20-Yard Dumpster Rental

The 20-yard is the size most Columbia homeowners actually need and don't realize it. A single-room gut, a kitchen tear-out in Melrose Heights, or a garage-and-attic estate cleanout in Heathwood usually overflows a 10-yard and wastes money on a 30-yard. The 20-yard sits in the middle: about 22 feet long, 8 feet wide, and roughly 4.5 feet tall, so it clears a standard two-car driveway in Wales Garden or Lake Katherine and stays low enough to toss debris over the side without a ramp. If your project is one or two rooms of demo, a roof under about 2,500 square feet, or a full-house declutter, this is the container to call about first.

Where the 20-yard shines is mixed, bulky waste with moderate weight. Old cabinets, carpet, tile backer, and framing lumber fill volume fast but don't crush your weight allowance the way a container packed solid with concrete or dirt would. For heavy clean fill — brick, block, or asphalt shingles by the pallet — a smaller container with a dedicated heavy-material rate is often the smarter and safer choice, and we'll say so on the phone rather than upsell you into a bigger box you can't legally haul full. That trade-off matters in Columbia because overweight loads are where surprise tonnage fees usually hide. We quote your weight allowance before drop-off so there's no guessing.

Placement is the other thing worth planning. Most Forest Acres and Earlewood driveways handle a 20-yard fine, and we set plywood down to protect the surface on request. If you're in tighter Cottontown or Hollywood-Rose Hill lots where the driveway is short and the street is narrow, tell us — a container placed in the public right-of-way near USC, Five Points, or the State House area can require a permit from the City of Columbia or Richland County, and we'll walk you through whether yours does. Delivery windows run daytime, and our driver calls ahead so you know when the truck is turning onto your block.