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The 15-yard roll-off is the small end of our lineup, and it exists for a specific reason: plenty of jobs do not produce enough debris to justify a bigger box. A bathroom gut, a deck coming down, a garage roof. On work like that the 15 is not a compromise — it is the size that matches the scope, and you are not paying for capacity the job was never going to use. A full house re-roof is not on that list; that is a 20.
Pick a delivery date and tell us what the job is. We handle the haul.
Container sizing gets talked about as though bigger is always safer. It is not, and it is not free either. A 20 that goes out half full costs the same as a 20 that goes out packed, so on a job with a known, bounded scope the 15 is simply the right tool. Strip one roof. Gut one bathroom. Take down one deck. Those jobs have an end, and the volume they produce is predictable enough to size for.
It is also the easier box to work around. At twelve feet it is the shortest container we run — shorter than the rock box, which is twenty feet long despite holding less. On a house with a driveway you still need to use, or a job site where the container shares space with material deliveries and a crew, those eight feet are the difference between a workable set spot and a permanent obstacle. That matters more on small jobs than on big ones, because small jobs usually happen in tighter quarters with somebody still living or working around them.
Five feet of wall is low enough to pitch shingles and offcuts over the rail all day, and the rear door opens full width when you would rather wheel material in than lift it.
All of it is bulky rather than dense — shingles, framing, tile, drywall, decking, packaging. That is what a volume container is built to carry, and the 15 carries a genuinely useful amount of it.
The honest version, because getting this wrong costs you real money in the wrong direction.
Order the 15 when the scope is bounded and you can picture the finish. One roof, one room, one structure coming down. A defined phase of a larger job. A lot with no room for anything longer. In those cases the 15 does the whole job on one haul and you have paid for what you used.
Order the 20 when you are guessing. This is the part worth being blunt about: underestimating volume costs more than sizing up. If the 15 fills before the job is finished, you are paying for a second haul, and two hauls on a 15 costs more than one haul on a 20-yard roll-off would have. You also lose time — the crew works around a full box until the swap lands, and swaps happen on our schedule as much as yours. An overfilled box is worse still, because a container loaded above the rail does not leave the site at all until somebody brings it back down.
So the rule is not "pick the smaller one to save money." It is: pick the 15 when you know the scope, and pick the 20 when you do not. Several trades working at once, a remodel that has already grown once, or a scope somebody else wrote — those all point up a size. If you want the whole lineup laid out, all five sizes side by side is the fastest way to place your job. Bigger scopes go to the 30-yard container or the 40-yard size.
What the 15 will not do: carry weight. Concrete, dirt, rock, brick, and asphalt go in the 10-yard rock box, the only container rated to carry that weight. A roof strip that includes a chimney tear-down needs both boxes — the shingles in a 15, the masonry in a rock box. Say so at booking and both land the same day.
The 15 and the 20 go out on the same smaller trucks, which means they set in the same places a full-size roll-off truck cannot get to: off an alley, inside a parking garage, behind a building on the service side, down a driveway that dead-ends with nowhere to turn around. If access is the problem on your site, either size can be the answer, and the choice between them stays a scope question rather than an access one. The tight-access section on the 20-yard page covers how this works and what to tell dispatch.
A standard set needs a straight approach for the truck and clear overhead to lift the box off and put it back. Most driveways and job sites handle that without a conversation. Where the site is tighter, say so at booking rather than on the day — that is the situation the smaller truck exists for, and advance notice is what lets dispatch send the right one first time.
Flag these before delivery: overhead lines, gate widths, low branches, soft or unimproved ground, and any surface you care about. Plywood under the rails protects a finished driveway and we bring it when you tell us the surface ahead of time — where a container marks a driveway and how to avoid it goes through the placement side as well as the boards. Through the wet months a truck sunk to the axles on a soft lot costs everyone a shift.
Loading a 15 well matters more than loading a bigger box well, because there is less room to waste. Keep material level with the top rail and never above it. Break down what breaks down, lay flat pieces flat, and do not let long stock bridge across the middle and hold a pocket of air under it. A tidily loaded 15 holds noticeably more than a carelessly loaded one, and on a job sized close to the limit that is the difference between one haul and two.
Rather talk it through? Call the King County office and you will get someone who knows the routes.
(425) 522-3717Both yards run this size daily. Renton dispatch covers King County coverage and the Canyon Road yard handles the Pierce County delivery area from the valley. Tear-off and small remodel work is the steadiest demand we see on either side of the line.
Roofing is the scope this size handles most, and four cities have a page devoted to it: composition tear-off in Tacoma, Renton roof strip work, Seattle tear-off containers, and roofing debris in Auburn.
Smaller ones. A garage, a small detached structure, or a house roof where the site leaves no room for a longer container. A full residential composition tear-off is a 20 — the 15 fills before the roof is off. Where the 15 earns its place on a roofing job is access rather than volume: it is the shortest box we run and it goes out on a smaller truck.
Yes, comfortably, including a full gut down to the studs — tile, tub, vanity, subfloor, plaster, and lath. Where crews get caught out is scope creep: if the bathroom turns into the bathroom plus the hallway plus the bedroom floor, the box that fit the original job no longer fits the one you are doing. Order for the scope you expect to end with.
No. The 15 is a volume container. Concrete, dirt, rock, brick, and asphalt go in the 10-yard rock box and nowhere else — it is the only container rated to carry that weight. Load dense material into a 15 and the driver refuses the pickup on haul day, and the box sits loaded on your site until the crew offloads it.
Call and we swap it — an empty box comes out, the full one goes back, and the crew keeps working. It is routine. But it is worth knowing that two hauls on a 15 costs more than one haul on a 20, so if you are genuinely unsure which size the job needs, the 20 is the cheaper mistake.
