Most of what a house or a job site throws off is fine. The two lists below settle the rest, and anything unusual is one phone call: (919) 524-4456.
Yard debris goes in a dumpster of its own. Mattresses and box springs carry the transfer station's per-mattress fee, passed straight through. Concrete, brick, and block go in the concrete dumpster, which has no weight cap.
These are not our rules. The transfer stations and landfills we haul to turn them away, so anything on this list has to leave the property another way.
A dumpster is not the end of the trip. Everything we pick up gets weighed and tipped at a transfer station or a landfill, and those facilities have their own rules about what they will accept. When a load shows up with tires or a water heater buried in it, the facility charges to pull it, or turns the truck around. That cost lands on somebody, which is why the list exists at all rather than as fine print nobody reads.
The second reason is weight. Dense material fills the included tonnage long before it fills the dumpster, which is why concrete, brick, and block have a dumpster of their own with no weight cap instead of going in with the couch and the drywall. Mixing them is the most common way a straightforward job turns into an overage conversation, and it is completely avoidable by saying what you are loading when you book.
House cleanouts. Furniture, clothes, boxes, small appliances that are not refrigerant units, toys, books, bedding, and the general accumulation of a garage or an attic. Household loads are bulky and light, so they usually fill the dumpster long before they reach the included tonnage.
Remodels and construction. Lumber, drywall, trim, cabinets, countertops, flooring, carpet and pad, tile, siding, windows, and doors. Tile and mortar-bed tear-outs run heavy, so mention them on the call and we will size for the weight rather than the volume.
Roofing. Shingles, felt, and flashing. A tear-off is the densest common load there is, roughly seven or eight squares of architectural shingle per ton, so the size that fits the pile is rarely the size that fits the weight.
Yard and storm debris. Limbs, brush, leaves, and trees, in a dumpster of its own rather than mixed with household debris. Green waste is bulky and light, so volume is almost always the limit rather than weight.
Concrete and masonry. Clean concrete, brick, and block in the concrete dumpster. Clean is the operative word: a load with wood or trash in it cannot go to the recycler, and it loses the unlimited-weight pricing that makes that dumpster worth using.
Saying no is not much help on its own, so here is the short version of where the rest of it belongs. Paint, solvents, oil, gas, pesticides, and pool chemicals go to your county's household hazardous waste drop-off, which most counties run on set days rather than all week. Latex paint that has been dried out with hardener or kitty litter is treated as ordinary trash in a lot of places, so that one is worth asking about before you haul a full can across the county.
Tires, appliances, and electronics are each handled separately by the county, and the transfer stations keep them apart from general waste. Appliances with refrigerant, meaning fridges, freezers, and window units, need the refrigerant removed by someone certified before anyone will take them. Asbestos is its own category entirely and needs an abatement contractor, not a dumpster.
The one thing we will do differently is appliances in quantity. A single old washer cannot ride in a mixed load, but if you are clearing a property with a stack of them, Logan will set a dedicated dumpster just for appliances and take it where those go. Mention it when you book and it stops being a problem.
Yes. Mattresses and box springs are fine, with a small per-mattress fee the county transfer stations charge, passed straight through at cost. Say how many when you book so the number you hear is the number you pay.
Tell us before pickup and it is a five-minute fix. Found at the scale instead, the facility charges to pull it and that cost comes back on the invoice. Nobody digs through a dumpster looking, but tires and appliances are obvious from the top.
Not in the same dumpster. Clean concrete, brick, and block go to a recycler at unlimited weight, and a mixed load cannot go there. Mixing the two means paying by the ton for material that had a flat rate available.
Green waste goes in a dumpster of its own. It is disposed of differently from mixed debris, so keeping it separate is what makes the pricing work. If a job produces both, that is usually two dumpsters or two trips.
Liquid paint is. Dried out, it is ordinary trash in most places, and a hardener or kitty litter does that in a day. It is the one on the banned list with the easiest workaround, so it is worth doing before delivery day.
The facility. We haul to county transfer stations and landfills, and their rules set the list. That is why the answer does not change based on who you talk to here, and why it is the same in every town we serve.
Call or text (919) 524-4456 with what you're tossing and we'll give you a straight answer.
