Dumpster Rental in Tempe, AZ

Roll-off containers for Tempe homes and jobsites

Tempe is the oldest city we serve and it drives like it. The grid is tighter, the lots are smaller, the alleys are real and still in use, and the trees are big — forty and fifty year old olive, eucalyptus and date palm hanging over streets that were laid out when a delivery truck meant something smaller than what we bring. Loop 202 Red Mountain west along the river is the fast way in; McKellips straight out of the yard is the pleasant way when the freeway is stacked.

Housing here runs older than anywhere else on our list. Maple-Ash and the streets around downtown hold 1920s through 1940s stock. Then comes the postwar wave: block ranch from the 1950s and 1960s, low-slope and flat roofs, carports rather than garages, single-car drives, evaporative coolers on the roof that later became package units. Escalante, Holdeman and the Rural Road corridor are all that era. South of Baseline the city turns into 1970s and 1980s subdivisions, and out toward Warner Ranch and the Lakes you get the 1980s planned communities with man-made water and mature landscaping. Even the oldest of it is slab-on-grade — there is no basement in Tempe, there is no crawlspace, and a national sizing guide that assumes either one will oversize every cleanout you book here.

The work splits between rental turnover near the university, where units cycle and furniture and carpet come out in a hurry, and long-held family houses in the older neighborhoods where the owner is finally redoing a 1958 kitchen or clearing a garage that has been filling since the Nixon administration. Flat and low-slope roof work is more common here than in east Mesa, and old built-up roofing is heavy and awkward. Add the tree work — a mature eucalyptus or a row of date palms coming out fills containers fast.

What we know about working in Tempe

Tempe runs its own solid waste programme, its own permit desk and its own household hazardous waste facility, which matters because Mesa’s HHM drive-through takes Mesa utility customers only. Start at tempe.gov for right-of-way questions and for what the city will and will not take. Access is the whole conversation in the older parts of town. Original drives in Maple-Ash, Escalante and the Mitchell Park streets run narrow, some houses have only a carport and a strip of concrete, and a fair number of properties are served by an alley. Alleys are attractive until you look up: power drops, low limbs and a surface that has never been graded for a loaded truck. We will set in an alley if it is genuinely clear, but tell us in advance and we will scout it. Overhead clearance in general is the Tempe problem — we need room above the truck to raise the hoist arm, not just room for the box, and we will not cut a limb to make a delivery fit. If the container has to go in the street, that is Tempe’s right of way and Tempe’s permission, not Mesa’s barricade permit. Pre-1980 houses are the norm here rather than the exception, so plan for asbestos notification through Maricopa County Air Quality under Rule 370 ten business days before a demolition or renovation, required whether or not asbestos turns up. Old built-up and flat roofing is dense: size it by weight. Palm, olive and eucalyptus all go in the container rather than any city green programme.

• CountyMaricopa County
• Distance from our yard15 miles west of our Rosemont Road yard
• Main routesLoop 202 Red Mountain west along the Salt River to the Scottsdale Road and Rural Road exits
• Typical deliverySame or next day

Getting a truck to you

Loop 202 Red Mountain west along the river is the fast run and lands us near Scottsdale Road or Rural Road in about twenty-five minutes. McKellips straight west out of the yard is the alternative and it is often no slower mid-morning. For south Tempe we drop down Loop 101 Price to Baseline. Before we book we want the age of the house, the width of the drive, whether the property has an alley and whether that alley is passable, what is overhead on the approach, and whether the load is remodel debris, roofing or tree work. Old flat roofing and palm are the two things people misjudge here.

Routes we run: Loop 202 Red Mountain west along the Salt River to the Scottsdale Road and Rural Road exits, McKellips Road west straight out of the yard and across into Tempe, US-60 Superstition Freeway west to Rural Road or Mill Avenue, Loop 101 Price south to Baseline Road for the south Tempe addresses.

Landmarks and neighborhoods we work around

Permits, streets and placement in Tempe

On a private driveway in Tempe you generally do not need a permit at all. Placement in the public street or right-of-way is a different matter, and here the requirement follows the address rather than the county: in Mesa a street placement needs a City of Mesa Temporary Traffic Control (barricade) permit — 480-644-4882, barricade@mesaaz.gov — and Gilbert, Chandler, Tempe, Scottsdale, Queen Creek, Paradise Valley and Apache Junction each run their own equivalent desk with their own form and lead time. Where the road is a state route, ADOT is the authority instead of the city. Sidewalks and alleys stay clear either way, and in the HOA and master-planned parts of Tempe the CC&Rs commonly decide where a container may sit and for how many days, so check with the association first. Sort the approval before you book the delivery. It is a ten-minute call that saves a week.

Two more rules reach every job we run. Dust and asbestos are handled at county level: across Maricopa County that is Maricopa County Air Quality — Rule 310 for fugitive dust, with a permit required once you disturb 0.10 acre (4,356 square feet) and loads leaving covered with at least three inches of freeboard, and Rule 370 for asbestos, which wants notification at least ten business days before any demolition or renovation and applies whether asbestos is present or not. For addresses over the line in Pinal County the asbestos programme runs through ADEQ instead. Before anything is dug, trenched or a stump pulled, call Arizona 811 at least two full working days ahead. Our permit and placement guide walks through the whole process, and collection, household hazardous materials and self-haul details are published by the City of Mesa.

Sizes we deliver to Tempe