Dumpster Rental in Timnath, CO

Roll-off containers for Timnath homes and jobsites

Timnath is a home rule town wholly inside Larimer County, which puts it in the simple half of this service area: one town, one county, one building department, one road department, one right-of-way desk. It is also on the same side of the line as Kelim, so the Larimer material on this site is your material. When we talk about the transfer station in Fort Collins, the county engineering desk, the 1 January 2026 code effective date and the countywide 30-inch frost depth, we are talking about your address rather than the one across the line.

Because Timnath is home rule under Article XX of the Colorado Constitution, it draws its authority from its own charter and can legislate in local matters beyond state statute. That is the category of town most likely to have its own container rules and its own right-of-way permit process, and it is a category that has expanded fast here. We could not verify what the Town of Timnath requires for a container, whether it licenses haulers, or which fire code edition its district enforces. The ordinance quoted elsewhere on this site is Johnstown’s. It applies in Johnstown and nowhere else. Ask the town about a street placement before you plan around one, and call us for everything on private ground, which is where the overwhelming majority of containers go anyway.

Timnath is one of the places where the corridor’s growth is most visible from the road — a small original core with a large amount of new subdivision and commercial ground around it, on both sides of the interstate. That shapes the work heavily toward two job types. The first is new-construction cleanup: framing scrap, packaging, drywall offcuts, cut-offs and site trash, which is bulky and light and fills a container by volume rather than weight, so it usually wants the biggest box the site can take. The second is first remodels and finish-outs in houses that are ten or fifteen years old — basement finishes, kitchen updates, flooring changes, and the garage and shed clears that come with a first turnover of ownership.

What Timnath does not have much of is old housing, and that quietly removes two of the biggest complications from most jobs here. The lead Renovation, Repair and Painting rule is triggered by pre-1978 housing; Colorado is not EPA-authorized for it, so certification runs through EPA directly — but in a town built mostly since 2000 it rarely arises. Asbestos survey requirements exempt buildings constructed after 12 October 1988 where there is documentation that no asbestos-containing materials were used. Neither of those is a reason to skip the check on a specific house, but it does mean a Timnath remodel is usually a simpler conversation than a Milliken or old-Johnstown one.

The weather does not care how new the house is. Northeastern Colorado averages seven to nine hail days a year in the most hail-prone corridor in the country, and a fifteen-year-old subdivision roof is just as replaceable as an eighty-year-old one. When a storm goes through, whole streets re-roof inside a fortnight, and the sizing rule is the same as it is everywhere on this site: give us squares and layers, and tear-off never goes in a 30 or a 40.

What we know about working in Timnath

The universal answer first, because it settles most Timnath calls: on private property — a driveway, a yard, a parking lot — no right-of-way permit is in play at all. On a street inside the town, ask the town, because we could not verify what it requires and we do not publish rules we have not read. On a county road outside the town, Larimer County Engineering is on (970) 498-5709, quoting ten business days on its permits — and the honest caveat stands: Larimer’s published permit material does not address containers in the right-of-way, in either direction. We give you the number and claim nothing about what it covers.

The fire code is the one number that does not move. Under the International Fire Code a container may not be placed within five feet of combustible walls, openings or combustible roof eave lines — 2024 edition § 304.3.5 from 1.5 cubic yards, § 304.3.4 from 1.0 cubic yard with a noncombustible exception. Every roll-off is far over both, so the answer is stable. The eave line is what catches people: on a new house with a deep overhang and a covered patio, five feet from the eave is a good deal further out than five feet from the wall, and on a narrow side yard that can be the difference between a driveway placement and a street placement. We measure it before the rails come off.

Building code needs a jurisdiction on every sentence, because Colorado has no statewide residential building code. Larimer County’s 2024 package — IRC, IBC, IECC, IPC, IMC, plus the 2025 NEC and the 2025 Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code — takes effect 1 January 2026. Weld County’s takes effect 15 June 2026. Timnath adopts on its own timetable, which we did not establish. Larimer publishes a minimum frost depth of 30 inches below grade countywide and basic wind speeds from 115 mph upward depending on the site. Thirty inches of frost depth means a sewer or footing dig produces more spoil here than a newcomer expects, and dirt goes in a 10-yard loaded low, never a 30 loaded high.

Before any of that digging happens, Colorado 811. State law requires at least two business days notice, not counting the day of notice, under C.R.S. Title 9, Article 1.5; Colorado 811’s homepage advises three. White-line the dig area with paint, flags or stakes before you make the request. Marks stay valid while clearly visible but not beyond thirty calendar days from the due date of the request. Setting a container is not excavation and needs no locate. Colorado 811, 811 or 800-922-1987.

Disposal for a Timnath address is the Larimer route, and it is genuinely different from the Weld one a few miles east. Larimer County does not collect residential waste. The residential facility is the Central Diversion & Transfer Station, 2388 W. Trilby Road, Fort Collins, Monday to Saturday 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. with gates closing promptly, on 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 Taft Hill Road landfill is closed to general waste disposal. Whether the Central station accepts mixed construction and demolition debris we could not verify, so ask before you load a trailer. And the Weld County household hazardous waste facilities at Greeley and Dacono, which are free to Weld residents, are not free to you — Timnath is Larimer.

Statewide, the bans are narrow. Electronics have been prohibited from Colorado landfills since 1 July 2013 under C.R.S. § 25-17-303. Waste tires are refused at the gate locally, and state rules require registration to transport ten or more. There is no Colorado yard-waste landfill ban. Everything else is set facility by facility in each landfill’s own approved operating plan rather than by a statewide list — which is exactly why we ask what is going in the box, and why the disposal rules page is written per facility rather than as one tidy state list.

• RegionLarimer County
• Distance from our yardNorth of the yard up the interstate, on the same side of the county line as Kelim
• Main routesI-25 north and off at the Harmony or Prospect interchanges
• Typical deliverySame or next day

Getting a truck to you

Timnath is a straight run north of the yard up the interstate corridor, and for anything close to I-25 we are on the frontage roads rather than the mainline. The town splits cleanly into two delivery problems. The small original core has the older geometry — tighter drives, closer trees, lower overhead, and a hoist that needs better than twenty feet of clear air above the rails to stand a box up. The new subdivisions, which is most of Timnath, have generous widths and a different set of risks: fresh sod that ruts under a loaded axle, shallow irrigation mains under the strip beside the drive, decorative concrete aprons that mark, and streets on a base course that has not taken its final asphalt lift yet. On an active build site the questions are different again — where the box can sit so the framers can reach it without crossing the neighbor’s lot, whether the drive is cut yet, and whether we will be able to get back in for a swap when the site is full of trades. A 20-yard container wants roughly sixty feet of straight approach and eleven feet of working width; a 30 or a 40 wants noticeably more of both. We carry plywood and use it on anything new. Call (970) 427-0341 with the surface, the grade and the overhead.

Routes we run: I-25 north and off at the Harmony or Prospect interchanges, the I-25 frontage roads for anything close to the interstate, the Larimer county roads east of the interstate, Colorado 392 across from Windsor, the county grid south when the interstate is slow.

Landmarks and neighborhoods we work around

Permits, streets and placement in Timnath

Start with the question that decides everything else: which government are you standing in. Timnath makes that easier than most of this service area, and it is worth saying plainly: Timnath is a home rule town 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 Timnath 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 Timnath’s code, and we will not print a Timnath rule, fee, tier or turnaround that we have not read. We do not have a phone number for Timnath 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 Timnath 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 Timnath 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. Timnath runs its own permit counter, so ask there before the truck comes. We did not verify Timnath’s ordinances, and we will not print a fee, a tier or a turnaround for Timnath 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 Timnath 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 Timnath 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 Timnath 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 Timnath 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 Timnath 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 Timnath 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 Timnath is the town’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 Timnath’s cart rules, bulky-item rules or collection day from memory. We do not have a phone number for Timnath 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 Timnath