10 Yard Dumpster Rental in Mesa, AZ

A 10 yard roll-off is 12 feet long, 8 feet wide and about three and a half feet tall, rated for roughly two to three tons — call it three pickup loads. On a great many Mesa jobs it is the only container that makes sense, and not because the pile is small. It is because the pile is dense. Weight stops a truck long before volume does, and in a market where the roofs are concrete tile, the yards are granite and the ground under the thin topsoil is caliche, that catches people out constantly.

• Capacity10 cubic yards
• Footprint12 ft x 8 ft x 3.5 ft
• Weight allowance2 – 3 tons
• Holds about~3 pickup truck loads

Why people choose the 10 yard

Start with the arithmetic, because it decides everything else on a Mesa job. A roofing square is a hundred square feet of roof surface. Stripped asphalt shingle runs about 250 pounds a square; concrete or clay tile runs roughly 900 to 1,000 pounds a square, three to four times the weight off the same roof. A tile tear-off that looks like a 20 by volume is a weight job, and the honest answer is a 10 hauled more than once. Landscape rock tells the same story in a different material: decorative granite, rip-rap and river rock come in around 1.3 to 1.5 tons per cubic yard, so a 10 of granite is at payload with the load sitting flat in the bottom of the box, nowhere near the rails. Caliche, the cemented hardpan under the desert soil, behaves the same way. Load all of it flat and low and never mounded, because a crowned rock load is both over weight and impossible to tarp properly. Our tile roof tear-off size guide works through squares and layers, and concrete and heavy debris hauling gets a container size of its own for this reason.

The second job this box does here is the ground itself. Front and back yards in the East Valley are rock, not lawn, so a landscape refresh means lifting an entire yard of granite and hauling it, and under it sits caliche, which comes up in pool demolition, footings, trenching and stump and tree removal. Pool demo adds gunite, deck concrete, tile and coping, all of it weight rather than volume, and pool removal needs a demolition permit from City of Mesa Development Services before anything starts. Block is the other material people misjudge: property walls throughout Mesa are CMU with grout in the cells, so taking a wall down produces dense masonry rubble, not fence panels. Anything that involves digging — rock excavation, footings, a pool, a citrus or mesquite stump — needs at least two full working days of notice to Arizona 811 before you break ground. Locals still say blue stake, and the marks stay valid fifteen working days. Keep the heavy stream clean, in its own container, and stage the swaps. See landscape rock and caliche debris and demolition debris hauling.

Then there is the footprint. Twelve feet of steel tucks onto the original single-car drives in Dreamland Villa, Velda Rose and around Mesa Grande where nothing longer will sit without hanging into the street, and it is the right box on a park-model pad or a 55+ unit in Leisure World, Sunland Village, Apache Wells or Venture Out, where the concrete is thin, the lanes are narrow and there is no room to swing anything bigger. Those communities also produce a steady wave of work in March and April as winter visitors head out and units change hands, which is a different job from a tear-off but often the same size container. Before you pick the spot, read how we protect a driveway on delivery, because protection boards go down on every set and they earn their keep from May through September, when an asphalt drive is soft enough by mid-afternoon to take an impression from a loaded box. For the household side see residential dumpster rental, or compare the range on our dumpster size guide.

Good fit for

• Concrete and clay tile tear-off, loaded flat and low
• Decorative granite, rip-rap and river rock yard removal
• Caliche and trench spoil off a footing or pool dig
• Driveway, apron and patio slab breakout in staged loads
• CMU block property wall demolition
• Pool deck concrete, coping and gunite rubble
• Tile and thinset off a bath or kitchen floor
• Park model and 55+ unit clearouts on a tight pad

Not the right size for

• Whole-house cleanouts full of bulky furniture
• Garage, attic, Arizona room and shed clear-outs
• Multi-room remodels making airy, bulky debris
• Patio cover, carport framing and commercial fit-out volume

Will it fit?

Give the truck about 60 feet of straight approach, roughly 10 and a half feet of width and 20 feet or more of overhead clearance while the hoist works. The overhead obstruction in Mesa is almost always a palm frond canopy or a mesquite limb over the drive, ahead of carport framing, shade sails and service drops, so look up. Twelve feet fits a short original drive in Dreamland Villa, Velda Rose or Mesa Grande, a park-model pad, or a spot where nothing longer will sit. Protection boards go down as standard and they matter most from May through September, when an asphalt drive goes soft and a loaded box will take an impression out of it. Those 1950s and 60s drives were poured thin to start with. Pavers, common in east Mesa and Las Sendas, dish and shift and are the hardest surface we set on, and decomposed granite parking areas rut. Out in Gold Canyon and San Tan Valley the approach is often a long dirt or DG lane, and septic tanks, drain fields and well heads need flagging — inside Mesa, Gilbert, Chandler and Tempe you are on city water and sewer. Street placement needs a City of Mesa Temporary Traffic Control (barricade) permit — call 480-644-4882 or email barricade@mesaaz.gov.

Before delivery, move cars and bins, mark irrigation heads and septic lids, and tell us about new concrete, soft ground, a steep grade or low power lines. Our delivery and driveway protection guide covers all of it.

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