Residential dumpster rental in Columbia, SC.

The projects we set boxes for

Whole-house and garage cleanouts. Estate clearings, where a family works through a property over days rather than an afternoon. Kitchen and bath remodels producing cabinets, tile, and drywall in waves. The pre-move purge, when a household finally decides what is not making the trip. Storm pickup after a summer system drags limbs across the yard.

Size follows the material. A single room or one bathroom tear-out fits the 15-yard box. Most whole-house work books the 20-yard box. A remodel that touches several rooms at once earns the 30-yard box. Describe the job by phone and we place it — the point of the call is to keep you from paying for steel you will not fill.

Driveway placement, done properly

A flat, firm, accessible driveway carries a roll-off without drama. What decides the drop is everything around it: the straight run the truck needs in front of the pad, the swing of the rear door behind the box, gates, low limbs, overhead wires, and where cars park while the box is down. After a stretch of Midlands rain, say so — soft ground beside the pavement is the kind of detail that matters before dispatch, not after.

Mark where you want the box and which way the door should face. Then think about the last day, not just the first: the truck path that existed at delivery has to exist at pickup.

Keep it off the street if you can

A box entirely on your own property keeps the job simple. Inside Columbia, a container in the street, on a sidewalk, or in any public right-of-way is a temporary encroachment — city approval comes before the drop, and streets the state maintains add a second SCDOT permit. The permit page covers the whole process, including the neighboring towns. If a homeowners association controls your street, ask it before planning anything outside your own lot line.

The items that need their own plan

A handful of household items cannot ride in the mixed load, and South Carolina is specific about them. Lead-acid car batteries are banned from landfills by state law. Refrigerators, freezers, and air conditioners carry a $15.00-per-unit Freon-recovery fee at Lexington County's Edmund Landfill; mattresses run $14.00 each; passenger tires are handled per tire. Electronics are their own stream — the county takes at most five per day per household. Set these aside as you load and mention them when you book. The full list lives on the load rules page.

One more Lexington County note for estate and landlord work: waste from rental properties cannot use the county's free neighborhood collection centers. It goes to the landfill and pays tipping fees — which is exactly what a quoted roll-off already accounts for.

Checked against S.C. Code Title 44 and Lexington County's published fee schedule, August 2026