30 Yard Dumpster Rental in Mesa, AZ

A 30 yard roll-off is 22 feet long, 8 feet wide and about six feet tall, rated for roughly four to five tons — nine to twelve pickup loads. Same footprint as a 20, half again as tall. It is the container for whole-structure work: a property cleared front to back, a major remodel, an addition, a new build going up out toward Eastmark or Cadence. It is also the container where weight discipline matters most, because the extra height makes it very easy to load past a legal payload without noticing.

• Capacity30 cubic yards
• Footprint22 ft x 8 ft x 6 ft
• Weight allowance4 – 5 tons
• Holds about~9 – 12 pickup truck loads

Why people choose the 30 yard

The whole-property clear is the first job for this box, and in Mesa that phrase means something specific. There is nothing under the house, so front to back is every room plus the garage, the attic, the carport, the Arizona room, the back patio, the side yard and the shed — and once you add outbuildings and a patio full of stored material, a 20 stops being enough. This is the size for a house that is being emptied completely rather than tidied, for a hoarding situation, and for the properties that come up for clearing after the March and April snowbird departures when a unit or a house changes hands. It is also the storm box. The monsoon runs June 15 to September 30, and a microburst puts down straight-line winds near 100 miles an hour for three to five minutes, which is long enough to take out patio covers, shade structures, carport roofing, block wall sections and half the mature mesquite and palo verde on a street. A dust storm does the same to schedules. After an event like that every container in the East Valley is spoken for within a day, so call early. See monsoon storm damage cleanup and junk removal.

The second use is the big remodel and the addition, and here the discipline is separating streams rather than picking a bigger box. Take a 1990s stucco-and-tile house back to studs across most of its floor plan and you generate cabinetry, countertop, flooring, drywall, trim, doors, ductwork and framing offcuts — bulky, light, and exactly what a 30 is for. What must not go in with it is the tile off the roof, the rock off the yard, the slab off the old patio, the block off a wall you took down and any caliche out of a footing. All of that runs a 30 straight past payload while it still looks half empty, and the driver will not lift it. Put it in a 10 and haul it repeatedly under concrete and heavy debris hauling. Two other items belong in the plan on a job this size. The slab is post-tension and must not be cut, cored or drilled without a scan first. And asbestos notification to the county air quality department under Rule 370 is due at least ten business days before any demolition or renovation, with demolition notifications required whether asbestos is present or not. See demolition debris hauling.

The third use is new construction and builder work, and south-east Mesa is where most of it is. Eastmark, Cadence and the corridor toward Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport keep building, and East Valley semiconductor supply-chain work keeps commercial construction steady behind it. A house under construction produces framing offcuts, sheathing, packaging, cardboard, stucco lath, siding scrap and cut-offs, and a 30 sitting on the lot through framing and dry-in is the standard answer, swapped as it fills. The Maricopa County dust rules apply to all of it and they are stricter here than anywhere else in this trade, because metro Phoenix is a serious PM10 nonattainment area. Rule 310 wants a dust control permit before you disturb a tenth of an acre, at least three inches of freeboard between the load and the top of an open body, loads covered by tarp or suitable closure, and a trackout control device once you are hauling a hundred cubic yards of bulk material in a day. Operations stop when wind carries visible dust across the property line. Check the current rule with Maricopa County, and see construction debris disposal in the East Valley.

Good fit for

• Whole-property clears, house plus garage, shed and patio
• Major remodels across most of a floor plan
• Additions and Arizona room rebuilds
• New build framing and dry-in phases in Eastmark and Cadence
• Builder punch-out and construction cleanup
• Monsoon storm damage: patio covers, shade structures, limbs
• Outbuilding and carport demolition
• Commercial tenant improvement and fit-out staging

Not the right size for

• Roof tile, landscape rock, caliche or slab concrete
• CMU block wall rubble mixed into a light load
• Single-room remodels and one bathroom
• Tight original single-car drives with no turning room

Will it fit?

Same 22-foot footprint as the 20, so the driveway question is the same: about 60 feet of straight approach, roughly 10 and a half feet of width and 20 feet or more of overhead clearance for the hoist to stand a taller box up. That overhead number is the one that bites, because a palm frond canopy or a mesquite limb over the drive will stop a 30 going up when it would have cleared a shorter container , ahead of carport framing, shade sails and service drops. The six-foot side means you want the set square, level and the loading side clear. Protection boards are standard on any finished surface and they matter most from May through September, when an asphalt drive is soft enough by mid-afternoon that a loaded box leaves an impression. Thin 1950s and 60s concrete in Dreamland Villa, Velda Rose and Mesa Grande will not take this size, pavers in east Mesa and Las Sendas dish and shift under it, and a decomposed granite parking area ruts. Out in Gold Canyon and San Tan Valley the approach is often a long dirt or DG lane and the septic tank, drain field and well head need flagging; inside Mesa, Gilbert, Chandler and Tempe you are on city water and sewer. HOA communities commonly cap container days — read the CC&Rs before booking a multi-week job.

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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