Dumpster Rental in Molino, FL

Roll-off containers for Molino homes and jobsites

Molino is rural north Escambia. Straight up US-29 past Cantonment, another ten minutes, and the subdivisions stop and the farms start — call it thirty-five minutes from the yard. This is not suburban Pensacola with bigger lots; it is a genuinely rural community of working farms, timber, pasture and acreage homesteads, where the nearest neighbour is usually across a field and the mailbox is a long way from the front door.

The container work reflects exactly that. It is farm and homestead work: barn and equipment shed cleanouts, old fencing and roofing tin, pole barns coming down, mobile homes being pulled off a family parcel and replaced, and houses that have held forty or fifty years of storage in the outbuildings. Mixed in with it is ordinary residential — re-roofs on the older frame and brick stock, kitchen and bath remodels, and the slow clearing of a place after an estate settles. The houses themselves range from older frame homes on piers with a crawlspace to newer slab-on-grade builds set well back off Highway 97 and Molino Road.

Weather matters up here in a different way than it does on the coast. There is no surge this far inland, but Ivan and Sally both came through with wind and enormous rainfall, and what comes down on a Molino property is pine and live oak — whole trees, not fronds. Cleaning up a couple of acres of limb wood is a serious volume job, and because Florida handles yard trash separately from solid waste, that vegetative material rides as its own clean load to a mulching facility rather than going into a box with building debris.

What we know about working in Molino

Almost everything about a Molino delivery comes down to the drive and the ground. These are long sand, clay and dirt approaches, sometimes a quarter mile of it, and they carry a loaded roll-off truck fine when they are hard and rut deeply for a week after real rain. We would rather move a delivery a day than leave you with ruts to blade out. Tell us where the drive narrows, where the culvert or the cattle guard sits and how much room there is to turn at the top, because a gate that looks generous from the house is often tighter than a roll-off needs. Every property out here is on septic and a private well, so flag the tank, the drain field and the well head before we arrive, or walk the drop spot with the driver — a loaded truck across a drain field is an expensive mistake. Low live oak limbs over the drive are the other regular problem, since the hoist arm needs a lot of vertical clearance to raise and set the box. And be aware that burning is not always an option: outdoor burn restrictions come and go up here, so brush a family would once have piled and lit frequently has to go in a container instead. Molino is Escambia County, which is its own permitting jurisdiction separate from Santa Rosa County.

• CountyEscambia County
• Distance from our yard20 miles north of our North 14th Avenue yard
• Main routesUS-29, Pensacola Boulevard
• Typical deliverySame or next day

Getting a truck to you

North on US-29 the whole way, through Ensley, Gonzalez and Cantonment, then west on Highway 97 or east on Molino Road depending on where the property sits. Thirty-five minutes from the yard on a clear morning and there is very little traffic once we are past Cantonment. What we do need is detail about the last half mile — surface, width, low limbs, the turnaround and where the septic and well are. That is the part that decides whether a loaded truck gets in and out cleanly, and we would rather sort it on the phone than in your front pasture.

Routes we run: US-29, Pensacola Boulevard, Highway 97, Molino Road and Barrineau Park Road, Highway 95A and Crabtree Church Road.

Landmarks and neighborhoods we work around

Permits, streets and placement in Molino

On a private driveway in Molino you generally do not need a municipal permit. Placement in the public street or right-of-way is a different matter and normally requires approval — from the borough or township where the road is locally maintained, or from FDOT where it is a state route. Every municipality in Escambia County runs its own form and its own lead time, and older streets here often have no off-street parking at all, so plan the permit before you plan the delivery. It is a ten-minute call that saves a week.

Our permit and placement guide walks through the whole process, and Florida DEP publishes the Covered Device Recycling Act rules and the other statewide disposal restrictions that apply to every load we haul out of Molino. County recycling and household hazardous waste dates are published by Escambia County.

Sizes we deliver to Molino