10 Yard Dumpster Rental in Gainesville, GA

A 10 yard roll-off is roughly twelve feet long, eight feet wide and about three and a half feet tall, which is three or four pickup loads. The low sides mean material goes in over the rim rather than up a ladder, and the short footprint means it will sit on a single-width Gainesville driveway with room left to park. It is the container for heavy, dense material, and the rule that comes with it is short: load flat, load low, and stop at the marked fill line rather than the rim.

• Capacity10 cubic yards
• Footprint12 ft x 8 ft x 3.5 ft
• Weight allowance2 – 3 tons
• Holds about~3 pickup truck loads

Why people choose the 10 yard

Start with the material, because it decides everything else. Masonry rubble is the classic 10 yard load: a broken driveway apron, a section of walk, a patio slab, block from a retaining wall or a planter, chimney brick, mortar, pavers and the compacted base underneath them. All of it is several times denser than the mixed household debris people picture when they imagine a roll-off, so the container reaches its lawful payload while the sides are still plainly visible. A 10 loaded flat with rubble is the correct tool for the job. The same rubble in a 30 gives you a container that cannot lawfully leave your driveway, which costs everybody a morning and solves nothing. Load in pieces two people can place rather than pieces one person can drop, spread the material across the whole floor rather than heaping it at the tailgate, and cut any rebar or mesh back below the rim before the truck arrives. If you are unsure whether a pile belongs in a 10 or a 15, describe what it came out of rather than how big it looks in the yard; a broken patio slab and a garage full of boxes can occupy the same corner of a driveway and belong in completely different containers.

There is a second reason to keep this material in its own small container in Hall County, and it is local rather than general. The Hall County landfill publishes a list of what it will not accept, and large construction debris — concrete and asphalt — is on it, alongside yard debris, bulk Styrofoam, pressurized tanks, chemical, hazardous and liquid waste, mobile homes and boats. So the county municipal landfill is simply not a destination for a broken driveway. What Georgia provides instead is a separate class of facility: the inert waste landfill at Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 391-3-4-.07(4)(c), defined around earth and earth-like products, concrete, cured asphalt, rock, bricks, yard trimmings and land-clearing debris. A clean load of masonry has that route. The same masonry with framing scrap, drywall and carpet mixed into it does not, because it is no longer a clean load. Sorting at the container is worth real money here. Sorting at the container is worth real money here, and it is the single piece of advice on this page most likely to save you a second haul.

The third case is red clay, and it is the north Georgia variation on the theme. Hall County sits on the Cecil series — fine, kaolinitic, thermic Typic Kanhapludults, with a red clay subsoil running 35 to 70 percent clay and better than sixty inches to bedrock. Because the county has basements and crawlspaces rather than a floor slab and nothing else, digs are ordinary here: footings for an addition, piers, a basement dig-out, a trench, a stump hole. All of that spoil is heavy, and it is much heavier wet than dry, because north Georgia takes about 53 inches of rain a year spread right through the calendar rather than in one season. Wet clay is also slick and it ruts, which is why a loaded spoil container goes on hard ground with mats under the rails and not on a lawn. Tell us at booking roughly how much of the load is soil and how much is masonry; the two are handled differently. It is also worth knowing that Cecil clay is a low shrink-swell soil, so nothing here is heaving or swelling the way clays do further west. The problem is bearing, traction and sheer weight, and those are the three things the 10 yard container is built around.

The last thing to know is what does not belong in a 10. Household clear-outs, furniture, mattresses, carpet rolls and anything airy will fill the volume long before you reach the weight, and you will end up paying for two hauls of a small box instead of one haul of a 20. Brush is the same story with an extra rule attached: Georgia bans yard trimmings from lined municipal landfills under O.C.G.A. § 12-8-40.2, so woody debris rides as its own clean load rather than filling in the gaps around your rubble. Tires never go in, anywhere in Georgia — O.C.G.A. § 12-8-40.1 caps scrap tire storage at 25 tires statewide and bars unprocessed tires from landfills. No liquids, chemicals, fuel or pressurized tanks. If you are not sure which side of the line something falls on, call the yard on (470) 691-8287 before it goes over the rim; it is a two-minute call and much cheaper than a rejected load.

Good fit for

• Broken slab, walk and driveway apron
• Block, brick and mortar from a wall, planter or chimney
• Pavers, edging and the compacted base under them
• Cured asphalt off a drive or parking area
• Tile set in a mortar bed, thin-set and backer
• Footing, pier and basement dig-out spoil
• Landscape rock, gravel and stacked stone
• Anything that has stood open through a wet north Georgia week

Not the right size for

• A basement and attic cleared in the same week
• Whole-house declutters with furniture in them
• Multi-room remodels making airy debris
• Mattresses, sofas and carpet rolls
• Brush, limbs, hedge and cleared vegetation
• Estate cleanouts of any size

Will it fit?

The 10 is the easiest container we place, and on most Hall County lots the container is not the constraint at all. At around twelve feet long it will sit on a single-width driveway with room left to get past it, and its low sides mean material goes in over the rim rather than up a ladder. We still want about 60 feet of straight approach for the truck to line up and back, roughly ten and a half feet of working width, and 20 feet or more of overhead clearance for the hoist — and in this county the overhead pinch is usually a mature hardwood limb or a service drop over a long sloping driveway. What matters most on a heavy load is the surface. Cecil red clay carries weight well when it is dry and gives way when it is wet, so a loaded masonry box goes on concrete or asphalt where there is any, with plywood or timber mats under the rails, and never on a saturated lawn. And it stays five feet clear of combustible walls, openings and roof eave lines, which is the 2024 International Fire Code § 304.3.4 threshold for containers of 1.0 cubic yard or more.

Before delivery, move cars and bins, mark the septic lid, the drain field and the well head if the house is on its own system, and tell us about fresh concrete, made or filled ground, a low spot in the drive that holds water for a day after rain, or a mature hardwood limb or service drop hanging over the only flat spot. A loaded box is several tons carried on four small contact points, and Cecil red clay carries that well when it is dry and ruts badly when it is wet — so the driveway is the surface, not the lawn, and plywood or timber mats go under every wheel and under both rails as standard. Keep the container five feet clear of combustible walls, openings and roof eave lines, which is what the 2024 International Fire Code § 304.3.4 requires of any container of 1.0 cubic yard or more in Georgia. If any part of it will sit in a city street, sidewalk or verge, that is permission from the governing body under City of Gainesville Code Sec. 4-4-2(a), and each day it sits there without permission is a separate offense under Sec. 4-4-2(d). If your own project involves digging — footings, stumps, fence posts, a septic repair — call Georgia 811 first; notice runs two to eight business days and the clock starts at 7 a.m. the next business day. Our delivery and driveway protection guide and our Gainesville placement and permit guide cover the rest.

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