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 $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 Durham and the surrounding Durham 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 Durham, plan a station near the vendors and one near the toilets to cover both inspection points.

Durham sits well inland in the Piedmont, so it does not take a direct hurricane hit the way the coast does, but it has a real twin hazard. In warm season the weakened remnants of a coastal landfall can still reach the Triangle with wind and heavy rain, and Durham averages about 45.7 inches of rain a year, enough to topple trees and flood low ground. In winter the bigger recurring hazard is ice: Durham sees only a few inches of snow in a typical year, but when cold air settles in and precipitation glazes over, an ice storm can shut a site down and coat equipment. For a storm-season job we set units on stable, level, well-drained ground away from tree fall lines and low spots, and anchor or relocate a unit ahead of a remnant wind-and-rain event. For a winter job we keep units on well-drained ground away from downspouts and shaded low spots where an ice glaze forms, and clear of the plow and salt path. Tell us if the site sits low, exposed, or hemmed in by historic downtown buildings and we place the unit accordingly.