Bin Rental Calgary

Choosing the right bin size

The honest rule of thumb: people underestimate volume and overestimate weight. A single room of furniture looks enormous stacked in a hallway and disappears into a 10 yard bin. A bathroom gut-out that fills half a bin can still hit the weight limit, because tile and plaster are dense.

For clean-outs and light household junk, count rooms — one to two rooms fits a 10 yard, three to four fits a 15, a whole house tends toward a 20. For renovation debris, count the material. Drywall, lumber and cabinetry are bulky and light, so go by volume. Concrete, tile, dirt, shingles and plaster are heavy, so a smaller bin filled properly beats a big one you cannot legally have hauled.

If you land between two sizes, take the larger one. The price difference between a 15 and a 20 is smaller than the cost of a second haul.

Where we can put a bin

A bin needs a flat spot and clear overhead access for the truck to roll it off. On a typical Calgary residential driveway that means roughly 22 feet of length and about 12 feet of width for the truck to work, with nothing overhead — no low branches, no power lines, no carport roof over the drop point.

Back alleys work well in the inner city and are often easier than a narrow front driveway. Garage pads, side yards on a corner lot and commercial parking areas all work. What does not work is soft ground after a thaw, or a spot the truck cannot back into in a straight line.

Bins are heavy when loaded. We put plywood down under the rails on driveways if you ask, and we recommend it on newer concrete and on any paving stone.

How long you keep it, and what it costs

Rental periods are flexible. Most residential jobs run a few days to a week. Renovation and construction jobs often run longer, and contractors frequently want a swap — we take the full one and drop an empty in the same visit so the trades never stop working.

The cost of a bin rental is the drop-off, the rental period, the haul, and the landfill tipping fee, which is charged by weight. That is why heavy material matters: two bins of the same size can cost meaningfully different amounts if one is full of couch cushions and the other is full of tile.

Call 403-509-2783 and describe the job and we will give you a number for the size you need, including the fill limits, before anything gets delivered.