Rent Self-Contained Shower Trailers Anywhere in Salt Lake City
The Lavatory is the go-to team for temporary-use mobile showers in Salt Lake City, and our units land clean, hot and ready the day they arrive. We set up on downtown build sites, on shelter lots out on the west side, and at fire and flood staging up in the canyons. Call now and we will hold your dates. Or request a free quote and we will size the unit to your head count. Somebody here picks up at 2 a.m. Working 30 miles north of Salt Lake City? Start with the Ogden, UT page.
Or call (866) 509-6846 for Salt Lake City availability.Private hot showers for Salt Lake City, one team, multi-station shower trailers included
Private hot showers for crews, camps, productions and emergency response.
Call (866) 509-6846 or request a quote and we will size the trailer to your Salt Lake City dates.
The Lavatory runs Salt Lake City’s temporary-use mobile showers from a fleet of over 250 units we own outright
We own more than 250 units, the largest luxury trailer fleet in the Western U.S., and we have spent eight years staging private shower units in this valley. We are not a broker. When a job moves up two days we move one of our own trailers, and the date holds. That is also why ADA shower trailer rentals in Salt Lake City get put on a schedule instead of on a wish list. We are SAM.gov registered, licensed and insured, part of an A plus BBB rated network with a 99.9 percent incident free record, so an agency can open a purchase order without a fight. Call us or request a free quote and we will tell you in one conversation what fits your site.
A room, not a curtain
Each shower is its own space with a door that locks, a light and a bench. On a mixed crew site or a shelter lot that is the difference between a unit people use and a unit they avoid.
We size off the clock, not the roster
The first question is how many people have to be through in an hour. Sixty workers hitting a 45 minute window is a harder job than 200 people spread across an evening.
Winter is planned, not survived
Heated hose, a drained waste line and heat left on inside the box. On the coldest nights we close the unit up and switch to hauled water instead of fighting a frozen site connection at 6 a.m.
We plan around canyon closures and watershed rules
SR-210 shuts down for avalanche control through the winter, and the Cottonwood canyons are a protected drinking water source for much of the county. Anything we put up there runs fully closed and everything comes back down with us. We schedule canyon drops around road status and stage a day early when the forecast looks bad.
“We had 55 guys on a badged job and no place for them to clean up inside the fence. The unit showed up on a Monday and the driver walked me through the panel tie-in before he left. Nothing has gone sideways since.”
“Code Blue hit on a Tuesday forecast and we doubled our beds by Thursday. They had a trailer on the lot that same morning and set the pump time so the truck never crossed our intake line.”
“Unit was on the staging lot before the morning briefing. That is the whole review.”
Brands, base camps and productions that booked our self-contained shower units in Salt Lake City
The companies that could rent anything still call us, because a bad shower at a base camp or a film set becomes the story of the whole job. The Lavatory has provided trailers for names like Google, Tesla, BMW, Mercedes, eBay, and Target, for hospitality at Caesars Palace, and for pro sports including the Golden State Warriors, Oakland A’s, and Las Vegas Raiders.
The reason those bookings repeat is simple. A hot shower at the end of a long day is the one thing a crew remembers about the camp, so the trailer has to be stocked, heated and serviced every day of the job, not just the first one. That is how we run every unit in the fleet, and it is the same standard behind every Salt Lake City booking, from a two-week jobsite to a festival campground.
Three decades in event and equipment rental, running the largest luxury trailer fleet in the Western U.S. Every unit ours, never a broker’s.
Portable shower trailers for Salt Lake City shelter and outreach sites
In Salt Lake City our flagship 8-Station unit takes the big jobs. Picture a fenced pad out past the airport, or a fire camp on a foothill trailhead with no hydrant in sight. Call us with a head count and we will quote it the same day.
Salt Lake County finalized its winter plan at the Utah Homelessness Council meeting on September 21. It counted about 732 winter overflow beds against a target of 900, plus roughly 250 Code Blue beds. County staff called it the largest number of beds ever identified as needed for a single winter. Beds are the number that gets reported. Showers are the number nobody counts.
Here is the part that trips people up. A Code Blue night asks each resource center to add 35 percent more space, and other groups open warming centers on top of that. The state calls it off a forecast, so the notice is short. Adding 85 cots to a church hall does not add one shower stall. The West Valley overflow site on Redwood Road takes 170 people. Ville 1990 on North Temple takes 210. St. Vincent de Paul takes 65. Those buildings were plumbed for the crowd they were built for, not the crowd a cold snap sends them. Outreach programs that rotate sites can add Provo portable shower rentals for the next stop.
The fittings inside a shower unit
Private rooms with a lockable door
Every shower is its own room with a door that locks, a bench and a hook, so a crew or a camp showers with real privacy instead of a curtain in a row.
Hot and cold water controls
A water heater and onboard tanks feed hot and cold controls in each room, with 1.5 GPM shower heads so the hot water lasts through a full shift of people.
Air conditioning and heat
Climate control in every trailer, so a shower in a July heat wave or a January storm response feels like the one at home.
One-piece gel-coated fiberglass
Walls, ceiling and floor are one molded fiberglass surface with no seams, which is why the rooms clean fast, stay clean and never smell like a locker room.
Runs with or without hookups
Fresh and waste tanks on board, a generator when the site has no power, and the option to tie into on-site septic on a long deployment.
Serviced, stocked and pumped
We deliver the trailer stocked and come back to pump, restock and clean on longer jobs, so day twelve looks like day one.
The shelter village on 700 West is the clearest case. Fifty people live in sleeping units with no plumbing in them at all, on a lot, with a power drop. Every hygiene need on that site has to be brought in. We park a unit where the service truck can reach it, set the pumping schedule before the first shower, and keep the heat on inside the box overnight. On a microshelter site the door lock is not a nice touch. It is the whole point.
After eight years of this work in the valley, the thing we plan first is the pump-out, not the drop. A shelter lot is usually tight, usually shared with staff parking, and usually sited where neighbors are watching. We walk it with the program manager, pick a spot the truck can hit without blocking the gate, and set service times outside the morning rush. Private rooms with a light and a lock also solve a supervision problem. Staff can stand outside the door and still give somebody real privacy.
Full specifications for every unit are on the 8-Station spec page and its four sister pages, or call and we will spec it to your Salt Lake City head count.
See every unit on our shower trailer lineup, or keep reading for how we size a trailer to a Utah job.
Matching self-contained shower units to crews, camps and productions in Salt Lake City
Five shower units cover everything from a single ADA-compliant room to a camp that showers two hundred people a day. Every one has hot water, private rooms and climate control. Tell us the head count, how long the job runs and what the site has for water and power, and we will size it.
8-Station Private Shower Trailer
Eight completely private shower rooms in a 29-foot box, built for crews, camps and relief sites of up to about 200 people a day. Hot and cold controls, 200-gallon fresh and 950-gallon waste tanks, an exterior four-sink hand wash bank under the roof line, and it can tie into on-site septic for long deployments. CAL FIRE approved for wildfire camp service, the spec incident teams ask for in every western state.
ADA + 2 Private Shower Trailer
Two standard private shower rooms plus one ADA room with a self-contained ramp, built to federal ADA requirements. The right unit when a site needs accessibility without giving up capacity, with 210 gallons of fresh water on board.
4-Station Shower, Restroom and Laundry Combo
Four private bathrooms, each with a toilet, sink, shower and power outlet, plus a washer and dryer in a separate room. A self-contained hygiene block for a crew of up to about 30 on a remote or long-term job.
2-Station Shower and Restroom Combo
Two private bathrooms with a toilet, sink and shower each, in a compact 11-foot box. The pick for a small crew, a ranch job or a production base that needs both functions in one footprint.
Single-Station ADA Shower and Restroom Combo
One fully accessible room: ADA china toilet with grab bars, roll-in shower with a seat and hand wand, ADA-height sink and vanity, and a ramp that deploys in minutes. It pairs with any other unit so every person on site is covered.
Bigger jobs run several trailers side by side, and long deployments get a service schedule instead of a one-time drop. If you are between sizes, we spec it to the head count rather than nudge you into more trailer than the job calls for.
For sites beyond this city, our Utah shower trailer service area lists every region we deliver to.
Our shower trailers, inside and out across Salt Lake City
Our shower trailers, and the kinds of sites we set them up on. Base camps, jobsites, race weekends, productions and the relief sites where the trailer has to run for weeks.
How we deliver and run shower trailers in Salt Lake City
We handle the whole thing, not just the drop-off. Our team delivers the trailer, levels and sets it, connects water and power or stages a generator and a water supply, fires the heater and stocks every room before the first person needs it. When the job wraps, we come back and haul it away.
On longer or higher-traffic bookings in Salt Lake City, we pump and restock on a schedule, and an on-site attendant is available for camps and productions where the trailer runs all day. That always-clean standard is the difference between a shower people use once and one they are glad to use every night of the job.
Getting a shower trailer to Salt Lake City, step by step
Booking should be the easy part of running a site. Four steps, a straight answer, and one team that owns the whole thing.
Tell us about the site
Share the dates, a rough head count and where the trailer will sit. That is enough for us to point you to the right unit and count.
We match the trailer and the hookups
We confirm whether the site has water and power or needs a generator and a supply, and pin the exact spot so delivery is one clean trip.
Delivery and setup
We arrive on your schedule, level and set the trailer, connect it, heat the water and stock every room so it is ready before the first shift ends.
Use it, we handle service and pickup
The trailer holds up through the whole deployment while our line stays open. When you are done, we come back and take it away.
Site planning for mobile shower units in Salt Lake City, done right
Anything on city property needs a Salt Lake City special event permit. That covers parks, city owned lots, streets and sidewalks, and the application gets reviewed by several departments at once, including police, fire, public works, transportation and parks. If any part of your setup sits in the public right of way, the city wants a traffic control plan that follows the federal traffic control manual. Downtown street closures get their own look. Private property and fenced job sites are far simpler, and that is where most of our work in this city sits.
On a construction site the federal sanitation standard is the one that governs. It sets toilet counts by crew size, one facility for 20 or fewer, then one seat and one urinal per 40 workers above that. It also requires washing facilities near the work wherever crews handle paints, coatings, herbicides or other material that could be harmful, and OSHA reads that last phrase broadly. Where showers are required the figure is one shower for every 10 employees of each sex, with hot and cold water and body soap. Sites with a contamination risk also need change rooms that keep street clothes away from work clothes.
Then there is the water going down the drain. Utah defines graywater as untreated wastewater that never touched toilet waste, and that definition names showers, washbasins and laundry outright. It is still regulated wastewater and it does not go on the ground. Holding tanks have to be pumped at regular intervals with the contents taken to an approved facility, and the state requires a contract with an approved pumper under its own pumper rule. Disposal also has to satisfy the local health authority, which here is the Salt Lake County Health Department at 385-468-4100. We handle all of that inside the rental. On long jobs we tie into septic instead, which cuts the truck visits way down. New to shower rentals? “Everything You Need To Know About Shower Trailers” is the place to start.
What we cover on ADA and placement
- ADA-compliant shower units with a ramp, roll-in shower, seat, hand wand, grab bars and an ADA-height sink.
- Guidance on where to place the trailer so it is easy to reach, easy to service and level.
- Water and power sorted before delivery, with a generator and a water supply staged when the site has neither.
- Licensed and insured on every unit we put on the road.
One thing we always say plainly: some sites, agencies and city permits have their own rules on placement, accessibility, greywater and temporary hygiene facilities. Tell us the site and we will help you plan around them, but confirm any permit requirements with the property or the agency as well.
Crew shower trailers for Salt Lake City build sites and plant shutdowns
The airport rebuild is the longest running job in the city and it is not done. Phase four is a 16 gate expansion on the east side of Concourse B, with about 25,000 square feet of restaurant and retail, and the final 11 gates plus six concessions open in October 2026. Paving carries into early 2027. Holder Construction and Big-D Construction run the joint venture. A badged site inside a secure perimeter is a different problem than a downtown block. Trade crews cannot wander into a terminal restroom, and our service truck needs its own escort plan.
Downtown is about to get busier. The Delta Center has been under an inside-out renovation since April 2025, phased through the 2026 and 2027 offseasons, with a 450 stall garage opening this year and hockey seating going to about 17,000. The Salt Palace is scheduled to close in fall 2027 for a demolition and rebuild that is expected to take three years. Two block-sized jobs, side by side, on hard handover dates. That is the profile where crews get hot-water showers in a private room on the lot instead of a promise about next phase.
West and south of the city the work is industrial. Bingham Canyon is about 2.5 miles across and more than three quarters of a mile deep, with roughly 2,000 people moving on the order of 450,000 short tons a day, and the concentrate travels about 17 miles by pipeline to the smelter at Magna. North of the valley the Woods Cross refinery runs 45,000 barrels a day. A planned shutdown brings hundreds of traveling contractors onto a fenced site for a few weeks, with hot work and confined space entry, and the site’s own facilities were never sized for that head count. Where crews handle coatings or other harmful material, washing facilities near the work are required, and showers come with that territory. On a long build, crews can use VIP restroom trailers in Salt Lake City too.
The northwest quadrant is the widest open ground in the city and the emptiest. The state prison sits on about 170 acres at 1480 North 8000 West, north of I-80, and the warehouse and rail ground around it stretches for miles with almost no power and no water line. That is where 8-Station private shower trailer rentals earn their keep, because the unit carries its own fresh water and 950 gallons of waste and does not care that the nearest building is four miles off.
What one shift without a multi-station shower trailer costs outreach programs in Salt Lake City
Think about what a Salt Lake City deployment actually costs to run. Wages, lodging, fuel, the schedule pressure, the people you are asking to work long days away from home. Then picture the end of that shift with nowhere to get clean. A shower is the one thing every person on site uses, and it is the detail they quietly judge the whole camp by.
A private shower trailer protects everything else you are spending. Crews sleep better and stay on the job, a production keeps cast and crew comfortable through a long schedule, and a relief site gives people back a piece of normal. Set against the cost of the deployment, it is a small line item that carries a lot of the morale, which is why the managers who have run a camp without one book the trailer first the next time.
Emergency shower trailers for Wasatch Front quake, fire and flood work
On March 18, 2020 at 7:09 in the morning a magnitude 5.7 quake hit with its center about six kilometers north-northeast of Magna. More than 2,800 aftershocks followed, more than 50 of them in the first two hours. About 145 historic buildings across the valley took damage and roughly 50,000 customers lost power. The Angel Moroni statue lost its trumpet. The fault under all of this is the Wasatch, which has broken the surface 19 times in the last 6,000 years. Every emergency plan in this valley is written against that, and the first thing that goes in a big one is water and sewer to buildings.
Fire is the summer version. The Parleys Canyon Fire in August 2021 burned in the canyon that carries I-80 out of the city and pushed evacuations at Summit Park and Lambs Canyon. Back in September 2010 a live-fire exercise at Camp Williams started the Machine Gun Fire, which ran through more than 3,500 acres and took three homes in Herriman. Base camps for those fires go into trailheads and gravel pullouts. No hydrant. No panel. Our 8-Station is CAL FIRE approved and it goes out with a generator and a water haul schedule already set, not figured out on arrival.
Then there is water going the other way. The 2022 to 2023 winter set snowpack records and the melt that followed put creeks across the valley at or above their old peaks, with cities filling sandbags for weeks. City Creek, Emigration, Parleys, Mill Creek and both Cottonwood creeks all run through neighborhoods on their way to the Jordan River. Ground on the west side and out toward the lake stays soft from April into June, and a loaded trailer will find that out for you. We set on gravel, plate or pavement, and we level before anything gets hooked up.
What we need from you on an emergency call is short. The gate, the ground, and whether there is power. We take it from there, and we have the paperwork agencies ask for already on file. That is true for Utah shower trailer rentals on a county staging lot and for a multi-week shelter operation the same way. Call our dispatch line any hour and ask about same day delivery.
Other Salt Lake City jobs our temporary shower units cover
Three kinds of work keep our units busy here, and they do not happen at the same time of year. Shelter and outreach sites peak in the coldest weeks. Build sites and plant shutdowns run spring through the first hard freeze. Emergency work shows up whenever it wants. Each one gets set up differently, and we do not pretend otherwise.
Days of ’47 parade mornings
The parade steps off at 9 a.m. on July 24 from South Temple and State, runs east to 200 East, then south to 900 South and over to Liberty Park. Setup crews are on the route hours before sunrise in July heat.
Utah State Fairpark run of show
The fair runs 11 days starting the first Thursday after Labor Day on the 50 acre grounds at 155 North 1000 West. Build-in and strike crews work the lot for weeks on either side of that.
Camp Williams annual training
The Guard site south of Bluffdale covers roughly six square miles of flat ground and 47 square miles of hills. Training rotations put a lot of people in the field with very few fixed buildings.
Little Cottonwood road and resort crews
SR-210 closes for avalanche work through the winter and the canyon is a protected drinking water source. Anything working up there runs closed and hauls everything back out.
Film base camps on the west side
Utah keeps a state film incentive and productions still base out of the valley. A base camp is a parking lot, and it usually wants two private rooms on building power rather than a big unit.
What ties these together is that a hot shower changes how a long day ends. Because our units sit staged across the region instead of a couple of states away, getting a shower trailer to a Salt Lake City site, even on a short-notice call, is an ordinary ask here, not a scramble.
How self-contained shower units gets planned for the jobs we see most in the Salt Lake City area
Facilities lead, downtown arena renovation phase
The building was torn open for an offseason phase and the trade bathrooms went with the concourse. We set a 4-Station combo on the north side of the block on a Sunday and pulled power off the building. The laundry room in that unit mattered more than the showers, because half the crew was traveling and living out of hotels for eleven weeks.
Program manager, winter overflow site on the west side
A cold snap came in on a Tuesday forecast and the site went from 60 cots to just over 140 in two days. The building had three showers. We had an 8-Station on the lot Thursday morning with a generator, and set pumping for 5 a.m. so the truck never crossed the intake line. It stayed through the end of February.
Turnaround planner, refinery shutdown north of the valley
Nineteen days, a few hundred travelers, and a decon requirement written into the work packs. We brought the 8-Station for throughput and parked the ADA + 2 next to it so nobody had to be routed off site. The exterior 4-sink hand wash bank on the 8-Station took the load right at the gate, which kept the boot wash line from backing into the parking area.
What each Salt Lake City neighborhood asks of a mobile shower trailer
We deliver across the Salt Lake Valley and we serve every state. Salt Lake City is the hub we stage from for this region, which is why a job in Murray or West Valley City gets same day attention and a canyon camp can have a unit overnight. Tell us the gate, the power and the ground, and we will tell you what fits.
We cover Salt Lake City shower trailer rentals across Utah. Towns and job corridors we serve include Downtown, Central City, Granary District, Ballpark, Central Ninth, Liberty Wells, Sugar House, 9th and 9th, Yalecrest, Foothill, Federal Heights, The Avenues, Capitol Hill, Marmalade, Fairpark, Rose Park, Westpointe, Poplar Grove, Glendale, Northpoint, Emigration Canyon, South Salt Lake, West Valley City, Murray.
Jobs outside town are covered too; the Utah shower trailer coverage map shows every corridor.
The Avenues, Capitol Hill and Marmalade
Narrow old streets with cars on both curbs and real grade climbing toward the Capitol. An 11 foot box gets in where a 35 foot combination has no business trying. We walk the access with the super before anybody commits to a spot.
Sugar House and 9th and 9th
Dense commercial blocks with alley access and not much curb to spare. Most of the work here is building renovation, which means power is usually available and space is not. Anything in the right of way needs a traffic control plan and we help put it together.
The Granary District and Ballpark
Old warehouse ground south of downtown that is turning over fast. Lots are big, panels are old, and gates were built for trucks. Good ground for a large unit if the power gets checked first.
Rose Park, Fairpark and Westpointe
The north west side, close to the Fairpark at 1000 West and the rail corridor. Plenty of room and plenty of jobs, and this is the part of the city where a shelter or event lot is most likely to need everything brought in.
Glendale, Poplar Grove and the Jordan River
Flat ground along the river with parks and soft shoulders. In April and May that ground will not hold a loaded trailer, so we set on pavement or plate and skip the turf entirely.
Foothill, Emigration Canyon and the east bench
Grade, tight turns and fire risk in late summer. Staging for a foothill fire happens fast, usually into a trailhead lot with no services at all. We keep a unit that can leave the yard inside an hour.
Planned rentals are usually scheduled the same week, and we do our best to cover last-minute Salt Lake City dates when a trailer is nearby.
What customers say about our Salt Lake City shower trailer rentals
“We parked a small combo behind the building for a twelve day shoot. It took two regular circuits, so the generator we had budgeted never got ordered.”
“Nineteen days, a few hundred travelers, and a decon requirement in the work packs. The 8-Station handled throughput and the hand wash bank on the outside of that same unit kept the gate line moving.”
“Purchase order went through without anybody chasing paperwork. That alone was worth it.”
“Cold week in January and our hose froze at the bib. They came out, swapped to a heated line and showed my guys how to drain it. No lost showers after that.”
“Ten days of build and strike in September. The rooms were clean every single morning, which is not something I say about rental equipment.”
“Trailhead lot, no hydrant, no power. They rolled in with a generator and a water schedule already worked out instead of asking us what we wanted to do about it.”
What sports camps ask about crew shower trailers in Salt Lake City
Will a portable shower trailer actually keep working through a Salt Lake City January?
Yes, if it is set up for it. Every one of our units has heat and a smart thermostat, so the inside of the box stays above freezing overnight with nobody on site. The parts that need a plan are outside: the site hose, the bib and the waste connection. We run insulated heated hose and drain the waste line between services. On the coldest stretches, when the valley is sitting in one of those weeks where the high never gets above freezing, we will close the unit up and switch to scheduled water delivery and pumping instead of fighting a frozen site connection every morning.
How fast can you get a unit to a shelter or warming site when Code Blue is called?
Same day in most cases, and we have done it. Code Blue gets declared off a forecast, so everybody finds out at once and the phone rings all afternoon. Call our dispatch line the moment you know your bed count is moving, even before the alert is official. What speeds it up on your end is knowing three things: where the truck can reach for pumping, whether there is a panel or we bring a generator, and who is on site to point at a spot.
How many shower stations do I need for a crew of 60?
The head count is only half the question. Ask how long the window is. Sixty workers coming off one shift into a 45 minute window is a harder job than 200 people showering across an evening. The federal construction rule sets a floor of one shower per 10 employees of each sex where showers are required, which puts 60 workers at six. We usually land on the 8-Station for a crew that size, because the extra rooms buy back time at the end of the shift.
Do I need a permit to park a shower trailer in Salt Lake City?
It depends entirely on whose ground it sits on. On a fenced private job site, no city permit is involved. On city property, in a park, on a city lot, or anywhere in a street or sidewalk, you need a Salt Lake City special event permit, and anything in the public right of way needs a traffic control plan. Downtown closures get an extra review. We have been through this process plenty of times and we will tell you which bucket your site falls in on the first call.
Where does the shower water go, and how often do you pump it?
Into a sealed waste tank on the trailer, and then out by an approved pumper to an approved disposal site. Utah counts shower water as graywater, which is regulated wastewater, so none of it goes on the ground. The 8-Station carries 950 gallons of waste, which covers a normal service cycle on most jobs. We set the pumping schedule before the first shower and adjust it once we see real usage. On long deployments we tie into septic where it is available, which cuts truck visits a lot.
Can somebody in a wheelchair use your showers on a Salt Lake City job site?
Yes. The ADA + 2 gives you one accessible room plus two standard private rooms, and it comes with its own ramp built in. The accessible room has a roll-in shower with a seat and a hand wand. It meets federal ADA requirements. That unit parks next to any other trailer we bring, so one lot covers your whole crew and nobody gets sent to another address.
Can I run a shower unit without any hookups at all?
Yes, and out in the northwest quadrant or up a canyon that is usually the plan. Every unit works closed, carrying its own fresh water and holding its waste, with us delivering water and pumping on a set schedule. Power is the piece to sort out first. The 8-Station wants one 50 amp 220 volt circuit, so a bare site means a generator. The ADA + 2 and both smaller combos each need two ordinary 120 volt 20 amp circuits.
What about phased jobs where the laydown yard keeps moving?
That is normal on the big work here, especially on campus and terminal jobs where each phase closes out a different piece of the site. We plan for two or three moves instead of one drop, and we write it into the contract up front so nobody is renegotiating in August. Each move is a couple of hours if the new spot is picked ahead of time and the ground is ready.
Do you work with counties, cities and agencies on purchase orders?
All the time. We are SAM.gov registered, licensed and insured, and part of an A plus BBB rated network with a 99.9 percent incident free record. That is usually what a procurement office needs to open a purchase order without a lot of back and forth. Emergency purchases still follow a process, and having our paperwork already on file is what makes a same day mobilization real instead of theoretical.
What is the difference between a shower-only trailer and one of your combo units?
A shower-only unit gives you showers and nothing else, which is what you want when throughput is the whole problem. A combo gives each person a full private bathroom, so a toilet and a sink are in the same locked room as the shower. The 4-Station combo adds a washer and dryer in a separate room, which matters on multi-week jobs where crews are living out of hotels. The 2-Station combo packs the same idea into an 11 foot box for tight lots.
Salt Lake City shower trailer planning guides from our crew
Deeper reading for site managers, camp coordinators and producers, from sizing a shower trailer to the head count to keeping hot water through a long deployment. Tap any guide to open it.
The site side cold weather checklist for a Salt Lake City shower setup
Most of what we get called out for in January is not the trailer. It is the fifteen feet of hose between the trailer and your building. That piece is thin, it sits outside, it is usually the customer’s hose, and it is the first thing to turn solid on a 20 degree night. The trailer itself has heat and a thermostat and takes care of itself. This list is about your half of the setup.
Start with the water source. Find out whether the bib you are planning to use is frost-free, and if nobody knows, assume it is not. A standard bib with water sitting in it will split, and you will not find out until spring when somebody turns it on and the wall gets wet. If the only source is a standard bib, plan to shut it off and drain it between fills rather than leaving the line charged.
When to book a shower unit for the Salt Lake Valley’s busiest stretches
Demand here is not flat, and the tight weeks are predictable if you know the calendar. Booking against that calendar is the cheapest thing you can do to protect a date. Here is how the year actually runs in this valley.
January and February are shelter and cold weather months. Code Blue alerts get declared off a forecast, which means demand spikes with about 48 hours of warning and everybody calls at once. If you run a program that expands in winter, get your units on contract in the fall rather than competing for them during the first hard freeze. Construction is slower in these months, which helps, but not as much as you would think, because the big downtown and terminal jobs work straight through. The fall call is the cheap one, and the February call is the expensive one.
Shower trailer or combo unit: picking for a long Salt Lake Valley job
This is the question we get asked most often on jobs running longer than a month, and the answer flips depending on one thing: whether the people using it have anywhere else to go. Both unit types work. They solve different problems.
Start with the shower-only unit. The 8-Station is eight private rooms in a 29 foot box, 35 feet with the tongue, and it moves about 200 people a day. Every room has its own hot and cold controls and a metered head at 1.5 gallons a minute. It carries 200 gallons of fresh water with 950 gallons of waste behind it. It is the right answer when throughput is the problem and the site already has restrooms. Shift change at a large job, a fire camp, a turnaround, a mass care site.
Getting a shower unit onto a downtown, badged or canyon site
Delivery is where a good plan falls apart in this city, and it is almost never about the trailer. It is about access. Three kinds of sites here each break in their own way, and all three are fixable if somebody thinks about it before the truck rolls.
Downtown first. Salt Lake City has some of the largest blocks in the country, which sounds like an advantage and is not. The blocks are big but the curb is spoken for, and the work happening around the arena and the convention center has been eating staging space for a while. Anything sitting in a street, a sidewalk or a city lot needs a permit and a traffic control plan. That is not a same day process. If your site is downtown, we want to walk it before we quote a unit, because the difference between a spot on private property and a spot four feet into the right of way is the difference between a delivery and a permit application.
Ready to put private showers on your Salt Lake City site?
Tell us the gate, the power and the head count and we will have a unit sized and scheduled today. Call now or request a free quote, and ask about same day delivery if this is an emergency.
