Homeowners size a container off the finished project. A three bedroom remodel sounds like a three bedroom amount of debris. Demolition does not work that way. A gut job produces most of its volume at the start, when drywall, plaster and lath, subfloor, tile, cabinetry, and old fixtures all come out before a single new material goes in. That is why a container that seemed large enough is full while the framing is still exposed.
Duration is the second problem. A whole-home remodel runs in phases with gaps between them: demolition, rough in, finish work, punch list. A container filled and hauled in week one leaves nothing on site for the cabinet crates, flooring offcuts, and packaging that arrive later.
Both problems have one fix. Size the container against the demolition volume rather than the room count, and plan for a swap if the job runs past it.
These run in phases with gaps between them, so duration matters as much as size. Most of them either hold a container through the quiet stretches or take a swap when it fills.
Older homes here often carry two or three layers of flooring over concrete, and all of it comes up. Cabinetry is the opposite: bulky and light, and it fills the walls fast. A job that does both usually needs more capacity than either one alone would suggest.
The debris changes partway through, from demolition waste at the tie-in to framing offcuts, packaging, and roofing waste once the new structure goes up.
Household contents mixed with construction debris, usually spread across several days rather than one. Appliances turn up on nearly every one of these.
Small footprint, dense debris. Tile, mortar, countertops, and cast iron fixtures hit the weight limit long before they fill a container.
The housing stock matters here. Central San Antonio and the older Austin neighborhoods have plaster walls, wood lath, and layered flooring, all heavier per cubic yard than modern drywall. Hill Country properties around Boerne and New Braunfels tend to come with acreage and longer driveways, which changes placement more than it changes volume.
If the work is commercial construction rather than residential, that side is covered on its own page.
The process is the same whether the job is a single bathroom or a full house. What changes is how many containers it takes and when they arrive.
The property, the type of work, and roughly how long demolition runs. That is enough to size the container and schedule delivery. Our guide to renting a dumpster in San Antonio covers what we will ask.
Tell the driver where you want it and what is overhead. The truck needs a straight approach and clear headroom to set the container down and lift it back on, so low branches, power lines, and gate posts are worth checking before the delivery date.
Debris needs to stay level with the top rail. Anything sitting above it cannot be hauled, so an overloaded container costs you a day rather than saving you one.
We pick up the full container, haul it for disposal, and drop an empty one on the same site. Each swap is booked as a new rental.
We haul the container to a properly licensed disposal site and handle the disposal end. You do not manage any part of the haul off.
Five days of notice is ideal for scheduling. Shorter timeframes are often accommodated, and same day or next day delivery is frequently available in the core service area depending on routing. Call for current lead times before you commit to a demolition date.
Volume is the easier half of sizing. Density is the half that catches people out.
Our renovation sizing guide works through the calculation in more detail if you want to narrow it down before you call.
We accept non-hazardous debris only. The list below covers what comes up on clearing jobs. Our full accepted list is longer.
| Accepted | Not accepted |
| Construction and demolition debris, including concrete, brick, lumber, metal, and drywall | Hazardous waste of any kind, including paint, oils, solvents, and chemicals |
| Tile, plaster, mortar, and subfloor | Asbestos |
| Cabinetry, countertops, fixtures, and large furniture | Appliances still holding refrigerant |
| Household contents from an estate or property cleanout | Tires, propane tanks, batteries, and car fluids |
| Appliances and white goods, once refrigerants are discharged | Liquid waste of any kind |
| Heavy landscaping waste from site clearing | Medical waste, and flammable or explosive material |
Everything we haul is non-hazardous. That distinction matters more on an older home than a new one. Popcorn ceilings, floor tile, and pipe insulation in houses built before the 1980s can contain asbestos, which cannot go in the container and has to be handled by a licensed abatement contractor before demolition begins. Refrigerators, freezers, and window units are accepted once the refrigerant has been discharged by a qualified technician, and not before.
Calls are answered locally. There is no national call center sitting between you and the yard, so a question about placement or timing gets answered rather than logged.
We have been running containers across San Antonio, Austin, and the Hill Country for over a decade. The routes and the disposal sites are settled. So is the way demand moves through the year, which is what lets us give you a straight answer on timing in March rather than a guess.
We hold EPA ID TXR000083663 and haul under the registrations and permits listed on our permits page. What that buys you on a residential job is simple: your debris goes to a properly licensed disposal site and the compliance end of it never becomes your problem. Not every hauler working this market can say the same.
A whole-home remodel rarely fits inside one container. When yours fills, we pick up the full one and set an empty on the same site. Your crew keeps working and the debris does not stack up in the garage while you wait for a delivery window.
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We deliver home renovation containers across San Antonio and Bexar County, Austin and Travis County, and the Hill Country communities between them, including New Braunfels, Boerne, San Marcos, and Seguin. The full service area list covers every community we run to.
If your property sits outside the cities listed, call 210-372-8666 to check coverage before you schedule demolition. General container options across all project types are on our dumpster rental page.
The 30 yard is the usual answer for a whole-home remodel. Step down to the 20 yard for a kitchen or bath gut or a single room, and up to the 40 yard when the debris is bulky rather than heavy, which is typical of cabinetry, packaging, and property cleanouts. Density decides it more often than square footage, because plaster, tile, and old subfloor reach the weight limit long before they fill the walls.
The rental period is agreed when you book, and multi week remodels are routine. A job that runs in phases can be handled two ways: keep the container through the gaps between demolition and finish work, or schedule a swap when it fills and take a fresh one for the back half. Give us the project timeline when you call and we will set the duration around it rather than around a default.
Construction and demolition debris is the core of it, along with cabinetry, countertops, fixtures, and household contents from a cleanout. Everything we accept is non-hazardous, so hazardous material of any kind stays out, and so do tires, propane tanks, batteries, car fluids, liquid waste, and medical waste. Two things catch people out on older homes. Asbestos cannot go in the container and needs a licensed abatement contractor before demolition starts. Appliances holding refrigerant are only accepted once a qualified technician has discharged them.
A container sitting on your own driveway or elsewhere on your private property generally does not require a permit. One placed on a public street, alley, or right of way usually does, and that requirement is set by your city rather than by us. If the container will sit anywhere off your property, check with your city before the delivery date, because the approval can take longer to come through than the container takes to arrive. The registrations and permits we hold as the hauler are a separate matter and are listed on our permits page.
All three sizes are 22 feet long and 8 feet wide, so the ground footprint is identical and only the wall height changes. Most standard residential driveways take a 20 or 30 yard container without difficulty. The approach decides it more often than the footprint does. The truck needs a straight run at the placement spot and clear headroom to raise the container off the bed, so low branches, utility lines, gate posts, and tight turns are worth checking before the delivery date rather than on it.
Yes. Austin and Travis County are a primary market alongside San Antonio and Bexar County, and we run to the Hill Country communities between them, including New Braunfels, Boerne, San Marcos, and Seguin. Coverage reaches further across South and Central Texas than those cities alone, so give us the property address if you are not sure whether yours is on a current route.
Tell us the property, the scope of the work, and when demolition starts. We will size the container against the debris the job will actually produce, schedule delivery around your timeline, and swap it if the project runs past it.
