A full bathroom gut fits in a 10-yard dumpster. Tub, toilet, vanity, tile, backer board, the wet drywall behind it, all of it. The 10 runs up to seven days with a ton of weight included, and it takes up about one parking space of driveway, which matters when the remodel is going to run three weeks and you'd still like somewhere to park. Bathrooms are the remodel where our smallest dumpster is almost always the right call, with one thing to watch for, and that one thing is tile.
What Comes Out of a Bathroom Gut Around Raleigh
Demo day on a bathroom produces a strange little pile. A cast iron tub or a fiberglass surround. The toilet and the vanity. A floor's worth of tile with the thinset still stuck to it, plus the cement board underneath. Some soggy drywall, a hollow door, a busted medicine cabinet, and a light bar that was last stylish in 1994. The glass shower door and the big mirror can go in too, along with the vanity top, which is often the single heaviest piece after the tub if it's cultured marble. Stacked in the driveway it looks like barely two pickup loads, and people call us half-apologetic, asking whether they even need a dumpster for a job that small.
They usually do, for two reasons. The first is that the pile is nastier than it looks. Broken tile and rusty tub edges shred trash bags, scratch truck beds, and make the transfer station run a genuinely bad Saturday. The second is that a remodel sheds debris for weeks, not just on demo day. Backer scraps, tile offcuts, packaging from the new fixtures, the old supply lines and drain. A dumpster in the driveway swallows all of it as it happens, instead of a debris corner slowly taking over the garage until the punch list is done.
At 12 feet long with 3-foot walls, the 10-yard is also the easiest dumpster in our fleet to load. Two people can set a bathtub over the side without a ramp, and a bucket of tile tips in at waist height instead of getting hoisted overhead. It's the size we send to most of the bathroom jobs that come through the renovation dumpster page, and the low walls are most of the reason why.
Tile Is the Weight Trap
Volume is never the problem on a bathroom job. Weight occasionally is. Tile, thinset, and cement board are dense, and older houses around here often hide a mud-set floor, a solid bed of mortar a couple inches thick poured under the original tile. A tile pile that fits in one corner of the dumpster may still account for most of the included ton on its own. A quick field test before you book: if a dropped hammer bounces off that bathroom floor instead of cracking it, there's probably a mortar bed underneath.
Going over the included ton gets billed per additional ton, passed straight through from what the load actually weighs at the scale. For a standard hall bath, one ton covers the full gut with room to spare. For a large primary bath with a mud-set floor and a cast iron tub, the math gets closer. The fix costs nothing: tell Logan what's coming out when you book, especially what the floor is made of, and she'll say whether the 10 works or whether the 15-yard with two tons included is the safer step up, and she'll read you both numbers in the same call so the gap isn't a mystery. Kitchens are the opposite conversation, bulky cabinets instead of dense tile, and the kitchen remodel post walks through that sizing.
What the Rental Costs, Start to Finish
The quote is one total that covers delivery, pickup, and the dump fee anywhere we serve, whether the bathroom is in Apex, Holly Springs, Fuquay-Varina, or down in Angier. Seven days come with it, and nothing gets added at the invoice. Remodels that drag past a week pay a flat per-day rate after that, quoted up front like everything else, which is far cheaper than trying to compress a plumber's schedule to match a rental. The cost breakdown post covers the only three things that can ever add to one of our bills, and this paragraph already named two of them.
Placement is your driveway or other private property, never the street, which is why none of our customers has ever needed a permit. If the driveway is new or you're protective of it, ask about driveway protection when you book; it's available on request rather than automatic. Deliveries run on weekdays and we aim to have the dumpster there within 24 hours of the call, so booking when the contractor gives you a demo date, rather than the night before, keeps everything boring in the good way.
Call or text (919) 524-4456 with the size of the bathroom and what the floor's made of, and Logan will confirm the size and the price in one short conversation. A bathroom gut is one of the smallest, tidiest jobs we serve. Get the tile question answered up front and the rest of it is just loading a dumpster that's sitting twenty feet from the mess.