No "Poo Poo" Smells on Your Wedding Day: Luxury Lavatories with Blake Holland

Unlock the secret to a seamless outdoor wedding experience with our special guest Blake Holland from Luxury Lavatories. Have you ever considered the impact restrooms can have on your big day? We guarantee you'll never look at wedding planning the same way again. Blake reveals how luxury restroom trailers offer a sophisticated alternative to traditional porta-potties, ensuring your guests' comfort without compromising on style. Discover how these elegantly designed trailers, complete with laminate flooring and vanities, cater to both easily accessible and remote locations, making them a versatile choice for any outdoor venue.

Join us as we explore the practical benefits of opting for these facilities, complete with flushable toilets, air fresheners, and air conditioning, when hosting your celebration outdoors or at a private property. Blake shares critical insights into how these trailers can safeguard your home's plumbing system from the strain of hosting a large number of guests, and what makes them ideal for events catering to up to 300 people. Whether your reception is under a tent or in your backyard, find out why luxury restroom trailers are a game-changer for ensuring an unforgettable and hassle-free wedding day. 

Hosted by Kathy Piech-Lukas, wedding planner and content creator, with Your Dream Day Weddings and Events.

Transcript

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Kathy Piech-Lukas, Your Dream Day: 0:30

Hi, welcome to Your Dream Day podcast. Today, we are going to talk about wedding smells, and we're not talking about the food or the cake or the flowers. We're talking about the stinky smells that nobody wants to talk about. We're talking about restrooms, and today I have special guest Blake Holland from Luxury Lavatories, and we are going to talk about the benefits of having a restroom trailer for your outdoor wedding reception. So, if you're planning to have the wedding reception in your backyard, this is the podcast for you. So, Blake, thank you so much for joining us, Welcome.

Blake Holland, Luxury Lavatories: 1:11

Hey, Kathy, thanks for having me. It's a pleasure, great to be here.

Kathy Piech-Lukas, Your Dream Day: 1:14

Tell us a little bit about Luxury Lavatories. What are Luxury Lavatories?

Blake Holland, Luxury Lavatories: 1:18

Well, just simply, like the name implies, we are a company that rents out restaurant trailers, and they're not your typical porta-potties or concert restroom trailers. These are high-end, very nice, clean restroom trailers that we rent out for weddings, outdoor festivals, birthday parties, graduation parties, you name it.

Kathy Piech-Lukas, Your Dream Day: 1:43

Nice. So how do restroom trailers work?

Blake Holland, Luxury Lavatories: 1:47

So with the restroom trailer, the main question I get from clients is how do I get water or how do I power it?

Blake Holland, Luxury Lavatories: 1:56

So there's two different options when you're setting one of these up for an event. The first option, which is kind of your ideal option would be, is if you have a garden hose hookup and an electrical outlet within 100 feet, we can just plug an extension cord right into the outlet, run a hose and the trailer can run off of your power and water from your home. So the second way is more of a self-contained option. So like, let's say you've got a, you're having an event out in the middle of a field somewhere where there's just no power, no electric. We do have an onboard 200 gallon fresh water tank that we can use for the flushing of the toilets, the sinks and everything like that, and then power-wise, we just run it on a generator, and the generator we have is super quiet, it's very efficient, so it's not putting off a lot of exhaust or noise or anything like that. So two options in terms of how the trailer actually operates.

Kathy Piech-Lukas, Your Dream Day: 2:52

And that's definitely a lot different from when people think of a port-a-potty. They think of the bright highlighter color yellow or green or blue that they see at concerts. That is not what we're talking about here today.

Blake Holland, Luxury Lavatories: 3:10

No, we are not. No, this unit it's a five stall. It's very nice. The interior and exterior it's all white. It's got laminate floors, nice white vanities. It's got laminate floors, nice white vanities. It's five units. So the women's side has three toilets and a double sink with a nice large mirror. So you could even use it for if people need to kind of get ready, don't want to go in the house. That's kind of nice too. And then the men's side has a single sink and it's got a urinal and then it's got one toilet in there as well. Side has a single sink and it's got a urinal and then it's got one toilet in there as well.

Kathy Piech-Lukas, Your Dream Day: 3:51

And it's rated for events with up to 300 people, so it can handle a substantially large event Well and you bring up an excellent point. The reason why you want a restroom trailer if you're doing your wedding on a private property, underneath a tent, in a backyard, underneath a tent in a backyard is the house that potentially could be on that property was not designed to have the flushes of 200 people. It was not designed to have the flushes of 100 people. It was not designed to have flushes for 50 people, especially with a septic system. In particular, Septic systems are designed to accommodate the number of bedrooms in that home, so they're designed to accommodate maybe 5 to 12 people at any given time. They're not designed for large parties and what can happen is fortunately I've not had it happen at a wedding. I pray that I never have it happen at a wedding.

Kathy Piech-Lukas, Your Dream Day: 4:46

But if the septic system backs up from the house and this can be the direct result of not having a restroom trailer at your outdoor event it backs up into the yard and the stink from the septic system comes up out of the ground and it just completely it's the only thing you're going to smell at the wedding. You're not going to smell food. You're not going to smell anything. It's the worst smell in the world and it's just because house toilets were not designed to deal with that kind of volume. It's a little bit different if you have people over for Thanksgiving or for Christmas, because you might have maybe 20 people and a home's plumbing system can still accommodate that, but it's not going to accommodate, you know, 50 to a hundred people flushing the toilet Cause, if you think about it, that could be an average of a flush every 10 minutes and it just wasn't designed to deal with that.

Blake Holland, Luxury Lavatories: 5:52

Yeah, you're exactly right.

Kathy Piech-Lukas, Your Dream Day: 5:54

Plus, if you went on city water again, what happens if the toilets start backing up? They may not back up into the yard, but they're going to back up and not function and that's going to create a very, very stinky situation inside the house as well. And potentially your caterer could be inside the house preparing food and trying to get your guests fed, and that could be very awkward and very stinky and it's not a situation you want to deal with. It really isn't.

Kathy Piech-Lukas, Your Dream Day: 6:42

No, I mean, you know, besides you know limiting traffic in terms of, you know people coming in and out of your house. You know, while the caterer's in there in the kitchen, you know you're potentially saving on a huge plumbing or septic backup bill just by just going ahead and renting the restroom trailer. Oh, absolutely Well. And the other thing too, is that restroom trailers yours are air conditioned and they have heaters in them, correct?

Blake Holland, Luxury Lavatories: 6:52

Yep Sure do.

Kathy Piech-Lukas, Your Dream Day: 6:53

Yep. So whenever you have an outdoor wedding, especially in the summertime, it gets hot, and this is actually where having a restroom trailer can potentially be a cost saver for you, because if it's like in the nineties and your guests are warm, they're going to want a cool place to go, and you can either A rent an air conditioning unit, which is probably going to run you anywhere between $6,000 to $8,000 for the day.

Kathy Piech-Lukas, Your Dream Day: 7:26

Or you can have the restroom trailer which has an air conditioning unit in there and guests can go in there, cool off for 10 minutes and then come back out. So it actually proves to be a cooling spot for you and especially if it's if you have a really hot day and you just don't have air conditioning units in the budget, it can also prevent heat stroke because when you get up into the 95 to you know high, high nineties, to you know low one hundreds for outdoor temperatures. It's a little bit different out here because we have have. We don't have dry heat like they have in Arizona where it doesn't necessarily hit you as quickly. When it's humid and it's hot it's going to hit you and you don't want to be dealing with.

Kathy Piech-Lukas, Your Dream Day: 8:14

I guess having you know heat stroke or you know when it's at the end of October it's hit or miss, it could be very, very warm, it could be very, very cold. I mean I've had weddings at the end of October where you know at nighttime it's hit or miss. It could be very, very warm, it could be very, very cold. I mean I've had weddings at the end of October where at nighttime it's like 40, 50 degrees.

Kathy Piech-Lukas, Your Dream Day: 8:31

And especially your older guests. They're going to want somewhere where they can warm up a little bit and when you have a restroom trailer that has that, that's a huge advantage for your guests as well. Plus, it smells nice.

Blake Holland, Luxury Lavatories: 8:45

Exactly, I'm sure.

Kathy Piech-Lukas, Your Dream Day: 8:48

I was going to say you have, you have, you have scents that come out of your restroom trailer.

Blake Holland, Luxury Lavatories: 8:54

Yep, yeah, we've got some nice, nice incense that we, you know, keep fresh in there, and even you know all the cleaning, the cleaning supplies that we use.

Kathy Piech-Lukas, Your Dream Day: 9:07

Everything smells real good, so it's honestly probably one of the best smelling restrooms I've ever been in.

Blake Holland, Luxury Lavatories: 9:10

Well, that's a huge advantage.

Kathy Piech-Lukas, Your Dream Day: 9:11

It's a, it's a definite, it's a definite, uh, departure from the ugly, ugly, stinky, stinky porta potty that most people think of when they think of, you know, portable restrooms um. So how? How does it work as far as delivery goes, when? When does that arrive?

Blake Holland, Luxury Lavatories: 9:28

So normally most events are going to be on a Saturday. So typically what we would do is, for a Saturday event we would drop off sometime on Friday, just kind of coordinating with the client when they want it dropped off, and then we would typically pick up some time on Sunday. But there's always exceptions to the rule. If you rented it for Saturday and you still had some guests that were going to be there Sunday that wanted to use it, we could come get it on Monday. Same thing the other way. If you wanted it dropped off on Thursday, if you were going to have some use for it Friday and Saturday, we would do it that way too. So you're pretty much getting it for the weekend.

Kathy Piech-Lukas, Your Dream Day: 10:06

Oh, that's nice. So people have the rehearsal the day before, they'll have the restrooms. If they have a morning after brunch the day after the wedding, they'll have the restroom. So they can take advantage of that tent. Because tent companies are the same way, they rent them for the weekend tent because tent companies are the same way, they rent them for the weekend. So they'll come in like Wednesday or Thursday, sometimes Friday, but usually Wednesday or Thursday. They build the tent and then they pick it up on Monday.

Kathy Piech-Lukas, Your Dream Day: 10:31

So it's it's. It's along the same lines as as the rental company Wonderful. Well, I'm so glad we we were able to turn the stinky smells into nice smoke by the end of the podcast.

Blake Holland, Luxury Lavatories: 10:43

That's our goal.

Kathy Piech-Lukas, Your Dream Day: 10:44

That's our goal is to have your wedding smelling beautiful, and smelling as beautiful as it looks. How can people find Luxury Lavatories, Blake?

Blake Holland, Luxury Lavatories: 10:54

Yeah, so you can go to our website, which is www. luxury-lavatories. com. You can reach me directly. My cell phone is 513-600-8373. You can call or text that number, and then our email is luxurylavatories1 at gmail dot com. And then we're also on Instagram and Facebook as well.

Kathy Piech-Lukas, Your Dream Day: 11:16

Fantastic Blake, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for tuning in to your Dream Day podcast. Be sure to subscribe so that when we have our next episode post, you'll be notified right away. This is Kathy Piech Lukas with Your Dream Day podcast. Happy planning!