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Restroom supply estimator for offices: a monthly range of paper, soap and liners
Enter your building type, the people in the office each day, your visitors and the days you are open, and the restroom supply estimator returns a monthly range of tissue rolls, hand towels, soap refills and liners to plan your stock around.
Size a month of restroom stock for your office
Choose the kind of building, then fill in the staff on a typical day, the visitors who come and go, and the days you’re open in a month. Add a few details about your restrooms: standard or jumbo tissue rolls, multifold towels, roll towels or hand dryers, foam or liquid soap, and how many restroom trash bins you have. The result shows restroom visits a month beside a low and high figure for each product, and the button under it adds the estimate to your quote request on this page.
Two steps from headcount to product
First the estimator counts restroom visits. People who work a full day in the office and people who drop in for a meeting use restrooms at very different rates, so each group gets its own figure, drawn from the building design defaults engineers rely on to size restroom fixtures and water use. For building types with shoppers, patients or guests, the closest published group stands in.
Next it converts visits into product. Tissue comes from published dispenser studies, hand-washing from observation studies in public restrooms, and towels and soap from drying and dispenser data. Roll and pack sizes follow commercial product listings, and liners are counted per bin for each day you’re open. The tool handles the arithmetic, so all you read is the result.
Why you get a low and a high figure
Restroom habits vary more than headcount suggests. The mix of men and women on staff shifts tissue use, one person pulls a single towel where the next takes three, and an open dispenser feeds more paper than one that measures each pull. The studies behind the estimator spread in the same way, so instead of one number you get the band to plan inside. Keep a reserve toward the top of it for all-hands weeks, quarterly meetings or a visiting team.
What sends supply use higher
- Client-facing offices. Reception areas, interview days and training sessions bring guests into restrooms that were planned around staff.
- Roll towels or multifold. The two come in different refill sizes and get used differently, which is why the estimator asks which one your dispensers take.
- Dispensers without portion control. Open-feed towel and tissue holders let each person take more than they need.
- Long days and Saturday hours. Offices that stay open into the evening or at weekends add visits a weekday count misses.
- Everyone in on the same days. Hybrid teams that gather on fixed office days squeeze a week of restroom use into fewer days, so stock has to cover those peaks.
Jumbo rolls cut down how often a holder is changed; they don’t cut the paper itself. They suit busy floors where a run-out between cleans would draw complaints.
Items outside the estimate
Seat covers and stall bin liners aren’t in the result. No dependable published figure shows how fast they go, so the estimator leaves them out rather than guessing. Breakroom paper towels, hand sanitizer at reception and kitchen trash bags also sit outside the restroom count.
Loop sets those quantities at the walkthrough from what your office really goes through. Our janitorial supplies service stocks seat covers, stall bin liners and sanitizer alongside the paper and soap, so every item ends up on one standing list.
Turning the estimate into stocked restrooms
Treat the range as a planning starting point. Send it with the button under the result and it travels with your quote request on this page. At the free walkthrough we look at the dispensers on your walls, set a par level for each restroom and decide with you whether Loop crews restock while they clean, deliver supplies on their own or refill from stock you keep.
Our commercial restroom deep cleaning service and office restroom cleaning checklist cover the cleaning side of the same rooms. Planning more than restrooms? The cleaning task list builder drafts every routine job for your building, and the commercial cleaning frequency planner shows how often each one comes around.
A few useful answers
Common questions.
Should part-time staff count as people in the building?
Count anyone who spends most of a working day in the office, including part-time staff on the days they come in. People who stay an hour or two, such as clients, candidates and couriers, go in the visitors box.
Do hand dryers take towels out of the result?
Yes. Choosing dryers removes restroom paper towels from the estimate. Kitchenette sinks still need towels, and we size those at the walkthrough.
Can Loop supply what the estimate lists?
Yes. We supply and restock restroom paper, soap and liners during cleaning visits, deliver them on a standing schedule for offices that clean in-house, or refill from stock you keep.
Our offices use seat covers. Where are they in the estimate?
They’re left out because no reliable usage figure exists. We count them, along with stall bin liners, during the walkthrough and add them to your supply list.
When should I update the numbers?
Whenever headcount or hours change: a new team, more in-office days or longer opening hours. The par levels we set for each restroom move with it.