Portable Toilet given to church

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Andrew Shrimpton

Tardis Helps with Portable Toilet

Tardis Environmental helps local church with whacky idea. We were asked by St Philip’s Church for a Portable toilet shell to help them with their building site feature. So we gave them one of our orange portable toilet shells which was to be used as the main feature. Community Transformation Manager at St Philip’s Church said “it was really amusing to some of the faces of people on Sunday wondering what the Orange Portable Toilet shell was doing in the hall”

St Philips Church is now thinking of other ways in which they can use the portable toilet shell. I think one idea is that they are going to use it as a gunge tank with some alterations.

Did you know that not only do we help here in the UK but we also help in getting drinkable water to those less fortunate then us? We are now proud sponsors of water aid giving them a donation every month to help children and family’s get clean and drinkable water.

Call Tardis today for all your portable toilet needs. Our staff are highly trained and have all the knowledge to get you the best service.

Rain Water Harvesting

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Andrew Shrimpton

How can you harvest the rain water?

Did you know that by harvesting rain water you could save up to 50% on the consumption of your household.

How does rain water harvesting work?

Well, it’s very simple… your rain harvesting system takes rainwater from the guttering system of your property, this should be a sealed connection to avoid any debris from entering the rain harvesting tank, the rain water will then pass through a filter system to remove debris from the gutter. Your rain harvester should be located underground and surrounded by concrete. If your system is not protected by concrete then it could cave in or have a root break through the tank. This also happens to septic tanks if not correctly installed.

Rainwater is stored in the tank until you have need of it, there will be a control unit inside your house that will control the water from the harvesting tank. The control unit will be connected to the mains and has sensors inside which will tell whether there is water inside the tank and will choose to use the rainwater if there is enough or switch to mains water supply, this is great for those low rain fall months.

What can I use the rainwater for?

Rainwater can be used for dish washers, washing machines, watering your garden and washing your car.

Need help or information on how we can help you harvest rain water.

Confined Space Information

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Andrew Shrimpton

Does your Septic tank need a confined crew?

What size is a confined space?

A confined space does not have to be a small space which is hard to enter and exit for it to be classed as a confined space.it can also be a large silo or tank that has limited or restricted access or if the space is badly ventilated like a large tunnel. The CSR (Confined Space Regulations) 1997 describes confined space as any place. This will include chambers, vat, silos, sewer, well and any other confined spaces that has a foreseeable risk.

These are as follows:

Drowning of any person at work
Loss of consciousness of any person arising from a high ambient temperature.
Fire or explosion
Loss of consciousness or asphyxiation of any person at work arising from gas, fumes, vapour or lack of oxygen
Asphyxiation of any person at work arising from a free flowing solid

What Is P.P.E?

P.P.E is short for Personal protective equipment.

What are the types of personal protective equipment?

Respirators
Protective gloves
Protective clothing
Protective footwear
Eye protection

How do you check if you have the correct P.P.E on?

First you must check the following, Does if fit correctly, are you comfortable, will the P.P.E interfere with the job that is being done, is there any health risk like entanglement with machinery or overheating of equipment.

Tardis will ensure that when a confined space entry is required it is supervised by at least one man. All Drivers will have all the necessary P.P.E equipment. All other equipment including breathing apparatus, ropes, harnesses, winches, carabineers and fall/rescue equipment will always checked before use.

So no matter if it’s a septic tank or a massive silo you can be sure that Tardis Environmental will get the job done.

Tardis to help bring Water to Africa.

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Andrew Shrimpton

Tardis Sponsors Water Aid!

Tardis Environmental is now proud Sponsors of Water Aid. We are making a large donation every month to help them in providing safe and clean water.

Who is Water Aid?

Water Aid is a non governmental organisation not only is its mission to provide Safe water, but to also provide improved hygiene and sanitation.

What is Water Aids strategy to getting a safe water supply and improve the hygiene and sanitation?

Between 2009 and 2015 there ambition is to have a further 25 million people have safe clean water access, with improved hygiene and sanitation.

Here is Water Aids Global Goal

To promote and secure poor people’s rights and access to safe water, improved hygiene and sanitation.
To support governments and service providers in developing their capacity to deliver safe water, improved hygiene and sanitation.
To advocate for the essential role of safe water, improved hygiene and sanitation in human development.
To further develop as an effective global organisation recognised as a leader in our field and for living our values.

If you need more information about Water Aid then give us a call on 0800 731 0589. If you need any help with any of our service like Bulk Water Storage then please contact us on 0800 731 0589

Portable Toilet Hire

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Andrew Shrimpton

Don’t Just Hire Portable Toilets for an Event!

When you have a large event you will need Portable Event Toilets. How many you need is depending on many factors like will there be alcohol served and how long is the festival or event. The Longer the festival is, the more Portable toilets you will need. Normally you will need to add around 15% of the amount of Toilets you will need if alcohol is being served.

What other options are there?

The last thing you want is your customers to do is queue and wait to use the Portable toilets
you have provided them. The maximum acceptable waiting line is around 10 people. To help minimise this and keep your event flowing. I would recommend hiring out some portable urinals.

This will help cut queues down. You can have portable Urinals come in either 4 bay or 6 bay portable urinal. They have a large waste tank and can also come with a Tardis screen.

If you need more advice on our portable toilets and how we can help you organise how many toilets you will need then please give Tardis a Call on 0800 731 0589.

Water Hygiene all trained in Bulk Water

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Andrew Shrimpton

Did you know that all our drivers will be EUSR trained in Water Hygiene?

What is EUSR?

The National Water Hygiene scheme has been developed at the request of Water UK who is the representative for the water supply companies across the whole of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

The blue National Water Hygiene card was introduced in January 2006 to replace all water company specific hygiene schemes and removes the need for workers to undergo separate testing, health screening.

If any person working on a restricted operations sites such as service reservoirs, pumping stations, treatment works, wells, spring and boreholes and working on the network of water mains and service pipes must be in possession of a EUSR National Water Hygiene card.

This is why Tardis Environmental has trained all our drivers to be EUSR trained in Water Hygiene. What does it mean for you? This will mean we can deliver fresh water (Not drinking Water), which will be safe to use. We can deliver up to 6000 gallons of fresh water with our water tank. Need less I have other tanks like our H20 Bulk water tank that can hold up to 4000 Gallons of bulk water?

We also do water bowser and IBC’s. Our Water Bowser range from 2,400 litres up to 10,000 litres. Our IBC’S has the capacity to hold 1,000 litres. Both our Bowsers and IBC’s hold fresh water only and are not suitable for drinking from. Before all our bowsers and IBC’s are sent out they are cleaned and ready for use.

We can deliver drinking water from our special drinking water towable bowser.

If you need more information on our Bulk Water Tanks or more information on EUSR give our Hire desk a Call today on 0800 731 0589

Septic tanks Beware

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Andrew Shrimpton

Septic Tanks Beware there’s a new Tractor Unit About

Tardis Environmental has just taken delivery of a new tractor unit. Our new Tractor unit is due to be Tardisifide with the company’s logo and paint scheme of yellow, green and red. When our tractor unit comes back from its Tardis makeover it will then go to our Mechanics bay to unsure the tractor unit is road worthy.

What will the new Tractor Unit do?

The new tractor unit will be able to deliver our H2O Bulk Water tanks ranging from 4000-6000 Gallons of fresh water. The water can be used for soakaway tests, bulk water storage and clean water for a large welfare unit, where a mains water supply isn’t available.

When not delivering our H2O tanks it can then are used as a 6000 gallon vacuum tanker. The Vacuum tank trailer has the capacity to carry 6000 gallons of wet waste with a suction depth of approx. 6 metres. This means it can suck up wet waste from a septic tank easy. Most domestic septic tanks can only hold 1000 Gallons of wet waste but some industrial septic tanks can hold much more than a 1000 gallons. But with our 6000 Gallons septic tank emptying fleet, Tardis Environmental can make short work of any size septic tank.

Need a septic tank emptying service? Call Tardis today on 0800 731 0589 and speak to one of our highly trained and friendly hire staff.

H2O Bulk Water Tank in high demand

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Andrew Shrimpton

Bulk Water Storage

Our H2O Tanks are on constant hire. We have had to get another 4000 gallon H2O bulk water tank to keep up with demand.

What can a H20 Bulk Water Storage tank do for your company? If you have a large welfare unit and have no means of a main water supply then our H2O tanker is ideal. You can also use the H2O Bulk Water tank to perform services like a soakaway test.

Our Bulk water tank can come in all different sizes. Our two biggest Bulk water storage tankers are our 6000 Gallon tanker and the 4000 gallon H2O towable Bulk water storage tanker. Each Tank can be fitted with one of our on-demand pumps that could either be Electric or petrol.

We can also provide water bowsers that are either static or towable. Our biggest bowser is 10,000 litres.

If our bowsers are still to big then you could hire out one of our 1000 litre IBC Water Container. These come with a Gravity feed tap.

All our drivers will have EUSR water Hygiene Training.

All our water is clean and fresh but not suitable for drinking. We do have a towable drinking bowser.

For more information on our services please call our friendly hire desk on 0800 731 0589

Do you need a Crossrail Compliant Service?

Posted on April 5, 2013 by Andrew Shrimpton

What is Crossrail?

Crossrail LTD was established in 2001 to help and develop vital link to the needs of people and business throughout the south east London. This will ensure that London continues its role as Europes leading Financial and business centre.

Crossrail is a joint venture company between the Transport for London (TfL) and the Department for Transport (DfT) until 5 December 2008 when it became a fully owned.. CRL represents a real commitment to the development of new services to tackle the lack of capacity and congestion on the existing network.

They achieved this by consulting with a broad range of stakeholders and the public at large. July 2008 the scheme gained parliamentary approval with the passing of the Crossrail Act.

If you work near or are on a Crossrail site. Your vehicles will have to be Crossrail Compliant.

How does Crossrail Compliant affect me?

All Crossrail contracts contain mandatory requirements for Lorries working on the project.
The Requirements are being implemented with full support of Crossrail’s principal contractors. This is a mandate that all Heavy Goods Vehicles (HGVs) working on the project are fitted with a safety devices.

The Following Safety Devices must be fitted on your HGV’s. If you fail to have the correct safety equipment installed on your vehicle, you could end up being turned away from site.

all HGVs must have Fresnel lenses
Side scan equipment which will give of an audible beep in the driver’s cabin. This is to warn the driver of the HGV that there is an object or person on the left inside space.
Side and Rear Cameras, with a tv monitor in the cabin
Under-run guards must also be fitted. This is to help prevent cyclists from coming into contact with the HGVs wheels.
Carry signs must also be fitted to warn cyclists and pedestrians.

Tardis Environmental can provide Crossrail Compliant Services like Septic Tank Emptying, Portable Toilet Hire, Water Bowser Hire, Bulk Water and Low/High Vol Jet Vac Services.

You will also need to have a full F.O.R.S Membership. Tardis Environmental has been awarded Bronze Membership.

So if you need a Crossrail Compliant service then give us a call today for more information on 0800 731 0589

Portable Toilets at Church

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Andrew Shrimpton

Portable Toilets have an essential Role!!

Did you know that until 2005, the cardinals had to endure Spartan like conditions in makeshift “cells” that was close to the Sistine chapel? The cardinals had to sleep on hard beds and were also issued with chamber pots to use as toilets. But Pope John Paul ll changed all that with the construction of a massive five storey guest house that has 130-rooms, this is located near St Peter’s – Domus Sanctae Marthe (St Martha’s House).

Even with the construction of the five storey St Martha’s House (Domus Sanctae Marthe), the cardinals still have it rough when voting for a new pope. Antonio Paulucci who is the director of the Vatican Museum told Catholic News Service the other week “I believe they may be installing some Portable Chemical Toilets inside the chapel”

Here are Five Fun Facts You May Not have Known about Portable Toilets

There were 5,000 portable restrooms at Obama’s inauguration.
A portable toilet will uses 90% less water than a conventional toilet.
The first toilet cubicle is usually used least. This makes it the cleanest toilet in a row.
Toilets are flushed more times during halftime super bowl than any other time of the year.
The U.S. spent over $100,000 on a survey just to determine whether it was more common to put the toilet paper in the holder with the flap facing the front or behind. The flap in the front is the most popular.

If you need more information or the services we can provide on Portable Toilets then give us a call on our freephone 0800 731 0589

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