
Mesa, AZ · Maricopa County
Dumpster Rental in Mesa, AZ — Delivered Fast, Priced Flat
10 through 40 yard roll-off dumpsters for homeowners, contractors and businesses across Mesa and the East Valley. One phone call, one flat price, and a driver who protects your driveway. Locally owned since 2013.
- Same-day & next-day delivery
- Flat rates that include disposal
- Driveway protection boards as standard
- Licensed, insured and locally owned
Licensed & insured · Flat-rate quotes · Locally owned since 2013
Why Sandstone Bros
The dumpster company Mesa calls back
Most people renting a dumpster are already having a stressful week. The kitchen is in pieces, the roof is half off, or a family member has passed and there is a house full of forty years to sort out. The last thing anyone needs is a hauler who quotes one price, invoices another, and drops a container across the mailbox.
We started Sandstone Bros Dumpster Rental in 2013 with one truck and one rule: tell people the truth about what it costs and show up when we said we would. 13 years later that has not changed. Ruben Salazar still answers the phone most mornings, and our drivers still walk the drop before they back in.
We run out of 1913 N Rosemont, just off McKellips Road in north-east Mesa, minutes from Loop 202 (Red Mountain) and Falcon Field, which is exactly why we cover Mesa, Maricopa County and the rest of the East Valley every single day rather than routing a truck out from the far side of the valley when you need a container this afternoon. It also means we know the rulebooks apart: this is all Maricopa County, but the real complication is city by city — Mesa, Gilbert, Chandler, Tempe, Scottsdale and Queen Creek each run their own solid waste arrangements and their own permit desk; Apache Junction, Gold Canyon and San Tan Valley sit over the line in Pinal County; the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community north across the Salt River is tribal jurisdiction, separate from city and county entirely; and Maricopa County Air Quality dust rules apply across all of it whichever city you are standing in. Past that it is street knowledge — which Dreamland Villa, Velda Rose and Mesa Grande streets have original single-car drives narrow enough, with a palm frond canopy or a mesquite limb over the whole approach, that a 30 has to sit on the street instead; which Lehi and downtown-grid houses off Main have barely a car width of drive, or none at all; which HOA communities out toward Power Road and Ellsworth want the architectural committee notified and hold you to a container day limit and driveway-only placement; which older blocks still work best off the back alley; which Alta Mesa and Red Mountain Ranch lots put a carport, an Arizona room or a detached shed right where the hoist arm wants to be; which Gold Canyon and San Tan Valley places sit at the end of a long dirt or decomposed-granite lane; which Pinal County acreage needs the septic tank, drain field and well head flagged before a wheel touches the ground, none of which comes up inside Mesa, Gilbert, Chandler or Tempe where everything is on city water and sewer; and which side of a Las Sendas or Leisure World lot keeps the can clear of the low limbs, the shade sail and the service drop.
Read more about who we are and how we got started, or jump straight to what we haul.

- Founded2013
- Container sizes10 – 40 yd³
- Typical deliverySame or next day
- Towns served18+
What we haul
Dumpster rental services in Mesa and the East Valley
Eleven container services, one flat-rate promise. Whatever the job, the price we quote on the phone is the price on your invoice.
Residential Dumpster Rental
Driveway placement for garage, attic, Arizona room, carport and shed cleanouts.
Learn more →Commercial Dumpster Rental
Scheduled and on-call containers for retail, restaurants, offices and property managers.
Learn more →Construction Dumpster Rental
Jobsite roll-offs and next-day swap-outs for builders, remodelers and GCs.
Learn more →Roofing Dumpster Rental
Weight-rated cans sized for concrete tile, clay tile and low-slope tear-offs.
Learn more →Roll-Off Dumpster Rental
10, 15, 20, 30 and 40 yard roll-offs across Mesa and the East Valley.
Learn more →Same-Day Dumpster Rental
Call before the cut-off and we can usually get a container to you this afternoon.
Learn more →Junk Removal Dumpsters
Clear a garage, Arizona room, carport, side yard or shed on your own schedule.
Learn more →Estate Cleanout Dumpsters
Discreet, patient container service for families clearing a lifelong home.
Learn more →Demolition Debris Removal
Containers and fast swaps for block walls, patio covers, sheds and pool demolition.
Learn more →Concrete & Heavy Debris
Dedicated heavy cans for landscape rock, caliche, concrete tile, block and flatwork.
Learn more →Yard Waste & Brush Removal
Separate clean loads for palm fronds, cactus, oleander and mesquite the city barrel will not take.
Learn more →Choose your size
Five sizes, sized for real projects
Not sure which one? Tell us what you are clearing out and roughly how much of it there is. Ninety percent of the time we can size it correctly over the phone in under two minutes. The first question here is what the debris weighs rather than how much room it takes, because concrete and clay roof tile runs roughly 900 to 1,000 lb per roofing square against about 250 lb for asphalt shingle, and landscape rock and decomposed granite run 1.3 to 1.5 tons per cubic yard. Dense material like broken concrete, grouted CMU block, tile, pavers, caliche, rock and gunite off a pool demolition wants a small can; a patio cover or carport tear-off, or a full gut of a two-storey out in Eastmark or Red Mountain Ranch — framing lumber, cabinets, insulation and trim — is the job that genuinely wants a 40, because that debris takes up enormous space and weighs comparatively little. Bear in mind that an open can catches every monsoon downburst and every dust storm, so keep the load below the rails where it can be tarped.
10 Yard Dumpster
Landscape rock, caliche, concrete, block and roof tile — weight fills it long before volume does.
View this size → 15yd³15 Yard Dumpster
Single-room remodels, small tear-offs, park model and 55-plus unit turnovers.
View this size → 20yd³20 Yard Dumpster
Garage, attic and Arizona room clear-outs, multi-room renovations, patio tear-offs.
View this size → 30yd³30 Yard Dumpster
Whole-property clears, new construction, additions and large remodels.
View this size → 40yd³40 Yard Dumpster
Bulky light debris only: patio covers, carport framing, furniture, insulation, fit-outs.
View this size →How it works
Four steps, no paperwork
- 1
Call us
Tell us the project, your address and when you want it. Two minutes on the phone and you have a flat price.
- 2
We deliver
Our driver walks the drop, lays protection boards and sets the container exactly where you want it.
- 3
You load it
Take your time within your rental window. Keep it level with the top rail and we handle the rest.
- 4
We haul it
Call or text when you are done. We pull it, sort what can be recovered and dispose of the rest properly.
Local knowledge
What makes hauling in Mesa different
Dirt lanes, HOA letters and low palm and mesquite limbs
Placement is where most of the trouble starts here, and it is rarely about space. Out east and south-east — Gold Canyon, San Tan Valley, the acreage past Ellsworth and Crismon — the approach is often a long dirt or decomposed-granite lane that is firm most of the year and cuts up for a day or two after a monsoon cell dumps on it. Under the thin desert soil is caliche hardpan, which is why a wash bank or a soft shoulder can look solid and still break away under a loaded axle, and the sandy washes themselves are never a place to park a can. A Pinal County acreage drop needs the septic tank, drain field and well head flagged along with gate widths and turning room at the top of the lane, and the shop buildings, RV covers and shade structures usually decide where the arm can go up at all. Inside Mesa, Gilbert, Chandler and Tempe none of that applies — city water, city sewer, concrete or asphalt drives — but from May through September a hot asphalt drive goes soft enough by mid-afternoon to take an impression from a loaded box, so the boards go down every time and we would rather deliver before the heat comes up. In the older streets — Dreamland Villa, Velda Rose, Mesa Grande and the Lehi and downtown grid — the original drives are barely a car wide and some houses have none at all, which turns the job into a street placement and a permit conversation. The gatekeeper most people underestimate is not the city, though: it is the HOA. Eastmark, Las Sendas, Red Mountain Ranch, Augusta Ranch and Superstition Springs are covenanted communities — an architectural or property committee that wants notice in writing, a cap on how many days a container may stay, and driveway-only placement, no street, no common area, no cul-de-sac bulb. The City of Mesa’s own roll-off page says HOA and multi-family residents may need property management approval, and that letter is the most common avoidable problem in this market. Then the overheads: low palm fronds and mesquite limbs are the number one obstruction here, with carport framing, shade sails and the service drop behind them. Figure on roughly 60 ft of straight approach, 10.5 ft of width and 20+ ft of clear sky for the hoist arm. Placing a container in a public street in Mesa requires a City of Mesa Temporary Traffic Control (barricade) permit — call 480-644-4882 or email barricade@mesaaz.gov to confirm the requirements for your address — while work affecting a state route such as US-60, SR-87 or the Loop 202 goes through ADOT. Call Arizona 811 at least two full working days before anything gets dug. Tell us the cross streets and we will tell you where the can goes, or see the permit and placement guide.
Slab-on-grade, and the weight that comes with it
Houses in Maricopa County sit on a post-tension slab-on-grade, and there is nothing under the floor at all — no lower level, no cellar, no void. That holds from the 1950s block ranches in Dreamland Villa, Velda Rose and Mesa Grande, through the 1970s and 80s stock in Dobson Ranch, to the stucco-and-tile subdivisions in Red Mountain Ranch, Las Sendas, Augusta Ranch and Superstition Springs and the new build out at Eastmark. Sizing guides written for northern markets assume a whole extra floor of stored contents and get East Valley jobs wrong from the first question. A cleanout here draws from the garage, the attic, the Arizona room, the carport, the side yard and the shed, plus whatever storage unit somebody has been paying for since the last move — and the attic is a first-light job from May through September, because it is unworkable by mid-morning and the heat has already ruined the tape, vinyl, photographs and adhesive stored up there. The slab itself is a hazard on any interior job: a post-tension slab must not be cut, cored or drilled without a scan, because the tendons are under load. What this market produces instead of a wet lower floor is weight, and it comes in four forms. Concrete and clay roof tile runs roughly 900 to 1,000 lb per roofing square against about 250 lb for asphalt shingle, so a tear-off that looks like a 20 is a weight job rather than a volume job. Landscape rock and decomposed granite run 1.3 to 1.5 tons per cubic yard, and a 10 yard box of granite is at payload long before it looks full. Caliche, the cemented hardpan under the thin desert soil, comes up out of pool demolition, footings, trenching and tree and stump removal, and it is dense and awkward with it. And CMU block property walls are grouted, so a wall coming down is solid masonry rather than fence panels — the same conversation covers stucco and lath, deck concrete, coping and the gunite off a pool demolition. When in doubt about sizing in Mesa, the answer is a smaller box because of weight, not a bigger box because of volume. Pre-1980 buildings turn up asbestos in floor tile and black mastic, pipe and duct wrap, textured ceilings and roofing felt, and pre-1978 homes carry lead paint under the EPA RRP rule. In this county the asbestos and demolition programme runs through Maricopa County Air Quality under Rule 370 rather than ADEQ, notification is required at least 10 business days before any demolition or renovation and a demolition notification is required whether or not asbestos is present, and we cannot take asbestos-containing material in any container. See what we can and cannot take in the Maricopa County debris guide and our notes on landscape rock and caliche debris, and confirm current requirements with the agency before you start.
The monsoon sets the calendar and tile sets the weight
The seasonal driver here is the monsoon, June 15 to September 30 on the National Weather Service definition. It does not deliver a general storm season so much as two specific events. A microburst is straight-line wind to around 100 mph for three to five minutes, and it takes down palm fronds, mesquite and palo verde limbs, patio covers, shade sails, carport framing and runs of block wall in a single street. A dust storm — the official alert is a Dust Storm Warning, though everyone here says haboob — fills pools, coats yards and drives grit into everything; the 19 August 2026 event across the metro dropped visibility under a mile with gusts mainly 55 to 65 mph. A monsoon cell also puts a lot of water down very fast, so flash flooding is local and brief: washes running, dip crossings closed, a yard scoured out. Nothing here arrives off an ocean; the water is local, brief and gone fast. Extreme heat is the real operational constraint — 105 to 118°F from May through September — so crews start before first light, attic and garage work is finished by mid-morning, and an asphalt drive goes soft enough by mid-afternoon to take an impression from a loaded box. That flips the calendar: October through April is the busy season for cleanouts here, backwards from most of the country, and it lines up with snowbird season and with spring training in February and March when the roads are full. Wind and water are two different jobs with two different debris streams: water means saturated drywall, insulation, flooring and contents out fast and heavy, while wind means roof tile, fascia, stucco, shade structures, block wall and tree work. Downed limb wood here is palm, mesquite, palo verde, ironwood, citrus, olive and eucalyptus, and two things catch people out: green mesquite and citrus wood is far heavier than it looks, and palm fronds do not compact, so a single date palm trim fills a container faster than anyone expects. On the roof itself it is weight rather than volume, and it is sized by squares and layers, not roof area — out here the layers question is usually a 1970s or 80s shake-to-tile conversion with the original material still underneath. Pre-1980 roofing felt is a stop-and-test moment. Metal patio covers, RV covers and shop roofs come off in long light sheets that need holding down in an open can and are worth pulling as scrap rather than burying. Get the material, the layer count and the square count before you order — see roofing dumpsters, the tile tear-off sizing guide and our notes on monsoon storm damage cleanup. Watch the National Weather Service through the summer for dust storm warnings and microburst-capable cells.
Weight at one end, dust at the other
Broken concrete, block, tile, pavers, rock, decomposed granite and caliche all run around 2,400–2,800 lbs per cubic yard, so a heavy load reaches legal transport weight in a container that still looks half empty. That material belongs in a 10 yard, twice, not a 30 once — see concrete and heavy debris. The local versions of it are a rock yard being pulled up and replaced, a grouted CMU block wall coming down, a drive or apron broken out, a tile roof tear-off, and gunite, deck concrete and coping off a pool demolition with caliche underneath the lot. Dust is the other half of the job here and it is a regulatory matter rather than a courtesy. Metro Phoenix is a serious PM10 nonattainment area, so Maricopa County Air Quality Rule 310 governs fugitive dust across every city in the valley: a dust control permit is required before disturbing 0.10 acre (4,356 square feet) or more, smaller sites still owe dust control without the permit, loads must be covered and carry at least three inches of freeboard, a trackout control device is required at two acres disturbed or where 100 cubic yards or more of bulk material moves in a day, and when wind carries visible dust across the property line the work stops and the surface gets stabilised. Open burning of construction debris and yard waste is prohibited in Maricopa County, so the brush pile is not an alternative. On the green side, get this right: Arizona has no statewide landfill ban on yard waste. What actually bites is the City of Mesa green barrel exclusion list — it will not take palm fronds, oleander trimmings, citrus fruit, cacti, lumber, concrete, rock and gravel or metal, which is very nearly a complete description of what a Mesa yard job produces — and the fact that the city’s own bulk collection programme explicitly refuses construction and remodelling materials. Statute does keep whole tires, lead-acid batteries and used oil out of landfill disposal, and appliances are a federal matter: refrigerant has to be recovered by a certified technician before the unit goes anywhere. So we load heavy over light, keep everything below the top rail where it can be tarped and will not blow out in a gust front, bag the insulation and break the cardboard down. See yard waste removal and the Mesa recycling and disposal guide.
- 13+Years serving Maricopa County
- 18Towns in our service area
- 13In-depth local guides published
- 5Container sizes, 10 to 40 yard
What customers say
Straight talk from Mesa and the East Valley
Dale was the only one who asked what the house sat on before he quoted. 1926 bungalow on piers, and once we pulled the insulation the band joist was gone. He swapped us to a smaller can because the rotted framing weighed more than the batts, and told me to get a licensed inspection before we went further.
We had water in the house after a bad rain week and I wanted one big box to get it over with. Their driver told me flat that soaked carpet and drywall would strand a 30 before it looked half full. Two 20s and a swap, and we beat the mould.
We turn eleven units near Five Points every May and August, which is the worst possible fortnight to need anything in this town. Sandstone Bros is the only outfit that has never left us waiting with a make-ready half torn apart.
Three layers of shingle on a 1948 roof and a hail claim on the clock. They had a can on the drive at seven in the morning, on boards, and their driver moved it twice so the crew could work the back slope. He also warned me the low oak limb would not clear the arm.
Reviews are shown as supplied by customers. Ratings and counts shown elsewhere on this site are illustrative pending live review syndication.
Service area
Dumpster delivery across Maricopa County and the East Valley
We deliver daily from our Mesa yard. Pick your city for local placement notes, landmarks and permit guidance — or see the full service area.
Dumpster Rental FAQs
How fast can you deliver a dumpster in Mesa?
Most of the time, same day if you call before about 11am, and next morning otherwise. We run our own trucks out of 1913 N Rosemont in Mesa, so we are not waiting on a dispatcher on the far side of the valley. In the week after a monsoon microburst comes through, when every roofer and tree crew in the East Valley is booked solid, it can stretch to 48 hours, and we will tell you honestly when you call. The other predictable rush is the winter calendar — the March and April snowbird departure window out of Leisure World, Sunland Village, Dreamland Villa and Apache Wells, and spring training in February and March when the city is full — so if you know your dates, book ahead and we will hold the slot.
What does a flat rate actually include?
Delivery, pickup, an agreed rental period and a set tonnage allowance with disposal included. No fuel surcharge, no environmental fee, no admin fee. The only way the number changes is if you go over the weight allowance or keep the container longer than agreed, and we tell you both limits before we deliver.
Do I need to be home for delivery or pickup?
No. Plenty of our customers text us a photo of where they want it and go to work. All we need is clear access, a spot free of cars and low branches, and permission to be on the property. If the only way in is a narrow drive, a back alley, a gate beside a detached shop or an RV cover, or a long dirt or decomposed-granite lane out toward Gold Canyon or San Tan Valley that is still cut up after a monsoon cell, tell us when you book and we will schedule accordingly. If the house is in an HOA community, say so on the first call — most of them want written notice, keep the container on the driveway and cap how long it can stay, and that is easier to square away before we roll than after. Mention low palm fronds and mesquite limbs, shade sails, carport framing and the service drop as well, because the hoist arm needs the height. Say so if the house is empty, too — on an unattended job the wind is the risk, so we will talk you through keeping the load below the rails where it can be tarped and we will time the pull so a loaded can is not sitting open through a monsoon stretch.
Will the dumpster damage my driveway?
We put protection boards under the wheels and rails on every residential delivery, which spreads the load instead of concentrating it on four small contact patches. The complication here is heat, not cold: from May through September a hot asphalt drive goes soft enough by mid-afternoon to take an impression from a loaded container, which is one of the reasons we deliver early, and we photograph the existing condition on delivery either way. Narrow drives, alley approaches and older concrete get extra boards, and so do the newer subdivision drives through Eastmark, Las Sendas and Red Mountain Ranch, which settle under a point load rather than scuff. Out toward Gold Canyon and San Tan Valley a long dirt or decomposed-granite lane is fine while it is dry, but for a day or two after a monsoon cell we would rather come back than cut ruts into it, and caliche under thin desert soil means a soft shoulder can look solid and still break away under a wheel. Our placement guide explains it fully.
Do I need a permit for a dumpster in Mesa?
On your own driveway, generally no municipal permit. To put a container in a public street, alley or right-of-way in Mesa you need a City of Mesa Temporary Traffic Control (barricade) permit — there is no Mesa permit called a dumpster permit, whatever a national site tells you — and the people to ask are the city’s barricade programme on 480-644-4882 or barricade@mesaaz.gov. The city’s traffic control manual is also clear that a restriction is not to be left in place solely to store equipment, supplies or debris. Work affecting a state route such as US-60, SR-87, SR-24, Loop 202 or Loop 101 goes through ADOT instead. Gilbert, Chandler, Tempe, Scottsdale, Queen Creek and Apache Junction each run their own right-of-way desk, and Apache Junction, Gold Canyon and San Tan Valley sit in Pinal County rather than Maricopa County, so the rulebook can change a few miles apart — while Maricopa County Air Quality dust rules apply across all of it. The approval people actually forget, though, is the private one: on HOA property the CC&Rs usually require written notice to the architectural or property committee, keep the container on the driveway rather than the street or common area, and cap the number of days it can stay. The city’s own roll-off page says HOA and multi-family residents may need property management approval, and that letter is the most common avoidable delay we see. Call Arizona 811 at least two full working days before anything gets dug. Requirements change, so confirm with the city, the county and your HOA before you book — or read our permit and placement guide.
What can I not put in the dumpster?
Wet paint, solvents, motor oil, fuel, pesticides, automotive chemicals, asbestos-containing material, propane and other pressurised cylinders, lead-acid batteries, medical waste, whole tires and refrigerant appliances. Leftover paint, solvents, fuel, pesticides and pool chemicals go to the City of Mesa household hazardous materials facility rather than in the can — and note that PaintCare does not operate in Arizona, whatever a national guide says, while Gilbert and Tempe run their own facilities for addresses outside Mesa. Arizona has no statewide landfill ban on yard waste, so ignore that one too: what actually stops you is the city green barrel, which refuses palm fronds, oleander, citrus fruit, cacti, lumber, concrete, rock and gravel and metal, and the weight on the scale ticket. Green waste still travels best as its own clean separate load bound for composting or mulching rather than mixed into a construction load. Statute does keep whole tires, lead-acid batteries and used oil out of landfill disposal, and appliances need their refrigerant recovered by a certified technician first under federal rules. Open burning of construction debris and yard waste is prohibited in Maricopa County, so burning the pile is not an option. Everything else on a normal cleanout or renovation is fine. Rules do change, so ask us before it goes in.
Still not sure?
Two minutes on the phone beats twenty minutes reading. Tell us the job and we will size it, price it and book it.
(480) 757-9432Helpful Local Resources
Useful official sources for permits, disposal rules and recycling in Mesa and Maricopa County. We keep these handy because half the questions we get are really questions for one of these offices.
- City of MesaCity solid waste, the green yard-waste barrel and bulk collection rules, the household hazardous materials facility, and barricade and building permits.
- Maricopa County Air QualityRule 310 dust control permits and training, Rule 370 asbestos and demolition notification, and the county open-burning ban.
- ADEQArizona statewide solid waste, used oil, lead-acid battery and household hazardous waste guidance.
- Arizona 811Free utility locates before you dig, demolish or excavate — two full working days’ notice.
- ADOTPermit requirements for work or containers affecting a state route such as US-60, SR-87 or the Loop 202.
- Pinal CountySeparate permitting and solid waste for Apache Junction, Gold Canyon and San Tan Valley.
- National Weather ServiceMonsoon outlooks, dust storm warnings and severe thunderstorm guidance for the Phoenix metro.
- US EPAFederal guidance on the RRP lead-paint rule, asbestos NESHAP, Section 608 refrigerant recovery and C&D debris recovery.
Talk to a real person
Need a dumpster in Mesa today?
Tell us what you are clearing out and we will tell you the right size and the flat price to put it in your driveway. No forms, no waiting on an email — just call and we will sort it out in a couple of minutes.
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