Dumpster Rental FAQ for Arlington and Tarrant County

Same day if you ring early enough, next day on nearly everything else. The yard sits at 1200 N Commercial Blvd in south Arlington, off the I-20 corridor between Matlock Road and Collins Street, so south and central Arlington, the Sublett and Bardin corridors and the streets around UTA are a short pull. North Arlington, Viridian, Grand Prairie, Pantego, Kennedale and Mansfield are not much further out. Call first thing in the morning rather than at four in the afternoon and the odds on a same-day set improve considerably.

Four things: the address, the date, roughly what is going in, and exactly where you want it set. That last one carries more weight here than people expect, because a good share of our residential sets land on a narrow original drive with nowhere else to go. Tell us up front whether it is a shingle tear-off, foundation pier spoil, a slab breakout or a household cleanout — those four load, weigh and haul completely differently, and a wrong assumption about the material is what puts a container over the scale.

No, and most customers are not. Mark the spot with a cone, a scrap of two-by-four or a chalk line and text a photo — the driver puts it exactly there. If nothing is marked, the container goes square on the drive, clear of the garage door, the sidewalk, the gas meter and the mailbox. Protection boards go down on every residential set and we photograph the approach on arrival, so nobody has to argue afterwards about a crack that was already in the concrete before we got there.

Roughly sixty feet of straight approach for truck and container together, about ten and a half feet of width, and twenty feet or more of clear overhead. Overhead is the one that stops us in Arlington, and it is usually a mature pecan, cedar elm or post oak limb hanging over the drive in the 1970s and 80s neighbourhoods, then carport framing and the service drop running to the house. Send one photo from the street looking in and we will tell you before we roll a truck.

Common through central Arlington and we plan around it. The drives poured with the 1950s and 60s housing stock around downtown and UTA were sized for a much smaller car, and a 30 will not sit straight on one. Usually the answer is a smaller box set lengthwise, or a set at the kerb line with cones. If any part of the container ends up in the street that becomes a traffic control question rather than a driveway one, so tell us early and read the Arlington permit rundown.

Sometimes, and it is worth asking, because the alleys behind the downtown core and the older blocks either side of Abram and Center are how a lot of that work gets serviced. The catch is width and overhead: an alley that a car fits down is not automatically an alley a roll-off truck can work in, and a container that blocks it stops your neighbours’ access and the collection truck as well. Photograph the alley from both ends before you book and we will tell you honestly whether it will go.

The standard rental period covers most jobs and we extend by the day when work runs long — ring before the pickup date rather than after it. Swaps are next day: we haul the full container and set an empty in the same spot. Plan around the busy windows. The board tightens hard the week after a hail line comes through, and it tightens again at the end of the spring semester when UTA turns over and every landlord in central Arlington is cleaning out at once.

Dry, usually yes. Wet, it is a poor idea and we will say so. The clay through much of the city turns greasy after rain and a loaded truck will cut ruts into it that you will be filling for a season afterwards. On acreage and on the unpaved edges of a site we would rather set at the road and let you barrow to it than sink a truck. On any residential set we board the surface first — see the areas we run if you are outside the city line.

One price covers the delivery, the rental period, the pickup and the disposal up to the tonnage included with that size. You know the number before the truck leaves North Commercial, and it does not move because the job ran a day longer than you thought or because the driver had to thread a container past a fence gate and a pecan limb. The only things that change it are going over the included weight, keeping the container past the agreed period, or loading something we cannot legally take to the scale. We quote on the phone, not on a form.

Included: the drop, the rental days, protection boards under the container, the haul, and disposal up to the included tonnage. Extra is short and predictable — overweight tonnage billed off the certified scale ticket, additional rental days, and a return trip if the container is blocked when the driver arrives. Prohibited material found in a load is the expensive one, because it has to be pulled and handled on its own. Ring us before you load anything you are unsure about. That call is free and it is a great deal cheaper than a rejected load.

Five things and no more: the size you take, the material going in it, how long you keep it, where it has to be set, and whether anything prohibited turns up in the load. Material is the one people underestimate here, because a container of wet excavation spoil off a pier job and a container of cabinetry occupy the same space and weigh nothing alike. Describe the material honestly on the phone and the flat rate holds. Guess at it, and the scale ticket settles the argument for you.

A trip charge is what happens when the truck arrives and cannot do the work — a car parked across the container, a locked gate, a pallet of shingles stacked against the door, or a load mounded above the rail so it cannot legally be tarped and hauled. Every one of those is avoidable with two minutes of thought the evening before. Clear the approach, unlock what needs unlocking, and level the load down to the rail. If something changes at the last minute, ring us and we will reschedule rather than roll.

If the job is genuinely small, yes, and we will say so rather than talk you into a container. Arlington residents get three free drop-offs a year at the Arlington Landfill, 800 Mosier Valley Road in Euless, with discounted rates after that. The conditions are tight: you must be an Arlington Water Utilities account holder or authorised user, permanently resident in the city, and it is homeowners only — contractors and landlords are excluded entirely. Confirm the current terms and what a load costs on (817) 354-2305 or at the landfill.

Not for anything a remodel produces. Arlington collection allows roughly two cubic yards of bulky items a week and about the same for bundled brush and yard waste, on one single collection day. Set against a re-roof, a kitchen gut or a garage clear-out, two cubic yards is nothing. And the city states it plainly: construction debris and roofing shingles cannot be collected curbside. That gap between the weekly allowance and a real job is exactly what a roll-off is for. Current programme details are with the City of Arlington.

Two things, and both cost money if you find them out late. The three free landfill drop-offs are for homeowners resident at the address — landlords, contractors and apartment tenants are outside the programme and pay regular rates with no free visits. And the Fort Worth household hazardous waste facility is residential only, so leftover paint and solvent from a turnover is not covered either. Arlington runs a large rental market and turnover work is a steady part of our week, so tell us it is a turnover when you book.

Yes, and a fair share of the week is contractor work: standing accounts, scheduled swaps, several containers on one site and one invoice at the end of the month. Andre Reyes started this company with one truck and four cans in 2012 and still answers the phone, out of the yard at 1200 N Commercial Blvd in south Arlington. Worth knowing before you plan disposal yourself: contractors pay the full landfill rate with no free visits. There is no form anywhere on this site — ring us.

We run 10, 15, 20, 30 and 40 yard roll-offs. The rough rule: 10 and 15 for anything dense — excavation spoil, broken concrete, brick, shingle; 20 for most house projects and mid-size tear-offs; 30 for a whole-house cleanout or a large remodel; 40 for bulky light material like cabinetry, ductwork or a commercial furniture clear-out. The mistake in this market is picking on volume and ignoring the scale ticket. Tell us the material and the square footage on the phone and we will size it. Start with the size guide.

Whenever the debris is dense, which here is more often than people assume. A 10 is what goes out for wet clay spoil off a foundation pier job, a demolished patio slab, a broken driveway apron or a section of brick. A 15 suits a single bathroom gut, a garage clear-out or a small tear-off. Both have a low rail, which matters when you are pitching material in by hand in July, and both will fit a short original drive in central Arlington that a 30 simply cannot.

It is the workhorse and it goes out more than the rest put together. A 20 handles a kitchen and bath together, a mid-size composition shingle tear-off, the garage and the back bedrooms in one pass, or mixed remodel debris out of a 1980s brick-and-siding house. It still fits a two-car drive with room to open a car door, and the walls are low enough to load by hand all day. If you are genuinely torn between a 15 and a 30, this is usually the honest answer for an Arlington house.

On volume, never on weight. A 30 is the standard whole-house cleanout box and the one that goes out on most estate work and rental turnovers. The 40 is for bulky light material — cabinetry, ductwork, insulation, office furniture, a full commercial clear-out. Neither is a masonry container: fill a 40 with broken concrete or wet spoil and it cannot legally leave your property. Both need real room to set and to service, so measure the approach before you book one on an older central Arlington street.

By squares and by layers, and the second one catches people out. A roofing square is a hundred square feet, so measure the roof, add for pitch and waste, and then find out how many layers are up there — a second layer left over an original is common on houses that have been through more than one hail claim, and it doubles the tonnage off the same roof. Shingle is heavy for its bulk, so it is a weight job, not a volume job. See roofing dumpster rental.

Because wet clay is far heavier for its volume than almost anything else you will put in a box, and foundation work in Arlington produces a lot of it. Pier holes and perimeter tunnelling generate spoil, slab breakouts and interior access holes generate broken concrete, and the flatwork and landscaping pulled for access goes in on top. A container that looks half empty can already be at payload. Take a small box, expect to fill it flat, and ring us with the pier count before you book rather than after.

Smaller than a national calculator will tell you, and that is the most useful line on this page. Basements are very rare in North Texas — expansive clay makes a below-grade wall an engineering problem, there is no frost line forcing a deep excavation so the hole is pure added cost, and buyers price on dollars per square foot. Any calculator built around a lower level of stored contents will oversize your job. What you actually have is the garage, the attic, the shed and the back of the closets.

Flat and low. Heavy inert material — concrete, brick, spoil, shingle — goes in level with the rail or under it, spread across the floor of the box rather than mounded at one end, and nothing goes on top of it to use up the remaining space. A mounded load cannot be tarped, cannot legally travel, and turns into a return trip. If the box reaches the rail and you still have material, ring for a swap. Two correctly loaded containers move; one overloaded one does not.

General construction and demolition debris, household junk and furniture, carpet and pad, cabinetry, drywall, framing lumber, composition shingle, siding, decking, fencing, flooring, non-refrigerant appliances, storm limb wood and yard debris as a clean load, and concrete, brick or excavation spoil in a correctly sized box. Most residential remodels and cleanouts sit entirely inside that list. If you are working through a whole house, walk it room by room first and set aside the paint, the fuels and the batteries before anything else goes over the rail.

Liquids and wet paint, solvents, fuels and automotive fluids, pesticides and pool chemicals, propane and any pressurised cylinder, batteries, medical and biohazard waste, whole tyres, refrigerant-bearing appliances that have not been evacuated, contaminated soil, and asbestos-containing material in any form whatsoever. That last one is absolute — there is no quantity, wrapping or price that makes it acceptable in one of our containers, ever. If any of it turns up in a load it has to be pulled and handled separately. Ring us before you throw in something you are unsure about.

A shorter list than most out-of-state guides claim, and it sits at 30 TAC §330.15(e). Banned outright: lead-acid batteries, do-it-yourself used motor oil, used oil filters — a separate ban that writers routinely leave off — and bulk liquid waste. Conditional: whole used and scrap tyres are banned unless they are processed first, and appliances containing CFC refrigerant may only go once the refrigerant has been recovered under 40 CFR Part 82. Confirm the current rule with TCEQ before you plan a load around it.

None of the three, and this is where guides written for other states go wrong. There is no Texas landfill ban on yard waste — the rule does not list it, and the city itself says bagged leaves picked up at the kerb go straight to the landfill. Electronics have manufacturer take-back programmes but no ban. Mattresses are ordinary municipal waste here; the state-level mattress recycling programme operates in California, Connecticut, Oregon and Rhode Island only. We still run vegetative debris as a clean separate load, by choice, because it is cheaper that way.

Only after the refrigerant is recovered. Anything with a sealed system — refrigerator, freezer, window unit, dehumidifier, heat pump air handler — needs a certified technician to evacuate it under 40 CFR Part 82 first, and that is federal law rather than a Texas rule. Once it is evacuated and tagged, the shell is ordinary metal and it goes in like anything else. Ranges, washers, dryers, dishwashers and water heaters go in as they are. If you cannot tell whether a unit has been evacuated, assume it has not.

Not in the container, and not to a paint store. PaintCare does not operate in Texas, so the take-back scheme you may have used in another state is not an option here — most national guides get that wrong. Latex and water-based paint can be dried out and put in the regular trash. Oil-based paint goes to the Fort Worth Environmental Collection Center, 6400 Bridge Street, Thursday and Friday 11am to 7pm and Saturday 9am to 3pm, free to Arlington residents with no voucher, once a month, residential waste only. Details at Fort Worth.

Do not assume so. Neither city page confirms that the Environmental Collection Center accepts propane cylinders and they are commonly restricted, so ring 817-392-1234 and ask before you drive across for nothing. What the centre does take is automotive fluids, cleaning chemicals, cooking oil, lawn, garden and pool chemicals, light bulbs, paint and paint supplies, pesticides and chemical batteries. It is residential only — a contractor with leftover material from an Arlington job cannot use it. Arlington also runs its own mobile collection events through the year.

Assume it in anything pre-1980 until it is tested — floor tile and the black mastic under it, pipe and duct wrap, textured ceilings, roofing felt and mastic. Here is the fact most sites get wrong: in Texas the demolition and renovation notification goes to the Department of State Health Services, not TCEQ, under the asbestos rules at 25 TAC Chapter 296, at least ten working days ahead. It is required before demolishing a building even when no asbestos is present. A single private residence is exempt under §296.1(c). Start at DSHS, and never put the material in a container.

There is no dumpster-specific permit anywhere in Arlington’s published code — we read the chapters and the permitting manuals and none of them names dumpsters, roll-off containers or debris boxes. We will not go further and tell you flatly that no permit is needed, because the code does not say that either. On a private driveway or pad, keep the sidewalk and the alley clear and there is nothing identified that applies. The moment any part of the container touches the public right-of-way, that changes. See the permit rundown.

Then you are in obstruction territory. Streets and Sidewalks §6.01 prohibits willfully obstructing any public sidewalk, median, kerb, shoulder, street, roadway or right-of-way in the city. If a lane or the flow of traffic is affected, that triggers a Temporary Traffic Control Permit through Public Works, and the city asks for a minimum of three business days’ notice, with traffic control to the Texas MUTCD and a $500 a day fine for non-compliance. Start at the City of Arlington and allow the lead time.

Then TxDOT comes first. Work in state right-of-way — an I-20 or I-30 frontage road, for instance — needs TxDOT approval before the city will approve it, and from the kerb the line between a city street and state right-of-way is not always obvious. There is also a separate Public Right-of-Way Permit for construction work in the right-of-way, administered by the Right-of-Way Division on (817) 459-6634. One phone call before you plan the set is worth a great deal more than one guess afterwards.

There is no Arlington ordinance limiting how long a container may stay and no screening requirement, whatever a national site tells you. The real exposure is code enforcement. The nuisance chapter at §2.02(M) makes used, deteriorated or discarded building materials a nuisance — but it expressly exempts materials stored in a workmanlike manner as part of and in conjunction with an active building permit. In other words, pulling the permit for the work is itself the defence. Keep the site tidy, keep the load below the rail, and ring us the day you finish.

It might, and no Texas statute will help you. Property Code Chapter 202 lists the specific things an association cannot prohibit — solar devices, flags, religious displays, drought-resistant landscaping and rain barrels, and under §202.011 wind- and hail-resistant shingles. Containers are not on that list, so placement is governed entirely by your declaration and architectural guidelines. Arlington’s large mid-century cohort largely predates the mandatory-association norm; the newer master-planned areas are governed. Read the covenants first — statutes are at the Texas Legislature.

Further ahead than almost anyone expects, because two clocks run at once. If the building is fifty years or older, its age cannot be established, or it sits in the preservation overlay, the Landmark Preservation Commission must review the demolition. It cannot deny the permit, but it can extend a historic stay, so build the extra time into the programme. Separately, the DSHS notification runs ten working days before demolition starts and is required even when no asbestos is present. Those two together decide your start date, not the excavator’s calendar.

Yes. Texas811 is the notification centre and the statute is Utilities Code Chapter 251 — notice no earlier than the fourteenth day before and no later than the forty-eighth hour before excavation, excluding weekends and legal holidays, which is two working days in practice. It does not apply to setting a container on a driveway. It absolutely applies the moment your project digs: footings for a pier job, a pool demolition, a fence line, a driveway tear-out. File at Texas811 and wait for the marks.

Not necessarily, and it is the single most useful thing on this page for some readers. Pantego and Dalworthington Gardens are separate incorporated towns sitting as enclaves inside the Arlington street grid — different municipality, different permitting authority, different waste contract, different household hazardous waste rules. An Arlington resident goes to the Fort Worth collection centre free with no voucher. A Dalworthington Gardens resident needs a voucher and pays $47. Same streets, different rulebook. Tell us the actual jurisdiction when you book — see where we run.

Spring, with an autumn tail that most writers miss. Across the NWS Fort Worth area since 1950 the counts are April 555 and May 525 — about seven a year in each month, and together roughly 55 percent of the annual total. Then there is a genuine secondary peak in October at 145. So the board turns over hardest in April and May, and again in October, rather than once a year. Current watches and warnings are at the National Weather Service.

March through June is the core window. Texas leads the nation for hail — 902 hail events in 2025, ahead of Kansas and Oklahoma, with more than 235,000 Texas homes taking damaging hail that year — and DFW sits in the highest-risk tier. That is the accurate way to put it, and we will not repeat the claim that this is the number one hail metro in America, because the city-level claim rankings do not support it. What it means for us is a re-roof wave through the spring. See roofing dumpster rental.

Because it will not, at any volume. The city states plainly that construction debris and roofing shingles cannot be collected curbside and that contractors bear responsibility for hauling those materials, though residents may take shingles to the landfill themselves. Set that against a kerbside allowance of roughly two cubic yards a week for bulky items and about the same for brush, and a single-family tear-off is nowhere near it. That gap is the whole roll-off market here, and it is why the phone rings for a week after a line comes through.

It sets the whole day, though it is not desert heat and we will not pretend it is. DFW normals put the July average high at 95.6°F and August at 95.8°F, with 20.2 days a year at or above 100°F — the first around 1 July and the last around 27 August. That is roughly three weeks of genuine extreme heat concentrated in high summer. Crews start early, tear-offs slow down, and if you are clearing an attic or a garage yourself, finish it by mid-morning and keep water on site.

Winter here is an ice and hard-freeze problem, not a snow problem. DFW averages 29.2 nights a year at or below freezing, and delivery windows get disrupted for days rather than months. The episodes are what count: in February 2021 the airport hit minus 2°F with 139 consecutive hours below freezing and 5.0 inches of snow, and at the end of January 2023 it took 1.3 inches of sleet with 88 straight hours at or below freezing. Both drove burst pipes, damaged trees and roof and gutter work afterwards.

The clay shrinks and swells with the seasons, and the USDA soil survey puts numbers on it rather than adjectives. Houston Black, the Texas state soil, runs 40 to 60 percent clay, with cracks 0.5 to 4 inches wide and 12 inches or more deep that stay open 90 to 150 cumulative days a year. That annual cycle — dry and shrinking through July and August, then autumn rain and heave — is what cracks slabs here. For us it means a container set on soft ground after rain will settle unevenly, so we board it.

No, and anyone who tells you the whole city is Blackland clay is giving you half the story. Tarrant County exposes its formations in north-south bands, so what you stand on changes over a few miles: Eagle Ford shale weathering to the classic expansive clay, Woodbine sand and clay, the more stable Austin Chalk toward the eastern edge, and Trinity and Village Creek alluvium through the north and centre. That is precisely why foundation performance varies street to street here, and why one neighbour’s pier job is nothing like the next one’s.

Yes, and the best-documented local one is the Kennedale-Arlington EF-2 of 3 April 2012 — that is 2012, not recent, and we will not dress it up as anything else. Estimated winds reached 135 mph along a 4.6 mile path up to 150 yards wide. It began in Kennedale, tracked north-northeast across US-287 and I-20 and ended just east of Lake Arlington, with damage recorded at Sublett Road and Fawn Meadow Trail, along the I-20 corridor between Kelly Elliott Road and Green Oaks Boulevard, and on Haverford, Thorncliffe and Chaperito Trail.