Dumpster Rental FAQ for Kelim, Johnstown and the Larimer–Weld Line

Same day if you call early, next day on most things. We run out of the yard on the Kelim frontage road, which puts Johnstown, the 2534 corridor, Milliken, Windsor, Loveland and Timnath 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 — Erie, Longmont, Platteville, Gill, Lucerne — we would rather schedule than promise, because a single trip out there eats most of a morning. Two things slow a same-day down more than distance. One is a placement that has to sit in a public street, which needs the town’s answer first. The other is an approach nobody has looked at that turns out to be narrow, low or soft. Call (970) 427-0341 and we will tell you which one you have.

Five things, and they take about two minutes. The street address, because in this market that decides which county you are in and the answers genuinely differ — Johnstown, Windsor, Berthoud, Erie and Longmont all straddle county lines. What is going in the box, because concrete, tile and soil price and load differently from cabinets and carpet, and because some things cannot go in at all. Where you want it set and what that surface is made of. The width, grade and overhead of the approach, since a hoist needs better than twenty feet of clear air to stand a box up. 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 need is a clear driveway, cars moved, gates unlocked, and a photo or a plain description of where the rails should sit. What we will not do is guess at a placement we cannot see, or force a box into a spot that will damage an apron, a wall, a septic field or a sprinkler line. 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 Johnstown, Milliken, Greeley and Loveland the overhead is usually the problem, because the trees and the service drops are older than the trucks. Out on the county roads the problem is nearly always the surface: a gravel lane that carries a pickup all winter will not necessarily carry a loaded roll-off truck back out in a spring thaw. 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 answer honestly for that week. Worth knowing if you are planning your own trips instead: the Larimer County Central Diversion & Transfer Station in Fort Collins runs Monday to Saturday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. with the gates closing promptly at 4:30, and Weld County’s household hazardous waste facilities run Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 8 to 5 at Greeley and Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 9 to 4 at Dacono. 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 matters here for a published reason: Front Range Landfill states that all incoming loads are subject to random inspection and that uncovered or unsecured loads will be charged double. On top of that, this is chinook country and an open box of light material redistributes itself across the street in a wind event. If you can see material standing proud of the rails, stop loading and call (970) 427-0341. On roofing and demolition work we plan the swap into the schedule from the start.

Yes, and the rules out there are simpler rather than harder. Kelim is unincorporated Larimer County. Lucerne and Gill are unincorporated Weld County — both are on Weld County’s own official list of its unincorporated communities, and Kelim is not, because Kelim is Larimer. In all three there is no town government, so there is no municipal permit desk and no town ordinance to check. What is left is the county road department, the fire protection district and your own land. 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 — and in a market where five towns sit in two counties each, the follow-up question is the whole job. Call (970) 427-0341 and you will get somebody who knows the difference between a Parish Avenue driveway and a quarter mile of gravel out on the section grid. If you would rather read first, the size guide covers most of it.

The 20 is the default. It handles a whole-house declutter, a basement clear, a multi-room remodel or a kitchen with flooring, and it still fits most driveways in this market without going 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 construction and commercial work with the room for it. And the 10 is not the small box, it is the heavy box. See container sizes for the footprints, or call and describe the pile.

Because of what is going in it. Concrete, block, brick, mortar, tile, soil and excavated spoil are dense enough that a 20 yard container reaches its lawful road payload long before it looks full, and a box that cannot be lifted is no use to anybody. The 10 is built for that: load it low and level and it goes on the truck first time. There is a second reason specific to this market — a 30-inch frost line in both Weld and Larimer counties means footing, water-service and sewer digs here go deeper than newcomers expect, so the spoil pile is bigger and heavier than the same job would produce in a mild climate.

Enough that weight, not volume, is usually the binding constraint. Shingle, tile, plaster, mortar, brick, concrete and soil are heavy; furniture, cabinets, drywall and packaging are not. A 20 of household clearance and a 20 of bathroom demolition look identical from the street and are completely different loads. We are not going to publish gate rates, because we could not verify a current published figure for any facility serving this area and a wrong number is worse than none. What we will do is size the box to what you are actually putting in it, which is the part that changes the outcome.

Give us squares and layers and we will size it in two minutes. Squares means hundreds of square feet of roof surface, which on a cut-up roof with hips and dormers is well over the footprint of the house. Layers means one or two, and a second layer roughly doubles the debris off the same square footage. The rule that never bends: roofing never goes in a 30 or a 40. Not because it will not fit, but because it will not travel — tear-off debris reaches lawful payload long before the box looks full, and the only cure for that is unloading it by hand. Count the underlayment, ice-and-water shield, drip edge, valley and step flashing, ridge vent, pipe boots, damaged decking and usually the gutters as well.

A 20 for most whole-basement work, and think in weight. Basements are ordinary in this climate because both counties require footings at 30 inches for frost anyway, so the marginal cost of digging a full basement is low — and basement debris is drywall, framing, carpet, pad, tile and sometimes concrete, which is dense. If there is slab breaking or tile in the job we would rather split it: a 10 for the heavy material, a 20 for the rest. Read the basement and crawlspace guide before you start pulling.

Usually the biggest box the site will take, because construction scrap is bulky and light — framing offcuts, packaging, cardboard, housewrap, drywall ends — and it fills by volume long before it hits weight. The exception is anything with concrete, block or masonry in it, which goes in a 10 loaded low and level. Johnstown alone issued 528 single-family residential permits in 2025, with multifamily taking the total past nine hundred, so this is steady work here rather than an occasional job. See construction containers.

You can, and it costs you. A mixed load with concrete or soil in the bottom hits payload while the top half is still air, so you pay for volume you never use and we may not be able to lift it at all. Two boxes often beat one. There is also a routing reason: a clean load of concrete, brick and rock is a different material stream from a mixed remodel load, and keeping them separate keeps the options open. Tell us what is in the pile before we deliver and we will tell you whether to split it.

We cannot take it. Debris standing above the top rail cannot be covered for the road, and an over-weight box cannot legally leave your driveway — which means somebody unloads it by hand, and that somebody is usually you. It is an avoidable problem: stop at the rail, call for a swap, and keep dense material low and level rather than heaped. If a load is going to be close, tell us at delivery and we will bring the size that works instead of the size that looked right on a chart.

Less than most people assume, and the list is specific. Electronics are banned outright: C.R.S. § 25-17-303 says that by 1 July 2013 a person shall not dispose of an electronic device or a component of one in a landfill in this state. Waste tires are heavily restricted: state rules route them to a collection facility, processor or monofill rather than to a landfill except as a documented last resort, and the landfills serving this area refuse them at the gate. Beyond those two, what a Colorado landfill refuses is largely set facility by facility in its own approved operating plan rather than by a statewide list — which is exactly why we ask what is going in before we quote.

No. Colorado has no statewide yard-waste landfill ban. That is a rule from other states, and people who have moved here from the Southeast carry it across constantly. The landfills serving this area list yard waste and tree branches among accepted materials, so a brush pile can legitimately go in the box. Composting is also widely available — there are three permitted composting facilities in Weld County alone, and A-1 Organics takes green material on 970-454-3492 — and some towns and haulers route green waste separately by contract. See the brush and yard waste guide.

Some yes, some no, and the dividing line is refrigerant. Dishwashers, dryers, furnaces, water heaters, stoves and washers appear on the local landfill’s accepted list. Refrigerators, freezers and air conditioners are refused, because the refrigerant has to be professionally removed before a scrapyard or a landfill will take the unit. Weld County’s household hazardous waste facilities do not take appliances either — the county refers residents to third-party appliance services instead. Ask us on the phone and we will tell you what to set aside.

Not in the container, ever. Those go to a household hazardous waste facility. In Weld County: Greeley at 1311 North 17th Avenue, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Dacono at 5500 Highway 52, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., free to Weld County residents, capped at 200 pounds per household per visit, nothing in containers over five gallons, nothing leaking, nothing in plastic bags, business waste by appointment and charged, on (970) 400-2217. In Larimer County, the route is the Fort Collins facilities — the general solid waste line is 970-498-5760.

No. Colorado handles waste tires as their own regulated stream: they must go to a generator engaging in tire collection, a tire processor, a tire monofill or a tire collection facility, with landfilling permitted only as a documented last resort, and the landfills here refuse them outright. There is also a threshold worth knowing if you are moving them yourself — no person may transport ten or more waste tires without state registration. A barn clear that turns up two dozen implement tires is its own separate job. We make no claim about our own registration status in either direction; ask us on the phone.

Asbestos-containing material never goes in a rented container, and in Colorado this is an air quality matter rather than a solid waste one. Under CDPHE’s Regulation 8, Part B, the trigger in a single-family home is 32 square feet, 50 linear feet of pipe, or the volume of a 55-gallon drum — far tighter than the commercial thresholds, and Colorado applies them to houses explicitly, which many states do not. Over that you need an inspection by a certified asbestos building inspector and a ten working day notification, and any demolition requires notification regardless of size. Buildings built after 12 October 1988 with documentation are exempt from the survey. The line is 720-507-5136.

The lead Renovation, Repair and Painting rule applies to compensated work that disturbs painted surfaces in pre-1978 housing and child-occupied facilities — and here is the Colorado twist: Colorado is not authorized by EPA to run that program, so a firm certifies with EPA directly rather than with a state agency. That is your contractor’s certification to hold, not ours. It matters less across this market than it would in an older town: in Johnstown only about one home in ten predates 1980, with a median year built of 2007 and 71.8 percent built since 2000. The pre-1978 stock is concentrated in the historic Parish Avenue core and the older parts of Milliken and Greeley.

Not freely, and the reasons come from the authorities rather than from us. Front Range Fire Rescue’s own amendments prohibit open burning when atmospheric conditions or local circumstances make it hazardous, require a permit for the categories that are allowed at all, and address bonfires separately — and this is irrigated farm country, not forest, so forest-country slash guidance does not apply here. As for burying it, Weld County requires a landowner disposing of waste on their own property to submit a design and operations report to the county and to the state for review and approval first. Between those two rules, a container is usually the only clean route for a real pile.

On private property — a driveway, a yard, a farmyard, a parking lot — no right-of-way permit is in play at all. That covers the large majority of residential placements everywhere we run. On public property the answer depends entirely on which government you are under, and this market has a lot of them. The one we can quote word for word is Johnstown’s. For every other town on our list we could not verify a container ordinance, so we give you the town’s number and say to ask — which is honest, and better than a guess you would plan around. See the permit guide.

Johnstown Municipal Code § 7-35, verbatim: “No person shall place, store or maintain a dumpster on any public property unless expressly authorized in writing by the Town.” Placement in violation “is considered a nuisance.” Separately, § 11-23 requires a right-of-way permit from the Town for work of any kind in the public right-of-way, and § 11-25 sets the fee “in the amount set forth by resolution of the Town Council.” We do not publish that fee because it lives in the Town Fee Schedule and we could not retrieve a current one. Town of Johnstown, 450 S. Parish Avenue, 970-587-4664. This is Johnstown’s rule and it applies in Johnstown only.

No, and we will not pretend otherwise. Every place in our service area except Johnstown is unverified as to whether it licenses haulers, requires a container or right-of-way permit, or has a dumpster ordinance of its own. Berthoud is a statutory town with its own code and its own fire district; Windsor, Greeley, Evans, Loveland, Timnath, Erie and Longmont are home rule and can legislate beyond state statute under Article XX of the Colorado Constitution. Call the town: Johnstown 970-587-4664, Milliken 970-587-4331, Berthoud 970-532-2643, Windsor 970-674-2400, Greeley (970) 351-5311. For Mead we could not find a published number at all.

Five feet from combustible walls, openings and combustible roof eave lines. The Town of Johnstown adopts the 2024 International Fire Code; under § 304.3.5, dumpsters and containers of 1.5 cubic yards or more shall not be stored in buildings or placed within five feet of those things, and the adjacent § 304.3.4 applies the same five feet from 1.0 cubic yard with an exception where the container itself is noncombustible or low heat release. Every roll-off is far above both thresholds, so the threshold question is academic — it is five feet, always, and the eave line counts, which on a house with deep overhangs is further out than the wall.

The county, and which county depends on the address. Weld County Public Works, (970) 400-4000 — the county requires permits for construction activities within county rights-of-way, gravel or paved, including public drainage easements, and its language reaches occupation of a right-of-way, but it does not name dumpsters, so the language is broad and a call is warranted rather than a permit assumed. Larimer County Engineering, (970) 498-5709 — it issues right-of-way, access, special transport and floodplain permits at ten business days, but its published material does not address containers at all, in either direction. We give you the number and claim nothing.

Sometimes, and it is always a conversation with the government first rather than a decision we make. In Johnstown, public property needs the Town’s express written authorization under § 7-35 and work in the right-of-way needs a permit under § 11-23. Everywhere else, ask the town. On a county road, ask the county. What we will not do is set a box in a public street on the assumption that nobody will notice — in Johnstown that placement is defined as a nuisance in the code, and the person who told the driver where to put it is part of the picture.

Yes, and we plan for it rather than promising it away. We carry plywood and lay it under the wheels and the rails as a matter of course on anything new, decorative or unknown. What we ask from you is honesty about the surface: a fresh concrete apron under ninety days, pavers, a stamped or colored finish, a soft base course on a street that has not taken its final asphalt lift, or an irrigation main running under the strip beside the drive. Fifteen inches of precipitation a year does not mean the ground never softens — it means it softens rarely and at short notice. Read the driveway protection guide.

Not for the container. Setting a roll-off is not excavation and does not require a locate. You need Colorado 811 for the digging part of your project — footings, sewer or water lines, patios, deck footings, fence posts. State law requires notice “at least two business days prior thereto not including the day of actual notice” under C.R.S. Title 9, Article 1.5, and Colorado 811’s own homepage advises allowing three; the statute and its interior pages say two. White-line your dig area first with paint, flags or stakes. Marks stay valid while clearly visible but not beyond thirty calendar days. 811 or 800-922-1987. We do not make that call for you.

Larimer. Not Weld, and this is the most common mistake made about this place. The mailing address says Johnstown and Johnstown reads as a Weld town, but the Census geocoder run against Kelim’s coordinates returns Larimer County and no incorporated place, the GNIS listing puts Kelim in Larimer County on the USGS Windsor quadrangle at 4,938 feet, and Weld County’s own official list of its unincorporated communities does not include Kelim — though it does list Gill and Lucerne. It is not a technicality: it decides which county desk answers and which disposal facilities you can use. See the county line guide.

It is a home rule town straddling Weld and Larimer. Town Hall at 450 S. Parish Avenue and the historic grid are on the Weld side; the whole I-25 corridor — 2534, Ledge Rock Center, the US 34 and Colorado 60 interchanges, the frontage roads and Kelim — is on the Larimer side. Inside the town limits it usually does not change the container answer, because the Town’s own code governs on both sides. It changes everything about building permits, road departments, right-of-way outside town and disposal. We will not tell you which road the line follows, because we could not verify a boundary alignment and a confident wrong answer there is worse than none.

Five in this service area, which is genuinely unusual. Johnstown (Weld and Larimer, home rule), Windsor (Weld and Larimer, home rule), Berthoud (Larimer and Weld, and statutory rather than home rule), Erie (Weld and Boulder, home rule) and Longmont (Boulder and Weld, home rule and mostly Boulder). Everywhere else on our list is a single county: Milliken, Severance, Mead, Greeley, Evans, La Salle, Platteville, Lucerne and Gill in Weld; Loveland, Timnath and Kelim in Larimer.

Because it predicts where the rules live. A home rule municipality — Johnstown, Windsor, Loveland, Greeley, Evans, Erie, Longmont, Timnath — draws its powers from its own charter under Article XX of the Colorado Constitution and can legislate in local matters beyond state statute. A statutory town — Milliken, Berthoud, Mead, Severance, La Salle, Platteville — operates under state statute. The practical consequence is that home rule towns are the ones most likely to have their own hauler licensing, container ordinances and right-of-way permits, as Johnstown does. It is a tendency, not a guarantee, and it is why permit content has to be town by town rather than county-wide.

In unincorporated Weld County, not the county — the fire protection district. Weld’s own ordinance says the International Fire Code “shall apply only when adopted by a local fire district and shall not be enforced under this Building Code,” which is why the county’s 2024 code package contains no fire code at all. For Johnstown and Milliken the district is Front Range Fire Rescue on 970-587-4464. District boundaries do not follow municipal boundaries, so other parts of this service area answer to different districts. Inside a town, the town’s own adoption governs — Johnstown adopts the 2024 IFC.

Name the jurisdiction, because Colorado has no statewide residential building code. The Town of Johnstown adopts the 2024 IRC and the rest of the 2024 family in Chapter 18 of its code. Weld County’s 2024 package — IBC, IEBC, IRC, IMC, IPC, IFGC, IECC, IPMC, ISPSC and the 2023 NEC, and no fire code — is effective 15 June 2026. Larimer County’s — 2024 IRC, IBC, IECC, IPC, IMC, the 2025 NEC and the 2025 Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code — is effective 1 January 2026. Three governments within a few miles, three packages, three dates. Anybody who tells you “the state code says” has not worked here.

Neither Weld nor Larimer County collects residential waste. Weld runs two household hazardous waste facilities free to Weld residents — Greeley and Dacono, 200 pounds per household per visit, no electronics and no appliances, (970) 400-2217 — plus a seasonal one-ton landfill voucher, one per Weld address. Larimer runs the Central Diversion & Transfer Station, 2388 W. Trilby Road, Fort Collins, Monday to Saturday 8:00 to 4:30 with gates closing promptly, on 970-498-5772. A Larimer household cannot use the Weld facilities free, which catches out people in Kelim, Loveland, Timnath and Larimer-side Johnstown constantly.

No. Johnstown provides refuse collection by contract under § 7-61(a), billed monthly with your water bill under § 7-65(a) and tied to the water tap — and it does not serve multifamily buildings of three or more units, or commercial and industrial customers, at all. It is a cart on a schedule. A kitchen tear-out, a basement, a garage clear or a roof produces more in one morning than a cart takes in a season. We will not name the contractor, because we could not verify who currently holds it.

Because it is the single biggest driver of work in this market. NOAA’s Colorado climate summary puts northeastern Colorado — exactly where Kelim, Johnstown, Windsor, Milliken and Greeley sit — at an average of seven to nine hail days a year, inside what it calls the nation’s most hail-prone corridor. Hail here does not dent a roof here and there; it re-roofs whole subdivisions inside a fortnight. That means demand arrives in bursts, and it means that after a big storm we schedule tightly. Call early after a storm and read the hail and tear-off guide before the crew arrives.

No — get the order right and it saves you money. Photograph the roof, gutters, downspouts, window screens, the soft metal on vents and flashing, the siding, the deck rail and any hail still on the ground. Soft-metal bruising is often the most legible evidence a roof took a hit. Then have it looked at before anything comes off, because if an adjuster is going to inspect, the roof has to still be there. Then book the container. A box standing on a driveway waiting for an inspection is rental days you are paying for and a container somebody else on your street needs.

Yes, and for two published reasons. This is chinook country: NOAA has documented Front Range gusts as high as 137 mph in the January 1982 windstorm, and Weld County publishes a 115 mph basic residential wind speed while Larimer’s varies from 115 mph upward by site. A jurisdiction does not publish numbers like that unless wind is a first-order concern. And Front Range Landfill states that all incoming loads are subject to random inspection and that uncovered or unsecured loads will be charged double. Felt, wrap, insulation and packaging are exactly what leaves an open box first.

It changes it rather than stopping it. Snowfall in this area runs on the order of forty to fifty-six inches at the nearest NOAA stations even though annual precipitation is only about fifteen inches, because Front Range snow is dry. What that means operationally is that a driveway with snow and ice on it changes where a loaded container can safely be set and picked up from, and a plowed pile in the wrong place can cost you a delivery. Clear the approach and the drop point before we come. Frozen ground is often better to work on than a thaw.

Later than newcomers expect. The average last spring frost is around 12 May at the Greeley station, with a first fall frost around 8 October, so the outdoor season here is roughly 149 days and yard work, landscaping and outdoor demolition really begin in May, not March. If you have moved here from a milder state, that is a genuine adjustment. It also means the container calendar is compressed: a lot of exterior work wants to happen in the same window, so book ahead in May and June rather than the week you need it.

Size, what is going in it, where it is going and how long you need it. We quote on the phone after a short conversation rather than from a table, because a 20 of household clearance and a 20 of tile and mortar are different jobs with different outcomes at the scale. We will not publish disposal gate rates on this site — we could not verify a current published figure for any facility serving this area, and a stale number would cost you more than it helped. What we will do is tell you honestly which size fits, and whether splitting the load into two boxes will cost less than overloading one. See the cost guide.

For a very small job, possibly. Weld County offers a limited number of seasonal vouchers to Weld residents for one truckload level with the bed rails, or one trailer up to one ton, free at participating landfills, with charges above the limit paid at the gate — one per Weld County address. If you have a pickup, a free hour and a small pile, take it. A ton is nothing next to a garage cleanout, an estate clear or a roof tear-off, and the voucher is capped at one per address per season. And it is no use at all if you are in Larimer County, which includes Kelim, Loveland and Timnath.

For the corridor around the yard — Kelim, Johnstown, Milliken, the 2534 side, Loveland, Windsor — a day or two is usually plenty, and same day works if you call before nine. For the long runs — Erie, Longmont, Platteville, Lucerne, Gill — give us a few days and we will book the delivery and the pull together. After a hail event, book as early as you can, because the whole street is calling the same week. And tell us your realistic finish date rather than your optimistic one; moving a pull is easy, and a full box standing on a driveway for a week is not what either of us wants.