Casselberry Dumpster Loaded With Broken Concrete Slabs Recent Project
Casselberry Dumpster Loaded With Broken Concrete Slabs
Count the slabs. A dozen or so jagged pieces, each a few inches thick, cover the floor of this container, and reddish clay still clings to them. White plastic sheeting hangs off several edges, probably the vapor barrier that sat under the concrete when it was poured.
Champs Dumpster Rental and Junk Removal set this box next to a row of palms on a sandy Casselberry lawn. It sits at the edge of the yard where the truck can reach it and the crew has a short walk from the work area. Nobody should carry rubble farther than they have to.
What is missing here is a pile. A container of concrete hits its safe carrying weight while it still looks mostly empty, so the right way to load it is flat and even, biggest pieces first. That spreads the weight over the floor instead of stacking it in the middle.
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A closer look shows how thick and jagged the pieces are, with red clay and clear plastic still stuck to them. Slabs this size weigh far more than they look. Flat pieces stack like plates, which is the best case. Round or crumbled chunks leave air gaps and waste space, so slabs go in flat and an oversized piece gets broken down first.
Keep light material off the top of the load, since it blows around. Do not mix in trash if the concrete could otherwise be recycled. And resist the urge to fill to the rim, because weight is the limit, not the top rail.
Our dumpster rental in Casselberry page covers where we deliver, and for another look at similar material, see the earlier Casselberry broken stone project. A quick call is all it takes to confirm we deliver to your address.
How Heavy Is a Dumpster Full of Concrete?
More than most people guess. Concrete weighs about 150 pounds per cubic foot, or roughly two tons per cubic yard. A plain 10 by 10 foot patio poured four inches thick is about 1.2 cubic yards, a little over two and a half tons.
One patio like that blows through the 2 tons that come with every container. Extra weight runs $80 per ton, so a bigger slab or a full driveway adds up quickly. A driveway tear out can weigh ten tons or more, which is why it often takes more than one trip.
We would rather you hear that on the phone than at the scale. Give us the dimensions and the thickness and we can estimate the weight before the box goes down, then tell you whether one container or two makes more sense. A photo of the slab with a tape measure across it works too.
Can You Recycle the Concrete From a Slab Tear Out?
Often, if the load stays clean. Clean concrete can be crushed and reused as road base, but a container of concrete mixed with trash, wood, and dirt gets treated as ordinary waste. Soil and plastic stuck to the slabs, like in these photos, fall into a gray area, so ask when you book and we will tell you how the load will be handled.
The simplest route is a dedicated container: concrete only, kept apart from regular trash. Use a second box, or our junk removal crew, for everything else.
Casselberry has plenty of old slabs due to come out. Many of the older neighborhoods around Secret Lake Park have patios and driveways that have been down a long time, and a few are ready to go. A box just for the concrete is the cleanest way to handle one.