Dumpster Rental in Downtown Arlington, TX

Roll-off containers for Downtown Arlington homes and jobsites

Downtown Arlington is the oldest part of the city and by a wide margin the most complicated part of it to work in. Arlington had 7,692 people in 1950 and 44,775 by 1960, which means essentially the whole city was built after the mid-1950s — and the exception, the small pre-1950 core around Abram, Main and Center Streets, is right here. This is where the pier-and-beam houses are. Everywhere else in Arlington is slab.

The core is also the tightest ground we work. Lots are narrower than the suburban norm, several blocks are served by alleys that are still in use, drives were poured for pre-war cars where they exist at all, and the trees — pecan, live oak, cedar elm — have had eighty years to grow across the approach. Wrapped around it is the University of Texas at Arlington, 42,710 students on a 420-acre campus embedded in the middle of the city, which sets the calendar: move-out at the end of the spring term produces a concentrated week of furniture, mattresses and general clearance out of the streets and small apartment blocks around campus. Add the Levitt Pavilion, the Main and Center Street businesses, Theatre Arlington and the library, and you have a genuinely mixed-use district where a container has to fit around events, parking and pedestrians.

The work is remodel, clear-out, small commercial fit-out and, increasingly, redevelopment. Redevelopment is where downtown gets its own rule. Any structure fifty years or older — and in this district that is very nearly all of them — triggers Landmark Preservation Commission review before a demolition permit issues. That is not a hypothetical; it is a scheduling fact that has caught out plenty of people who assumed a teardown could be booked for next month.

What we know about working in Downtown Arlington

Plan the calendar before you plan the container downtown. The Landmark Preservation Commission generally meets on the second Thursday of the month, applications have to be in at least nine business days before that meeting, and while the commission cannot refuse a demolition permit it can extend the historic stay by a further 45 days. Stack the asbestos notification on top — ten working days to DSHS, required even when the survey is clean, though a single private residence is exempt — and a pre-1976 downtown teardown can run a couple of months longer than the owner expected. The One Start Center, 101 W. Abram Street, second floor, is where that starts; 817-459-6502. There is no dumpster-specific permit in Arlington’s code and we do not pretend otherwise, but the obstruction rule in the streets and sidewalks chapter is real, and if placement affects a lane or traffic flow you need a Temporary Traffic Control Permit from Public Works at publicworks@arlingtontx.gov with a minimum of three business days’ notice; non-compliance carries a $500 per day fine and the work has to meet the Texas MUTCD. Downtown is exactly where that applies, because many of these properties have no usable drive. One more thing: a container sitting for months is a nuisance-ordinance exposure, not a days-limit one, and the nuisance chapter exempts building materials stored in a workmanlike manner under an active building permit. The permit is itself your protection. Pier-and-beam changes the load too — floor structure and subfloor come out of a gut job here that a slab house never produces.

• CountyTarrant County
• Distance from our yard6 miles north of our Commercial Boulevard yard
• Main routesCollins Street north to Abram Street, then west into the core
• Typical deliverySame or next day

Getting a truck to you

It is the shortest run we make and the trickiest to time. Collins Street north to Abram Street, or Cooper Street north past the campus, both take fifteen minutes on a clear morning and considerably longer during term-time class changes or on an event day. Center Street north from Arkansas Lane is the quiet approach to the middle of the district. Before we book we need to know whether there is a usable driveway or alley at all, the width of the approach and what is overhead, whether the container has to sit in the street and therefore whether a traffic control permit is in hand, the age of the structure, and whether the house is on piers.

Routes we run: Collins Street north to Abram Street, then west into the core, Cooper Street north past the UTA campus to Abram or Division, Matlock Road north to Arkansas Lane and east to Center Street, Center Street north from Arkansas Lane straight into the middle of downtown.

Landmarks and neighborhoods we work around

Permits, streets and placement in Downtown Arlington

On a private driveway in Downtown Arlington we have not found a permit requirement — Arlington's own homeowner permit guide lists roofing, solar and fences and never mentions containers. Placement in the public street or right-of-way is a different matter, and the requirement follows the address rather than the county. Arlington has no permit called a dumpster permit, but that is not the same as none being needed: Streets and Sidewalks §6.01 prohibits obstructing a sidewalk, median, curb, shoulder, street or public right-of-way, so anything that takes a lane or affects traffic flow needs a Temporary Traffic Control Permit from Public Works — allow a minimum of three business days, keep the traffic control compliant with the Texas MUTCD, and note the $500 a day fine the city publishes for non-compliance — while construction in the right-of-way itself goes through the Public Right-of-Way Permit, Right-of-Way Division, (817) 459-6634. Grand Prairie, Mansfield, Kennedale, Fort Worth, Euless, Bedford, Hurst and Irving each run their own equivalent desk with their own form and lead time, and Pantego and Dalworthington Gardens are separate incorporated towns inside the Arlington street grid, so an Arlington mailing address is not always Arlington's jurisdiction. Where the road is a state route or a frontage road, TxDOT approval comes before the city's. Sidewalks and alleys stay clear either way, and in the HOA and master-planned parts of Downtown Arlington the CC&Rs commonly decide where a container may sit and for how many days, so check with the association first. Sort the approval before you book the delivery. It is a ten-minute call that saves a week.

Two more rules reach every job we run. Asbestos in Texas goes to the health agency, not the environmental one: the demolition and renovation notification is filed with DSHS at least ten working days ahead, and it is required before a building comes down even when no asbestos is present, though 25 TAC §296.1(c) exempts a single private residence or an apartment building of four dwelling units or fewer — so a homeowner gutting their own 1965 ranch sits outside it. TCEQ still regulates the waste stream and the landfill that receives the material. The second is local and catches people out: if a building is 50 years or older, its age cannot be established, or it sits in the Landmark Preservation Overlay, the Landmark Preservation Commission reviews the demolition permit. It generally meets the second Thursday of the month, wants the application at least nine business days ahead, and cannot deny the permit — but it can extend a historic stay by 45 days, which is real time on anything built through roughly 1976. A long-sitting container, meanwhile, is a nuisance and outside-storage question rather than a dumpster-days ordinance: nuisance chapter §2.02(M) makes discarded building materials a nuisance but expressly exempts materials stored in a workmanlike manner in conjunction with an active building permit, so pulling the permit is itself the defence. Before anything is dug, trenched or a stump pulled, call Texas811 at least two working days ahead, as Utilities Code Chapter 251 requires. Our permit and placement guide walks through the whole process, and collection, household hazardous waste and self-haul details are published by the City of Arlington.

The ground is the other local variable, and it is the one that decides both the container size and the approach. Soil across the metroplex changes over a few miles in north–south bands — Eagle Ford shale weathering to expansive clay, Woodbine sand and clay, Austin Chalk along the eastern escarpment and Trinity alluvium through the river bottoms — which is why foundation performance varies street to street rather than town to town. That clay shrinks and swells: the USDA soil survey records 40 to 60 percent clay in Houston Black, with cracks half an inch to four inches wide, twelve inches or more deep, open 90 to 150 days a year. Two practical consequences. Wet clay spoil out of a pier or perimeter tunnel job is very heavy for its volume, so it rides in a small container and often in two hauls rather than one big box. And a wet clay approach ruts under a loaded truck, so on the gravel and dirt approaches out on the rural edges we would rather move you a day than leave marks. Where it all ends up is the Arlington Landfill, 800 Mosier Valley Road, Euless — one facility, owned by the City of Arlington and operated by Republic, Monday to Saturday 7:00am to 4:30pm, (817) 354-2305 — with clean brush kept as its own load so it can be ground for mulch. Paint, solvents, automotive fluids, batteries and pool chemicals never ride in a container: those go to the Fort Worth Environmental Collection Center, 6400 Bridge Street, Thursday and Friday 11am to 7pm and Saturday 9am to 3pm, 817-392-1234 — free once a month to Arlington residents with no voucher, residential only, while a Dalworthington Gardens or Crowley resident needs a voucher and pays $47.

Sizes we deliver to Downtown Arlington