20-yard dumpster rental in Louisville.

The 20-yard container runs 22 feet long, 7.5 feet wide, and 4.5 feet high. It keeps the low sidewalls that make hand-loading tolerable, then adds six feet of floor over the 15-yard box. That extra floor is where the bulky material goes: cabinet runs, countertops, doors, appliances rolled out during a kitchen tear-out, or the furniture stream that comes out of an estate cleanout.

Around Louisville this is the box we quote for whole-kitchen and whole-bath remodels, household and estate cleanouts, deck demolition, garage-plus-basement clearing before a move, and single-layer roof tear-offs planned around a stated weight allowance. It swallows volume without forcing you to climb a wall to load it.

Plan the 22 feet before delivery day

Length is the planning number. Twenty-two feet of container plus the truck's roll-off run is a real stretch of pavement, so walk the driveway before you call. If the site cannot give that up, the fallback is usually street placement — and in Louisville Metro that means the LMPWA Dumpster/Pod Permit, which puts containers in a parking lane and never on a sidewalk. We handle that handoff on the permit page, and we ask about it on every quote so the answer is settled before the truck rolls.

The flood tear-out box

Louisville learned in 2025 what a wet spring does to first floors. The National Weather Service documented historic rainfall and flooding across the area April 2–6, 2025, and the Ohio River crested near 37 feet at Louisville on April 9 — the second flood event of that year, after February's. When river water leaves a house, the tear-out is immediate: soaked drywall cut out by the sheet, buckled flooring, insulation, and ruined contents, all moving to the curb at once. A 20-yard box on the driveway keeps that pile contained and off the lawn while crews work room by room. If you are gutting a flooded first floor, this is the size to ask about first.

Where the load goes when it leaves

Mixed remodel and cleanout loads from this metro travel to permitted facilities — the WM Outer Loop landfill on the south side accepts both construction and demolition debris and household solid waste, which is what keeps a mixed 20-yard load simple. Two things still never ride along: yard waste, which Jefferson County bans from every landfill in the county except compost facilities, and the hazardous items on the facility's rejection list. The materials page has the complete rundown.

Sizing up or down

Drop to the 15-yard box when the debris is dense — concrete, soil, plaster — or comes from a single room. Step up to the 30-yard container when a renovation crosses several rooms or the cleanout includes every storage space in the house. Same footprint as the 30, six feet shorter than nothing: the 20 is the middle answer, and it is the right one more often than not.