15 Yard Dumpster Rental in Peoria, CO

A 15 yard is 16 feet long, 8 feet wide and 4 feet tall, four to five pickup loads, and it is the size most Peoria homeowners should have booked and never knew existed. One gutted room. One modest tear-off. Low enough over the rail that one person can keep loading long after the helper has found something else to do.

• Capacity15 cubic yards
• Footprint16 ft x 8 ft x 4 ft
• Weight allowance2 – 3 tons
• Holds about~4 – 5 pickup truck loads

Why people choose the 15 yard

Start with the roof, because Peoria roofs come off in a hurry after a bad storm season. A 15 yard takes a single layer of architectural shingle across roughly twelve to sixteen squares before tonnage becomes the limiting factor, and that covers most bungalow and ranch rooflines on the older grid. Two layers, a heavy dimensional shingle, or a spread big enough to need staging and we step you up rather than let you find out at the scale. Our roofing dumpster rental page and the tear-off sizing guide both work from squares instead of guesswork.

The other half of this box is the one-room gut. A hall bath in a pre-1940 Peoria house is not a modern bathroom: it is plaster and lath over three walls, a cast-iron tub that takes two men and a stairway, hex tile bedded in mortar, and a wall-hung sink on a cracked cast-iron trap. Plaster runs roughly two to three times the weight of drywall for the same volume, so a room that reads like a 20 yard job by eye turns out to be a 15 yard job by scale. See residential dumpster rental for how we schedule single-room work.

Four feet of side height is the quiet reason people keep asking for this size by name. Plaster comes off the lath in heavy sheets and chunks, and every extra inch you have to lift it is a decision your back makes for you at three in the afternoon. Over a 15 you swing it in; over a 30 you throw it up. On an older remodel where one person is doing demo between other work, that difference decides whether the job finishes this weekend. Older houses also carry asbestos and lead paint risks, so test before you swing a bar.

Good fit for

• Single-layer shingle tear-off on a bungalow roof
• Hall bath taken to the studs, cast-iron tub and all
• Plaster and lath stripped from one room
• Carpet, pad and tack strip across a full floor
• Kitchen cabinet and countertop swap-out
• Small deck removal, roughly ten by twelve feet
• Garage clear-out with old shelving and bench
• Attic or single-room cleanout after a move

Not the right size for

• Whole-house cleanout in a foursquare
• Multi-room gut with plaster on every wall
• New construction framing on a full build
• Commercial tenant turnover volume

Will it fit?

Plan on roughly 60 feet of straight approach, about 10 and a half feet of width for the truck and its mirrors, and 20 feet or more of overhead so the hoist can stand the box up. Low limbs and service drops over the older tree-lined streets are the usual holdup, so walk the approach and look up before delivery day. Rear alley placement works well in the historic districts and often beats a narrow front drive. We will not set a loaded box on a bluff grade — level ground only. Protection boards are standard on every drop. On soft spring ground, gravel township lanes or acreage, flag the well and septic field first.

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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