Grant Stahla, Co-owner of Stahla Services, a nationwide provider of restroom, shower, and ADA trailer rentals again joins Enterprise Radio.

On this episode, the focus will be on Skid Restrooms, all the benefits and the specifics of renting one for your restroom needs.

Listen to host Eric Dye & guest Grant Stahla discuss the following:

(Host Eric Dye):  Grant, Why should our listeners care about skid restrooms right now?

(Guest Grant Stahla): Yeah, well, that’s a good question. So just a quick outline so you can imagine a porta potty, a plastic porta potty. These are about the same footprint. They might be 20% bigger, 5 foot by 4 foot, but they’re a fiberglass unit with an air conditioner. There’s a toilet inside and a little sink, so maybe it’s the size of a restroom in a motor home, but it’s more of a long term solution. It’s different than a restroom trailer because it doesn’t have the axle and the set of wheels, and it’s not as big and bulky and tall, but usually they’re one stall or two stalls and you move them around with forks like with a forklift or a set of forks on a skid loader. And you can lift them off of a trailer and then put them at your site. You just set them down. They’re about 1300 to 1500 lbs per stall. So that’s a quick image of what they are.

The reason you asked why should we care? Well, if your construction crew on the 47th floor of a big high rise that you’re building, the only option is to lift a porta potty up there. Well, this is a good option for a long term restroom solution that has air conditioning with an actual sink. And then because it’s not on wheels and it has hook points on the top of the unit, so you can actually lift it up with the crane to that 47th floor of a high rise. With ground level bathrooms, that’d be a 15 minute trip down which is a waste of time. Traditional porta potties, they’re a lot lighter and no one you know, no one prefers a traditional porta potty if you’re bringing workers down, that kills productivity and creates safety issues every time you go up and down. The Skid Restroom is a game changer. They are crane lifted, forklift maneuvered and dropped anywhere. So that’s a huge improvement. This is a swiss army knife for long term construction. Definitely set up for that long term job. Something that I would say is a month or longer. Otherwise you can just if you know if you need to move locations, you can just pick it up with the with the forklift and move a location with it.

Rough economics. We’ll get into this more later. It’s about $2800 per month for a short term rental. That’s, you know, one to two months and then it reduces down to about 1500 a month for projects over six months. So that really that price point can go down when it’s it just can sit there and stay there longer. And then the units overall, the price point to buy new is anywhere from $15,000 to $30,000 per stall. So and like I said, usually they’re one or two stalls, just so that you can maneuver them and that they’re not too heavy for those forks other than that, that’s a quick overview and some of the benefits of using that skid restroom.

(Host Eric Dye):  What exactly qualifies as a skid restroom and its origin?

(Guest Grant Stahla) : Yeah. So it’d be a portable sanitation unit on a rigid skid base. So it’s not on a wheel chassis, so there’s no axle underneath of it.