G&S TruckingBin Rentals
G&S TruckingBin Rentals
A roof tear-off is the one job where the usual logic about bin size stops working. Shingles are dense, and a bin that looks half empty can already be carrying as much as it should. Getting this right is less about volume than about weight.
Roofing & shinglesFor most single-storey homes around here the 14-yard bin is the size we send out, and it is the size most roofers ask for. The instinct on a larger roof is to move up to the 20-yard, and sometimes that is right — but not always, because with shingles you tend to reach the weight the bin can safely carry before you run out of room in it. A bigger box does not raise that ceiling. If your roof is steep, large, or carrying two layers of old shingles, the useful thing is to tell us that on the phone rather than pick a size from a chart. We would rather plan a swap than send a bin that cannot legally leave your driveway full.
The usual three still apply — dirt, concrete and brick cannot go in. On roofing jobs the one that occasionally catches people is a chimney being taken down at the same time: the brick from it has to go somewhere other than this bin.
A single heap in the middle is harder on the bin and harder to tarp. Shingles should go in level, from one end to the other.
Nails are the reason. A tarp around the bin and along the drip line saves an hour of magnet work and a flat tyre later.
Opening more roof than you can load and dry in is how a tear-off turns into an interior repair.
If you are also gutting a bathroom that week, that waste is better in its own bin — mixing bulky renovation debris into a shingle load wastes the capacity you are paying for.
A 14-yard suits most single-storey homes in this area. Rather than scaling up by roof size alone, call and describe it — the number of layers coming off matters as much as the footprint, and weight is what actually decides this.
Sometimes, and it depends entirely on the roof. Two layers roughly doubles what is coming down, so it is worth a conversation before the booking rather than a guess. We will tell you honestly whether to plan for a swap.
Yes, sheathing is fine and it is light compared with the shingles. Mention it when you book so we have a realistic picture of the whole load rather than just the roof covering.
All fine in the bin. The thing worth doing is laying tarps first so the small stuff ends up somewhere you can gather it, rather than in the lawn and the driveway for the next two years.
Delivering from our Ajax yard across the GTA — see the areas we cover.
Describe what’s coming out and we’ll price it flat.