30 Yard Dumpster Rental in Greeley, CO

A 30 yard roll-off runs about twenty-two feet long and eight feet wide like the 20, but roughly six feet tall — the extra capacity is height rather than footprint, which is why it fits in the same driveway space. Call it nine to twelve pickup loads. Material goes in over the tailgate rather than over the side, so plan the loading route before it arrives. If the answer to “what is going out?” is “everything,” this is the container for it.

• Capacity30 cubic yards
• Box size22 x 8 x 6 feet
• Tonnage included4 to 5 tons
• Holdsaround 9 to 12 pickup loads

Why people choose the 30 yard

The 30 is a volume container, and the tell that you need one is that the job has stopped being about rooms. A Greeley house being emptied completely — contents, basement, garage and shed — is a 30 rather than a 20, and furniture is the reason: sofas, beds, wardrobes and shelving do not compress and do not stack, and a single household’s worth of them eats volume faster than anything except packaging. Estate work lands here more often than any other category. So does a house that has been in one family since the seventies, which in this city is not unusual: the median Greeley home dates from 1985, roughly 46 percent of the stock predates 1980, and the city is 60.9 percent owner-occupied.

The second use is demolition where the material is moderate in density and large in volume — a detached garage coming down, an outbuilding, a deck and pergola, a full interior strip-out where framing and sheathing dominate. Two things to plan around it in Greeley. First, Colorado requires ten working days’ notice to the state before any demolition, not only before an asbestos abatement, under CDPHE Regulation 8, Part B — that is two calendar weeks and it belongs at the front of the program. Buildings built after 12 October 1988 are exempt from the regulation, which in a city this old is the exception rather than the rule. The line is 720-507-5136, and the department is at cdphe.colorado.gov. Second, the City’s own § 12-269(b) makes clearing the debris an obligation attached to the property: “all refuse and debris remaining as a result of the demolition or repair of any buildings… shall be removed following substantial completion of the work.”

The third use is storm debris, and in this market that is a real category rather than an occasional one. Chinook downslope winds are a Front Range fact — a January 1982 event produced a measured gust of 137 mph in the foothills west of here — and Weld County publishes a 115 mph basic residential design wind speed. After a serious wind or hail event a yard fills at once with fence panels, shed sheeting, siding, screens, limbs and roof litter, all light, all awkward, and all of it needing to be off the ground before the next storm. That is a volume problem in every direction, which is exactly what the 30 is for. Weld County has also recorded more tornadoes than any other county in the United States, mostly landspouts, and the debris field from one of those is the same kind of job.

What the 30 is not for is anything dense. Concrete, block, brick, tile in a mortar bed, sod, rock and trench spoil reach lawful road weight with a shallow layer on the floor, and a 30 full of any of them is a container that cannot legally be hauled — those go in a 10 loaded flat. And roofing never goes in a 30, without exception. Torn asphalt shingle is dense, non-compressible, and delivered in one afternoon; a 30 a third full of it is at payload with the top two-thirds empty. A large or two-layer tear-off is a 20, and anything beyond that is a 20 plus a booked second pull.

Good fit for

• A Greeley house being emptied completely, contents and all
• An estate cleanout with a full basement and garage in it
• A detached garage, shed or outbuilding coming down
• A full interior strip-out where framing and sheathing dominate
• A yard full of storm debris after a wind or hail event
• Deck, pergola and landscape structure demolition
• Lot clearing, brush and acreage cleanup
• A larger commercial clear-down or office purge

Not the right size for

• Any roof tear-off, at any size — use a 15 or a 20
• Broken concrete, masonry or tile in a mortar bed
• Sod, soil, rock and trench spoil
• A single bounded room, which wants a 15
• A short driveway or a lot with no straight approach
• A job that has to be loaded over the side rather than the tailgate

Will it fit?

The 30 takes about the same ground as the 20 — roughly twenty-two feet by eight — but stands nearer six feet tall, so the footprint is familiar and the loading is not. Material goes in over the tailgate rather than over the side, which means the walk-in route matters: a ramp, a plank run or simply a placement that lets you back a truck to the door. The truck wants roughly sixty feet of straight approach, about eleven feet of working width and twenty feet of overhead clearance for the hoist, and on a taller box the overhead check is stricter rather than looser — service drops and low limbs over the drop point are the usual obstacle. Plywood under the wheels and rear rollers as standard, on concrete or compacted base rather than lawn or graded shoulder, and more so after rain or in a spring thaw. Load it level and tarp it: a 30 full of light bulky material is exactly what a chinook empties across a neighborhood, and one of the landfills serving this region publishes that all uncovered or unsecured loads will be charged double. Five feet of clearance from any combustible wall applies here as it does to every container, under Section 304.3 of the 2021 International Fire Code adopted by the City at § 22-454. And a Greeley-specific note that comes up on almost every whole-house job. The City’s own code, at § 20-974, defines “refuse” to include “upholstered furniture… used or stored outdoors in any unroofed area” — so the sofa that has been on the back patio since last summer is not furniture in the City’s eyes, it is refuse, and clearing it is not optional. On a property being emptied for sale or probate that single clause accounts for a surprising share of what goes in the box.

Ahead of the truck: shift the cars and the carts, and where the property runs on its own system, mark the septic lid, the drain field and the well head. Then tell us about anything the driver cannot see from the street — concrete poured recently, made or filled ground, an irrigation line run shallow beside the drive, a street still on base course waiting for its top lift, a low service drop or a shade tree standing over the only flat spot. A loaded box puts several tons onto four small pads. Dry, this ground carries that without complaint; ground that has just taken an irrigation set, a cloudburst or a thaw will press and hold the impression — which is why it is concrete rather than turf, with mats under every wheel and both rails as standard. And the box comes to rest five feet off any combustible wall, opening or combustible eave line. That is Section 304.3 of the 2021 International Fire Code, adopted by the City of Greeley at § 22-454 with effect from 1 January 2023 and left unamended at Section 304. The section carries a capacity threshold that has never once mattered to us, because every roll-off is many times over it — so the answer is five feet on all five boxes, measured off the nearest combustible surface rather than the plane of the wall. On private property — a driveway, a yard, a parking lot — no Public Space permit is engaged at all, which covers close to everything we set. Where any part of the box has to stand in a Greeley street, alley or sidewalk, the City names dumpsters directly in its own permitting guidance: “placement of dumpsters within the Public Space and roadways requires Public Space Traffic permits and proper signage.” That desk is Greeley Public Works Permits, 970-350-9881, at 2835 W. 10th Street. Do not lean on § 12-269(a), which lets a trash container sit on the right-of-way for one 24-hour period in seven — that is the weekly curbside rule for a household cart and not a pass for a roll-off. Fire clearance questions belong to Greeley Fire Prevention, (970) 350-9510, and everything else city-side to Greeley 311, (970) 351-5311. Past the city limits the answers change and we will not pretend they do not: in one of the separate Weld County municipalities, ask that town, because no town’s container or right-of-way rules were established by the research behind this site; on unincorporated ground it is Weld County, 1150 O Street in Greeley, (970) 400-4000, whose right-of-way language reaches the occupation of a county right-of-way without ever naming a dumpster, which warrants a call rather than an assumption. And where your own project involves digging — a footing, a stump, fence posts, a sewer lateral — Colorado 811 comes first on 811 or 800-922-1987: notice is two business days under C.R.S. § 9-1.5-103 excluding the day it is given, Colorado 811 itself asks for three, and the dig area gets marked in white beforehand. Our delivery and driveway protection guide and the Greeley placement and permit guide cover the rest.

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