Northeast Sanitation Blog

is growing in order to better serve you. Now located in Northborough, MA, NSC Restrooms has proven that it is a company with the highest level of customer service with a huge inventory and breadth of products.

When you are hosting an outdoor event you need to be sure that your portable toilets are available when you need them, delivered on time, placed conveniently and inconspicuously, and serviced properly. For that you need a reliable portable toilet rental company, with a variety of portable toilet and portable sink products, a large inventory and a proven record.

NSC Restrooms, now located in Northborough, MA is that company. For outdoor weddings, sporting events, festivals, corporate events, ball fields and golf courses; we have the portable toilet or portable restroom trailer that will best service your event.

For information on restroom products that will best serve your outdoor events or activities, contact NSC Restrooms.

Obviously, portable toilets have come along way since we were first introduced to them at a festival or park years ago. Today there are high end portable restroom trailers as well as flushable porta potties. No matter the type of event, there is a portable toilet for your needs. However, there are some key factors to consider, when you are renting portable toilets for an outdoor event. In trying to determine the amount of portable toilets you need consider this:

• the length of the event,
• the amount of food and drinks served
• do you need provisions for children, the elderly, or the disabled

For all Boston area portable toilet rentals, contact NSC Restrooms.

Mobile restrooms

• How often do you service you units?
• What are the portable toilets supplied with?
• Does the mobile restroom company make emergency calls, and what is an emergency?
• Does the company offer portable sinks or hand sanitizing stations?
• For portable restroom trailers, do you supply a generator or a water source if necessary?
• How many portable toilets do you need? 

With the current outbreak in Europe, of E.coli in humans, this message needs to be reinforced. As of June 6, 2011, case counts confirmed by Germany include over 3000 sick, 642 patients with HUS - a type of kidney failure that is associated with E. coli or STEC infections - and 15 deaths. Transmission is through food or water contaminated with human or animal feces. Person-to-person transmission may also occur, but is likely to be less common.

One of the greatest forms of transferring the bacteria is through the absence of hand washing.  The CDC has listed basic, common-sense advice:  Wash your hands thoroughly after using the bathroom or changing diapers and before preparing or eating food. Wash your hands after contact with animals or their environments (at farms, petting zoos, fairs, outdoor events).

The CDC is also aware that hand washing with soap and water may not always be available and therefore encourage the use of a hand sanitizer.   Washing hands with soap and water is the best way to reduce the number of germs on them. If soap and water are not available, use a hand sanitizer.

The CDC stresses the need for hand washing and hand sanitizer. The above information was provided by: Portable Sanitation Association International.

If you do not have hand washing facilities or hand sanitizers, please contact NSC Restrooms regarding portable hand washing stations. The need is greater than the small cost.  

The American Cancer Society Relay For Life is a life-changing event that gives everyone in communities across the globe a chance to celebrate the lives of people who have battled cancer, remember loved ones lost, and fight back against the disease. At Relay, teams of people camp out at a local high school, park, or fairground and take turns walking or running around a track or path. Because cancer never sleeps, Relays are overnight events up to 24 hours in length.

NSC Restrooms supplied numerous communities around New England with portable toilets for these overnight events. Only the best would do for these heroes who participated in the thousands to help the fight against cancer.

NSC Restrooms would like to thank everyone who participated in Relay for Life this year, particularly in our home town of Sudbury, MA. Congratulations and thank you to everyone who was involved with the 7th annual Relay for Life of Lincoln-Sudbury! We are proud to have such and event in our town; it was the biggest and best event ever. The Sudbury Relay for Life goal was surpassed by raising almost $140,000.

Please keep in mind that Relay will continue to accept post-event donations through August 31. Please mail any offline gifts to:

The town fields are beginning to open again. Pretty soon baseball, lacrosse and spring soccer will again be played outdoors and you need to find the mobile restrooms for the Park and Rec Department. NSC Restrooms is your answer for mobile restrooms for parks, open spaces, schools, festivals, and town and city events. We carry individual toilets, flushable portable units, ADA compliant and wheelchair accessible portable toilets. With all of these choices, we have the portable toilet for your town needs. We also provide separate hand wash stations for food handlers. Our mobile restrooms can either serve as the only source of sanitation facility or they could add supplemental support to permanent facilities.

No one wants to use a portable restroom. So why not provide the cleanest, most well maintained mobile restroom you can? We pride ourselves on an unsurpassed level of customer service. And with the multiple options, quality and quantity of mobile restrooms we have available, we can meet the needs of the Parks and Recreation Departments of towns throughout Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Hampshire.
 
All of our portable toilets come with 2 rolls of quality toilet paper, antibacterial hand wash, locking doors, and are well-ventilated. We have the best customer service in the industry; ask anyone who has used us. Most likely we can deliver your mobile restroom next day and we have the facilities to accommodate long or short-term events. Our portable toilets are great for campsites, marathons, tailgates, parades, and other events. Call NSC Restrooms today for all of your sanitation needs.

It is important to have the correct amount of portable toilets for your special event. Without enough portable restrooms, you run the risk of having dissatisfied guests. The last thing you want are long lines or complaints about the lack of portable toilets or that they are dirty. Plan a successful event with plenty of restrooms for the amount of people in attendance. Portable restroom rentals are one of the most important features of special event planning.

In order to plan a corporate or municipal event, you need to dates and back up dates, make a budget, choose and reserve the location, obtain permits and coordinate transportation and parking, as well as plan for event registration. And, depending on the type of event, some other tasks may include decorations and themes, tents, tables and chair layout, and contracting electric and lighting crews, and audio/visual companies. And for outdoor events, depending on the size, add to that to-do list: security, portable toilets, emergency and health care services, and clean up and sanitation.

The true first step in planning an event is to prepare thoroughly. The most important thing to figure out is the total expected number of guests. That number is going to affect everything else. The amount of food, the number of tables, and the amount of portable restrooms or restroom trailers are all dependent on the maximum number of people that are planning to attend. If you are unsure of an exact number, round up. Too much is always better than not enough.

How Irish Dancing Got Started through the use of Portable Toilets.

Spring is almost here, and for all of you with outdoor spring events on the calendar, it is never too early to have all of your vendors lined up. Luxury portable toilets are perfect for any outdoor engagement. Trailer rentals are perfect for outdoor office parties, family reunions, ribbon cuttings and outdoor weddings—just to name a few.

Luxury restroom trailers are much more than you would expect of a portable restroom. Featuring ceramic sinks and full size porcelain flush toilets, distinctive wainscoting, crown molding, graffiti-resistant walls, wood grain flooring, individual stalls with 6-panel doors, climate control and HD TV’s for slide shows.

These luxury restroom trailers are perfect for a small gathering or a large event. Delivered when you want them, mobile restroom trailers are roomy enough and comfortable to make your guests feel at home, while being compact and attractive enough so as to not detract from the décor. For your next outdoor event, consider luxury restroom trailers.

WEBSITE BUILDS BONDS

At first, McNamara relied on established business contacts — the “golden Rolodex,” as he puts it — and word-of-mouth referrals. But three years ago, he realized the company also required an Internet presence. The current website was revised about a year ago, and he says it’s a continual work in progress.

“In today’s world, people want to know you have a website,” he adds. “Everyone should have one that shows their products and explains what they do. But you also have to deliver on what you say on the website.”

To keep the website interesting, McNamara posts a weekly blog that talks about a wide array of issues, from strategic placement of units on construction sites to how many restrooms a customer might need for a wedding or party.

“We aim for information people can use,” he says. “At the same time, we’re also always looking for creative ideas to have some fun with it, too.

We ask our drivers for ideas, and they’ve come up with topics like how to protect units on site, putting stone pads in front of units when it’s muddy, placement of hand sinks and so on. It’s all aimed at benefitting the end-user.”

IMAGE IS MARKETING, TOO

NSC also emphasizes less subtle forms of marketing, like new, clean and well-maintained trucks; uniformed, clean-cut drivers who are courteous and professional; and use of new technology, such as global positioning systems, which helps improve customer service.

“We purchase anything that makes us more competitive in the marketplace,” he says. “We try to stay ahead of the curve on that because it saves you money in the long run.”

The NCS fleet includes a 2006 Ford LCF with a 350-gallon waste/150-gallon steel tank, made by Best Enterprises Inc.; a 2007 International 4300 with a 1,500-waste/500-gallon freshwater aluminum Progress (Progress Tank LLC) tank; a 2008 Hino 268 with a 1,500-gallon waste/500-gallon freshwater aluminum Progress tank; a 2008 International 4300 with a 750-gallon waste/350-gallon freshwater flat steel tank from Crescent Tank Mfg.; two 2010 Hino 268s with Progress aluminum tanks (one 1,150-gallon waste/350-gallon freshwater and the other with a 1,500-gallon waste/500-gallon freshwater); and a 2007 Ford LCF flatbed truck for deliveries. All of the trucks use Masport Inc. pumps.

NSC also owns 1,100 standard portable restrooms, mostly Integra units from PolyPortables Inc.; 60 handicapped-accessible units (30 made by Satellite Industries Inc. and 30 made by PolyPortables); and two restroom trailers, a 15-footer made by JAG Mobile Solutions Inc. and a 24-footer manufactured by Comforts of Home Services Inc.

The upscale JAG trailer has four 18-inch, flat-screen televisions. Customers who run charity events or weddings often burn their own DVDs with photo slide shows and play them continuously on the TVs.

“We’ve gotten lots of positive feedback about the TVs. I’m not sure it makes us more money, but you know people talk about it,’’ McNamara says. “New equipment is a great marketing tool. We wash and clean trucks every day. We want to create the perception that we’re the best company out there … when people see our trucks, they remember us.”

GPS technology helps improve customer service. NCS uses a system made by Navtrak Inc. that provides detailed information, from how fast technicians drive to the duration of a service call to the exact time the vacuum power on trucks is turned on and off. If a customer questions whether a technician made a service call, NCS can e-mail them a GPS report that proves they did.

If there’s any question at all in a customer’s mind, though, McNamara follows the premise that the customer is always right, which means a technician will go back and re-service the units in question again. Most times, however, the report does the trick, and customers realize later on that, for example, a landscaping crew came on-site unbeknownst to them, which explains why units were full or dirty so soon after being serviced.