20-Yard Dumpster Rental in Clermont, FL

What a 20-yard dumpster is

A 20-yard dumpster holds 20 cubic yards of material, which is about six pickup truck loads. It is about 22 feet long, 8 feet wide and around 4.5 feet tall, so it takes up about as much driveway as a large car and a half. It is the size most Clermont jobs land on, because it covers a whole room's worth of debris — a kitchen, a floor through a house, a roof, a garage — without being so large that it blocks the driveway or so tall that it is hard to load.

The 20-yard is the size the other sizes are measured against. A job that is too big for a 10-yard and too small for a 30-yard is a 20-yard job. A kitchen remodel with cabinets, countertops, flooring and drywall fits. Flooring through a three-bedroom house fits. A roof tear-off on a mid-size home fits, with the shingles kept low in the container. A garage that has filled up over years fits, once the furniture is taken apart and the boxes are broken down.

The height matters as much as the length. At around 4.5 feet tall, a 20-yard is low enough to toss material over the side without a ladder or a ramp, which is why it is the usual choice for a job where one person is doing the loading. A 30-yard is a foot and a half taller, and a 40-yard is twice as tall — both need more effort to load, and heavy material over the side of a tall container is hard work.

How a 20-yard rental works

The provider delivers the container to the driveway, with boards under the rails to protect the surface. The driver needs about 22 feet of clear driveway plus room for the truck to back in, so move cars out of the way before the delivery and keep the spot clear of low wires and branches. If the driveway is short, the container can sometimes sit across the front of the driveway, but the driver will work with you on the spot.

Load over the rental period, which runs about a week in most cases. Keep shingles and other heavy material low, stack flat material flat, and do not load above the rim. A 20-yard of shingles is a heavy load, so the weight allowance matters — ask the provider what it covers before the roof comes off, not after. When the container is loaded, call for pickup, and the truck takes it to the Lake County facility.

A kitchen remodel with nowhere to put the debris

A 20-yard dumpster in Clermont homes

Clermont's housing stock is built for a 20-yard. The new subdivisions along Wellness Way and US 27 have three and four-bedroom homes where a kitchen remodel or a flooring job is a 20-yard job. The older homes in Kings Ridge, built from 1995 to 2000, are now at the age when kitchens, bathrooms and roofs are all being replaced, and each of those jobs is a 20-yard job. The historic homes near downtown Clermont are smaller, but a full-gut remodel on one of them is still a 20-yard job.

Roofing is the other 20-yard job in Clermont. The city has a large share of homes with roofs 20 to 30 years old, and a roof tear-off on a mid-size home is the classic 20-yard load: shingles, underlayment and flashing, kept low in the container. The roofing page explains the weight allowance in detail, because shingles are the material most likely to reach it.

When a 20-yard is not enough

A 20-yard is the most common size because it fits the most jobs, but it is not the size for every job. A whole-home cleanout, an estate cleanout, or a major remodel that takes out several rooms at once will fill a 20-yard before the work is done. A new build with framing, drywall and roofing debris will fill it too. In those cases the 30-yard page explains the next size up, and the provider can arrange a second container or a swap if the job grows while you load.

The sign that a 20-yard is not enough is the material still on the floor when the container is full. If the job is a whole house, order the 30-yard from the start. If the job grows while you load, call before the container is full — a swap is simpler to arrange while the work is still moving than after it has stopped.