Serving King & Pierce County contractors since 2020
Redmond is an employment centre first and a city around it second, and the container work follows that order. The campuses generate tenant improvement at a scale we do not see anywhere else — whole floors stripped and refitted while the building next door carries on working. Around downtown and Overlake the newer mid-rise housing is still going in. East toward the plateau it turns into ordinary established residential.
Pick a size and a date. On a campus job, send the logistics plan with it.
Something matters here that barely comes up anywhere else: we work to your site logistics plan rather than around it.
On a campus job the plan exists before anybody calls a hauler. There is an approved gate and an approved route through the site. There are hours when trucks may move and hours when they may not, because several thousand people are walking between buildings. There is a staging area somebody else assigned, and a logistics coordinator whose job is keeping every trade's vehicles from arriving at once. None of that is negotiable by us and none of it should be.
So send it with the booking. The gate, the route, the permitted hours, the contact on site, and where your trade is allowed to stage — we schedule the delivery, the exchanges and the collection against those constraints rather than discovering them at a barrier with a loaded truck. It is the difference between a container that arrives inside the window you were given and one that turns into somebody else's incident report.
The largest share of the work and the reason this page reads the way it does. Tenant improvement at floorplate scale: ceiling grid and partitions out, casework and flooring replaced, offices reconfigured for a different way of working, and the packaging that arrives with everything going back in. It runs floor by floor while the rest of the building stays occupied, which puts the whole job inside somebody's operating constraints.
The newer mid-rise residential and the commercial around it — construction debris on the way up, then fit-out and turnover work once buildings are occupied. Sites here are tight in a different way from a campus: the ground is private but there is not much of it, and the approach is often a service court or a structure rather than open pavement.
Established residential toward the plateau, on larger and greener lots. Ordinary renovation work — re-roofs, kitchens and baths, additions, decks, windows and siding — with the container on a driveway and nobody else's schedule involved.
Which containers that means. The 30-yard roll-off is the workhorse for a strip-out, because tenant improvement debris is bulky rather than heavy and a crew keeps loading it over the wall all shift. The 40-yard box takes a whole floorplate at once or a machine-fed job where there is room to work it. The 20-yard container is the size for a residential remodel or a unit refit, and the 15-yard rides the same smaller truck and goes where a service court or a structure limits what can get in. Concrete is separate wherever the job is: slabs, footings and flatwork go in the 10-yard rock box, the only container rated to carry that weight. Comparing two? The size guide has the dimensions.
Rather talk it through? Call the King County office and you will get someone who knows the routes.
(425) 522-3717Three site types, and the first one runs by rules that are not the city's.
On a campus, the roads are not public roads. They belong to the property, and everything about a delivery is governed by whoever runs the site: which gate, which route, which hours, where a container may stand and for how long. That is a straightforward arrangement once it is written down, and an expensive one to improvise. What we need from you is the plan and a name to call at the gate, not a general description of where the building is.
In the denser downtown and Overlake sites, the approach is the question. The ground is private but there is little of it spare, and the way in is frequently a service court, a loading area or something with a structure overhead. The 15 and 20 ride a smaller truck and reach a good deal that the full-size one cannot — but where the approach is genuinely low or tight, the honest answer is a set spot outside and a short haul out to it. Describe the approach when you book and you will get that answer before a crew day depends on it.
East of town it is ordinary. Driveways, level ground, and space to set a container without anybody else being involved. Flag a finished surface you want protected and plywood goes under the rails.
Placement on private property — a driveway, a lot, a fenced job site — needs no permit. Where a container has to sit on a public street, a planting strip, or a sidewalk, the City of Redmond administers that right-of-way and you need its permission before delivery day.
Most Redmond work never reaches that question, and it is worth being clear about why: campuses and commercial parcels are private ground, and the residential east side has driveways. Where the street genuinely is the only option — usually on a denser downtown site — ask early and ask for the shortest container the work allows.
There is a second authority worth naming, because people assume the city covers everything inside the city. It does not cover a private campus. In there the site team sets the rules — routes, hours, where a box may stand, how long it may stay — and a city permit would be irrelevant even if you had one. Outside the limits the ordinary boundary trap applies as well: addresses toward the plateau and the north can read as Redmond while sitting in unincorporated King County, with a different process and a different office.
Our routing follows the work rather than the city limit, so containers on two of these sites are one schedule with us:
Redmond is one stop on our King County service area, which lists every city we reach north of the county line.
That is the normal way we work on these sites. Send us the plan — the gate, the route, the hours trucks may move, and the staging area assigned to your trade — and we schedule to it rather than turning up and asking at the barrier. Tell us who the contact is on site as well, because on a campus the person who can authorise a placement is rarely the person who booked the container.
A 30-yard is the workhorse. Ceiling grid, partitions, casework, flooring and packaging are bulky rather than heavy, so volume runs out long before weight does, and the wall height on a 30 is one a crew can keep pitching over all shift. Where a machine is feeding it or a whole floorplate comes out at once, step up to the 40.
Say so before the delivery. The 15 and 20-yard containers ride a smaller truck than the 30 and the 40 and reach places the full-size one cannot, but there is a limit to what any truck fits under. Where nothing goes in, the answer is a set spot outside the structure and a plan for moving material out to it — workable, but only if it is planned rather than discovered.
On private property, no — and on a campus or a commercial parcel that covers nearly everything, because the ground is not public. If a box has to sit on a public street the city administers that right-of-way and you need its permission first. Inside a private campus the city has no say at all: the site team decides, and their rules are their own.
