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Kitchen Remodel Dumpster Rental in CT

Cans sized for the way kitchen demo really goes — light cabinets, heavy tile. Typically a 15- or 20-yard, $547 or $647 flat, 7 days included.

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  • Family-owned

    since 2014 (12 years)

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    in Connecticut & New York

Last updated: September 6, 2026

Kitchen demo has a rhythm every remodeler knows: the cabinets surrender in an hour, light as luggage, and everyone gets cocky — then the tile floor starts coming up and the job turns into a quarry. That flip, from light to dense, is the entire art of sizing a kitchen-remodel dumpster, and it's why kitchens get their own page instead of a line on our home renovation page (that sibling covers multi-room projects; this one is the kitchen, specifically).

We've dropped cans for Connecticut kitchen guts since 2014. Typical booking — typical, never guaranteed — is a 15-yard or 20-yard, and the honest way to choose between them starts with what the pieces of a kitchen actually weigh.

What a kitchen weighs, piece by piece

These aren't our estimates — they're published industry conversion factors, the same cited figures behind our dumpster weight guide:

  • Cabinets and trim are dimensional lumber territory: about 169 lbs per cubic yard clean (EPA volume-to-weight factors, 2016). A whole kitchen's worth of uppers and lowers is bulky and light — it fills space without threatening the scale.
  • Drywall from opened walls runs 467 lbs per cubic yard (EPA). Noticeable, not decisive.
  • Ceramic tile, loose, runs 1,214 lbs per cubic yard (City of Woodland C&D chart) — roughly seven times the density of the cabinets sitting on top of it. Tile floor, tile backsplash, and the mortar bed under both are where kitchen loads get heavy.

That spread is the sizing rule in one sentence: count your tile, not your cabinets. A cabinets-and-counters swap barely registers on a scale ticket. A kitchen with a full tile floor over a mud bed can put serious weight in the can before the drywall even goes in — and past your size's included allowance, overage runs $0.10/lb, the transfer station's rate passed through, no markup.

Tell us about the tile

Two minutes on the phone beats an overage line on the invoice.

The 15-or-20 call

  • 15-yard, $547, 2,000 lbs included — the typical fit for a compact kitchen: cabinets, counters, sheet-vinyl or modest tile, a wall opened here or there.
  • 20-yard, $647, 4,000 lbs included — the typical fit when the kitchen is big, the tile is wall-to-wall, the remodel takes the ceiling down, or the demo spills into an adjacent dining room. Twice the weight allowance is the point, not the extra volume.

Either way the driveway plan is the same: every can in our fleet shares the same footprint — about one parking spot — at every size, so upgrading your weight allowance never changes what lands on the asphalt. How that works is at one can, every job.

One honest caution in the other direction: don't book the 20 "to be safe" if your demo is genuinely light. The 15 covers a cabinets-and-counters kitchen with room to spare, and the difference buys your new faucet.

All four sizes — up-front pricing

Up-front pricing. No zone pricing. Each size includes delivery, pickup, dumping, the 7-day rental window, and a weight allowance shown below. Standard add-ons disclosed up-front and confirmed at booking. Tap any size for the dedicated size guide.

Included in your base rate

  • Delivery and pickup
  • Dumping at licensed transfer station
  • 7-day rental window
  • Included weight per size (see size table)
  • No zone pricing or driveway surcharges across our service area

Standard add-ons (disclosed up-front)

  • Overweight: $0.10 per pound over the included cap
  • Extension day: $15 per day beyond the 7-day window
  • Tire (if loaded): $50 each
  • CFC appliance (refrigerator, freezer, AC, dehumidifier — if loaded): $50 each
  • Mattress or box spring (if loaded): $50 each

Add-on charges reflect actual transfer-station and disposal fees passed through to you — we don't mark up overweight, extra items, or disposal costs.

Final pricing confirmed at booking based on actual weight, rental length, and items loaded.

What can’t go in the dumpster
  • Paint, solvents, oil, household chemicals (route through CT DEEP hazardous waste)
  • Batteries — any kind, lithium especially
  • Asbestos-containing materials (specialized hauler required)
  • Tires (route to a tire dealer or pay $50/each disposal fee if loaded)
  • Medical waste
  • Liquids of any kind
  • Customer is responsible for re-routing prohibited items. See the full prohibited-items list for Connecticut.

What you see is what you book — no zone pricing, no driveway surcharges, no weekend delivery fees. Standard charges for overweight, extension days, and certain prohibited items disclosed above and confirmed at booking.

What can't go in, and how long you'll have the can

A kitchen gut throws off a few things the can won't take: paint and solvents from under the sink (CT DEEP household-hazmat collection handles those), batteries, liquids of any kind, and the clean-fill family — concrete, brick, dirt — if your demo reaches a slab. Refrigerant appliances ride with a disclosed $50 per-item pass-through. The complete list, material by material, is in what you can't put in a dumpster in Connecticut.

On timing: 7 days are included, and a kitchen's demo phase rarely uses them all — the smart pattern is can arrives, demo happens, can leaves, and the remodel proceeds without steel in the driveway. Across four years of our rentals, ~1 in 5 rentals extends (Grizzly Junk Pros job data, 2023 – Aug 2026); when kitchens extend it's usually because the can doubled as the cleanup bin for the whole project. Extension days are $15 each, arranged by phone — the full data on how long people really keep cans is in this guide.

Related pages

Kitchen remodel dumpster FAQs

What size dumpster does a kitchen remodel typically need?
Typically — not guaranteed — a [15-yard](/15-yard-dumpster-rental-ct) at $547 for a compact kitchen with modest tile, or a [20-yard](/20-yard-dumpster-rental-ct) at $647 when the kitchen is large, the tile is extensive, or the remodel opens walls. The deciding factor is weight, not volume: cabinets are light, tile and stone are not. Describe your kitchen at (203) 219-8855 and we'll size it with you.
Can old kitchen appliances go in the can?
Most of them ride free — stoves, dishwashers, microwaves, range hoods. The exception is anything holding refrigerant: a refrigerator, freezer, or wine fridge loaded in the can carries a $50 certified-reclaim pass-through, the recycler's charge for pulling the coolant. If the fridge is the whole job, [appliance removal](/appliance-removal-ct) is usually the better product.
Do granite or quartz countertops go in the dumpster?
Yes — countertops, tile, plaster, and backer board are all accepted renovation debris. What's NOT accepted is the clean-fill family: concrete, brick, dirt, rock, sand, and asphalt pavement, in any can we run. Stone counters are dense, so tell us they're in the load when you book and we'll factor them into the size call.
How long do people actually keep a kitchen-demo dumpster?
7 days come included, and most remodels only need the can for the demo phase at the front. Across our books, ~1 in 5 rentals extends (Grizzly Junk Pros job data, 2023 – Aug 2026), and the median extension is 5 days at $15/day. The full distribution is in our guide: [How Long Do You Really Need a Dumpster?](/guides/how-long-do-you-really-need-a-dumpster-ct)
Is this page for homeowners or contractors?
Homeowners, mostly — a contractor running gut jobs on repeat wants the account-and-swap-cadence version, which lives on [Commercial Dumpster Rental for Contractors](/commercial-dumpster-rental-for-contractors) and in the sizing writeup [Kitchen and Bath Gut Sizing for Contractors](/blog/kitchen-bath-gut-dumpster-sizing-contractors). Same cans, same rates either way.

Book the demo can

Call (203) 219-8855 (Mon–Fri 8 AM – 4 PM live, AI after-hours and weekends) or book online. Same-day delivery is possible near our yards when you call before 11 AM.