Here's how dumpster pricing works with us around Raleigh: one total, quoted up front. Call or text with your town and what you're tossing, and the number you hear covers the delivery, the pickup, and the dump fee. The 10-yard comes with up to a week. The 15-yard does too. The 20-yard, our most rented dumpster, comes two ways: a fast 3-day rental with one ton included or the full week with two. And the concrete dumpster runs three days with no weight cap at all. Whichever dumpster fits your job, the quote is the whole price, and it lands on the invoice unchanged.
If you've called around, you know that's not how every company does it. Some will quote you a number on the phone that sounds cheaper, and then the invoice shows up higher, because the quote didn't include the landfill fee or the fuel charge. Nobody lied to you exactly. They just left the rest of the price for later, after the dumpster was already in your driveway and switching companies stopped being an option.
We quote the whole thing instead. Sometimes that makes our number sound bigger next to a stripped-down phone quote, and we're fine with that, because the comparison flips the day the invoices land.
The Only Three Things That Can Move a Quote
Everything that can change one of our totals is spelled out on the pricing page, and there are exactly three.
Weight is the first. Every rental includes tonnage: the 10-yard and the 3-day 20 include one ton, the 15 and the 7-day 20 include two. Past the included weight, the overage gets billed per ton, straight off what the load actually weighs at the transfer station scale, not off anyone's estimate. Furniture, boxes, and household junk almost never go over. Shingles, tile, and wet debris can, and if you tell us what you're loading when you book, Logan flags the likely overage before it costs you anything.
Days are the second. The rental term is included; if the project stretches past it, there's a flat per-day rate and the dumpster just stays until you're done.
Mattresses are the third, and that one isn't ours. The county transfer stations charge to take bedding, and each county around here does it differently, so we flattened it into one small per-mattress fee and pass it straight through. You hear it when you tell Logan the mattress count, not when the invoice arrives.
Distance is not one of them. Every address in our service area is covered by the base quote, with no per-mile charge on the far end of the run. You hear the full number first, every time.
What Moves the Number on Real Jobs
The system is easier to trust once you watch it size up a few actual projects.
A garage cleanout in Garner: shelves of boxes, a broken dresser, a few bags of clothes, maybe three pickup truck loads of stuff. That's the 10-yard, and household junk like that never touches the one-ton limit, so nothing moves the quote at all. The number from the phone call is the number on the invoice. It's also the job people most often overthink; if the pile fits three or four pickup beds, your quote is already settled.
A full house cleanout in Clayton before a sale: the 20-yard for the week, and even a packed house of furniture and boxes usually stays inside the two included tons, because household stuff is bulky rather than dense. The one line that moves this quote is bedding. Two old mattresses and a box spring in the mix add the per-mattress fee three times over, and you knew that before the dumpster was dropped, because Logan asked for the count on the phone.
A kitchen remodel in Apex is where weight earns its keep. Cabinets are bulky and light, but tile, mortar, and plaster are dense, and a gutted kitchen can sneak past two tons. Because you said "tile floor" when you booked, the likely overage got flagged and priced into the conversation before the truck ever rolled. The kitchen remodel sizing post breaks down that whole job type.
Run any project you're planning through those same four questions, what it weighs, how long you need, how many mattresses, how far from Willow Spring, and you know everything that can move your number. That's the entire trick: there's nothing else that can appear. And if you're comparing companies, one question cuts through every call: what's the all-in total with the dump fee included? Ask it of everyone, including us, and the spread between quotes gets honest in a hurry.
Why the 3-Day 20-Yard Exists
The 3-day 20 confuses people at first, since it's the same steel can as the 7-day one. The difference is the terms: three days and one ton instead of seven days and two. It exists for the fast jobs, a roofing crew that fills a dumpster in an afternoon, a demo weekend where everything's at the curb by Sunday. If your project runs in a burst, it's the sharpest deal on the lot. If there's any chance the work drags, take the week, and if you're on the fence, Logan will read you both numbers on the phone so you can hear the gap for yourself. There's a full post on the 3-day rental that walks who it fits.
If you're calling around to compare, put every hauler on the same footing with four questions: is the dump fee in that number, are delivery and pickup in it, how many tons are included, and what happens past a ton. A quote can't hide anything once those four are answered. The companies that quote low and invoice high depend on nobody asking until the dumpster's already in the driveway.
That's the whole pricing system. For the number on your exact address and project, call or text (919) 524-4456 with the town and what you're tossing, and Logan will give you the full total in one conversation.