Heavy Debris
Concrete & Heavy Debris Dumpster Rental in Lubbock, TX
Small boxes and multiple swaps for concrete, brick, block, dirt, sod and caliche. Weight fills these loads long before volume does, and clean concrete gets crushed for fill rather than buried.
Heavy debris is the one material where volume is the wrong way to think. Broken concrete runs roughly 2,400 to 2,800 pounds per cubic yard depending on how thick the slab was and how much rebar and dirt comes with it. That means a container looking barely a third full can already be at its road-legal limit. Everything we do on these jobs is arranged around weight: smaller boxes, more swaps, and a load that gets pulled before it becomes a problem for the truck.
Caliche is the local surprise. The hardpan layer sits under the topsoil across the South Plains, caliche drives and county roads are normal out past the Loop, and people who have never moved it assume it behaves like dirt. It does not — it is dense, it compacts, and a pickup bed of it is already a heavy load. Same story for the brick veneer coming off a Lubbock house and the block out of an old fence line. Our Lubbock size guide shows where the weight lines fall.
The upside is that clean material has somewhere useful to go. Concrete with no trash, no wood, no dirt and no rebar sticking out of it gets crushed and reused as fill and road base rather than buried, which is a better outcome and a cheaper disposal path. Dirty concrete — mixed with soil, roots, plastic or lumber — loses that option entirely. Keep the loads separate from the first wheelbarrow and read the South Plains debris disposal guide before you start breaking.
Heavy Material We Set Small Boxes For
Driveway And Apron Removal
Four to six inches of reinforced concrete over a caliche base. A single-car driveway is easily several tons, so we plan swap counts before the saw ever comes out.
Patios, Sidewalks And Porch Steps
Smaller pours, often unreinforced, and much easier to break by hand. Still dense enough that a modest patio fills a small container faster than most people expect.
Slab And Foundation Breakout
Garage slabs, shed pads and footings. Thickness and rebar drive the tonnage, and the load has to stay level with the rails so the hoist can pick it safely.
Brick And Block
Veneer off a Lubbock house, old fence block and chimney brick. Mortar adds weight, and full unbroken brick is worth checking for salvage before it goes into the box.
Caliche And Hardpan
The layer everybody underestimates. Excavated caliche is dense, compacts hard in the box and reaches weight quickly, so it always goes in the smallest container we run.
Dirt, Fill And Excavation Spoil
Trenching spoil, footing dirt and grade corrections. Wet soil is dramatically heavier than dry, so we would rather set after a dry stretch than during one.
Sod And Turf Stripping
Sod carries its soil with it and weighs several times what the same volume of brush does. Landscape jobs producing both get two separate containers, not one mixed load.
Clean Concrete For Crushing
Concrete kept free of dirt, wood, trash and protruding rebar can be crushed for fill and base. Sorting it at the source is worth the small amount of extra handling.
Why A Small Box Is The Right Answer
For concrete, brick, block, dirt, sod or caliche the container we set is almost always the 10 yard. It reaches its weight limit at a sensible height, it loads easily over the side with a wheelbarrow, and the truck can pick it safely off a residential driveway. A 15 yard works for lighter mixed heavy material such as broken block with some mortar rubble. A 20 yard is about the ceiling, and only on genuinely clean, dry, well-sorted material. A 40 is always the wrong answer for this stuff — it reaches road weight when it is a quarter full, so you pay to move a lot of empty steel and it still cannot be picked. Multiple small boxes on next-day swaps beat one oversized box every time.
10 Yard Dumpster
Caliche, concrete, brick, block, tile and soil — weight fills it long before volume does.
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Single-room remodels, tear-offs to about 20 squares, rental make-readies.
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Garage, attic and shed clear-outs, kitchen guts, multi-room renovations.
View this size →Clean Versus Dirty Loads And Driveway Protection
Sorting at the source is what makes a heavy load cheap or expensive. A clean concrete load — no soil, no roots, no lumber, no plastic, no rebar hanging over the rail — is recyclable and gets crushed into fill and base. Mix a few bags of trash and some tree roots into it and the whole container becomes general waste. Keep two piles from the very first wheelbarrow and it costs you nothing. Placement matters too, because a container of concrete on a residential driveway is the heaviest thing that surface will ever hold. Protection boards go down on every set, we photograph the drive first, and where the concrete is already cracked or the apron is failing we will say plainly that the firm ground alongside is the safer spot. The driveway protection guide covers what we check.
Not sure this is the right service? Describe the job on the phone and we will point you at the right container even if it is a different service page. Call (806) 758-7942.
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How it works
Concrete & Heavy Debris in four steps
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Call us
Tell us the project, your address and when you want it. Two minutes on the phone and you have a flat price.
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We deliver
Our driver walks the drop, lays protection boards and sets the container exactly where you want it.
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You load it
Take your time within your rental window. Keep it level with the top rail and we handle the rest.
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We haul it
Call or text when you are done. We pull it, sort what can be recovered and dispose of the rest properly.
Concrete & Heavy Debris FAQs
Why can I not just get a 40 yard for my driveway concrete?
Because concrete runs roughly 2,400 to 2,800 pounds per cubic yard and trucks have road-legal weight limits. A 40 yard hits that limit at around a quarter full, which means you pay to transport a lot of empty steel and the driver may not be able to pick the box at all. Two or three swaps on a 10 yard move the same tonnage safely and usually cost less overall. Tell us the square footage and thickness and we will work out the swap count.
Is caliche really that heavy?
Yes, and it catches people out constantly. The hardpan caliche layer under the topsoil is normal across the South Plains, and caliche drives and county roads are everywhere past the Loop. It is a dense cemented material, not loose dirt, and it compacts further once it is in the box. Treat it exactly like concrete for sizing purposes: smallest container we run, loaded level, swapped often. Wet caliche is heavier again.
What is the difference between clean and dirty concrete?
Clean concrete is nothing but concrete — no soil, roots, lumber, plastic, trash or rebar sticking out past the rails. That load can be crushed and reused as fill and road base rather than landfilled, which is the better environmental and financial outcome. Dirty concrete is mixed with anything else and is handled as general debris. Rebar cast inside the slab is normally fine; it is the loose and protruding steel that causes problems at the crusher.
Can I put dirt and concrete in the same container?
We would rather you did not. They go to different destinations, and mixing soil into concrete is exactly what makes a clean load dirty and removes the crushing option. Dirt also packs into the voids between broken slab, which drives the weight up fast without adding any useful volume. If a job produces both, we run two small boxes. TCEQ sets the disposal framework in Texas, and those rules do get updated.
Do I need to worry about utilities before breaking a slab?
Yes. Water lines, gas services, irrigation and electrical conduit run under and beside driveways, patios and slabs more often than people assume, and a breaker finds them quickly. Submit a locate ticket through Texas 811 before you start, allow the required notice period, and work carefully around the marks. Private lines downstream of the meter are generally the owner's responsibility to identify.
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Other things we haul
Residential Dumpster Rental
Driveway placement for garage, attic and backyard shed cleanouts and remodels.
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Scheduled and on-call containers for retail, restaurants, offices and property managers.
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Jobsite roll-offs and next-day swap-outs for builders, remodelers and GCs.
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Weight-rated cans sized by squares and layers, built for hail-season tear-offs.
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10, 15, 20, 30 and 40 yard roll-offs delivered across Lubbock and the South Plains.
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Call before the cut-off and we can usually get a container to you this afternoon.
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Clear a garage, attic, backyard shed or storage unit on your own schedule.
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Discreet, patient container service for families clearing a lifelong home.
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Containers and fast swaps for gut-outs, carports, patio covers, sheds and outbuildings.
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Separate clean loads for brush and limbs — the legal route when a burn ban is on.
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