10 Yard Dumpster Rental in Reading, PA

The 10 yard dumpster is CDO Dumpster Rental Reading's smallest roll-off, and it's the right call for more jobs than most homeowners expect. If you're clearing out a single bedroom, tackling a small bathroom tear-out, or hauling brush and limbs from a backyard in Kenhorst or Laureldale, a 10 yarder usually handles the whole job in one trip without you paying for space you won't use.

It's also the easiest size to place on a tight lot, and that matters in a city like Reading. Streets climbing Mount Penn and Neversink Mountain were laid out for dense brick rowhomes with narrow lots and close-set driveways, and this compact container tucks in without blocking the whole street or a neighbor's access. We can set it on concrete, gravel or a protected section of grass, and our driver will walk the drop spot with you before it comes off the truck.

Not sure a 10 yard container is big enough for your project? Call us at (484) 334-4904 and we'll size it over the phone, or compare it against our other roll-off sizes first.

At 12 ft long, 8 ft wide and 3.5 ft deep, a 10 yard container holds about 2–3 pickup-truck loads and comes with 1–2 tons of disposal weight built into the flat rate. The low side height makes it easy to toss items over the rail by hand, which matters for a job you're doing yourself on a Saturday.

In practice, this size clears a single bedroom or home office down to the studs, empties a one-car garage, or hauls a small bathroom's old vanity, tub surround, tile and drywall in one go. It also works well for a modest amount of yard debris — a season's worth of limbs and clippings from a lot near Angelica Park or the Schuylkill River trails fills it by volume long before it comes close to the weight limit.

Where it runs out of room is anything spanning more than one or two rooms, a full roof tear-off, or a renovation generating mixed construction debris. If you're not sure which side of that line your project falls on, call (484) 334-4904 and describe what you're clearing — we'd rather put you in the right size the first time than have you order a second container.

The jump from a 10 to a 15 yard dumpster adds about 4 ft of length and half a foot of depth — enough to add 2 more pickup-truck loads of capacity and another ton of included weight. If your project is contained to one room or a single small space, the 10 yard almost always wins on both fit and value. If you're clearing two or more rooms, a garage plus a shed, or doing a bathroom remodel with old flooring on top of the fixtures, size up to the 15 yard dumpster instead.

A useful rule of thumb: picture the job as pickup-truck loads. If you can imagine hauling it away in two or three loaded truck beds, the 10 yard fits. If you're closer to four or five, go up a size rather than risk overfilling — we can't safely transport a container loaded above the rim.

Still torn between sizes? Our sizing guide on the blog walks through more project examples, or just call (484) 334-4904 and describe the job — we size dumpsters over the phone every day and would rather talk it through than have you guess.

Wood, drywall, tile, flooring, furniture, household clutter, yard clippings and branches, roofing shingles and small appliances are all fine to load. Because this is our smallest container, it's a common choice for a single-category load — all yard debris, or all bathroom-remodel debris — which also keeps disposal simple.

Paint, solvents, oils, tires, batteries, hazardous chemicals, propane tanks or gas cylinders, and medical waste can't go in any size dumpster, ours included — those need a dedicated hazardous-waste drop-off. The PA DEP waste programs office maintains guidance on where those materials belong.

Our full breakdown of what's allowed lives on the what can go in a dumpster blog post — worth a quick read before loading day if you're not sure about a specific item.