20 Yard Dumpster Rental in Lubbock, TX

A 20 yard roll-off is 22 feet long, 8 feet wide and about four and a half feet tall — six to eight pickup loads. This is the container that leaves our yard more than all the others combined, and it stays that way because it is the honest answer to most Lubbock projects: enough room for a real remodel, low enough to load standing on your own driveway.

• Capacity20 cubic yards
• Footprint22 ft x 8 ft x 4.5 ft
• Weight allowance3 – 4 tons
• Holds about~6 – 8 pickup truck loads

Why people choose the 20 yard

A kitchen gut is the classic 20 yard job. Cabinets, countertop, appliances, flooring, backsplash tile, a soffit that came down with it and the drywall behind all of it — that is bulky, awkward material that eats volume without being especially heavy, which is exactly what this size is for. Push into two or three rooms, or a remodel that also takes out flooring through the hall and the bathrooms, and you are still inside 20 yards nine times out of ten. Our construction dumpster rental covers the contractor side, and construction debris disposal on the South Plains covers where the material actually goes.

For a cleanout, remember where you are. Lubbock houses are slab-on-grade with no basement, so the accumulation is not spread over an extra floor — it is concentrated in the garage, the attic and the backyard shed, plus whatever is in a rented unit across town. That changes how a cleanout runs: the volume is real but it arrives in bursts, and attic material in particular is bulky and light. A three-bedroom house cleared of furniture, boxes, an old swamp cooler, patio furniture and thirty years of garage shelving is a 20 yard job. See our Lubbock home cleanout checklist and estate cleanout service for how to work through it room by room.

Then there is the Tech cycle. May move-out and August move-in turn over thousands of rentals in a two-week window, and the 20 is the standard box for that work — a furnished unit, or two smaller ones back to back, with next-day swaps between properties. Landlords and property managers who book early get the schedule they want; everyone else gets what is left. We serve Lubbock and the surrounding towns, so a manager with units in town and property out in Wolfforth, Shallowater or Slaton can run the same rotation across both. Whatever the job, keep the load level with the top rail so it can be tarped for the haul.

Good fit for

• Full kitchen gut including cabinets and counters
• Two or three room remodels with flooring
• Whole-house cleanout on a typical Lubbock home
• Garage, attic and backyard shed clear-out
• Furnished rental turnover in the Tech fortnight
• Larger roof tear-off, two layers or 25-plus squares
• Estate clearance ahead of a property sale
• Storm debris, downed fencing and outbuilding damage

Not the right size for

• Concrete, brick, caliche, dirt or other dense loads
• New construction framing waste on a full build
• Commercial fit-outs and large retail strip-outs
• Whole-structure demolition debris

Will it fit?

Twenty-two feet of container wants about 60 feet of straight approach, 10 and a half feet of width and 20 feet or more of overhead for the hoist arm. On a normal Lubbock lot that is a driveway set with the box nose-in and the doors clear at the back; on a corner lot the side street is sometimes the better line. Protection boards are standard on concrete and we use them on caliche drives too, because a loaded 20 will press into hardpan after a wet spell. On county property, flag the septic field, the lateral lines and the well head before delivery, and give us a set that does not cross either. Four and a half feet of sidewall keeps hand-loading realistic, and the barn doors at the back open fully if you would rather walk a dolly in than lift over the side.

Before delivery, move cars and bins, mark irrigation heads and septic lids, and tell us about new concrete, soft ground, a steep grade or low power lines. Our delivery and driveway protection guide covers all of it.

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