As a hotel owner, finding a way to keep your hotel open for guests while you conduct remodeling and reconstruction projects is always a headache. If you shut down during your remodel or reconstruction, you lose valuable profits that could be used to finish the work earlier. Keeping the hotel open requires some creative solutions. If you are planning on remodeling or reconstructing your hotel's plumbing, here are some ways in which you can still provide for guests' needs and not have to close the hotel.

Toilet Rentals

Your plumbing and construction contractors will already have toilet rentals on hand for their work crews. You could rent a slew of portable toilets and place them around the hotel's perimeter while the crews and the plumbers reroute and redo all of the hotel's plumbing. Sure, it is a slight inconvenience, but if you are up front with your guests before they book a room, you at least give them the option to decide if staying in your hotel and using an outdoor loo is too much of an inconvenience.

Import Hot Water Via Tanks

For bathing, guests that choose to still stay in your hotel during your plumbing remodel may benefit from imported hot water. This can be brought in heated tanks and carried into the guest bathrooms in either buckets or pumped in, if the guests' bathrooms can be reached on the first floor. A less-than-pleasing option is to establish shower tents or allow the shower stalls in and near the hotel pool to be used for regular bathing. Giving your guests more than one option for bathing will make this transition period less of an uncomfortable hassle.

Close Down Some Wings and Not Others

You may also consider the possibility of keeping a certain section or specific floors open to guests while closing down the rest of the hotel for plumbing remodeling and reconstruction. Depending on how your current plumbing is connected, one side or floor could have fully functioning plumbing while the other side or floors do not. Before your plumbing and remodeling contractors begin their work, and even at the time of the project estimation meetings, you could ask them if this is a possibility. You may even be able to use this option in conjunction with portable toilet rentals such that you can keep some of the rooms that are on the "no plumbing" side available for use when work crews are not working on them. Contact a company, such as Action Toilet Rentals, for more information.