Serving King & Pierce County contractors since 2020
More containers go out of our yards at 20 yards than at any other size. Not because it is a safe middle choice — because it is the size that actually matches how a remodel or a mid-size demolition scope produces debris. Mixed construction material, flooring, roofing, whole-floor interior work. Enough capacity to run the job without a swap-out halfway through the week, on a container we can still place on a working site.
Pick a delivery date and tell us what the job is producing. We handle the haul.
A 20-yard roll-off is a volume container, and volume is what a remodel produces. Cabinets, drywall, flooring, trim, insulation, packaging, and framing offcuts take up far more room than they weigh. The limit on a job like that is how much space the box has, not how heavy the load gets, and the 20 is where that math lands for most of the work we see.
The other reason is timing. A 15 will handle a single room, but on a scope with several trades working it tends to fill before the job is done, and then the crew is standing around waiting on an exchange. The 20 carries enough that most jobs run start to finish on one box. That is worth more than it sounds: a swap-out is a half-day of coordination even when it goes smoothly, and it always lands on the day you least want it.
The common thread is that all of it is bulky rather than dense. A 20 filled with cabinets, carpet, and drywall is a full box and a legal load. That is the job this container is built to do, and it does it without any of the material restrictions that come with heavy debris.
Fourteen feet long — six shorter than a 30 or a 40, which is half of why it reaches sites they cannot. Walls are low enough to load over from the ground, and the rear door opens full width for anything you would rather roll in.
Every container we run is a roll-off. What changes between them is the truck that carries it — and the 15 and 20-yard containers go out on a smaller truck than the 30 and the 40 do. That is a real operational difference, not a sales line, and it is the single most useful thing on this page.
It means we can set a container in places a full-size roll-off truck cannot physically reach:
If another company has already looked at your site and told you no, this is the call worth making. Describe the approach — the width at the pinch point, what is overhead, where a truck would have to turn around — and dispatch will tell you straight whether we can make it work. Sometimes the answer is still no. It is a real answer either way, and you get it before you have built a schedule around a delivery that was never going to happen.
Worth being clear about what this is: you are renting the same 20-yard roll-off anyone else rents. If you have heard us call it a compact roll-off, that is the same container brought in on the smaller truck. It is the answer to an access problem rather than a different product, and it only helps if you raise the access problem when you book instead of on delivery day.
Rather talk it through? Call the King County office and you will get someone who knows the routes.
(425) 522-3717Most of the deciding happens between three sizes, and it comes down to how long the job runs and how much room the site has. The 15-yard container is the choice for a single-room remodel, a small tear-off, or a lot too tight to take anything longer. The 30-yard roll-off is for work that generates debris every day — new build, framing, commercial interior demolition — where a 20 would need swapping more than once. The 40-yard container handles major demolition and high-volume bulky material.
Between them sits the 20, which is why it is the one we deliver most. If you want all five laid out together, see how the sizes compare before you book.
One thing the 20 will not do: carry weight. Concrete, dirt, rock, brick, and asphalt go in our rock box for heavy material, which is the only container rated to carry that weight. If the job produces both — a slab coming out alongside a remodel — order a rock box for the dense material and a 20 for everything else, and tell dispatch so both land the same day.
A standard set needs a straight approach for the truck and clear overhead to lift the container off and put it back down. On an open job site or a normal driveway that is rarely a conversation. When the site is tighter than that, say so at booking — that is precisely the situation the smaller truck exists for, and knowing in advance is what lets dispatch send the right one the first time.
Things worth flagging before the day: 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 in advance. Through the wet months, a truck sunk to the axles on a soft lot costs everybody a shift, so it is worth the thirty seconds at booking.
Loading is straightforward on a volume container: keep the material inside the box and level with the top rail, and load the bulky pieces flat rather than letting them bridge across the middle. A box packed level holds a great deal more than one filled with air pockets, and it is the difference between one haul and two on a scope that was always going to be close.
This container goes out of both yards, every working day. Renton dispatch covers delivery across King County, and the Canyon Road yard runs Pierce County job sites from the valley. Remodel and roofing work looks much the same on both sides of the county line.
Roofing is the scope this size handles most often, and this is the common case: a residential composition tear-off books the 20. Our roofing guide sizes a container by the roof type — where shake, metal, resheet and tile each land, and why tile is the one that does not come here at all.
Four cities also have a roofing page of their own: roofing tear-off in Tacoma, Renton roofing containers, Seattle roof strip debris, and Auburn roofing jobs.
For most remodels, the 20. A kitchen or bath gut, a whole-floor interior demolition, or a flooring tear-out all fit comfortably, and there is enough capacity left that the box is not full before the trades are done. Step down to the 15 if the scope is a single small room or the site cannot take a longer container. Step up to the 30 if the job is producing debris every day for weeks.
No. The 20 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 20 and the driver refuses the pickup on haul day, and the box sits loaded on your site until the crew offloads it.
Often, yes. The 15 and 20-yard containers go out on a smaller truck than the 30 and 40, which reaches alleys, parking garages, service sides of buildings, and dead-end driveways that a full-size roll-off truck cannot. Tell us what the approach looks like — the pinch point, what is overhead, where the truck would turn around — and dispatch will give you a straight answer before you schedule a crew around it.
Call and we swap it. An empty box comes out, the full one goes back, and the crew keeps working. Swap-outs on active job sites are routine and it is a faster call to make while the crew is still on site than after everything has stopped. If you already know the scope will outrun one box, say so at booking and we will plan the exchange rather than react to it.
