20-Yard Dumpster Rental Memphis

The 20-yard roll-off measures about 22 feet long, 8 feet wide, and 4.5 feet tall, and holds 20 cubic yards, close to 8 pickup-truck loads. It sits one full step up from the 15-yard ($650) and one step below the 30-yard ($795), which makes it the common middle choice for a kitchen gut, a two-room flooring tear-out, a garage cleanout, or a mid-size construction and demolition job. A 20-yard fits a full-house carpet-and-tile removal; a 10-yard ($595) fits a single bathroom; a 30-yard fits a roof tear-off, the trade-off is driveway footprint versus how much debris you can load in one haul.

Placement matters on tight Memphis lots.

The container needs roughly 22 feet of straight clearance to set down and tilt off the truck, which the shotgun-house driveways around Cooper-Young and Vollintine-Evergreen rarely offer, so many of those drops land on the street. A 20-yard placed in the public right-of-way in Memphis may require a permit from the city; City of Memphis permitting and Shelby County rules apply street-by-street. Driveways in East Memphis, Harbor Town, and Hickory Hill usually hold the 20-yard with wood planks under the wheels to protect the surface.

Berclair, Frayser, Raleigh, and Whitehaven cleanouts frequently use this size for whole-garage and estate work.

Step 1: call (901) 439-3729 or text a photo of the pile. Step 2: the load gets matched to a size so a 20-yard is not rented when a 15-yard clears it. Step 3: delivery is scheduled, same-day or next-day on most Memphis routes.

Step 4: fill it to the fill line, the top rail must stay clear so the load is legal to haul and tarp under FMCSA load-securement rules. Step 5: call for pickup and the $695 covers the trip to the Tennessee solid-waste transfer facility.

A dumpster rental is not junk removal, the container is dropped and you load it on your own schedule, which suits a remodel that runs over several days. Keep banned items out: no wet paint, tires, car batteries, or household hazardous waste, since those divert to a separate stream and are regulated under federal RCRA handling rules.

Heavy single-material loads, concrete, brick, dirt, roofing shingles, are weight-dense; a half-filled 20-yard of concrete can exceed a safe road weight, so those jobs are discussed by phone before drop-off. Contractors loading drywall and framing should follow OSHA jobsite debris-handling practice, and construction crews can route clean material through Earth911 recycling where it makes sense. Flat pricing means the $695 on the phone is the $695 on the invoice.