Dumpster Rental in Newington, CT

Roll-off containers for Newington homes and jobsites

Newington sits between Hartford, West Hartford and New Britain, and it has the character of all three at different ends of it. The Berlin Turnpike runs the length of the town as a wide commercial spine, Cedar Mountain rises on the eastern side, and Newington Junction — the old railway crossing that gave the settlement its second centre — still reads as a distinct village. It is a CRCOG member town and sits with Hartford, West Hartford and Bloomfield on the Greater Hartford Flood Commission, which is a small piece of evidence that water in this valley does not respect boundaries.

The building stock is overwhelmingly post-war. Newington grew fast in the 1950s and 1960s, and what that produced is streets of capes, ranches and split-levels on regular lots with real driveways — from a delivery point of view, close to ideal. There is older work around the town centre and the Junction, and there is newer condominium and townhouse development, but the middle of the town is a mid-century suburb and it is now at the age where everything mechanical in it is being replaced for the second time. Boilers, water heaters, kitchens, bathrooms, roofs, and the aluminium siding that went over the original clapboard in the 1970s.

Underneath, a 42-inch frost line means full basements throughout, and a Newington basement holds sixty years of one or two families’ accumulation. Add an attached garage, which most of these houses have, and you have the standard Newington job: a 20 yard container in the drive for a week while three generations of stored things come out of a house that is changing hands. The second most common is a bathroom and kitchen coming out together, which is a smaller container than people ask for and a heavier one than they expect.

What we know about working in Newington

Placement in Newington is usually the easy part — post-war drives are wide, level and paved, and a 20 or a 30 goes on one without drama. The rule that still applies is IFC 2021 §304.3.3, adopted in Connecticut: a container 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. That is five feet, not ten, and it is the reason we set boxes out on the drive rather than tucked against the garage where people often want them. It also means an attached garage with the door open is not a container position. Newington runs its own solid waste arrangements as every Connecticut town does, so check with the town for household collection, and treat the container as the answer for everything the household programme is not built for. On contents: one mixed roll-off for construction and demolition debris is fine and is what CT DEEP recommends; the only mandatory separations on a renovation are corrugated cardboard and scrap metal under CGS §22a-241b. Out entirely: asbestos, clean fill, hazardous waste and liquids — adhesives, paints, oils, tars. Paint has a real route here because PaintCare has run in Connecticut since July 2013, and household hazardous waste in this region goes through the Metropolitan District Commission. If a bathroom or kitchen from the 1950s is coming out and anything looks like it might contain asbestos — floor tile, pipe lagging, siding shingles — stop and get it tested, because Connecticut’s rules expressly include single-family homes. Call Before You Dig on any excavation, under CGS §16-345 et seq.

• Regionthe Capitol Region
• Distance from our yard5 miles south-west of our Ledyard Street yard
• Main routesNew Britain Avenue west and south out of Hartford, straight down toward the Newington line
• Typical deliverySame or next day

Getting a truck to you

New Britain Avenue west and south out of Hartford is our normal line and it puts us into Newington in about twenty minutes off-peak. I-84 west to the Newington exits is faster for the northern half when the surface roads are busy. The Berlin Turnpike carries us the length of the town for anything on the commercial side, and Cedar Street crosses it for the Junction end and the streets off Willard Avenue. Before we book we want the address, whether the container goes on the drive or the street, the drive width and surface, the overhead clearance on the approach, and a straight description of the load — a cleanout, a re-roof and a kitchen gut size differently.

Routes we run: New Britain Avenue west and south out of Hartford, straight down toward the Newington line, I-84 west to the Newington exits for the northern half of the town, the Berlin Turnpike south through the middle of Newington for anything on the commercial corridor, Cedar Street across the town for the Newington Junction end and the streets off Willard Avenue.

Landmarks and neighborhoods we work around

Permits, streets and placement in Newington

On a private driveway in Newington 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 Newington 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 Newington 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 Newington 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 Newington 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 Newington