C/S Portables had a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday with the Kosciusko Chamber of Commerce and the Syracuse-Wawasee Chamber of Commerce. The Warsaw business is co-owned by Marketing Manager Jess Conley, fifth from left, and Office Manager Stephanie Spangle, 10th from left. Kent Coble, center, is the operations manager.

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By David Slone
Times-Union

WARSAW — If you used one of the portable toilets at the Kosciusko County Fair, Columbia City’s Old Settlers Day, Brandt’s Harley Davidson’s July 4th celebration, Hog Waller or a number of car shows this year, you may have already experienced one of the products C/S Portables offers.

C/S Portables had a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday, July 25, for its portable restroom business in Warsaw with the Kosciusko Chamber of Commerce and the Syracuse-Wawasee Chamber of Commerce.

Co-owned by Marketing Manager Jess Conley and Office Manager Stephanie Spangle, both of whom also are moms, C/S Portables is a “locally owned one-stop shop for exceptional customer service and professionalism from delivery to pick up,” according to information they provided.

Shown is a look into one of the restrooms in the restroom trailer, which is rentable through C/S Portables.

“We strive to provide first-class service and make your rental experience as smooth and stress-free as possible. When looking to rent portable restrooms, sinks and more, CS Portables has you covered as quality service and good hygiene are a must have!” the information states.

Kent Coble is the operations manager for C/S Portables.

Spangle said they started brainstorming about the business last fall, but they didn’t take their first order until April.

Along with offering portable restrooms and handicapped-accessible portable restrooms, they also rent a restroom trailer.

“It’s for special events like weddings or birthday parties,” Spangle said. “It’s really nice because it’s got air conditioning. The inside has automatic sinks, automatic flushing urinals, porcelain toilets. So it’s a huge step up from your portable toilet to that.”

The restroom trailer also has handrails to help anyone access it when needed.

As for the portable toilets, she said their inventory is growing weekly.

“If someone called in and had a huge event — as long as we had a few weeks heads up — we could definitely accommodate any number of units,” Spangle said.

She said they try to stay competitive as possible when it comes to rental prices.

“It might be a little more than some of your big-name companies, but as a local company, we can offer exceptional customer service. We can get there right away. You can call and talk to me directly, versus going through a five-step process to try to get to somebody. So, I guess it depends if you want the cheapest or if you’re wanting the best service and customer service – the best value,” Spangle stated.

C/S Portables started by serving Kosciusko County and the surrounding counties, but they’ve grown to serve Elkhart, Wabash, Huntington, Fort Wayne, Plymouth and Culver. Spangle said they’ve got a wide range of area they serve now. “Pretty much northern Indiana,” she said.

People have complimented C/S Portables’ facilities as the “cleanest, nicest pots that they’ve been in,” she said. “That’s what we like to strive for, being known as the cleanest, nicest pots around.”

Conley said that’s where the “mom-owned, mom-approved” slogan comes from for their business.

“Having kids, I’ve been to several places where you open the port-a-pot and they’re like absolutely not going in there,” Spangle said.

“Any of ours, I would let my kids go in,” Conley said.

“That was one of our big things: We want our pots to be clean enough so if you take one of your kids in there, they’re not going to have a problem using it and not fighting you on it,” Spangle stated.

Portables can be rented by the days, weeks, months, years or even a lifetime.

“If you have it for more than a week, we do a weekly pump out service,” Spangle said. “So we’ll come out every week, scrub down, shammy dry so you don’t have water spots. And then we’ll repump it, put new chemicals in it and we have a really nice fragrance spray to make it smell really nice and fresh. That’s included in the monthly price.”

All of the units come standard with a hand sanitizer dispenser, construction graded floors to prevent dirt accumulation and white roofs for maximum illumination, the information provided states.

To contact C/S Portables, email [email protected]; visit the website; call (574) 377-4644 or visit their Facebook page.