Dumpster Rental in Bloomfield, CT

Roll-off containers for Bloomfield homes and jobsites

Bloomfield was Wintonbury parish before it was a town, and the old name is still on half the institutions in it. It sits north-west of Hartford with Penwood State Park and the Talcott Mountain ridge along its western edge, Auerfarm on the high ground, and a broad, wooded middle that is genuinely rural in places within seven miles of our yard. It is a CRCOG member town and it sits on the Greater Hartford Flood Commission with Hartford, West Hartford and Newington — four separate governments, one valley, one set of water problems.

The housing is mixed in a way that keeps our work varied. The streets nearest the Hartford line have early twentieth-century and interwar stock on smaller lots. The centre of town has its own older core around the Wintonbury green. Out toward Terry Plains and the western hills the lots get large, the drives get long, and a good number of properties are on their own septic system — which is a delivery question, not an afterthought. A loaded roll-off truck is a serious weight and a leaching field is designed for rain, not for that. Tell us where the system sits and we will set the box on the made ground instead.

The trees are the other Bloomfield constant. This is New England hardwood country — maple, oak, white pine, birch and ash — and the wooded western side of the town loses limbs and whole trees in every serious storm. Tropical Storm Irene on 28 August 2011 is the reference event people still use around here, with outages that ran for the better part of a week across Connecticut. Storm cleanup fills a container faster than any other single job we run, because timber is dense and a brush pile is mostly air until you cut it.

What we know about working in Bloomfield

Two Bloomfield-specific things come up on almost every booking. The first is the approach. On the western and northern roads a long gravel or grass drive can look perfectly solid in August and be a rutted mess in April when the frost comes out of the ground. We lay boards on a paved surface as a matter of course; what we cannot do is invent bearing where there is none. If there is a septic tank or leaching field anywhere near the set-down, say so before delivery day. The second is trees. Storm debris is heavy and it is also mostly yard waste, and Connecticut bans grass clippings from solid waste facilities outright under CGS §22a-208v, so a load that is half lawn cuttings is a problem before it leaves the property. Brush, limbs and stumps go in their own container and get priced by weight. On the rest: mixed construction and demolition debris is fine in one roll-off, which is what CT DEEP actually recommends, with corrugated cardboard and scrap metal separated out as the two mandatory recyclables under CGS §22a-241b. Asbestos, clean fill, hazardous waste and liquids stay out of the box entirely. Placement is five feet clear of combustible walls, openings and roof eave lines under IFC 2021 §304.3.3. And anything that goes into the ground — a stump, a fence line, a footing at the 42-inch frost depth, an old septic line — needs Call Before You Dig first under CGS §16-345 et seq. Connecticut runs its own notification centre, separate from the one covering the states to the north and east of us. Book it at cbyd.com.

• Regionthe Capitol Region
• Distance from our yard7 miles north-west of our Ledyard Street yard
• Main routesnorth through Hartford on Main Street and out to Vine Street past Keney Park, then on into Bloomfield
• Typical deliverySame or next day

Getting a truck to you

Our normal line north is through Hartford on Main Street, out past Keney Park on Vine Street and on into Bloomfield, which takes about twenty-five minutes on a decent morning. For the Cottage Grove Road side we usually run I-84 west first and come up from the south. Route 218 crosses the lower half of the town and Route 189 runs north toward the Simsbury end. The western roads are narrow and wooded, so we want to know about overhead clearance before the truck is committed. Before booking we want the address, the surface and width of the approach, whether there is a septic system near the set-down, and what is going in the box.

Routes we run: north through Hartford on Main Street and out to Vine Street past Keney Park, then on into Bloomfield, I-84 west then north on the Bloomfield roads for the Wintonbury centre and Cottage Grove Road, Route 218 east and west across the southern half of the town, Route 189 north through Bloomfield for Tariffville Road and the Simsbury end.

Landmarks and neighborhoods we work around

Permits, streets and placement in Bloomfield

On a private driveway in Bloomfield the placement question is not really a permit question at all, and that surprises nearly everybody. Connecticut has no per-dumpster fire permit. The only rubbish entry in the state fire code permit table is a permit to operate a commercial rubbish-handling business, and that one is ours to hold rather than yours. What the state has instead is a placement rule. Under IFC 2021 §304.3.3, adopted in the 2022 Connecticut State Fire Safety Code, a container with an individual capacity of 1.5 cubic yards or more must not be stored in a building or placed within five feet of combustible walls, openings or combustible roof eave lines. Five feet is the figure, whatever the dumpster pages written for other states tell you. Every roll-off we run is well over 1.5 cubic yards, so the rule reaches a 10 yard in a Bloomfield driveway just as much as a 40 yard on a commercial site, and it is the reason the open side of the drive beats the narrow gap beside the house. Keep the box clear of exits, fire-apparatus access and hydrants as well, and no flammable or combustible liquids go in it. A local fire marshal can add requirements of his own, so if the only workable spot is tight against the building, it is worth a call to the fire marshal covering Bloomfield before we deliver. For a container that has to sit in the public way in Hartford the instrument is the Obstruction Permit from the city’s Public Works Permit Division — temporary obstruction of the public right-of-way, $50 plus $0.03 per square foot per day under the published Rules and Specifications, with a $10,000 performance bond and a certificate of liability insurance. That document never uses the word dumpster, so ring the Permit Division on 860-757-9970 and ask how they want it handled. Outside Hartford the same call goes to the town’s own public works or engineering office, because the answer follows the address rather than any county line. Sidewalks, hydrants and fire lanes stay clear either way. Sort the approval before you book the delivery. It is a ten-minute call that saves a week.

Two more rules reach every job we run, and both are state rules rather than local ones. The first is asbestos, and Connecticut splits it three ways. The Department of Public Health takes the abatement notification and licenses the people who do the work, on ten days’ notice. CT DEEP issues the $300 Special Waste and Asbestos Disposal Authorization that lets the material move. The DAS Office of the State Fire Marshal licenses demolition contractors. The trap on an older Bloomfield house is that Connecticut is stricter than the federal rule: RCSA §19a-332a-1 defines a facility to include residential buildings, single-family homes expressly included, so there is no owner-occupied carve-out here, and a demolition notification is required for any structure taken down, whether or not asbestos is present. CT DPH publishes a factsheet on asbestos-containing siding shingles in particular, which is a live issue on pre-1940 stock. We cannot take asbestos-containing material in any container. Anything built before 1978 also carries lead paint under the federal RRP rule, and lead paint chips are one of the materials Hartford’s bulky programme refuses outright. The second rule is what may not ride in a construction load: CGS §22a-208x excludes asbestos, clean fill, hazardous waste, radioactive material and liquids — adhesives, paints, oils and tars from construction and demolition waste, and corrugated cardboard and scrap metal are mandatory recyclables under CGS §22a-241b, so they come out of the load and cannot be mixed back in once they are separated. Everything else can be commingled — CT DEEP’s own guidance is that most construction waste is best managed in one roll-off taken to a processing facility. That is why we ask what is going in the box before we quote, and it is not fussiness. Before anything is dug, trenched or a stump pulled, call Call Before You Dig on 811, as CGS §16-345 et seq. requires; Connecticut is CBYD territory. Our permit and placement guide walks through the whole process, and collection, drop-off and bulk-item details are published by the City of Hartford.

The ground is the other local variable, and here it is the frost line that decides both the container size and the approach. Connecticut works to a 42-inch frost depth, so footings in Bloomfield reach three and a half feet regardless of what sits on top — and once the hole is that deep, a full basement costs almost nothing more, which is why so much of the pre-war housing here has one. Two practical consequences follow. A cleanout starts a floor lower than a sizing guide written for the south would assume: the basement and the attic are the job, and what comes up the bulkhead stairs is storm windows, paint tins, furniture, a workbench and thirty years of boxes. And frost heave, the spring thaw and plain groundwater keep the heavy work coming — footing and foundation spoil, broken concrete and brick out of a cellar floor or a front walk, plaster off a gutted six-family, and wet basement contents after water has come in. All of that is heavy for its volume, so it rides in a small container, often in two hauls rather than one big box, and the wet clay it comes out of weighs a good deal more in April than it does in August. Access moves with the season as well: snowbanks and the plough windrow narrow a drive that took a 30 yard in October, granite kerbing and cars parked both sides of the street decide how much swing the truck has on the older blocks, shared drives between multifamily houses are tighter than they look, and on gravel approaches we would rather move you a day than leave ruts through soft spring ground. Where it all ends up is the part people assume and get wrong. The MIRA trash-to-energy plant in Hartford’s South Meadows has closed, Connecticut has no active MSW landfills, and the state exports a large share of its municipal solid waste — so disposal here is a distance and logistics problem rather than a question of what is banned. A mixed construction load in one box is perfectly legal, and it is what CT DEEP recommends. Household quantities are a different route: Hartford residents take those to the Bulky Waste and Recycling Center, 180 Leibert Road, Tuesday to Saturday, 8:45 a.m. to 1:45 p.m., on a green permit for recyclables, free; a blue residential permit at $10.00 for four visits; or a red commercial permit at $50.00 plus a per-load charge — half a ton $40, three-quarters $60, a ton $85 — and that red permit names handymen and landscapers and stops at a one-ton load or a 16-foot trailer. Mattresses and electronics are free there, because Connecticut’s producer-funded stewardship programmes pay for them. Paint, solvents, automotive fluids, batteries and pool chemicals never ride in a container: household hazardous waste for Hartford goes to the MDC Operations Facility at 125 Maxim Road. Every town around us answers all of this differently, because Connecticut has 169 towns, each running its own solid waste arrangements with no county layer above them — the answer changes at the town line.

Sizes we deliver to Bloomfield