Roll-off boxes for Pensacola estate cleanouts, rental turnovers and military moves, sized by space because the load is bulky, light and on a fixed date.
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Six boxes, about thirty seconds. You pick when to be called back, and that is when the phone rings.
Or call (448) 216-5186A cleanout is the dumpster job with a hard deadline. A house has to be empty before a closing, before the next tenant, before the moving truck, or before a family on military orders reports somewhere new. Pensacola sees all of those, and the load in each case is mostly furniture, mattresses, clothing, boxes and years of household accumulation: bulky, light, and full of items that cannot legally ride in the box.
Household contents fill a box long before they reach its weight allowance, so a cleanout container is chosen by how much room it has. A one-bedroom apartment or a packed garage usually fits a fifteen or a twenty. A full three-bedroom house with an attic and a shed is often a thirty, or a twenty hauled twice. The exception is anything heavy that turns up in the pile, such as old books, a piano, tile, or a garage full of paint cans and concrete, which should be mentioned when the box is ordered.
The banned lists Pensacola haulers post overlap heavily: air conditioners and other appliances, asbestos, electronics, fluorescent bulbs, hazardous waste, liquids and chemicals, medical waste, oil and paint cans, and tires. Found in a load, they are pulled out and charged for. Most have a better destination at the county's Perdido Landfill: residents drop household hazardous waste there with no fee, recyclables go to the residential drop-off with no fee, and car and light truck tires are accepted at a small charge each, up to five per household. Mattresses are limited to four per household.
Families leaving on orders face a fixed report date and a household goods pickup that will not take everything. The box comes a few days before the movers, so whatever is not being shipped, stored or donated goes out ahead of the inventory, and the house is left empty for the final walk-through. A short rental and a small or mid-size box is usually enough for a household that has already sorted.
Clearing a parent's house in Cordova Park or Brownsville is slower than it looks, because every room needs decisions. Sort first, into keep, donate or sell, and discard, before the box arrives, so the rental days are spent loading rather than deciding. Set aside banned items for a separate trip, and pull out anything the family might want later before it disappears under a layer of carpet.
Landlords turning a unit over see the same load again: worn carpet and pad, a broken dresser, mattresses, whatever the last tenant left. A small box dropped with the property manager's permission clears a unit in a day, and a landlord with several units can often run one box across a week of turnovers.
Take furniture apart where you can, flatten boxes, lay mattresses and box springs flat along the walls, and fill the gaps with bagged items. Keep everything below the top edge of the walls; an overfilled box cannot be hauled until it is leveled, and that costs time on a move date that will not move.
A couch and a few bags are not a dumpster rental. The City of Pensacola's sanitation service handles residential collection within city limits, at 850-435-1890, and ECUA handles it in unincorporated Escambia County, at 850-476-0480. Ask either about bulky items before renting a box for a handful of pieces. A box earns its price when the pile is bigger than a couple of truckloads or the deadline cannot wait.
Cleanouts rarely hit the weight allowance, so the box size and the rental days set the price. Local list prices for the common sizes are on the pricing page with sources, along with the per-ton charge that applies if the pile turns out heavier than it looked.
Home Cleanout Dumpster Rental in Pensacola. Call (448) 216-5186 and a hauler is dispatched with the right truck. You get the price before the hook goes on.
Call (448) 216-5186Under Chapter 4-3 of the City of Pensacola code, it is unlawful for any person, firm or entity to engage in the business of collecting and disposing of solid waste generated by others without a franchise granted by the city. The mayor grants the franchises, which are non-exclusive. Applicants pay a $200 application fee, and franchisees pay the city $1.50 per cubic yard of container capacity each time a container is collected, or $3.00 per cubic yard for compaction containers, reported quarterly with an independently attested audit. Construction sites that use a solid waste provider other than a city franchisee are subject to an immediate stop work order from the city building official. Tree trimmings and construction debris that the generator removes itself are exempt.
Why it matters: A roll-off box on a job site inside Pensacola has to come from a city franchisee, or the building official can stop the work. The per-yard fee is a cost every in-city hauler carries on each collection, and it is part of what the quote covers.
Source: cityofpensacola.com
Escambia County's schedule of rates for the Perdido Landfill in Cantonment sets solid waste at $45.06 per ton and yard trash at $27.62 per ton, each with an $11.64 minimum. Clean fill, clean dirt and clean concrete, meaning concrete with no rebar and no welded wire, are accepted with no fee. Asbestos is $235.47 per ton and, like all special waste, must be reviewed, approved and scheduled in advance. Uncovered loads pay $35.12 per commercial load. The county's Palafox Transfer Station charges $57.90 per ton. The landfill is open 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays and 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, and closed Sunday.
Why it matters: Weight is the part of a dumpster bill that moves, and the county's per-ton gate rate sits underneath every overage charge. A box of clean broken concrete costs nothing to tip, so one bag of trash thrown on top turns a free load into a weighed one.
Sources: myescambia.com · myescambia.com
Hurricane Isaias made landfall near Destin on the evening of Friday 9 October 2026, according to the National Hurricane Center as reported by CBS News, and its winds blew the roof off a hotel in Pensacola. The City of Pensacola began debris collection on 13 October. By 19 October the city had collected 3,236 loads of vegetative debris, estimated the cleanup at $16 million, and said the first pass would take four to five weeks with at least two passes. Residents were asked to keep tree limbs and leaves separate from construction and demolition debris such as building materials, fencing, carpet, furniture and plumbing.
Why it matters: City storm collection runs in passes and starts with trees. Soaked drywall and carpet torn out of a house, or a roof stripped by a contractor, cannot wait weeks at the curb, and that is the work a roll-off box takes off the street.
Sources: cityofpensacola.com · cityofpensacola.com · cbsnews.com
After Hurricane Sally in September 2020, City of Pensacola sanitation crews and contractors collected more than 12,530 loads of storm debris totaling 540,330 cubic yards between 21 September and 13 November, with construction debris such as building materials, drywall, lumber, carpet, furniture and plumbing set out separately. Across the county's 875 square miles, Escambia County's contractors finished at 80,485 loads and 4,221,633 cubic yards.
Why it matters: A direct hit here produces debris on a scale that takes months to clear, and every hauler on the coast is booked in the same week. Getting a box early, loading it fast and calling for the haul promptly is what gets a gutted house emptied while curbside crews are still on their first pass.
Sources: cityofpensacola.com · myescambia.com
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