Pensacola, FL · Escambia County
Dumpster Rental in Pensacola, FL — Delivered Fast, Priced Flat
10 through 40 yard roll-off dumpsters for homeowners, contractors and businesses across Pensacola and northwest Florida. One phone call, one flat price, and a driver who protects your driveway. Locally owned since 2016.
- Same-day & next-day delivery
- Flat rates that include disposal
- Driveway protection boards as standard
- Licensed, insured and locally owned
Licensed & insured · Flat-rate quotes · Locally owned since 2016
Why Wagner & Co
The dumpster company Pensacola calls back
Most people renting a dumpster are already having a stressful week. The kitchen is in pieces, the roof is half off, or a family member has passed and there is a house full of forty years to sort out. The last thing anyone needs is a hauler who quotes one price, invoices another, and drops a container across the mailbox.
We started Wagner & Co Dumpster Rental in 2016 with one truck and one rule: tell people the truth about what it costs and show up when we said we would. 10 years later that has not changed. Ross Wagner still answers the phone most mornings, and our drivers still walk the drop before they back in.
We run out of 333 N 14th Ave here in Pensacola, which means we are not routing a truck down from Mobile or across from Tallahassee when you need a container today. We know which North Hill and Seville drives are narrow enough — brick street, no apron, a live oak leaning over the whole approach — that a 30 has to sit on the street instead, which of the newer additions off Davis Highway and Creighton Road have an HOA or deed restriction that wants placement agreed first, which Milton, Ferry Pass and Pace lots still work best off the back alley, which Brent and Molino yards put a detached shop right where the hoist arm wants to be, which sand and shell drives out on Perdido Key and Pensacola Beach will not hold a loaded truck, which long dirt lanes up in north Escambia turn soft a day after a hard rain, and which side of a Gulf Breeze or Cantonment lot keeps the can clear of the low limbs and the service drop.
Read more about who we are and how we got started, or jump straight to what we haul.
- Founded2016
- Container sizes10 – 40 yd³
- Typical deliverySame or next day
- Towns served18+
What we haul
Dumpster rental services in Pensacola and northwest Florida
Eleven container services, one flat-rate promise. Whatever the job, the price we quote on the phone is the price on your invoice.
Residential Dumpster Rental
Driveway placement for garage, attic, shed and carport cleanouts and remodels.
Learn more →Commercial Dumpster Rental
Scheduled and on-call containers for retail, restaurants, offices and property managers.
Learn more →Construction Dumpster Rental
Jobsite roll-offs and next-day swap-outs for builders, remodelers and GCs.
Learn more →Roofing Dumpster Rental
Weight-rated cans sized by squares and layers, built for multi-layer tear-offs.
Learn more →Roll-Off Dumpster Rental
10, 15, 20, 30 and 40 yard roll-offs across Escambia and Santa Rosa County.
Learn more →Same-Day Dumpster Rental
Call before the cut-off and we can usually get a container to you this afternoon.
Learn more →Junk Removal Dumpsters
Clear a garage, attic, shed, carport or storage unit on your own schedule.
Learn more →Estate Cleanout Dumpsters
Discreet, patient container service for families clearing a lifelong home.
Learn more →Demolition Debris Removal
Containers and fast swaps for gut-outs, carports, decks, docks and outbuildings.
Learn more →Concrete & Heavy Debris
Dedicated heavy cans for concrete, brick, block, tile, sand and fill.
Learn more →Yard Waste & Storm Debris
Separate clean loads for pine and live oak limb debris — Florida keeps yard trash apart.
Learn more →Choose your size
Five sizes, sized for real projects
Not sure which one? Tell us what you are clearing out and roughly how much of it there is. Ninety percent of the time we can size it correctly over the phone in under two minutes. Dense material like brick, block, broken concrete, plaster or old heart pine wants a small can; a full gut of a newer slab-built ranch out west — framing lumber, cabinets, insulation and trim — is the job that genuinely wants a 40, because that debris takes up enormous space and weighs comparatively little. Bear in mind that an open can catches every afternoon downpour from June onward and wet debris gets heavy fast, so keep the load below the rails where it can be tarped.
10 Yard Dumpster
Concrete, brick, block, tile, sand and fill — weight fills it long before volume does.
View this size → 15yd³15 Yard Dumpster
Single-room remodels, tear-offs to about 20 squares, PCS garage clear-outs.
View this size → 20yd³20 Yard Dumpster
Garage, attic and carport clear-outs, multi-room renovations, storm gut-outs.
View this size → 30yd³30 Yard Dumpster
Whole-home cleanouts, new construction, additions, commercial projects.
View this size → 40yd³40 Yard Dumpster
Bulky light debris only: framing, siding, cabinetry, fencing, commercial fit-outs.
View this size →How it works
Four steps, no paperwork
- 1
Call us
Tell us the project, your address and when you want it. Two minutes on the phone and you have a flat price.
- 2
We deliver
Our driver walks the drop, lays protection boards and sets the container exactly where you want it.
- 3
You load it
Take your time within your rental window. Keep it level with the top rail and we handle the rest.
- 4
We haul it
Call or text when you are done. We pull it, sort what can be recovered and dispose of the rest properly.
Local knowledge
What makes hauling in Pensacola different
Sandy ground, low limbs and narrow original drives
Placement is where most of the trouble starts here, and it is rarely about space. Up in north Escambia and rural Santa Rosa the approach is a long dirt or clay lane over sandy soil, firm enough when it is dry and soft enough to bog a loaded truck a day after a hard rain, and the water table sits high; a rural drop needs the septic tank, drain field and well head flagged along with gates and turning room at the end of the lane. On the barrier islands — Pensacola Beach and Perdido Key — the houses are up on pilings, the drives are short and sandy or laid in shell and pavers, and dune protection and tight beach access decide where a truck can turn at all. In the newer subdivisions west, north and over in Pace and Navarre it is HOA rules and deed restrictions that govern where a container may sit and for how long. Through North Hill, the Seville Historic District, East Hill and Old East Hill you meet the original driveway — brick street, no apron, sometimes no driveway at all — plus the number-one overhead obstruction in this town: low live oak limbs hung with Spanish moss, with the service drop behind them. The hoist arm goes above 20 ft, so we need clear sky over the drop. Street or right-of-way placement needs a City permit, and in the city historic districts exterior work and demolition can also need Architectural Review Board approval before anything starts — a separate and slower process than a building permit, and the thing that catches people out most often. Tell us the block and we will tell you where the can goes, or see the permit and placement guide.
Piers, crawlspaces, and why an old house here weighs more
Pensacola is genuinely old for Florida — founded in 1559 — and the housing stock shows it. North Hill, the Seville Historic District, East Hill and Old East Hill hold 1880s to 1930s Victorians, Queen Annes, Creole cottages, shotgun houses and craftsman bungalows sitting on brick or masonry piers over a crawlspace. Those houses carry heart pine floors and tongue-and-groove decking, plaster and lath, and two or three stacked layers of flooring, all of it far denser than modern debris — so we size down and swap rather than send one big can that goes overweight at half full. Newer slab-on-grade construction runs west, north and out through Pace and Navarre. Nothing here sits over a below-grade level, so on a cleanout the volume is the garage, the attic, the crawlspace and the backyard shed, plus a storage unit somebody has been paying for since the last move. Pull the salvage first — heart pine flooring and framing, beadboard, doors, transoms, mantels, hardware, clawfoot tubs and old brick all have buyers on the Gulf Coast, and taking it out before the container arrives is normal trade practice. Two things reliably change the scope: Formosan subterranean termites, which turn a cosmetic remodel structural the moment the trim comes off, and humidity — crawlspaces trap moisture, wet drywall, carpet and insulation weigh far more than dry, and the mould window after water gets in is roughly 24 to 48 hours. Pre-1980 houses anywhere turn up asbestos in floor tile and black mastic, popcorn and textured ceilings, pipe and duct wrap, cement-asbestos siding and roofing felt, and pre-1978 homes carry lead paint under the EPA RRP rule. Asbestos here is regulated by the Florida Department of Health, demolition generally triggers a NESHAP inspection and notification, and we cannot take asbestos-containing material in any container. See what we can and cannot take in the Escambia County debris guide, and confirm current requirements with Florida DEP, since the rules change.
Storm season sets the calendar, and tear-offs run deep
The seasonal driver here is hurricane season, June 1 through November 30. Ivan in September 2004 took out a span of the I-10 Escambia Bay Bridge and the region spent years rebuilding. Sally in September 2020 crawled ashore, dumped enormous rainfall, flooded Pensacola and wrecked the Pensacola Bay Bridge construction when barges broke loose. Nobody here treats that as abstract. When a system comes through, the roofing trade books out in the same fortnight — adjusters, crews and containers at once — and the tree debris is heavy limb wood and whole longleaf and slash pines, water oak and live oak, not palm fronds. On the roof itself, remember it is weight rather than volume: a multi-layer tear-off is two or three roofs coming off rather than one, and that doubles or triples the tonnage from the same square footage. Florida’s insurance-driven re-roof wave keeps the work steady, the Florida Building Code wind-uplift and secondary-water-barrier rules govern it in a coastal high-wind zone, and the 25 percent rule pushes plenty of repairs into full replacements. Architectural shingle dominates in town, metal is common on the coast and on historic homes and comes off in long light sheets that need holding down in an open can, and pre-1980 roofing felt is a stop-and-test moment. Get the layer count and the square footage before you order — see roofing dumpsters, the tear-off sizing guide and our notes on hurricane and storm debris cleanup.
Weight at one end, rain at the other
Broken concrete, brick, block, mortar, dirt and sand all run around 2,400–2,800 lbs per cubic yard, and old heart pine, plaster and stacked flooring layers are not far behind, so a heavy load reaches legal transport weight in a container that still looks half empty. That material belongs in a 10 yard, twice, not a 30 once — see concrete and heavy debris. The opposite problem is the one nobody warns you about, and here it is water: insulation, cardboard, drywall and carpet take on a summer afternoon downpour and put on serious weight overnight. So we load heavy over light, keep everything below the top rail where it can still be tarped, bag the insulation and break the cardboard down, and ahead of a named storm we secure or pull cans rather than leave one loaded and open. On the green side, Florida separates yard trash from solid waste — vegetative debris rides as its own clean separate load to a yard-waste or mulching facility, and mixing it into a construction load gets the whole thing reclassified at the scale. Nothing gets stockpiled where runoff can reach Bayou Texar, Bayou Chico, Bayou Grande or the bay. See yard waste removal and the Escambia County recycling guide.
- 10+Years serving Escambia County
- 18Towns in our service area
- 13In-depth local guides published
- 5Container sizes, 10 to 40 yard
What customers say
Straight talk from Pensacola and northwest Florida
Ross was the only one who asked what year the house was before he quoted a size. 1912, heart pine floors, piers underneath. He told me flat that old-growth framing and stacked flooring weigh far more than modern debris and put two 15s through instead of the 30 I asked for. He was right.
Sally flooded us and I needed drywall and carpet out before the mould set in. Wagner had a can on the drive the next morning and their driver told me straight that wet drywall would blow the weight on a 30 long before it filled. Two 20s and a swap. That advice cost him a bigger box.
PCS orders in June, which is the worst possible month to need anything in this town. They took the booking three weeks out and landed on the day. Their driver also pointed out the live oak limb over our drive before he tried to swing the arm under it, which the last outfit did not.
Dock and seawall tear-out on the bayou. Concrete, treated pilings, the lot. Ross talked me down to a 10 with three swaps rather than the big box I wanted, and explained why the weight would strand a bigger can. Straight answer every time I have called since.
Reviews are shown as supplied by customers. Ratings and counts shown elsewhere on this site are illustrative pending live review syndication.
Service area
Dumpster delivery across Escambia County and northwest Florida
We deliver daily from our Pensacola yard. Pick your city for local placement notes, landmarks and permit guidance — or see the full service area.
Dumpster Rental FAQs
How fast can you deliver a dumpster in Pensacola?
Most of the time, same day if you call before about 11am, and next morning otherwise. We run our own trucks out of 333 N 14th Ave in Pensacola, so we are not waiting on a dispatcher two counties away. In the week after a storm comes through, and through military PCS season from May into August when orders cluster and containers, movers and cleaners all book at once, it can stretch to 48 hours, and we will tell you honestly when you call.
What does a flat rate actually include?
Delivery, pickup, an agreed rental period and a set tonnage allowance with disposal included. No fuel surcharge, no environmental fee, no admin fee. The only way the number changes is if you go over the weight allowance or keep the container longer than agreed, and we tell you both limits before we deliver.
Do I need to be home for delivery or pickup?
No. Plenty of our customers text us a photo of where they want it and go to work. All we need is clear access, a spot free of cars and low branches, and permission to be on the property. If the only way in is a narrow original drive, a back alley, a gate beside a detached shop, a sandy or shell drive out on the beach, or a long dirt lane up in north Escambia, tell us when you book and we will schedule accordingly. Mention low live oak limbs and the service drop as well, because the hoist arm needs the height. Say so if the property is empty, too — on an unattended job the rain is the risk, so we will talk you through keeping the load below the rails where it can be tarped and we will time the pull so a loaded can is not sitting open through a wet stretch.
Will the dumpster damage my driveway?
We put protection boards under the wheels and rails on every residential delivery, which spreads the load instead of concentrating it on four small contact patches. The Pensacola complication is the ground itself — sandy soil, a high water table and root heave crack plenty of drives and aprons long before a truck arrives, so we photograph the existing condition on delivery. Narrow original drives, brick streets and alley approaches get extra boards, and so do the sand, shell and paver drives on Pensacola Beach and Perdido Key. Out in north Escambia a dirt or clay lane is fine while it is dry, but two days after a hard rain we would rather come back than cut ruts into it or drop a wheel with a loaded can. Our placement guide explains it fully.
Do I need a permit for a dumpster in Pensacola?
On your own driveway, generally no municipal permit. In the public street, alley or right-of-way you usually do, through the City of Pensacola — or FDOT on a state route such as US-98 (Navy Boulevard, Gulf Beach Highway or Scenic Highway), US-29 (Pensacola Boulevard), SR-291 (Davis Highway) or SR-289 (Ninth Avenue). Gulf Breeze, Pensacola Beach, Navarre, Milton, Perdido Key, Gonzalez, Molino, Ensley and Brent each run their own right-of-way process, and Santa Rosa County is a separate jurisdiction from Escambia. The one people forget is the review that has nothing to do with the container: in the city historic districts the Architectural Review Board can need to approve exterior work and demolition before it starts, which is slower than a building permit and catches more renovations out than anything else here. In the newer subdivisions it is HOA covenants and deed restrictions that limit where a container sits and how long it stays. Call Sunshine 811 before anything gets dug. Requirements change, so confirm with the City before you book — or read our permit and placement guide.
What can I not put in the dumpster?
Wet paint, solvents, motor oil, fuel, pesticides, automotive chemicals, asbestos-containing material, propane and other pressurised cylinders, lead-acid batteries, medical waste, whole tires and refrigerant appliances. Leftover paint, solvents, fuel, pesticides and pool chemicals go to an Escambia County household hazardous waste drop-off rather than in the can — there is no paint take-back programme operating in Florida. Florida also separates yard trash from solid waste, so grass, leaves, brush, limb wood and whole pines travel as their own clean separate load to a yard-waste or mulching facility rather than mixed into a construction load. Everything else on a normal cleanout or renovation is fine. Rules do change, so ask us before it goes in.
Still not sure?
Two minutes on the phone beats twenty minutes reading. Tell us the job and we will size it, price it and book it.
(448) 288-5053Helpful Local Resources
Useful official sources for permits, disposal rules and recycling in Pensacola and Escambia County. We keep these handy because half the questions we get are really questions for one of these offices.
- City of PensacolaRight-of-way and building permits, demolition permits, the Architectural Review Board and historic district review.
- Escambia CountySolid waste and the Perdido Landfill, household hazardous waste drop-offs, county permits and post-storm debris programmes.
- Florida DEPSolid waste rules, the yard-trash separation requirement, C&D debris handling and asbestos notification.
- Florida Department of HealthAsbestos and lead guidance, licensing and health rules for renovation and demolition work.
- FDOTPermit requirements for work or containers affecting a state road such as US-98, US-29 or SR-291.
- Sunshine 811Free utility locates before you dig, demolish or set a container over a buried service line.
- Santa Rosa CountyPermits and solid waste information for Gulf Breeze, Navarre, Milton, Pace and the rest of Santa Rosa County.
- Florida Division of Emergency ManagementHurricane preparedness, declared-event guidance and post-storm debris information.
Talk to a real person
Need a dumpster in Pensacola today?
Tell us what you are clearing out and we will tell you the right size and the flat price to put it in your driveway. No forms, no waiting on an email — just call and we will sort it out in a couple of minutes.
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