Dumpster Rental in Irving, TX

Roll-off containers for Irving homes and jobsites

Irving is a Dallas County city and the largest place we serve outside Tarrant County, which makes it the one where jurisdiction questions come up most often after Grand Prairie. It also contains a chunk of DFW Airport, which shapes the traffic on every route in and out.

South Irving is the older half: 1950s and 1960s postwar building around the original town and the Heritage Crossing area, small brick and frame houses on slab with a scatter of earlier construction, mature pecan, hackberry and live oak, and drives poured for one car. It is also where most of our residential work sits — remodels, clear-outs, re-roofs, rental turnover and the occasional teardown. North of that, Las Colinas is an entirely different animal: a planned development from the 1970s onward with canals, Lake Carolyn, office towers, structured parking and a large stock of apartments and condominiums. Valley Ranch and Hackberry Creek are 1980s and 1990s master-planned suburbia with associations that have views on everything. Along the airport edge there is warehousing and light industry in quantity.

So the container work is unusually varied. On one side of the city we are backing onto a 1958 drive to take out a kitchen. On the other we are working a corporate office refit with a dock, a loading bay height restriction and a security desk that wants notice. Apartment turnovers are a constant, and they produce carpet, furniture, mattresses and appliances in volume with a hard deadline attached. The underlying ground is the same expansive clay that runs across the metroplex, so foundation work and its heavy wet spoil turn up here as everywhere — and the older south Irving slabs, sixty-plus years into the shrink and swell cycle, produce their fair share of it.

What we know about working in Irving

Irving is a separate city in a separate county, so both the municipal and the county reference points change. Arlington’s permits, waste contract and landfill programme do not apply, and Tarrant County guidance is not your reference either. Ask Irving about anything touching the street, and remember that frontage on a state highway is TxDOT right-of-way where the state comes before the city. Practically, the city splits into three kinds of delivery. In south Irving it is a narrow-drive job: straight pull, boards down, and a hard look at what is overhead before we commit, because the street trees there are sixty years old. In Las Colinas and the office districts it is an access job: dock heights, canopies, structured parking with clearance bars that a roll-off truck cannot pass, security procedures and delivery windows. Tell us all of that when you book and we will send the right truck at the right hour. In the apartment communities it is a management job: get written approval for the placement and the dates from the property manager first, because a container in a fire lane or across parking spaces gets moved, and moving a loaded box is expensive. Apartment turnovers travel fine — carpet, furniture, mattresses and appliances are all ordinary waste in Texas. Refrigerant has to be recovered from any cooling appliance first. Paint left by a tenant cannot go in the box: latex can be dried out solid and binned, oil-based needs a hazardous waste facility. We never take asbestos.

• CountyDallas County
• Distance from our yard18 miles north-east of our Commercial Boulevard yard
• Main routesSH-360 north out of Arlington to SH-183 east into south Irving
• Typical deliverySame or next day

Getting a truck to you

SH-360 north to SH-183 east is our standard line into south Irving and it takes about forty minutes outside the peak; SH-114 east is the turn for Las Colinas and the northern half. When SH-360 is stacked around the airport we run I-20 or I-30 east and come north on SH-161 instead, which is often the better call in the afternoon. Before we book we need the address and which half of the city it is in, the drive or dock arrangement, any clearance bar or canopy on the approach, written approval from a property manager for apartment work, delivery windows for anything commercial, and what the load actually contains.

Routes we run: SH-360 north out of Arlington to SH-183 east into south Irving, SH-360 north to SH-114 east for Las Colinas and the north end, SH-161, the President George Bush Turnpike, north from I-20 through Grand Prairie, I-30 east to SH-161 north when SH-360 is backed up.

Landmarks and neighborhoods we work around

Permits, streets and placement in Irving

On a private driveway in Irving 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 Irving 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 Irving