Detritus/Temporary site setup
Planning guide
Office trailers, generators, fencing, and holding tanks have longer lead times than sanitation and waste. Scope them with the rest of the program before mobilization.
By Zach Nespinsky, VP, Revenue Operations. Updated October 9, 2026.
Office trailers are climate-controlled workspace for site management, in single-wide, double-wide, and larger configurations. The site needs level placement, a power connection, and in most cases steps or a ramp. An 8 by 20 office trailer is a size we have placed on a combined order with a porta, a dumpster, a generator, and fencing.
If the trailer has a restroom and the site has no sewer, it needs a holding tank. One delivered office order paired a 250-gallon sewage tank with a separate gray-water tank on a double-wide. The pump-out cadence, not the tank rental, is what drives that cost. A larger tank pumped less often is often cheaper than a small tank pumped every week, and it puts fewer trucks through the gate.
Generators and fuel tanks are temporary power for equipment, trailers, and lighting. The scope is the connected load, how long it has to run, and how often it is refueled. We do not publish a kilowatt formula on this page. Send the equipment that has to stay on, and the power is quoted against that list.
Where a restroom trailer has no shore power, a generator comes with the trailer. Diesel delivery for generators, light towers, and pumps can sit on the same agreement. Fuel is ordered on its own or with the rest of the site. The delivery record for fuel is on the fuel page.
Temporary fencing is priced by linear footage and duration. Delivery, installation, and removal are usually separate. Gates, privacy screen, and anchoring are line items. Ask for them. One real order was 300 linear feet of 6-foot fence with double sandbags, quoted with a porta, a dumpster, an office trailer, and a generator.
Order fence earlier than sanitation and waste. It needs a measurement, an install crew, and often a layout conversation. It is the line most often discovered after a safety walk or a permit condition. Panel fence installs and relocates faster. Chain link with driven or anchored posts is the longer-duration perimeter. Where a public right of way is affected, you will usually also need a traffic control plan, and that is a separate scope.
Standard storage containers are 8 feet wide and 8 feet high. Twenty-foot and forty-foot lengths are the usual sizes. Ten-foot units are sourced where the footprint is tight. Plain storage needs ground-level placement a truck can reach, reasonably level so the doors operate. It does not need a utility connection. An office-and-storage combination needs power, and usually steps or a ramp. Forty-foot availability is thinner in many markets, so confirm it before a layout depends on it.
Trailer size, whether it has a restroom, what has to stay powered, linear feet of fence, and whether the site has sewer and shore power. We price that as one agreement.
Level placement, a power connection, and in most cases steps or a ramp. If it has a restroom and there is no sewer, add a holding tank. A delivered double-wide used a 250-gallon sewage tank and a separate gray-water tank.
Against the connected load, the runtime, and the refueling cadence. Send the equipment list. A restroom trailer with no shore power includes a generator. Diesel for generators and light towers can be on the same agreement as the trailer.
Earlier than toilets and dumpsters. Fence needs a measurement, an install crew, and often a layout conversation, and it is the line most often added after a safety walk or a permit condition. One order was 300 linear feet of 6-foot fence with double sandbags.
When a trailer or temporary fixture has waste or needs water and there is no sewer or water line. The pump-out schedule costs more than the tank. Most tank placements are ordered with a trailer, not on their own.