Dumpster Rental FAQ for Gainesville and Hall County, Georgia

Same day if you call early, next day on most things. We run out of the yard on Northside Drive, which puts the city, Green Street, downtown, New Holland, Chicopee and the Candler side of the county inside a short run. Nine in the morning is the honest cutoff for a same-day set, because after that we are usually committed to a route. The long hauls — Lula, Gillsville, Clermont, the top of north Hall — we would rather schedule than promise, because a single trip up there eats most of a morning. Two things slow a same-day down more than distance. One is a placement that needs to sit in a city street, which needs permission from the city first. The other is an approach nobody has looked at that turns out to be narrow, low or soft. Call (470) 691-8287 and we will tell you which one you have.

Five things, and they take about a minute. The street address, because that decides which government you are under and the answers genuinely differ between the city, the four Hall County municipalities and unincorporated county ground. What is going in the box, because concrete and brick price differently from cabinets and carpet, and because Georgia's rules route them to different facilities. Where you want it set and what that surface is made of. The width, grade and overhead of the approach. And a realistic finish date, so we schedule the pull instead of leaving you to chase it. If you are not sure about any of it, describe what you can see and we will work it out.

No, as long as we have agreed the spot in advance and the approach is clear. Plenty of our sets go in while the customer is at work. What we ask for is a clear driveway, cars moved, gates unlocked, and a photo or a plain description of where you want the rails to sit. What we will not do is guess at a placement we cannot see, or force a box into a spot that will damage a wall, an apron or a septic field. If it looks wrong when the driver gets there, he will call you rather than improvise.

For a 20 yard container, roughly sixty feet of straight approach, about eleven feet of working width, and better than twenty feet of clear overhead so the hoist can stand the box up as it comes off the rails. A 30 or a 40 wants noticeably more of all three. In the older parts of Gainesville the overhead is usually the problem, because the hardwoods and the service drops are older than the trucks. Out in the county the problem is almost always the surface: a long clay drive that carries a pickup fine will not necessarily carry a loaded roll-off truck back out again. Send a photo of the last hundred feet and we will tell you before we come.

We schedule Saturdays around the route rather than as a standing service, so ask when you book and we will tell you honestly whether it works that week. Worth knowing if you are planning your own trips instead: the Hall County landfill on Oakbrook Drive is open Monday to Friday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., closed Sunday and major holidays, and the Hall County Recycling Center on Chestnut Street SE is staffed weekdays 7:30 to 4 with the drop-off area available around the clock. A weekend project that ends with a load nobody can tip until Monday is a common way to lose a day.

Call and we will swap it. A swap is a pull and a return set, and it beats the alternative, which is a container we cannot legally lift. Debris has to sit below the top rail so the load can be covered for the road, and covering it is not optional here: Georgia EPD's permit-by-rule at Ga. Comp. R. and Regs. 391-3-4-.06 requires containers to be covered and substantially leakproof with contents that must not fall, leak or spill, and Hall County Code Sec. 8.60.160 says the same thing. If you can see material standing proud of the rails, stop loading and call (470) 691-8287. On roofing and demolition work we plan the swap into the schedule from the start.

Yes, across Hall County. The separate municipalities — Oakwood, Flowery Branch, the Town of Clermont, Lula and Gillsville — each set their own street rules, and only four Hall municipalities lie wholly inside the county. The unincorporated communities and areas — Murrayville, Chestnut Mountain, Candler, Belmont, the Sardis Road and Wauka Mountain country and the whole of north Hall — are county ground with county rules and no curbside collection at all. We will tell you which category your address falls into when you call, because it changes both the permit answer and the collection answer. See where we run.

No. There is no form anywhere on this site and no email capture. Sizing a container properly takes a two minute conversation about the debris, the driveway and which government you are under, and a form cannot ask the follow-up question. Call (470) 691-8287 and you will get somebody who knows the difference between a Green Street driveway and a quarter mile of clay up in north Hall. If you would rather read first, the size guide covers most of it.

The 20 is the Gainesville default. It handles a basement and attic clear-out, a multi-room remodel, a kitchen with flooring or a small tear-off, and it still fits most driveways here without going anywhere near a street. Below it, the 15 covers a single room, a bathroom or one bay of a basement. Above it, the 30 is a large remodel or a full estate cleanout and the 40 is commercial and construction work that has the room for it. And the 10 is not the small box, it is the weight box. See container sizes for the footprints.

Because of what is going in it. Concrete, block, brick, mortar, tile, soil and wet clay spoil are dense enough that a 20 yard container reaches its safe weight long before it looks full, and a box that cannot be lifted is no use to anyone. The 10 is built for that. Load it low and evenly and it goes on the truck first time. There is a second reason here that does not apply everywhere: a clean load of concrete, brick and rock can go to an inert facility under Georgia's rules, while the same material mixed into a remodel load cannot. Two boxes often beat one.

Enough that the number decides the bill. Disposal in Hall County is billed by weight at the gate: the county landfill publishes a $20 minimum covering up to 665 pounds and $60 a ton after that, as published. So the practical question is not how full the box looks, it is what is in it. Shingles, tile, plaster, mortar, brick and soil are heavy. Furniture, cabinets, drywall and packaging are not. A 20 of household clearance and a 20 of bathroom demolition are different jobs even though they look identical from the street.

Usually a 15 for a single-layer asphalt roof on a typical Gainesville house, a 10 if it is a porch, carport or detached garage, and a 20 if there are two layers or the decking is coming off with the shingle. We do not put roofing in a 30. Shingles are dense for their volume, so this is a weight decision rather than a volume one. The other thing that decides a tear-off placement here is the fire code: 2024 IFC Section 304.3.4 keeps a container of 1.0 cubic yard or more five feet clear of combustible roof eave lines, which on a house with deep eaves pushes the box further out than crews expect. The roofing guide has the detail.

Up to the top rail, not above it. The load has to sit below the rail so the container can be covered for the road, and that is a legal requirement rather than a preference. Georgia EPD's permit-by-rule at 391-3-4-.06 requires collection containers to be covered, substantially leakproof, durable and of easily cleanable construction, with contents that must not fall, leak or spill, and Hall County Code Sec. 8.60.160 makes hauling an uncovered load along a public road unlawful. A heaped box is one we have to level or leave, and neither is what you wanted.

A 20 for most of them, parked as close to the walkout as the five-foot fire clearance allows. Basements and crawlspaces are ordinary in north Georgia rather than exceptional, and the work in one is carrying rather than volume, so a box thirty feet closer is worth more than a box ten yards bigger. If the job includes taking out a slab, block or old steps, add a 10 for the heavy fraction. The basement guide runs through the sequence and the things people find down there.

A 30 is the usual answer if the house has a basement and outbuildings, which around Hall County it very often does. In the city, where a lot of the stock is smaller and the driveways are tighter, two runs of a 20 frequently beat one 30 and give you a natural sorting break between them. Sorting matters more here than people expect, because yard waste and clean heavy material each have their own legal route. The cleanout checklist is worth reading before you start filling anything.

Sometimes, and it is usually cheaper rather than more expensive. Georgia recognizes three landfill classes: municipal solid waste, construction and demolition at Rule 391-3-4-.07(4)(b), and inert at 391-3-4-.07(4)(c). Clean concrete, brick, rock and cured asphalt have a route the mixed load does not, and yard trimmings are banned from lined municipal landfills outright under O.C.G.A. Section 12-8-40.2. If your job produces two of those three streams, splitting them at the container keeps each one eligible for the cheaper destination. Tell us what the piles look like and we will say whether it is worth it. The construction debris guide works through the classes.

The ordinary run of construction, demolition and household clearance material: lumber, drywall, siding, roofing, flooring, carpet, cabinets, doors, windows, tubs, toilets, furniture, fixtures, packaging and general junk. That list will look familiar if you have read City Code Sec. 4-3-9, because it is very close to the list of things the City of Gainesville says it will not collect. Heavy material — concrete, block, brick, tile and soil — goes in as well, but in its own box, loaded low. Tell us what you have when you book and we will match the box to it.

Tires, first and firmly. O.C.G.A. Section 12-8-40.1 caps scrap tire storage at twenty-five tires anywhere in Georgia and bars unprocessed tires from landfills, the county compactor sites prohibit them, the county has its own scrap tire chapter and the city has Sec. 4-3-15. After that: hazardous waste, chemicals, liquids, paint in liquid form, fuel, oil, solvents, pressurized tanks, asbestos-containing material, medical waste, batteries and anything that has to be handled under a separate regulated stream. The county landfill also refuses bulk Styrofoam, mobile homes and boats. If you are unsure about something, ask before it goes in rather than after.

No, and this one is Georgia law rather than housekeeping. O.C.G.A. Section 12-8-40.2 has banned yard trimmings from lined municipal solid waste landfills since 1 September 1996, with the definition at Section 12-8-22(42) covering leaves, brush, grass clippings, shrub and tree prunings and similar landscaping material. The Hall County landfill rejects yard debris including trees, stumps, leaves and grass clippings, and the compactor sites prohibit yard trimmings too. Clean green waste has a legal route to a facility permitted to take it. Mixed into a household load, it does not. Keep it separate. See yard waste removal.

Yes, in the right box, and it will not be going to the county landfill. Hall County publishes bulk concrete and asphalt among the materials it does not accept. Georgia's inert waste landfill class at Rule 391-3-4-.07(4)(c) is defined around earth and earth-like products, concrete, cured asphalt, rock, brick, yard trimmings, stumps, limbs and leaves, and that is where a clean heavy load belongs. Clean is the operative word: contaminate it with carpet and cabinets and it loses that route. A 10 yard box loaded low is the right container. See concrete and heavy debris.

Talk to us first, because the answer depends on the appliance. Anything containing refrigerant needs the refrigerant recovered by somebody qualified before it can be scrapped, and the Hall County landfill handles refrigerant for a published fee. Inside the city limits, Sec. 4-3-8 makes appliances and oversized refuse a special pickup with a service charge rather than part of the weekly cart, so they are not simply a curb item either. Plain metal appliances usually go in the box without difficulty. Tell us what you have and we will sort out the sequence.

Two things, and both are the contractor's obligation rather than ours. Anything built before 1978 falls under the lead Renovation, Repair and Painting rule when the work disturbs paint, and Georgia runs that program itself: Georgia EPD has been EPA-authorized since 5 July 2011, the twelfth state, under Ga. Comp. R. and Regs. Chapter 391-3-24, so certification comes from EPD rather than EPA and Georgia's rule is stricter than the federal one in places. Second, asbestos. Gainesville has a lot of pre-1978 stock, from Green Street through Chicopee and New Holland to the 1930s rebuild, so neither of these is an edge case here.

Georgia EPD, and it is one agency for the whole thing. Notification is due ten working days before the project starts, with the postmark counted as the first day. Demolition notification is required for all projects with an exception only for residential structures of four or fewer dwelling units that are not part of a larger project; renovation triggers at ten or more continuous linear feet or ten or more square feet of asbestos-containing material. A survey for regulated asbestos containing material by an agent of a Georgia licensed abatement contractor is required first. The fee is ten cents per square foot plus ten cents per linear foot, minimum $25, capped at $50 for residential and small projects and $1,000 otherwise. The duty officer is 404-363-7026, and the program sits with Georgia EPD. Your consultant files it, not us.

No, and Hall County is unusually clear about this. Georgia EPD runs a summer open burn ban from 1 May to 30 September under Ga. Comp. R. and Regs. 391-3-1-.02(5), covering fifty-four counties including Hall, so for five months there is no outdoor burning at all. Between 1 October and 30 April the Hall County Fire Marshal issues permits through an online form, and only natural fallen leaves and small limbs from your own property qualify: a pile no bigger than six feet by six feet, at least fifty feet from structures and property lines, adult supervised, sunrise to sunset, out before dark, not on a windy day. Building materials, furniture, plastic, rubber, tires and garbage may not be burned here at any time of year.

We did not find a City of Gainesville or Hall County ordinance requiring a permit for a container placed entirely on private property, and the city's own Sec. 4-3-4 reads as though private placement is assumed, since it says commercial containers must remain on private property unless the governing body grants permission for a public alley, street or sidewalk. That is the honest form of the answer rather than a guarantee, and it does not touch covenants, deed restrictions or a landlord's consent. What does apply on a driveway is the fire clearance. The permit guide goes through it.

Not inside the Gainesville city limits without permission. City Code Sec. 4-4-2(a) prohibits blocking, flooding or otherwise interfering with the use of any public street, road or thoroughfare in the city without first securing permission from the governing body. Sec. 4-4-2(d) makes each day it sits there a separate and distinct offense. Sec. 4-4-2(c) reaches whoever gave the instruction as well as whoever carried it out, which means the property owner and not only the driver. City Public Works is the department. In the separate municipalities, ask that city. In unincorporated Hall, call the county before anything sits in a county road.

No closer than five feet to combustible walls, openings or combustible roof eave lines. Georgia adopts the International Fire Code, 2024 edition, at Ga. Comp. R. and Regs. 120-3-3-.04 through the Safety Fire Commissioner under O.C.G.A. Sections 25-2-13 and 25-2-14, and Section 304.3.4 applies to any dumpster with a capacity of 1.0 cubic yard, which is 200 gallons, or more. Every roll-off we run is well over that. On a tight side yard with a deep eave, that measurement decides the placement more often than the driveway width does, and we take it before the rails come off.

Not if it is set properly, and this is a real question on Hall County ground. The soil here is Cecil red clay, deep and well drained, running 35 to 70 percent clay in the subsoil, with low shrink-swell, so it is not the kind of clay that heaves. What it does is bake hard in summer and turn slick and rut-prone when it is wet, and north Georgia gets around fifty-three inches of rain a year spread right through the calendar. We put timber or plywood mats under the rails, we set on the firmest flat ground within reach, and we will not put a box on a lawn after rain. The driveway guide explains what we check.

Inside the city that is a named ordinance violation, not just a nuisance. Sec. 4-4-2(b) prohibits allowing dirt, silt, sediment or debris to be tracked or deposited into a city street from a parcel within the city. Georgia also has a statewide erosion and sedimentation program at Ga. Comp. R. and Regs. Subject 391-3-7, under O.C.G.A. Title 12, Chapter 7, and the city's Building Inspection division enforces erosion and sedimentation controls directly. Practically, that means mats, a firm exit and a broom, and on a wet clay site it is worth planning rather than improvising.

Not for the container drop itself, but yes for your project if any part of it involves digging: footings, fence posts, stump removal, pool demolition or septic work. The one-call center is Georgia 811, and the governing statute is the Georgia Underground Facility Protection Act, O.C.G.A. Title 25, Chapter 9. Notice is not less than two and not more than eight business days before excavation, and the clock starts at 7:00 a.m. on the first business day following your request. On acreage with private service lines running out to a barn, a well or a shop, that call is worth making.

Yes, and it is the most unusual thing about this service area. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers owns most of the land surrounding Lake Lanier in fee title, roughly 56,782 acres across about 760 miles of boundary line, so on many lakefront lots the private property line stops well above the water. The Shoreline Management Plan requires authorization for vegetation removal, land formation modification, mowing and general lawn care, chemical application, fires, and excavation or silt removal, under the 2004 plan, 36 C.F.R. Part 327 and Division Regulation 1130-15-1. We will not tell you whether your job needs authorization. The Lake Lanier Project Management Office help desk is 770-904-3262. Note too that shoreline management is the Corps' Mobile District while Section 404 and 408 permits go to the Savannah District.

It changes the approvals rather than the container. The City of Gainesville administers a historic preservation overlay, and a Certificate of Appropriateness is required before exterior changes including new construction, demolition or relocation, building additions, signage and parking lots. Major projects go to the Historic Preservation Commission and minor ones to the Community Development Director; the contact is 770-531-6570. We do not rule on what your project needs. What we see is that a review often changes the scope, and a changed scope changes the size, so if yours is still open, tell us and we will hold the booking loose.

No, and the ordinance says so item by item. City Code Sec. 4-3-9 excludes discarded building materials, dirt, broken concrete, bricks, rock or debris; sinks, tubs, shower stalls and toilets; cabinets, doors, windows, roofing debris, lumber and siding; and landscape timbers, crossties, carpet and floor coverings. It makes all of that the responsibility of contractors, tenants or property owners. City collection under Sec. 4-3-5 is a weekly cart with a 96 gallon limit. The City of Gainesville wrote our job description into its own ordinance, and everything on that list is what goes in our containers. Crossties and landscape timbers are on it too, and we take them — tell us when treated timber is in the load, because it has to go to a facility permitted to receive it rather than to an inert site.

No. Hall County provides no residential curbside garbage collection at all, anywhere in the unincorporated county. What exists instead is twelve compactor sites plus the landfill, handling roughly 350 tons a day between them. Households haul their own waste to a compactor site in sturdy bags of 39 gallons maximum capacity, securely closed. The annual compactor fee for unincorporated residences that lack municipal collection is assessed on the ad valorem tax bill; municipal residents whose city collects for them pay no compactor fee. Hall County publishes the compactor site and landfill details itself. If you have moved here from a city with a weekly truck, that is the adjustment.

No, and neither can we. Hall County Code Sec. 8.60.290 restricts the compactor sites to household garbage in bags of 39 gallons or less plus recyclables, prohibits hazardous waste, liquid waste, septic pumpings, tires, yard trimmings, boats, Styrofoam, pressurized tanks and mobile homes, allows non-residents to bring recyclables only, bars scavenging, fires and out-of-county waste, requires businesses to use the county recycling center, and excludes commercial haulers who charge for garbage disposal outright. That last exclusion is most of the reason a roll-off container exists in this county.

The landfill is at 1700 Oakbrook Drive on 770-531-6851, open Monday to Friday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., closed Sunday and major holidays. Published tipping is a $20 minimum covering up to 665 pounds and $60 a ton over that, as published, with published specialty fees from a dollar to thirty on items such as tires, paint and mattresses. It will not take yard debris including trees, stumps, leaves and grass clippings, bulk Styrofoam, bulk concrete and asphalt, pressurized tanks, chemical, hazardous or liquid waste, mobile homes or boats. Those are published figures rather than a quote from us.

It depends on the address, and Hall County states the rule itself. Its Building Inspections division, at 2875 Browns Bridge Road on the third floor, 770-297-2650, handles permits for unincorporated Hall County only, and properties within the city limits of Braselton, Buford, Clermont, Flowery Branch, Gainesville, Gillsville, Lula or Oakwood must apply through their respective municipal permitting departments. Inside Gainesville, that is Building Inspection at 311 Henry Ward Way on 770-531-6570. Tell us the street when you call and we will tell you which office you are dealing with.

Nine, and only four of them lie wholly inside it. Gainesville, Oakwood, Flowery Branch and the Town of Clermont are wholly in Hall. Lula and Gillsville each straddle the Banks County line. Buford and Rest Haven straddle into Gwinnett, with Buford predominantly Gwinnett. And Braselton spans four counties: Barrow, Gwinnett, Hall and Jackson. It sounds like trivia until a permit question, a collection question or a tax question depends on it, which around the edges of the county they regularly do.

It requires a franchise, which is a different instrument. City Code Sec. 4-3-4 states that no individual, partnership, corporation or commercial hauler may collect and dispose of solid waste for a fee within the city without obtaining a franchise from the city's governing authority, that franchisees must comply with all city ordinances and their franchise agreement, that violations can bring suspension or revocation, and that franchises granted by the city are nontransferable. Hall County separately requires sanitary contractors to obtain a county business license under Sec. 8.60.140. Two jurisdictions, two different instruments. Ask the city or the county directly about how either applies to any particular arrangement.

Yes, and it is easy to miss. City Code Sec. 4-3-10 says the city shall not issue a building permit for a multifamily dwelling, condominium or commercial establishment until the public works director or his designee approves the proposed plans for the storage and disposal of solid waste. That is a gate on the permit itself, so container access, enclosure siting and turning room belong in the early drawings rather than in a scramble later. Also worth knowing: Hall County Code Sec. 8.60.190 requires recovery of recyclable corrugated cardboard, which for a warehouse or retail tenant is a real volume.

Because a real price needs the job. The size, the material, the weight, the drive, whether the box goes on a driveway or needs permission for a city street, and how long you need it all move the number, and a headline figure that ignores all five is a number designed to be revised upward later. We will give you a firm all-in price on the phone once we know them, and it will be the price. Call (470) 691-8287. The cost guide explains what actually drives it.

Weight, nearly always, and water and soil are the usual culprits. Disposal is billed by the ton and the county landfill publishes a $20 minimum up to 665 pounds and $60 a ton after that, as published. Gainesville gets about fifty-three inches of rain a year spread through the calendar, so an open box on a driveway collects water you then pay to haul, and none of it is your debris. Keep the load below the top rail so it can be covered, keep soil and concrete in their own box, and tell us when the last load is going in.

More than in most states, because Georgia's rules turn sorting into a routing decision. There are three landfill classes: municipal solid waste, construction and demolition at Rule 391-3-4-.07(4)(b), and inert at 391-3-4-.07(4)(c). A clean load of concrete, brick, rock and cured asphalt has a destination that a mixed load does not, and yard trimmings are banned from lined municipal landfills entirely under O.C.G.A. Section 12-8-40.2. Contaminating a clean load costs you that route. That is why we would rather bring a 10 alongside a 20 than watch a good heavy load get spoiled.

As long as the job needs, within the terms we agree when you book. On private property in unincorporated Hall County there is no municipal duration rule to run into, so the constraint is your project. Inside the Gainesville city limits, anything sitting in the street is a different matter entirely, because permission from the governing body is required under Sec. 4-4-2(a) and each day without it is a separate offense under Sec. 4-4-2(d). Give us a realistic finish date at booking and we will schedule the pull rather than leave you chasing us.

Two peaks and both are local. The first is January and February, after ice and winter storms: north Georgia gets real ice events, and February 2014 brought a quarter to over half an inch of ice near Atlanta and two to five inches of snow north of a Rome to Gainesville line. The second starts on 1 May, when Georgia EPD's summer open burn ban shuts down outdoor burning across Hall County for five months and every property owner who was burning brush suddenly needs another route. Spring severe weather in March through May adds to it. Book ahead in those windows if you can.

They do, in both directions. After a severe weather event or an ice storm the demand comes in a wave and the roads are the limiting factor, particularly in the north of the county. Decayed tropical systems reach this far inland too: the National Weather Service recorded seven to eight inches of rain across Hall County from Helene in September 2024, with trees down at several county road intersections. Hall County sits more than 250 miles from the Georgia coast, so none of it arrives as a coastal event. What we get is wind, rain and tree debris. The storm debris guide covers the cleanup.

Often, especially on the Gainesville side of the county where the run to the landfill on Oakbrook Drive is short. Out in north Hall or over toward Lula and Gillsville, a swap usually means the next scheduled run rather than the same afternoon, and we would rather tell you that than leave you waiting. Landfill hours matter too: Monday to Friday 8 to 4 and Saturday 8 to 2, closed Sunday. Call early on (470) 691-8287 and we will tell you honestly what the day looks like. See same-day rental.

Telling us what is really going in the box before we deliver. Half the overweight surprises we see are jobs that were described as a cleanout and turned out to include a tile floor, a chimney or a patio. The other half are boxes left open through a wet week. Get the size and the material right at booking, keep the heavy material in its own container, keep yard debris separate so it stays eligible for a facility that can take it, and keep the load under the rail so it can be covered. That is most of it, and none of it costs anything.