Dumpster Sizes in Greeley, CO — 10, 15, 20, 30 & 40 Yard

The 20 yard, and not narrowly. It takes a lower level and a garage emptied in one fortnight, a kitchen gut, or a remodel running through several rooms, and it still fits an ordinary driveway in this city. That is a Greeley answer rather than a generic one, because the residential code adopted here publishes a 30-inch frost line: basements are normal, the standard residential job has a downstairs inside it, and that makes it a volume job instead of a weight job. Next most common is the 15 yard, which is arguably the box this market actually runs on — right for a single-layer hail tear-off on an average house, right for one room taken to the walls, right for a turnover, and with 39.1 percent of households renting, turnovers never stop. Anything carrying concrete, block, brick, mortar or trench spoil travels the other direction, down to a 10 yard. A roof never travels upward at all: shingle makes lawful payload well before it fills a 30.

On a Greeley house it is a 15 yard for a single-layer tear-off and a 20 the moment a second layer or the decking is involved. Roofing does not go in a 30 or a 40 here, ever. The job is weight-driven rather than volume-driven, so it is squares and layers that decide it and never the area of the roof — and with a median year built of 1985 and roughly 46 percent of the housing older than 1980, a second course still on the deck is ordinary rather than exceptional. This is the anchor job in this market. Northeastern Colorado runs seven to nine hail days a year inside the corridor NOAA ranks most hail-prone in the country, one storm can push a whole neighborhood of roofs into replacement at the same moment, and the fortnight afterwards is the fortnight to have booked already. Who deals with the debris is straightforward here, because there is nobody to hand it to: under § 8-371 the City is “the sole agency for the collection and disposal of refuse” acting through “city-licensed operators,” so there is no municipal truck, and the City’s own Spring Clean-Up refuses construction and demolition debris outright. There is also a placement number worth planning around: Greeley adopted the 2021 International Fire Code at § 22-454 and makes no amendment to Section 304, so under Section 304.3 a dumpster must not be stored inside a building or placed within five feet of a combustible wall — and on a tear-off that matters, because directly against the house is exactly where you want the box. Old felt, mastic and cement-asbestos shingle can all contain asbestos, and that halts the job until somebody has surveyed it. Colorado treats it as air quality under CDPHE Regulation 8, Part B — triggered on a single-family house at 32 square feet or 50 linear feet, with a certified inspection ahead of the work and ten working days of notice, on 720-507-5136. The arithmetic in full is in our hail tear-off guide.

No, and assuming so is an expensive assumption. The 40 is a volume box for bulky light debris: framing, cabinetry, decking, packaging, a house emptied wholesale. Put dense material in it and lawful transport weight arrives long before the box is full, and a tear-off should not go anywhere near one. It also wants more room than anything else we run, which rules it out along plenty of the older streets downtown and around Monroe Avenue, where lots are narrow, drives are short and most of the container work happens off the rear alley — and on any lot where the only level ground is unpaved. A big open box of light material has to sit below the rails and be covered, because with a 115 mph design wind on the books and recorded chinook gusts of 137 mph, the wind will distribute the rest of it along the street for you. Where room is tight we generally run two smaller boxes through instead, and it works out better for everybody involved.

Yes, right up until the truck leaves. And if the job you describe does not match the box you have asked for, you will hear about it before delivery rather than afterwards. A change made on the phone costs nothing at all; the same discovery made at the scale house costs a good deal.

The footprint of the box plus room to work around it: roughly 60 feet of straight approach for the truck, about eleven feet of width, and 20 feet or more of clear air while the hoist is up. Surface counts for as much as space in this city. Say whether the spot is concrete, asphalt, gravel or turf, and whether it stays soft for a day after an irrigation set, snowmelt or a cloudburst — soft ground will not carry a loaded box, and a dry drive will. On fire code Greeley hands you a number instead of a rule of thumb: it adopted the 2021 International Fire Code at § 22-454, effective 1 January 2023, and makes no amendment to Section 304, so under Section 304.3 a dumpster must not be stored inside a building or placed within five feet of a combustible wall. That holds on a private driveway and not merely on a job site, and every roll-off we run sits far over the threshold in that section. Should any part of the box come to rest in the roadway or the Public Space, the City has published the answer itself: “placement of dumpsters within the Public Space and roadways requires Public Space Traffic permits and proper signage” — that is Public Works Permits on 970-350-9881, 2835 W. 10th Street. Outside the city limits it is Weld County at 1150 O Street, (970) 400-4000, or the separate town’s own counter. And look upward before you settle on a spot, because a mature limb, a porch roof, a low gutter or the service drop into the house will stop the arm dead.