Serving King & Pierce County contractors since 2020
Edgewood sits up on the hill between the Puyallup valley and Federal Way, and behaves like neither. It is incorporated, but the lots are big enough that much of it still reads as semi-rural — houses set back from the road, outbuildings behind them, driveways long enough to be a decision in themselves. Almost every delivery goes onto the property rather than the street, which makes the approach the thing worth talking about.
Pick a size and a date. Tell us about the driveway and we will tell you where the box can sit.
One thing comes up here more than anywhere else on this side of the valley: most jobs on these lots need two containers, not one.
Big properties bundle work. While the machine is on site and the driveway is already torn up, the outbuilding comes down too and the interior scope that has been waiting gets done in the same push. That produces two different kinds of debris at once — concrete, asphalt and brick on one hand, structure and renovation material on the other — and they cannot share a box. Dense material goes in the 10-yard rock box and nowhere else, because nothing bigger can be legally hauled once loaded with that weight.
So say at booking that the job has both. We put the rock box and the volume container on the same delivery, in the spots you want them, and the crew sorts as it works instead of restacking a box later or waiting a week for the second one. It is the most common thing people here do not think to ask for.
Nearly all of it. Houses on lots measured in fractions of an acre and up, much of it built when this was still county land and now running the full renovation cycle: re-roofs, kitchens and baths, additions, decks and stairs, window and siding work, and the residential demo that comes with a property altered more than once. Behind them sit the outbuildings — shops, detached garages, pole buildings — which come down on their own schedule.
A long private drive is an asset until it needs replacing. Driveway and flatwork replacement is steady work here, along with patios, walkways, retaining work and the clearing and green waste that comes off a large lot being tidied up. There is a thin commercial strip along the main road as well, mostly small-scale turnover between tenants.
Which containers that means. The 20-yard roll-off handles the ordinary remodel and is what most properties here book, with the 15-yard container — shortest in the fleet, on a smaller truck — for a re-roof, a single room, or a drive that will not take anything longer. Outbuildings go up a size or two: a 30-yard for a shop or garage coming down in stages and the 40-yard box where a machine is loading and the lot has room to work. Everything dense — the 10-yard rock box — is a separate order and usually a second box on the same day. Comparing two sizes is easier with the dimensions side by side.
Worth saying plainly, because it shapes the week rather than the booking: three of the five cities we work alongside from here are in King County, so a job up the hill and another down the valley is a normal week and one schedule with us. Identity is all the boundary decides — this page carries one number, and it covers your King County site too.
Rather talk it through? Call the Pierce County office and you will get someone who knows the routes.
(253) 753-8183There is really only one access question here, and everything else follows from it: what is the driveway like?
Length and width. Long is fine. Narrow is usually fine. What stops a delivery is a drive that is long, narrow and has nowhere to turn around at the top, because a loaded truck cannot reverse a few hundred feet down a bend on a guess. Tell us the width at the tightest point and whether there is anywhere to swing, and you will get a straight answer before a crew day is built around it.
Grade, and finding level. These drives climb or drop from the road, which is a different question from how steep the lot is. The box has to roll off the truck and back onto it, and it has to sit level enough to load safely in between — so the useful thing to identify is the flattest spot on the approach, which is often the apron near the house or a pad beside the outbuilding rather than the middle of the drive.
What the surface will take. A finished drive you want protected is worth flagging so plywood goes under the rails, and gravel or unimproved sections are worth mentioning after a wet stretch. On a property this size there is nearly always more than one option, so describing the choices gets you the best one rather than the first one.
Placement on private property — a driveway, a lot, a fenced job site — needs no permit. On lots this size that covers very nearly every container we deliver: the driveway, the yard or a pad by the outbuilding is almost always both the easiest spot and the legal one.
Where a container has to sit on a public street, a planting strip, or a sidewalk, the City of Edgewood administers that right-of-way and you need its permission before delivery day. Ask at booking rather than on the morning, and ask for the shortest container that will do the job — a placement that leaves the road working is a far easier conversation than one that does not.
The wrinkle is that jurisdictions change fast around here. Edgewood is small and the cities it touches are not the same authority: a street placement a short way north is a King County city's process, and unincorporated pockets nearby answer to the county. None of that matters on private ground, where nearly all of this work happens — it matters a great deal the day you need the street.
Our routing follows the work rather than the city limit, so containers on two of these sites are one schedule with us:
Edgewood is one stop on our Pierce County service area.
Usually, and it is the ordinary situation up here rather than a hard one. What matters is the width at the tightest point and whether there is a level enough spot at the top to set on — a container has to come off the truck and go back on, and it has to sit flat enough to load safely in between. Describe the drive and we will tell you where the box can go.
Two, and it is worth booking them together. Concrete, asphalt and brick can only go in the 10-yard rock box, and everything from the remodel goes in a volume container. Ordered as one job they arrive the same day and the crew never has to sort material into the wrong box. Ordered separately they turn up a week apart.
No. Those are King County addresses and this is a Pierce County page, but our routing does not work in counties — a container here and one over the line are one schedule with us. Call the number on this page for either and dispatch sorts it out. The only thing the boundary changes is which office issues a street permit.
On private property, no — and on lots this size that covers nearly everything, because the driveway or the yard is almost always the answer. If the box has to sit on a public street the City of Edgewood administers that right-of-way and you need its permission before delivery.
