Demolition Debris Dumpster Rental in Greeley, CO

Demolition in Greeley has one scheduling fact that outranks every other consideration, and it catches people every year. Colorado requires ten working days’ notice to the state before any demolition — not just before an asbestos abatement, but before any demolition, whether or not asbestos turns up. That comes from CDPHE Regulation 8, Part B, which treats asbestos as an air quality matter rather than a waste matter. Ten working days is two calendar weeks. It is not expensive — the state’s published figures are a $60 notice and, for a single-family residential project, a $180 permit — but it will reorder your program if you find out about it late. The CDPHE asbestos line is 720-507-5136 and the department is at cdphe.colorado.gov.

The reason it matters so much here is the age of the buildings. Greeley’s median year built is 1985, roughly 46 percent of the housing predates 1980, and nearly 29 percent went up between 1960 and 1979 — the peak years for asbestos-containing floor tile, mastic, pipe insulation, textured ceilings, siding and roofing products. Regulation 8’s single-family trigger levels are 32 square feet of surfacing material, 50 linear feet on pipes, or the volume of a 55-gallon drum, and a certified inspection is expected to identify the material before the work is planned around it. The one clean exemption is date-based: buildings built after 12 October 1988 are outside the regulation. In Greeley that exemption is the exception rather than the rule.

Then the City’s own layer, which is short and unambiguous. Greeley Municipal Code § 12-269(b) provides that “all refuse and debris remaining as a result of the demolition or repair of any buildings or the erection and completion of any buildings shall be removed following substantial completion of the work,” and § 12-269 as a whole makes an accumulation a code infraction. § 8-371 adds that nothing in the refuse code relieves contractors of the duty to clean up their own work sites. So in Greeley clearing demolition debris is an obligation attached to the property rather than a matter of taste. Inside the city limits this is a City question — Greeley 311, (970) 351-5311.

Demolition debris is the densest mixed stream we handle, and the sizing follows from that rather than from the size of the structure. Plaster and lath, tile set in a mortar bed, old flooring in layers, roofing, cast iron, brick and the dirt that comes with a foundation are heavy enough that lawful road weight runs out long before the container is full. The instinct to take the biggest box available is exactly wrong on this work. A 30 or a 40 filled with strip-out material is a truck that cannot legally leave the site, and the discovery happens on the day the crew is standing in the rubble.

The placement rules are the same ones that apply to everything we set, with one wrinkle that matters on a demolition. Greeley adopted the 2021 International Fire Code at § 22-454, effective 1 January 2023, and made no amendment to Section 304 — so Section 304.3 applies as written: no dumpster stored inside a building, and none placed within five feet of a combustible wall. On a partial demolition, the wall you are measuring from may be the one that is coming down next, so it is worth agreeing the placement with the crew before delivery rather than moving the box mid-job. The Greeley Fire Prevention Bureau answers on (970) 350-9510. Call the yard on (970) 888-6911 and describe the structure, the material and the phase.

Demolition Work We Set Containers For

Sizing A Demolition Job

Demolition is a weight problem before it is a volume problem, so the containers run smaller than people expect. For an interior strip-out, a 20 yard loaded deliberately is usually right, and on plaster, tile or layered flooring a 15 is better still. A 30 yard suits a structure coming down where framing, sheathing and roofing dominate the load and the density is moderate. A 40 yard only makes sense where the material is genuinely bulky and light. And anything that is essentially masonry — a chimney, a slab, footings, brick, tile with a mortar bed — goes in a 10 loaded flat, kept clean and kept separate. The habit that saves the most money on a Greeley demolition is running two streams: one small container for the heavy material and one larger one for the mixed. Our Weld County disposal guide works through where each goes.

Sequence, Notice And What Not To Assume

Four things to settle before the first swing. The notice. Ten working days to the state for any demolition under CDPHE Regulation 8, Part B, plus a certified inspection to identify asbestos-containing material where the building predates the 12 October 1988 exemption. That is a calendar item and it comes first. The utilities. Colorado 811 wants two business days by statute — C.R.S. § 9-1.5-103, not counting the day of notice — and Colorado 811 advises three; white-line the area first, and call 811 or 800-922-1987. Disconnections and caps are their own separate arrangements. The placement. Timber plating or plywood under the wheels and rear rollers on disturbed ground; sixty feet of straight approach, eleven feet of width, twenty feet of overhead for the hoist; and five feet of clearance from any combustible wall under Section 304.3 of the 2021 International Fire Code as adopted by Greeley at § 22-454. On a partial demolition, agree that placement with the crew, because the reference wall may not survive the week. The load. Flat, level, and tarped — demolition debris is exactly what a chinook scatters, and one of the landfills serving this region publishes that all uncovered or unsecured loads will be charged double. One sequencing point that saves a re-handle: strip the contents and the fittings out with their own container before the structure comes down. Mixing carpet, furniture and stored material into a demolition load makes the whole box harder to route and heavier than it needs to be, and on a Greeley property with an old outbuilding there is usually far more stored material in it than anybody remembers.