Dumpster Rental in Loveland, CO

Roll-off containers for Loveland homes and jobsites

Loveland is a home rule city wholly inside Larimer County, which makes it one of the simple ones on this list: one city government, one county government, one building department, one road department, one right-of-way desk. It is also the closest large city to the yard and it is in the same county Kelim is in, which matters more than it sounds like it should. Everything on this site about Larimer County — the transfer station, the engineering desk, the code adoption date, the frost line — is your county material, not somebody else’s.

Loveland is home rule, drawing its powers from its own charter under Article XX of the Colorado Constitution, which means it can legislate in local matters beyond what state statute prescribes. Home rule cities of this size are the most likely places in the whole service area to have their own container rules, hauler requirements and right-of-way permit process. We could not verify what Loveland requires, and the ordinance quoted elsewhere on this site is Johnstown’s and applies to Johnstown only. So the sequence for a job in the city limits is: ask the city about a street placement, then call us. On your own driveway, no right-of-way permit is in play at all, and that is most of what we set.

The disposal picture is where a Loveland page genuinely differs from a Weld County page, and it is worth reading before you plan a cleanout. Larimer County does not collect residential waste any more than Weld does. What it runs is the Central Diversion & Transfer Station at 2388 W. Trilby Road in Fort Collins, Monday to Saturday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with the gates closing promptly at 4:30 — the number is 970-498-5772, the general solid waste line is 970-498-5760, and there is a 24-hour closure hotline on 970-498-5770. The old Larimer County Landfill on South Taft Hill Road is closed to general waste disposal, though it still handles commercial recycling, hazardous waste and electronics recycling. A new Larimer County North Landfill opened at Wellington on 3 August 2026, but it serves commercial haulers and Wellington-area residents; Fort Collins and Loveland residents are directed to the Central station instead. We could not verify whether the Central station accepts mixed construction and demolition debris, so we are not going to tell you it does. Call them before you load a trailer.

And here is the asymmetry that catches Larimer people out constantly. Weld County’s two household hazardous waste facilities, at Greeley and Dacono, are free to Weld County residents. A Loveland household is not a Weld County resident. Neither is a Larimer-side Johnstown household, or Timnath, or Kelim. If somebody in the next town over tells you the paint and the solvents go free to Greeley, they are telling you the truth about their own address and not about yours. Larimer’s route is the Fort Collins facility. It is a small thing until you have driven a trunk full of half-empty paint cans to the wrong county.

Otherwise Loveland jobs look like the rest of this market. Hail drives roofing in bursts — northeastern Colorado averages seven to nine hail days a year in the nation’s most hail-prone corridor. The Big Thompson River runs through the middle of the city and was one of the watercourses named in the National Weather Service assessment of the September 2013 floods. Basements are ordinary. And the 30-inch frost line means every dig here is deeper than a newcomer expects.

What we know about working in Loveland

The settled ground first: on private property — a driveway, a yard, a parking lot — no right-of-way permit is in play at all. Not the city’s, not the county’s. Right-of-way permits regulate work in the public right-of-way, and your driveway is not that. What can still apply on private ground is a city ordinance, a covenant, a landlord’s consent and the fire code. On the city ordinance, in Loveland, we have nothing verified; the city is the desk that knows.

If the container has to sit on a public street inside the city, ask the city first. If it has to sit in a county right-of-way outside the city, Larimer County Engineering is on (970) 498-5709. Larimer issues a Right-of-Way Construction Permit for utilities, an Access or driveway permit, a Special Transport permit, and Private Road, Development Construction and Floodplain Development permits, and it quotes ten business days processing on all of them, with insurance certificates that have to match county requirements or add two to three weeks. Here is the honest limit: none of Larimer’s published permit material addresses placing a container in the right-of-way, in either direction. We are not going to tell you a permit is required, and we are not going to tell you one is not. We are going to give you the number. Risk Management handles the insurance questions on (970) 498-7361.

The fire-code number is five feet and it does not depend on the city. Under the International Fire Code, a container may not be placed within five feet of combustible walls, openings or combustible roof eave lines — § 304.3.5 of the 2024 edition at 1.5 cubic yards, § 304.3.4 at 1.0 cubic yard with an exception for noncombustible containers. Every roll-off is far above both. Which edition Loveland’s fire authority enforces we did not establish; five feet is the figure in every edition we could read, and the eave line counts, so on a house with a deep overhang the measurement starts further from the wall than people assume.

On building code, name the jurisdiction. Colorado has no statewide residential building code. Larimer County’s package — 2024 IRC, IBC, IECC, IPC and IMC, the 2025 NEC and the 2025 Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code — takes effect 1 January 2026. Weld County’s takes effect 15 June 2026, which is a different date for a county whose line is a few miles east of here. What the City of Loveland has adopted on its own schedule is its own business. Larimer publishes a minimum frost depth of 30 inches below grade countywide, a ground snow load that varies with elevation — 55 psf at 5,000 feet, rising with height — and basic wind speeds that run from 115 mph upward depending on where the site is. Do not blend those with Weld’s numbers; they are different counties applying different methods to nearly the same ground.

Digging at all means Colorado 811. State law requires at least two business days notice before excavation, not counting the day you give notice, under C.R.S. Title 9, Article 1.5, and Colorado 811’s own homepage advises allowing three. Mark your dig area with white paint, flags or stakes first — white-lining is expected before you make the request — and the number is 811 or 800-922-1987. Locate marks stay valid while they are clearly visible but not more than thirty calendar days from the due date of the request. Setting a container is not excavation and does not need a locate. Your foundation, sewer, patio, deck-footing or fence job does. We do not call 811 on your behalf and we would not want you to think we had. See Colorado 811.

On what can go in the box: electronics are banned from Colorado landfills since 1 July 2013 under C.R.S. § 25-17-303, tires are refused at the gate locally and require registration to transport ten or more, and refrigerators, freezers and air conditioners are refused for their refrigerant. There is no Colorado yard-waste landfill ban — that rule belongs to other states — and A-1 Organics composts green material on 970-454-3492 if you would rather send it there. Asbestos-containing material never goes in a container: in a single-family home the trigger is 32 square feet or 50 linear feet under CDPHE Regulation 8, Part B, with a ten working day notification, and any demolition requires notification regardless of size, on 720-507-5136.

• RegionLarimer County
• Distance from our yardWest of the yard, the nearest big city and the same county Kelim is in
• Main routesUS 34 west from the interchange straight into town
• Typical deliverySame or next day

Getting a truck to you

Loveland is a straight run west of the yard, mostly on US 34, and the city is close enough that we treat it as home ground rather than a trip. The approaches divide about the way you would expect. Downtown and the older grid: narrow drives cut for smaller cars, mature trees over the pavement and older service drops crossing the apron, which makes overhead the constraint more often than width — a hoist wants better than twenty feet of clear air to stand a box up off the rails. The mid-century neighborhoods either side of the river: usually enough room, but often a single-width drive with the garage tight to the house, so the five-foot fire separation from the eave line decides where the box goes before the driveway does. The newer east-side subdivisions toward the interstate: easy geometry, and the risks are new sod, shallow irrigation lines beside the drive and streets that have not taken their final asphalt lift. Out on the county acreage west of town it is the surface that matters, and a long gravel drive in a spring thaw is a different proposition from the same drive in August. A 20-yard container wants roughly sixty feet of straight approach and eleven feet of working width. We carry plywood and we use it. Call (970) 427-0341 and describe the last hundred feet.

Routes we run: US 34 west from the interchange straight into town, the I-25 frontage roads north and south of US 34, Colorado 402 for the south side of the city, the Larimer county roads west of the interstate, US 287 for anything on the far west side.

Landmarks and neighborhoods we work around

Permits, streets and placement in Loveland

Start with the question that decides everything else: which government are you standing in. Loveland makes that easier than most of this service area, and it is worth saying plainly: Loveland is a home rule city lying wholly inside Larimer County. One town, one county, one permit desk. That is not the normal case here. Five of the municipalities we serve — Johnstown, Windsor, Berthoud, Erie and Longmont — straddle a county line, and on those the answer to a permit question changes with the street. In Loveland it does not. You can stop at two desks: the town for anything inside the town limits, and Larimer County for anything outside them.

The status is not decoration either. A home rule municipality draws its powers from its own charter under Article XX of the Colorado Constitution and can legislate in local matters beyond what state statute prescribes; a statutory town works from state statute. The home rule places are the ones most likely to have written their own hauler licensing, container ordinances and right-of-way permits — Johnstown, which is home rule, has done exactly that, and we quote its ordinance below because it is Johnstown’s and it is written down. We have not read Loveland’s code, and we will not print a Loveland rule, fee, tier or turnaround that we have not read. We do not have a phone number for Loveland that we are willing to reprint — what a search returns is aggregator listings rather than the town’s own page — so go to the town clerk and ask there. Be wary of anybody who answers that question for you without naming the section.

What does not change at a town line is everything above it and below it. I-25 is CDOT’s, and so is every US and state route through this market — US 34, Colorado 60, Colorado 56 and Colorado 66 among them — whichever municipality they run through. Outside the town limits the section-line grid belongs to Larimer County Engineering on (970) 498-5709. Nor does the statutory locate call change, nor Colorado’s disposal bans, nor the fact that Larimer County collects no residential waste anywhere in the county. And because Colorado has no statewide residential building code, every code sentence needs a jurisdiction attached: Weld County’s 2024 package takes effect 15 June 2026, Larimer County’s 1 January 2026, and what Loveland has adopted on its own timetable we did not verify. Give us the address and we will tell you which owner you are dealing with before we load a truck.

Now the part most of our competitors skip. Start with the line that is safe everywhere: on private property — a driveway, a yard, a parking lot — no right-of-way permit is in play at all. Not the municipality’s and not the county’s. On your own driveway in Loveland the constraints we know of are the fire clearance, your covenants, a landlord’s consent and whether the approach will carry a loaded truck, and the driveway is where we would rather set the box in any case.

If any part of it will sit in the street, the sidewalk or the verge, that is right-of-way, and inside an incorporated place the right-of-way belongs to the municipality rather than to the county. Loveland runs its own permit counter, so ask there before the truck comes. We did not verify Loveland’s ordinances, and we will not print a fee, a tier or a turnaround for Loveland that we have not read. What we can show you is what the sequence looks like where it is written down. A few miles away, Johnstown Municipal Code § 7-35 provides that “no person shall place, store or maintain a dumpster on any public property unless expressly authorized in writing by the Town,” with placement in violation “considered a nuisance,” and § 11-23 requires a Town right-of-way permit for work of any kind in the public right-of-way. That is Johnstown’s ordinance and it stops at Johnstown’s town line. Different government, different paperwork, same truck. We do not have a phone number for Loveland that we are willing to reprint — what a search returns is aggregator listings rather than the town’s own page — so go to the town clerk and ask there. Outside the town limits the county is the desk: Larimer County Engineering on (970) 498-5709. And whether or not permission is involved, call Colorado 811 before anything is dug, trenched, driven or pulled.

The driveway carries one rule of its own and it is a fire rule. There is no statewide fire code doing this job in Colorado, so the edition depends on who adopted it, and the one we can name is the 2024 International Fire Code as adopted by the Town of Johnstown. In that edition § 304.3.5 keeps dumpsters and containers of 1.5 cubic yards or more out of buildings and at least five feet from combustible walls, openings and combustible roof eave lines, with no exception; the adjacent § 304.3.4 applies the same five feet from 1.0 cubic yard, with an exception where the container itself is noncombustible. Both sections exist and neither one is “the” threshold, which is where most of the copy on the internet goes wrong — along with a “ten feet from the building” rule of thumb that is nobody’s code at all. It does not matter here anyway: every roll-off we run is many times over both figures, so the answer never changes. Five feet, always, and it is measured from the eave line, not just from the wall. On a Loveland lot with a deep eave and a narrow side yard that is a real measurement, and we take it before the rails come off the truck. Whichever fire authority covers a Loveland address, and which edition it enforces, we did not establish, and we will not characterize it — that authority, rather than the county switchboard, is the desk to ask, and fire district boundaries do not follow municipal boundaries. Front Range Fire Rescue covers Johnstown and Milliken on 970-587-4464.

Last, the approach. To swing a box off the rails we want about 60 feet of straight, roughly 11 feet of working width and 20-plus feet of clear overhead. What fails that test in Loveland is rarely the highway; it is almost always the last hundred feet. This is flat, irrigated high plains rather than mountain country — our own ground out at Kelim sits at 4,938 feet — so a truck here runs a section-line grid and a four-lane interstate instead of switchbacks, and the things that go wrong are different ones. In the newer subdivisions it is fresh sod, a shallow irrigation line beside the drive and a street still on base course without its final asphalt lift. On acreage it is a quarter mile of gravel lane that carries a pickup all year and ruts badly under a loaded truck in a spring thaw. In the older grids it is a low service drop and a mature shade tree over the only flat spot — a gap that looks wide open at eye level can be closed at twenty feet. Walk it, look up, and tell us what you see.

Two more layers reach every job we run, and neither of them starts at a local counter. The first is what may lawfully go in the box. Solid waste in this state is CDPHE’s, under the solid waste regulations at 6 CCR 1007-2, and the structure is not the one people bring with them from the Southeast. A Colorado landfill is authorized by a Certificate of Designation issued by the county under C.R.S. § 30-20-102, with state review — a county instrument, and one that attaches to disposal facilities rather than to haulers. Beyond the statutory bans, what a landfill will take is 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 the box before we quote a job instead of after.

The bans themselves are shorter than newcomers expect and they run the opposite way from the Southeast. Colorado has no yard-waste landfill ban. The landfills serving this area accept yard waste and brush, and A-1 Organics composts green material on 970-454-3492 if you would rather route it that way. What is banned outright is electronics, kept out of every Colorado landfill since 1 July 2013 under C.R.S. § 25-17-303 — no televisions, monitors or computers in the container. Waste tires are refused at the gate by the local operators, and state rules require registration to transport ten or more, so tires never go in our boxes. Paint, solvents, fuel, automotive fluids, batteries, propane cylinders and pool chemicals stay out as well; those are a household hazardous waste run, not a container load.

Asbestos is the hard stop. We do not accept asbestos in our containers. In Colorado it is an air quality matter rather than a solid waste one, which surprises people: the CDPHE Air Pollution Control Division runs it under Regulation 8, Part B. In a single-family home the trigger is 32 square feet or 50 linear feet — far tighter than the federal commercial numbers — notification runs ten working days, the permit fee is published at $60 to $180, and a demolition requires notification regardless of size. The asbestos line is 720-507-5136. None of that is our filing to make, but all of it sits ahead of the container and we would rather book around it than deliver into a stop-work order.

The other date is 1978, which puts a job under the federal Renovation, Repair and Painting rule — and here Colorado is the opposite of most states people move from. Colorado is not authorized by EPA to run the RRP program, so a firm working on pre-1978 housing certifies with EPA directly rather than with a state agency. How often that bites depends on where you are standing: in Johnstown, only about one home in ten predates 1980 and the median year built is 2007, so RRP is concentrated in the old core rather than spread across the market. Then, before anything is dug, trenched, driven or pulled, call Colorado 811 on 811 or 800-922-1987. The statute is C.R.S. Title 9, Article 1.5, and the notice period is two business days, not counting the day of notice. Be aware that Colorado 811’s own homepage says three business days while the statute and the site’s interior pages say two — give yourself the longer of the two and you are safe either way. White-line the dig area first. Setting a box on a driveway does not trigger the call; your project does — footings, fence posts, a stump, a sewer lateral. Our permit and placement guide walks the whole sequence in order.

The ground under Loveland decides most of the rest, and almost every instinct carried in from a wetter market is wrong here. This is irrigated high plains: our own ground at Kelim sits at 4,938 feet, and precipitation across this market runs about 15.34 inches a year on the 1991–2020 normals at Greeley — roughly a third of what the Southeast gets. We are not going to tell you what the soil does underneath, because we did not establish it for this ground and it is not the sort of thing to guess at in print. What we will tell you is how the surface behaves under a truck, because that is what we deal with. A loaded 20 yard box is several tons carried on four small contact points. Dry, this ground takes it. Wet — after an irrigation set, a cloudburst or a spring thaw — it ruts, and a quarter mile of lane that carries a pickup all year will not carry us. So the driveway is the surface and the lawn is not, plywood or timber mats go under every wheel and under both rails on every placement, all year round, and after a wet stretch we would rather move a date than tear up two hundred feet of drive.

The houses match the climate rather than the map. Basements are ordinary here, which changes a cleanout more than it changes a price: stairs mean hand-carrying, and a smaller box parked close to the walkout beats a bigger one parked out of the way. Both counties publish a 30-inch frost line, so footings, water services and sewer laterals sit at least that deep, and a trench that would be shallow somewhere warmer is a real excavation here. Spoil is the densest material that comes off a residential site, which is why a footing repair or a sewer lateral is a 10 yard loaded low conversation rather than a 20 yard one. The season starts later than newcomers plan for as well: the average last spring frost is around 12 May. One adjacent question comes up often enough while a house is open to be worth answering, and we will answer it the way EPA does rather than by naming a number off a map that gave us two different readings: “Homes with elevated levels of radon have been found in all three zones. All homes should be tested, regardless of zone designation.”

The vintage of the housing is the part that surprises people who know this corridor only from the interstate, and it cuts the work in two. In Johnstown, whose mailing address our yard uses, the median year built is 2007 and 71.8 percent of the housing went up in 2000 or later; only about one home in ten predates 1980, concentrated in the old Parish Avenue and Main Street core from the sugar and dairy era, where pre-1978 lead paint and older asbestos are live questions. Everywhere else the jobs are new-build cleanup, first remodels and hail roofs. The growth behind that is real and it is fast: Johnstown went from 17,303 people at the 2020 census to 22,433 by the 2025 estimate, a 29.5 percent gain that put it tenth in the nation for growth among places of 20,000 or more in 2024–25, with 528 single-family permits in 2025. Weld County as a whole went from 328,981 to 378,426 over the same five years. Those are Census numbers, and they are why new-construction cleanup is a steady service line here rather than an afterthought.

Then the weather, and here there is one hazard that matters more than all the others put together. Hail is the anchor job. This corridor takes seven to nine hail days a year and is the most hail-prone stretch of the United States. Roof tear-off is what this market buys containers for, and it does not arrive evenly — it arrives in bursts, in the week after a storm, when every roofer in the corridor calls on the same morning. If you have just been hit, call early; that is the honest advice. Wind is the second one. Chinook downslope windstorms come off the mountains hard enough that Front Range gusts have been recorded as high as 137 mph, and the design wind speed in Weld County is 115 mph. An empty container is a sail and a loose tarp is a kite, so we weight what we cover and we would rather set a box against a windbreak than out in the open. Weld County has more recorded tornadoes than any other county in the United States. Watches and warnings for both counties come from NWS Denver/Boulder on 303-494-3210. An open container left uncovered through a heavy storm fills with water and grit, and that is weight you pay us to haul. Tarp it, or ask us for one.

Where all of it ends up is the local detail we like best, because the lawful routes out of a Loveland project close one at a time and none of them close because we say so. Neither county collects residential waste, so there is no county truck to compare us with. A municipal cart, where a town provides one, is a cart on a schedule and is not built for shingles, drywall, cabinets, tile, concrete or framing lumber. Electronics may not go to a Colorado landfill at all. Tires are refused at the gate. And beyond the statutory bans, each landfill’s own approved operating plan decides the rest. The one place the Southeast’s habits genuinely do not transfer is green waste: Colorado has no yard-waste landfill ban, so clean woody debris has more than one lawful route here — the landfills take it, and A-1 Organics composts it on 970-454-3492. Keep it in a load of its own and you keep that choice. Everything else rides to a permitted facility in one of our boxes, which is the argument for a container stated by somebody other than us.

Collection in Loveland is the city’s own business on its own limits. It is not Larimer County’s and it is not Johnstown’s, and we are not going to publish Loveland’s cart rules, bulky-item rules or collection day from memory. We do not have a phone number for Loveland that we are willing to reprint — what a search returns is aggregator listings rather than the town’s own page — so go to the town clerk and ask there. What is constant right across this market is the part that matters to us: no residential cart program anywhere here is built for construction and demolition debris. Shingles, drywall, cabinets, tile, concrete and framing lumber are ours to handle whichever side of a municipal line the house sits on.

Underneath the town sits the county, and the county layer surprises people who have moved in from somewhere with a weekly truck. Larimer County collects no residential waste anywhere in the county — and neither does Weld, next door. What exists instead is drop-off: Larimer County runs the Central Diversion & Transfer Station at 2388 W. Trilby Road in Fort Collins, on 970-498-5772. The Weld County facilities a few miles east are free to Weld residents, which you are not, so that route is not yours no matter how much closer it looks on a map. None of that is a curbside service and none of it takes job debris. Two things then travel with the load rather than with the address. The first is where it ends up, which is a facility permitted to receive that class of waste — a concrete tear-out and a roof tear-off do not go to the same gate. The second is what the load weighs, because disposal is charged by the ton, and that is why we ask what is going in the box before we quote it. Your side of that is telling us honestly whether the load is light and bulky or heavy and dense, since that is the difference between one haul and two. See the Colorado disposal and recycling rules for the rest.

Sizes we deliver to Loveland