Locally Owned Dumpster Rental in Lakewood Since 2012

Cole Barrett grew up off Wadsworth and went to work for a Jeffco remodeling crew out of high school. He spent most of his twenties finishing basements and gutting kitchens in Lakewood brick ranches, watching the same problem repeat itself. The container never came when it was supposed to. When it did, the invoice had grown. And nobody would tell a homeowner that the rock coming out of their front yard weighed four times what they had guessed — they just billed the overage afterwards and let the customer wear it.

In 2012 he bought a used roll-off truck and four cans, parked it on 1205 S Pierce St, and started answering the phone himself. The first job was a hail roof in Applewood for a homeowner whose previous hauler had cancelled on her twice while the crew stood on the roof waiting. She still calls us, and she still tells the story.

Word moved the way it does in a town this size — through contractors, through neighbours, through the guy at the counter who mentions that the dumpster people actually showed up. We added trucks as the calls came in rather than borrowing against volume we did not have yet. 14 years on we run a small fleet, we still dispatch out of Lakewood, and the phone still rings at a desk with somebody local behind it.

Why we care about getting the quote right

The dumpster industry has a reputation problem and it is largely self-inflicted. Low teaser rates, a tonnage allowance buried in the fine print, then a bill with an overage charge nobody explained. We priced against that from day one. When you call, we ask what you are throwing away, what it weighs, how long you need it and where it is going. Then we give you a number that includes delivery, pickup, the rental window and disposal. If we think you are about to order the wrong size, we say so — even when the wrong size is the more expensive one.

What being local actually buys you

It is not a slogan. It means our dispatcher knows which west-Denver alleys have a service drop hanging too low for the hoist, which Solterra and Ken Caryl covenants will get you a letter, which Evergreen drives a loaded truck simply cannot commit to in February, and roughly what a 1962 brick ranch produces when you finish the basement. It means that when a hail cell walks across Jeffco and half the county needs a container in the same week, our trucks are already here.

We have seen the mistakes so you do not have to

The three that cost people the most money, in order: ordering by volume when the debris is heavy, forgetting that a second layer of shingles doubles the tonnage, and putting a container on a driveway poured three weeks ago. Every one of those is avoidable with one honest conversation before delivery.

We have hauled out of brick ranches taken back to the studs, whole streets of hail roofs in a single week, restaurant fit-outs on Colfax and in Belmar, foothills homes clearing defensible space, front yards of sod and river rock, garages full of thirty years of ski gear, and estate clear-outs in houses one family had held since Eisenhower. Every one of those loads behaves differently at the scale house, and knowing that in advance is most of the job.

Credentials and cover

• Licensed to haul solid waste in Colorado
• Full commercial general liability and auto cover — certificates available on request for GCs and property managers
• Workers’ compensation cover for every driver on the road
• Material taken only to permitted, licensed transfer and disposal facilities
• Compliance with Colorado landfill disposal bans on every load

Contractors and property managers: ask for our COI when you set up an account. We can usually have it emailed the same day.