20 Yard Dumpster Rental in Arlington, TX

A 20 yard roll-off is 22 feet long, 8 feet wide and about four and a half feet tall, rated for roughly three to four tons — six to eight pickup loads. It is the size we deliver more than any other in Arlington, because it covers a household clear-out or a multi-room remodel without leaving you short. If you are genuinely torn between two sizes and the debris is furniture, drywall, cabinetry and boxes rather than clay, concrete or shingle, this is usually the one to take.

• Capacity20 cubic yards
• Footprint22 ft x 8 ft x 4.5 ft
• Weight allowance3 – 4 tons
• Holds about~6 – 8 pickup truck loads

Why people choose the 20 yard

Understand where the volume actually comes from in an Arlington house, because it is not where a national sizing calculator assumes. Basements are very rare across North Texas, and for good reasons: expansive clay makes a below-grade wall an engineering problem rather than a cheap void, there is no frost-line requirement forcing a deep excavation, and buyers price on dollars per square foot. So there is no lower floor of stored contents to empty. What you have instead is the garage, the attic, the covered patio, the side yard and the shed, and forty years of accumulation went outward. Two things follow. A calculator that quietly prices in a basement will push you a size class too big. And what comes down out of an Arlington attic has been through summer after summer of it — July averages a 95.6 degree high, August 95.8, with 20.2 days a year at or above 100 — so tape has failed, adhesives have gone, vinyl has warped and photographs are stuck together. Bulky, light, and a 20 swallows it. Work through our Arlington home cleanout checklist and do the attic at first light.

The second use is the multi-room remodel, and this is where Arlington's biggest housing cohort lands. The 1970s and 80s suburban expansion — Woodland West, Fielder, Rush Creek, the Bowen corridor — is now on second re-roofs, original kitchens and baths coming out, and first full refreshes. Three or four rooms back to studs gives you cabinetry, countertop, flooring, tile, drywall, trim and doors, which is a 20 comfortably. What changes the plan is what does not go in it. Wet clay spoil from any pier work, broken concrete off a slab breakout, brick and the shingle off the roof all belong in a separate 10 as a clean heavy load; tipping even a little of that into an otherwise light 20 causes the same overweight problem in miniature. The commercial reality behind all of it is the city's curbside cap: roughly 2 cubic yards of bulky items a week, and construction debris and roofing shingles not collected at the curb at all. That gap is the whole reason a roll-off sits on the drive. See construction dumpster rental.

The third use is the household and estate clear-out, and the 20 is the right first box nearly every time. Arlington is 12.0 percent aged 65 or over and the city's own profile flags the 75 to 79 group up 10.7 percent since 2020, so downsizing and estate work is a genuine and growing stream, even though the median age is 33.1 and this is not a retirement town. Start with the obvious volume: furniture, mattresses, ruined carpet, the garage, the shed and the patio. What has to stay out is specific. Paint, solvents, automotive fluids, batteries, pool and garden chemicals go to the Fort Worth Environmental Collection Center at 6400 Bridge Street, Thursday and Friday 11am to 7pm and Saturday 9am to 3pm, free to Arlington residents once a month with a licence or water bill — and note that PaintCare does not operate in Texas at all. Latex paint can be dried out and binned; oil-based goes to the ECC. Residential only, so a contractor cannot use it. See our estate cleanout checklist and estate cleanout service.

Good fit for

• Garage, attic and shed cleared out together
• A furnished three-bedroom home taken down to empty
• Multi-room remodels taken back to studs
• Estate and downsizing clear-out, first pass
• Flooring, carpet and drywall across several rooms
• Covered patio and side yard clear, kept free of concrete
• Small commercial refresh and office clear-out
• Larger single-layer shingle tear-offs

Not the right size for

• Wet clay pier spoil, broken concrete or brick rubble
• Whole-property clears with outbuildings
• New construction and builder volume
• Bulky light debris better suited to a 40

Will it fit?

At 22 feet this is where measuring the drive starts to matter. The truck needs about 60 feet of straight approach, roughly 10 and a half feet of width and 20 feet or more of overhead clearance for the hoist. Most 1970s and 80s two-car drives in Woodland West, Fielder, Rush Creek and along Bowen take a 20 with the cars moved. Look up first: the obstruction here is a mature post oak, live oak, red oak, cedar elm, pecan or hackberry over the approach, ahead of service drops, a basketball goal and carport framing. Assume the concrete is cracked or carries a settled panel — it sits on clay that shrinks and swells, and the USDA records cracks half an inch to four inches wide, 12 inches or more deep, open 90 to 150 days a year — which is why we photograph the approach on arrival. Protection boards go down as standard, and they matter most through July and August, across the 20.2 days a year at or above 100 degrees when asphalt is soft by mid-afternoon. Wet spring and autumn ground ruts under a loaded truck, and out toward Kennedale, Crowley and Burleson the approach is often gravel or dirt. HOA CC&Rs govern placement and duration; no Texas statute protects a container and no Arlington ordinance limits container days.

Before delivery, move cars and bins, mark irrigation heads and septic lids, and tell us about new concrete, soft ground, a steep grade or low power lines. Our delivery and driveway protection guide covers all of it.

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