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Keeping Your Construction Site Sanitized

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Getting messy and dirty on the job site comes with the territory. But maintaining clean and sanitary conditions is an important factor when it comes to keeping everyone healthy. As we head into the start of winter it becomes more and more important to keep your workers as healthy as possible. The easiest and most cost effective place to start is by providing accessible hand washing stations. Portable hygiene for construction sites include rentable portable sinks and hand sanitizer stations that you can have delivered right to your jobsite. The portable hand-washing sink comes equipped with two 30 oz. soap dispensers...

Rentable Restroom Trailers for your Fall Celebrations

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Fall wedding season is upon us and almost in full effect. If you are planning an outdoor wedding or reception, you should know about our rentable restroom trailer options, especially if you are having a celebration larger than just with immediate family. Whether your celebration is in a nearby park or at your own home you should always plan ahead for your guests’ restroom needs. If you are having a celebration at home, let us help you keep guests out of your own personal bathroom and let us do the clean up work when the party is over. Our restroom trailers...

Providing Clean Bathroom Facilities on a Construction Site?

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Do you ever drive by a construction worker who is high in the sky working on a skyscraper and wonder, what will they do when they have to go to the bathroom? Maybe I’m weird, but growing up as a kid, I certainly did. So what do they do? Do they hold it? Do they rush down the elevator to...

To Use or Not to Use: The Porta Potty Debate

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While most people probably prefer to use their own bathroom when nature calls, sometimes it just isn’t possible, and “holding it in” can be harmful (or even fatal – think back to 2009 when a Sacramento radio station (KDND-FM) contestant passed away due to water intoxication from an on-air water-drinking contest). It’s important to take care of your bodily needs as necessary. Many people, however, are hesitant to use portable restrooms (aka porta potties), due to cleanliness concerns. We speak from experience when we say that portable restrooms can be just as clean and nice to use as a regular bathroom!...

Planning Ahead for Natural Disasters

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Every family, especially ones with younger children, should have an emergency kit and plan prepared and in place ahead of time. The kit should be designed to help get you and your family through a few days without power or access to outside assistance, and the plan should be specific and memorized by all members of your family. In honor of September's National Preparedness Month, let these simple steps serve as a guide for how to put your own emergency plan into place. •    Make your plan together. Think of scenarios that could happen and plan how you would manage your...

Why use Gotügo at your next event?

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Gotügo’s portable restrooms are popping up everywhere. Recently, Gotügo porta potties have been seen at Baltimore’s leading arts festival, Artscape, Washington D.C.’s Cherry Blossom Festival and many music festivals around the Maryland/D.C. metro area. We recently found this lovely Gotügo photo collage by Karen Mallonee on her Flickr photostream.  We love the angles she used, and she proves that even portapotties...

Portable Restrooms For Emergency Services

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It has been almost two weeks since a devastating derecho, or severe windstorm, ravaged the Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. area. It was part of an intense cluster of thunderstorms that left 22 people dead across seven states and denied essential living services to millions more. In our immediate area, almost 3 million people were left without power – some...

Fun Facts You May Not Know About Portable Restrooms

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With summer upon us, it's a busy season for porta potty rentals. We thought to liven things up we would test your portable restroom knowledge with a few fun facts. Read on and see which trivia you knew! Five Fun Facts You May Not Know About Toilets: There were 5,000 portable restrooms at Obama’s inauguration. A portable toilet use 90% less water then...

Five Common Porta Potty Myths

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Portable restrooms aren’t clean. Go ahead – step inside one of our immaculate units and find out for yourself. At gotügo, we pride ourselves on the cleanliness and quality maintenance of our units. In certain cases, restroom trailers are accompanied by a helpful attendant who will ensure your unit remains spotless for the entirety of your event. Portable sinks and...

Porta Potty Rentals from Certified Government Vendors

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Finding and hiring a vendor for your organization can be tough – coordinating schedules, billing, tracking down points of contact, etc. Even tougher, what if you’re a government organization? Imagine all the usual hassles involved with bringing in a great service provider – only now you need to find a contractor with credentials that meet government standards. Carrying accreditation from bodies...