Igloos Luxury Portable Loos

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
Oct 11th 2006 at 8:04AM

It's a standard problem at outdoor luxury events. You are sipping champagne, wandering around beautiful grounds and then nature calls. There they are, like a blight upon the landscape, the portable toliets. Igloos, a company in England, has the right idea about luxury loos. Igloo provides well-designed movable toilets that include artwork, Molton Brown consumables and paper hand towels. Igloos has done a variety of high-profile events, including Live*, the Brit Awards, the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, the Stella Artois Tennis Tournament, the G-8 Summit and the Volvo Golf Masters in Andalucia, Spain. Hopefully we will be seeing an upgrade in portable toilets at U.S. events in the future.

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Tags: bathrooms, loos, portable toliets

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Rachel Oct 17th 2006 6:45PM

I have learned to LOVE some of the toilets I have found that have that rotating plastic wrap that when you flush, it changes. Makes me feel safe everytime!

Paul Oct 17th 2006 6:46PM

I was on a flight Hong Kong - L.A., full of Chinese and the tiny toilet room floors were awash in urine. Couldn't drop my trousers to sit down. People are disgusting ... is this how they behave in China? Why do we let them into the USA?????????

Jane Oct 17th 2006 6:52PM

SIT DOWN WOMEN !!!!!
My friend is a nurse & she once told me that if EVERY woman would SIT on the seat & do their business & not try & straddle the seat, where Pee gets all over, it would be a cleaner enviroment, you know who you are, AND if you do use a paper cover for the seat, please don't leave it there for me to move, you flush it away.

Mom of five Oct 17th 2006 6:58PM

I would rather pee behind a tree than in any portable toilet. I have been accused of being Howard Hughes with my handwashing habits. I have lived and traveled all over the US in my fifty one years. I am amazed how many people go to the restroom and fail to wash their hands. I wash my hands twice and sing Happy Birthday to you in my brain. That's how long it takes to kill germs. My late Grandmother taught me and my two older children that cleanliness was next to Godliness. I have taught my three younger children the same. Urine is a body fluid so I don't blame anyone for not sitting on the seat. I would prefer that they don't have seats and make a device similar to a bedet to wash the top of the toilet. I carry baby wipes and antibacterial cleaner on the road. We are going to buy a motor home or trailer so we no longer have to mess with the germs of our fellow man. I wish more Moms would teach their children better sanitary habits. I have been to the home of friends and searched all over to find hand washing soap just to find it in the shower. I would prefer not to eat meals in their homes. I love people but don't want to share their germs. When you eat in my home your geting a healthy meal germ free.

Scott Oct 17th 2006 7:01PM

I have seen these new port-o-potties in person, one was at a BMW test drive event and another was at a Chrysler "Full Throttle" event and I must say that they are very nice indeed. Much like what you would expect to find in a nice restaurant or hotel etc. Here is my observation: Everyone here is absolutely correct, the public restrooms in areas occupied by the pampered and privileged crowd, you know the ones; they are driving there pristine Mercedes to the local country club or Polo match, these are usually the most filthiest of them all. I think I have the reason why. You see, it's not that these "intelligent, well educated" and financially fortunate are messier than the rest of the population, it's actually quite the opposite. The problem is in their attitudes. You see these types feel they are "too good" to be bothered flushing the toilet, "that's someone else's job". These same people feel they are way too superior to "lower" themselves to such menial tasks and is often the case why they have maids etc. The other problem with their mentality is that they are "grossed" out at the thought of touching something that the regular guy has also touched. They see the average Joe as inferior, filthy and disgusting so they are terrified to touch anything that has been graced by these "degenerates". The problem is that these so called "degenerates" are actually much cleaner then they are as has been pointed out here. The reason? Simple, they are not so pampered and spoiled that they know the right thing to do which is clean up after themselves (they have not had the "luxury" of having others clean up after them) and they aren't afraid to actually come into contact with the handle to flush the toilet etc. There you have it, my dissertation as to why our public bathrooms and port-o-potties are so filthy. We need to teach the "blue bloods" how to better clean up after themselves and send the message loud and clear to them that they are NOT above having to touch the handle of a toilet someone else has used to flush it and it is NOT "someone else's" job to clean up after them.

Jim Carrington Oct 17th 2006 7:21PM

As perhaps a not-so-typical American guy,I am often amazed, and at times I am outright physically ill, by the cleanliness of restrooms in general, both public, portable, and private. I've seen educated, degreed people's toilets so filthy with dried piss and pubic hairs that the bowl looked like it was sporting a goatee; I've seen young women and girls leave some of the nastiest messes behind in their bathrooms at home that makes some of the frat house bathrooms I've seen look like a page out of Good Housekeeping Magazine; make-up slopped everywhere, dirty clothes, wads of toilet paper, and, uh........other used paper products lying about on the floor, behind the toilet, etc. If I don't get any other housework done on any given day, the toilets are scrubbed inside and out at least once daily with a powerful disinfectant, along with the TILE FLOOR (NOT carpet!) being cleaned with disinfectants like household bleach. I would be MORTIFIED if visitors to my home were ever subjected to some of the filthy conditions I've observed in theirs! And yes, I know I'm a guy, but if I'm still half-asleep or otherwise unsteady (from partying), I do lower the seat and sit to urinate. May sound feminine to many, but it really is far more sanitary this way, as there is no splashing on the floor and walls ( even when we aim perfectly, guys, we still splash and splatter, even when you can't see it. That fine mist gets everywhere). Bottom line: there are many people everywhere who could use some personal hygiene training and some basic housekeeping tips!

Christi Oct 17th 2006 7:23PM

That's hot!

Christi Oct 17th 2006 7:24PM

That's hot!

Diane Oct 17th 2006 7:25PM

While working my way through college, I cleaned public buildings at night, including the 4th Judicial Court in Boise, Idaho. The worst mess I ever saw was in the Administrative Judge's private bathroom. Talk about a PIG !!! I've seen women's bathrooms that were bad, but he must have been raised in a barn. Talk about disgusting. Fortunately, I found another job...

Ricky0101 Oct 17th 2006 8:17PM

I have worked in catering for years and have seen every conceivable type of restroom you can imagine. From hotel bathrooms, to private homes, and to the entire spectrum of port-a-johns. My biggest pet peeve is men who pee with seat down. I mean that is so rude and so inconsiderate. And I have found that for some reason Hispanic men are the worst offenders, why I don't know. And I have seen this up close and personal.

Carolyn Oct 17th 2006 7:37PM

My biggest complaint is someone who lines the toilet with toilet paper and then leaves it for someone else.
How clean is that?
I travel ten months out of the year and do outside events. Most people are neat and clean-and that includes port-o-johns and inside toilets. It is only a few who mess things up either accidentally or deliberately.

linda woodall Oct 17th 2006 7:55PM

While it is extremely disgusting to find human wastes of all kinds in public toilets, unflushed, the University of Arizona in Tucson has twice done studies on how germs are most commonly spread in a public facility, and this is the absolute truth of their findings: most germs, especially the rotovirus and other intestinal viruses/bacteria, are spread during the flushing of the toilet!!!!! It actually causes what they describe as "an explosion of germs" that can be found in ALL rooms of the house within an hour or two. Just wanted to share this little tidbit. Do not let this dissuade you from flushing and washing, however. Im with the lady who says if there is no soap at the bathroom sink she doesn't want to eat in that house!

GnuMonia Oct 17th 2006 8:13PM

Ask any doctor.... Urine is sterile when it leaves the body. So, the solution to toilet seats is.... Tinkle before you sit down... Then you have sterilized it and it is safe, if wet, to sit on.....

mark Oct 17th 2006 8:04PM

i was a marine for 8 yrs i didnt realise it took that much effort to grab a handfull of toilet paper to clean a seat and by the way pee is not infectious stinks a little but you are not going to catch COOTIES suck it up damn

Art, not Arturo though Oct 17th 2006 8:16PM

Yes Ed, you are racist.

Ed Oct 17th 2006 9:52PM

Germ FREE, mom of five? Unfortunately there is no such thing. EVER! Whip out a microscope and swab a surface in your house you THINK is germ free. You'd be surprised and disgusted.

Corky Oct 18th 2006 5:12PM

I invented the Unbrella Biffy several years ago but have never put it on the market. It is a personal toilet, which can be carried in the car and can be set up anywhere, giving a person privacy even on a city street.

Ed Oct 21st 2006 2:24PM

Yeah Art, Im racist. Im racist against Mexicans for pointing out the fact that the ones that are straight from aross the border have ZERO bathroom edicate? Yeah right. Its a fact and has been witnessed by MANY people MANY times. So the fact that I put them on "front street" makes ME racist?

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