Renovation debris fills a bin slowly and loads it fast
A room stripped to the studs does not look like much in a bin, and then the scale ticket says otherwise. Old plaster and lath, ceramic tile, mortar bed and cabinet carcasses are dense, and a bathroom can put half a tonne into a bin that still looks empty.
That is why a bathroom gets a 10 yard rather than a bigger bin. The volume is small and the weight is not, so a large bin would only tempt you to fill the rest of it with something that pushes the load past its allowance.
A kitchen or a whole floor is the opposite: cabinets and framing are bulky and light, so a 20 yard is right. Old tile beds sit closer to heavy debris than to household waste, and weight limits shows what each size carries before the overage starts.
10 ydBathroom
20 ydKitchen
$120 / tOver allowance
How It Runs
Four steps around a live renovation
Tell us the rooms
Which rooms, and whether old tile or plaster is coming out.
Placed for the door
Close enough to carry to, far enough that the trades can still work.
Load heavy first
Tile and plaster across the floor of the bin, timber and cabinets on top.
Swap or collect
A second bin same day if the job runs bigger than the first one.
Mixed Loads
Keep the tile bed out of the renovation bin
Most renovation waste travels together without any trouble: drywall, timber, carpet, underlay, cabinets, doors, trim, insulation and packaging all go in the same bin and all go to the same facility.
Concrete, brick, mortar bed and the sand under an old tile floor do not. They are inert material and they go to a different site at a different rate, so a load with them mixed through it gets charged as general waste rather than as fill.
On a small job that difference is a few dollars. On a floor of old ceramic it is not. If there is a real volume of it, take a separate small bin, which concrete and clean fill covers, and keep the general renovation load clean.
A 10 yard. The volume is small but old tile, mortar bed and plaster are heavy, so the weight allowance matters more than the space.
A 20 yard. Cabinets, countertops, flooring and drywall are bulky and comparatively light, so the bin fills before the tonnage does.
Yes, drywall is a standard renovation material and goes in the general bin with timber, flooring, trim and insulation.
Small amounts are fine. A whole floor of it should go in a separate small bin at the clean fill rate, because mixed in it makes the whole load general waste.
Yes, usually same day if you call before mid-morning. Renovations run long more often than they run short.
