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Restroom supply calculator
Enter who uses your building, how many days it is open and the dispensers you have, and this restroom supply calculator estimates monthly restroom visits plus a range of tissue rolls, towels, soap refills and trash liners. Send the estimate with your quote request when it looks right.
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Estimate a month of restroom supplies
Pick your facility type, then enter the people in the building each day, daily visitors, days open in a month, your tissue and towel formats, foam or liquid soap and the number of restroom trash bins. The restroom supply calculator shows expected visits and a monthly range for each product.
How the estimate is built
The calculator works in two steps. First it estimates how many restroom visits your building produces in a month. Staff and other daily occupants are counted at the rate that plumbing designers use when they size restrooms for a building, and visitors at a lower rate, because a shopper or a client spends far less of the day on site. The facility type sets those rates, so a retail store’s customers weigh differently from a clinic’s patients.
Next it turns visits into product. Hand-washing observation studies show how often people actually wash and dry their hands, and dispenser formats set how much each wash or visit uses. Multiply those through your month and the result is tissue, towels and soap. Liners follow the bin count and your days open.
Why the result is a range
No two restrooms empty a dispenser at the same pace. Some people take one towel, others pull a handful; some wash twice, a few skip it. The low and high figures bracket that spread so you can set par levels with a cushion and avoid both empty dispensers and a storeroom crowded with cases.
The range also absorbs ordinary swings from month to month, such as a short month, a holiday week or a quarter with more visitors than usual.
What drives use higher
- Visitor-heavy sites. Lobbies, clinics, showrooms and venues where the public uses the restrooms run well above an office of the same headcount.
- Roll towels versus multifold. Towel format changes consumption, and the calculator lets you compare multifold, roll towels and hand dryers side by side before you choose dispensers.
- Dispensers without portion control. Open-feed towel and tissue dispensers let people take as much as they like. Controlled-feed units set the amount each pull gives.
- Soap format. Foam and liquid refills deliver differently, which is why soap is its own choice in the form.
If your actual use runs far above the high end, a dispenser change often helps more than a bigger order.
What the calculator leaves out
Some restroom products have no published usage figure we trust enough to build into a range. Toilet seat covers and the liners for sanitary bins are the two main ones, so the calculator skips them rather than guess. Hand sanitizer stations outside the restroom are left off too. Tell us about those during the walkthrough and we will set their par levels from what your building actually uses.
Our janitorial supplies page explains how we stock restroom paper, soap, liners and dispensers, either refilled by our crew on the cleaning route or delivered to your own staff. For the cleaning side, see restroom deep cleaning and our restroom cleaning checklist.
From an estimate to a supply plan
The estimate is a planning starting point. The button under the result places your inputs and the monthly range in the quote form on this page. We then walk your restrooms, count dispensers and storage space, and build a written plan for supplies alone or alongside cleaning. You can also call (408) 668-0624.
Planning the cleaning itself? The facility cleaning scope builder lists default tasks by area, the office cleaning schedule planner sorts them by frequency, and the cleaning cost calculator gives a monthly budget range.
A few useful answers
Common questions
Who counts as a person in the building?
Anyone there for most of the day: employees, contractors and, at a school, students. Shoppers, clients, patients and drop-in guests go in the visitors field instead.
Should I enter my busiest day or an average day?
An average day gives a truer monthly figure. If a few days each month run much busier, aim for the upper part of the range when you set par levels.
Does switching to hand dryers remove towel costs entirely?
Dryers remove most towel use, though many buildings keep a small stock for spills and for restrooms where a dryer cannot go. The calculator shows the towel figure drop when you choose dryers.
Can you supply the products as well as estimate them?
Yes. We supply restroom paper, soap, liners and dispensers, with or without our cleaning service. Call (408) 668-0624 or send the quote form with your estimate.
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