Dumpster Rental FAQs for Lakewood & the West Denver Metro

Most of the time, same day if you call in the morning, next day otherwise. We run same-day delivery out of our yard on S Pierce Street, so Lakewood, Edgewater, Wheat Ridge and west Denver are short runs. The exception is hail season, roughly May through September, when every roofer in the metro wants a container the same week. During those stretches book two or three days out if you can. Call (720) 473-6600 and we will tell you honestly what is on the truck today.

Five things: the address, what you are throwing away, roughly how much of it, where you want the container to sit, and when you want it. That is enough for us to pick a size and a delivery window. If the drop is tight — a narrow alley, a short driveway, a low carport, an HOA gate — text a photo and we will look at it before the truck rolls. Guessing on placement is how drivers waste an hour and customers get a container in the wrong spot.

Because a form cannot ask the follow-up question. Half the calls we take start with a customer asking for a 20 yard and ending with a 10 yard because the job is concrete, or asking for a 15 and ending with a 30 because they forgot the garage. Two minutes on the phone gets the size right, the placement right and the price fixed before we load a truck. Everything runs through a direct call, and you talk to someone who dispatches the truck.

Figure roughly 60 feet of straight approach and about 12 feet of width for the truck, plus around 23 feet of overhead clearance while the box tips off the rails. Low branches, carport roofs, sagging cable drops and basketball hoops are the usual problems. On alley drops behind older Lakewood and west Denver homes we also check for parked cars and utility poles. If you are unsure, send a photo — that is faster than a failed delivery and a second trip.

No, and most customers are not. Tell us exactly where the container goes, mark the spot with a cone or a piece of cardboard if it matters, and we will set it there and text you when it is down. Same on pickup: keep the approach clear and nothing parked in front of it, and we take it. Being home helps on first-time drops where placement is genuinely tight, but it is not required.

Call us and we swap it. In most of our service area that is a next-day exchange — we pull the full box and set an empty one in the same spot on the same trip. Contractors running construction jobs plan on this from the start rather than trying to squeeze a whole project into one container. Do not stack debris on the ground next to a full box hoping it works out; that becomes a hand-load and it costs you time.

A standard rental period is built into the flat rate, and for most homeowner projects that is more time than you need. Cleanouts usually run a weekend. Roof tear-offs are often same-day off and gone. Remodels and demolition run longer, and we can extend before the period ends. Tell us your realistic timeline when you book instead of after, and we will set the rental period to match the job rather than the other way around.

Yes. We run Saturday 7am to 3pm, and it is one of our busiest delivery days because weekend warriors want the container waiting Friday evening or first thing Saturday. Weekday hours are Monday through Friday, 6:30am to 6pm. We do not run Sundays. If your project has a hard Monday deadline, get the container in place Friday so a Saturday breakdown in the schedule does not cost you the whole weekend.

Delivery, pickup, the rental period and disposal up to an agreed tonnage — one number, quoted before the truck leaves. That is the whole point of flat-rate roll-off rental: you know the cost when you hang up the phone. Protection boards under the container are standard, not an upsell. We tell you the included tonnage out loud when we quote, so there is no discovering it later in fine print on an invoice.

Four things: container size, what is going in it, how heavy that material is, and how far we drive. A light bulky load in a 30 yard and a heavy load in a 10 yard price very differently. Distance matters because a run to Evergreen burns more time than a run to Belmar. Season matters at the margins — hail season tightens supply metro-wide. There is a longer breakdown in our guide to what drives dumpster cost in Lakewood.

Overage is billed by the ton at the disposal rate, and we tell you that rate up front. It matters because landfill scales do not care what the container looks like — they weigh the truck. The way to avoid it is to be honest about material when you book. If there is concrete, tile, dirt or wet sod in the load, say so, and we will size for weight instead of volume so you are not paying twice for the same mistake.

Not with us, but here is what to ask any company: is disposal included or billed after, what is the tonnage allowance, is there a fuel or environmental surcharge, and what is the charge for a blocked or failed pickup. Those four line items are where a cheap headline number quietly doubles. We quote one flat rate covering delivery, pickup, rental and disposal to your agreed tonnage, and the only things that change it are overweight or prohibited material.

The size is smaller but the weight is the cost. A 10 yard of clean concrete can weigh more than a 30 yard of household junk, and disposal for concrete and heavy debris is priced accordingly. Clean concrete with no rebar, wire or trash mixed in often goes to a recycler instead of a landfill, which usually works in your favor. Keeping it clean and separate is the single best thing you can do for the price on a heavy load.

Depends on who does the lifting. A roll-off is cheaper per cubic yard by a wide margin, but you load it. Junk removal costs more per yard and includes labor, which is the right call for a second-floor condo, a customer who cannot lift, or a small pile that does not justify a container. Rule of thumb: if the job is bigger than a pickup truck or spread over more than a day, the container wins.

We take payment at the time of booking or on delivery, depending on the job and whether you are a repeat contractor account. Builders, property managers and roofers running steady volume get invoiced terms once we have worked together. Any overweight charge settles after the load hits the scale, because that is the only point at which anyone knows the real number. No deposits held hostage, no charges appearing weeks later.

Yes. Roofers, remodelers, property managers and builders who run steady volume with us get account pricing and priority in the delivery schedule, which is worth more than the discount during hail season. If you are running multiple sites, we coordinate commercial service so containers land ahead of the crew rather than the crew standing around. Call and tell us what your typical month looks like and we will set it up.

For a single-car garage or a typical basement, a 15 yard handles it. Two-car garage plus storage, or a full estate cleanout, and you want a 20 yard. People consistently underestimate household volume because it has been stacked and packed for twenty years; loose in a container it takes twice the space. If you are between sizes, take the bigger one. A swap-out costs more than the size step up.

Rough math: a 20 yard handles roughly 25 to 30 squares of one-layer architectural shingle, a 30 yard covers most full re-roofs on a metro tract home. Two layers doubles the weight, not the volume, so tell us the layer count. Tile and slate are a different conversation entirely. Our roofing containers get set tight to the drip edge, and the tear-off size guide breaks it down by square count.

Because of legal transport weight. Concrete, flagstone, brick and landscape rock run roughly 2,400 to 2,800 pounds per cubic yard, and dirt and sod with soil attached are not far behind. A 10 yard hits the axle limit for a loaded truck while it still looks half empty. Putting that material in a 30 yard does not get you more capacity — it gets you a container we legally cannot haul, and a second trip. Big job, multiple 10 yards.

A full-size pickup bed loaded level is roughly two to two and a half cubic yards. So a 10 yard is about four truck loads, a 20 yard about eight, a 30 yard about twelve. That math is the fastest sanity check most people can do standing in their own garage. If you have already hauled three or four loads to the transfer station and are not close to done, you needed a container two weekends ago.

Ballpark footprints: the 10 and 15 yard run about 14 to 16 feet long and 8 feet wide, the 20 yard about 22 feet, the 30 and 40 yard about 22 feet long with taller walls. Width is 8 feet across the board, so driveway width is rarely the constraint — length and overhead clearance are. Full specs by size are on the sizes page. Add several feet of working room at the door end.

Wall height, mostly. Both sit on roughly the same footprint, so the 40 yard is not harder to place — it just holds more air. That makes it right for bulky light material: framing lumber, roofing on large homes, commercial cleanouts, siding, insulation, cabinetry. It is the wrong container for anything dense, because you will hit weight long before you fill it. If the material is heavy, step down in size, not up.

It is the most useful size we own and the one nobody asks for by name. A 15 fits where a 20 will not — short driveways, tight alleys behind older Edgewater and west Denver bungalows, corner lots with a hydrant. It handles a small roof, a bath and kitchen gut, a single-car garage, or a mid-size residential cleanout. When we suggest one, it is usually because we looked at the photo of your driveway.

We cannot take it. Colorado requires loads to be tarped and contained, and nothing can ride above the top rail of the container — not a mattress, not a sheet of plywood, not the last three bags. If it is heaped when the driver arrives, he will ask you to pull it down before he hooks up, and that stalls his route. Load heavy on the bottom, flat, and stop at the fill line. Still unsure? Size guide here.

General household junk, furniture, carpet and pad, clothing, toys, non-freon appliances, drywall, lumber, trim, cabinets, flooring, roofing shingles, siding, fencing, brush and yard waste, boxes and packing material. Basically: solid, dry, non-hazardous material. If it came out of a house or off a roof and it is not on the banned list, it goes in. The full rundown for our area is in what can go in a dumpster in Jefferson County.

Asbestos-containing material, electronics, tires, lead-acid batteries, used motor oil, free liquids of any kind, paint and solvents, pesticides and pool chemicals, propane tanks, ammunition, medical waste and anything still under pressure. Several of those are banned by Colorado statute, not by us, and a landfill that finds them rejects the whole load. When in doubt, ask before it goes in the box — the phone call is free, the rejected load is not.

No. Colorado bans electronics from landfill disposal statewide — televisions, monitors, computers, printers, peripherals, the box of cords in the closet. It is a legal ban, so no hauler in the state can take them regardless of what they tell you. They go to an e-waste recycler; Jefferson County and several metro municipalities run collection events. Pull electronics out of a cleanout pile first, because they are always in there.

Paint does not go in the container. Colorado runs the PaintCare program, and drop-off is free at participating paint and hardware retailers around Lakewood, Golden and Arvada — latex, oil-based, stains and primers. Take the cans there. Empty, fully dried-out latex cans with the lid off are generally acceptable in a load, but a can with liquid in it is a free liquid, and free liquids get the whole load flagged at the gate.

Furniture and mattresses, yes — they are bulky, so account for the volume when we size the container. Appliances depend on refrigerant: stoves, dishwashers, washers and dryers are fine, while refrigerators, freezers, window AC units and dehumidifiers need the refrigerant professionally evacuated and tagged first. Tell us on the phone if any of those are in the pile and we will sort it out before delivery instead of leaving them sitting on your driveway after pickup.

All three are restricted in Colorado and none of them can ride in the container. Tires go to a tire retailer or a county recycling event, lead-acid batteries go back to any auto parts store, and used oil goes to an oil-change shop or a hazardous waste facility. Jefferson County runs household hazardous waste collection for the chemicals that do not fit anywhere else. Details on the local options are in our Jeffco recycling guide.

For a mixed residential load, yes — a garage cleanout with some brush in it is normal and we handle it. The exception is when separation saves you money: clean concrete, clean dirt, and large volumes of pure green waste all have cheaper dedicated outlets than mixed municipal disposal. Big yard waste jobs, sod removal and xeriscape conversions are usually worth keeping separate.

Yes, but weight rules the decision. Sod with soil still attached is heavy and holds water, so a rainstorm the night before pickup can add hundreds of pounds. Same story with dirt, river rock and flagstone. All of it belongs in a 10 yard, loaded flat, and it should not be mixed with trash if you want the cheaper clean-fill disposal rate. Tell us it is dirt when you book, not when the driver arrives.

On your own driveway or private property, generally no. In the public right-of-way — the street, an on-street parking space, the parkway strip — you usually do, and it is the property owner who pulls it. Lakewood, Denver, Golden, Wheat Ridge, Arvada, Edgewater, Littleton, Englewood and unincorporated Jefferson County each run their own process with their own timelines. Start at the City of Lakewood or read our permit walkthrough first.

It is a real risk here, and not because of the container. Metro driveways sit on expansive bentonite clay that swells and shrinks with moisture, so slabs are already stressed and hairline-cracked before anything heavy touches them. Protection boards go under the wheels and the rear rail on every delivery as standard. We also look at slab age, visible cracking and drainage before we back in. More detail in our driveway protection guide.

Often that is the best spot, and on older Lakewood, Edgewater and west Denver blocks it is what we do most. What we check first: alley width, paved or gravel surface, how low the service drops hang, and whether garages built to the property line leave the truck room to swing. Trash pickup day matters too — we do not want to block the city truck. Send a photo of the alley approach and we will tell you what fits.

In Ken Caryl, Solterra, Highlands Ranch and Centennial the metro districts and HOAs run tight covenants, and the standard asks are: how many days, exactly where it sits, that it stays on the driveway rather than the street, and sometimes a specific screening or setback. Get approval in writing before you book, because a covenant violation notice is worse than a two-day delay. We can work to a stated removal date if the HOA requires one.

Usually, with a look first. We run Morrison, Evergreen and the parcels off Lookout Mountain routinely, and the deciding factors are grade, turnaround room at the top, and whether the surface is gravel that softens after a storm. On a switchback drive or a pitch the truck cannot back down safely, we stage the container at a flatter pull-off or turnaround and the crew shuttles to it. Winter adds ice, so we check conditions before committing to an early run.

Options in order: driveway apron, alley, side yard on a compacted surface, then street with a permit. A 10 or 15 yard fits driveways that a 20 will not, and on a corner lot we sometimes set it along the flanking street rather than the front. What we will not do is set a container on a soft lawn or on a septic field. Tell us what is parked where, and we will pick a workable spot.

The box tips up high on the way off the truck, so overhead clearance is the constraint people forget. Sagging cable and power drops over alleys, mature elms and honeylocusts over Lakewood driveways, and carport roofs all stop a delivery cold. Trim what you can before delivery day. If you are digging, fencing or doing anything below grade around the placement, call Colorado 811 before you start.

We run Lakewood, Golden, Wheat Ridge, Arvada, Edgewater, Applewood, Morrison, Evergreen, Littleton, Englewood, Sheridan, west and central Denver and unincorporated Jefferson County out of a yard on S Pierce Street. The full list is on the service areas page. If you are on the edge of that map, call anyway — a lot depends on the route we already have running that day rather than a line on a map.

If your project disturbs more than the trigger amounts of suspect material, yes — CDPHE Regulation No. 8 requires an inspection by a Colorado-certified asbestos building inspector before renovation or demolition. This is state law, not a formality, and many metro building departments will not issue a demolition permit without the report in hand. Read the Colorado asbestos testing walkthrough before you swing a hammer, or start at CDPHE.

Popcorn ceiling texture and 9x9 floor tile with the black mastic under it are the two that come back positive most often in pre-1980 homes, and both are everywhere in Lakewood, Wheat Ridge and west Denver ranches. Also on the list: duct wrap and boiler insulation, some sheet vinyl backing, window glazing and roofing felt. Age alone does not condemn a house — only a certified inspector's sample results tell you what you actually have.

No. We cannot accept asbestos-containing material in any container, under any circumstances, no matter how it is bagged. It requires a licensed abatement contractor and a permitted disposal facility with its own manifest chain. If a test comes back positive, abatement happens first and the container comes after for the clean debris. Anyone who tells you to double-bag it and bury it in the load is putting your name on the violation, not theirs.

Only inside Denver city limits. Waste No More adds construction and demolition diversion and recycling-plan requirements to qualifying Denver permits, which means a job in Barnum and an identical job a mile west in Lakewood are not governed the same way. On Denver sites we often stage more than one container so separation happens as the crew works. Check the requirements at Denver's site and see our C&D disposal guide.

Mixed loads go to permitted metro transfer stations and landfills. Clean concrete, brick and asphalt go to aggregate recyclers and get crushed back into road base. Clean metal goes to scrap. Large volumes of clean green waste go to composting rather than burial. We separate where the material and the volume justify it, and on commercial jobs we can document diversion when a permit or a client requires the paperwork.

None of it goes in the container. Jefferson County runs household hazardous waste collection for solvents, pesticides, pool chemicals, cleaners, fluorescent tubes and similar material, and Denver residents have their own program. Set that material aside in a box before the cleanout starts — it is a twenty-minute errand up front versus a rejected load and a return trip later. Not sure what counts? Call (720) 473-6600 and describe it.

Licensed, insured and locally owned since 2012, and yes it matters. General contractors and property managers need a certificate of insurance on file before a vendor works their site, and we provide one on request. For homeowners it matters when a truck is on your driveway and a loaded container is on your property. Ask any hauler for proof; the ones who cannot produce it quickly are telling you something.

May through September, one storm across Lakewood or Arvada puts thousands of roofs into claims within a week, and every roofer books containers at once. Lead times stretch metro-wide, so schedule ahead of your crew, not behind them. We hold capacity for roofing accounts through the season for exactly this reason. If a storm just hit your neighborhood, read the hail roof replacement guide and call early.