Dumpster Rental in Hyde Park
Courtyard buildings, mid-rise co-ops and university property, where the container question is usually a building-management question before it is ours.
(619) 658-9555South Side · 60615The container question is usually a building question
Hyde Park is where our job most often starts with somebody who is not the person who can authorise it. The housing is largely courtyard buildings, mid-rise co-ops, condominium associations and university-owned property, and in all four the decision about where a container can stand belongs to a board, a management company or an estates office rather than to the resident doing the work.
That is not an obstacle so much as a different first step. Before we can agree a placement we need to know who controls the ground, and whether they have said yes. A co-op board meeting once a month is a real constraint on a kitchen remodel, and it is far better established in week one than on the morning the truck is due.
If you are a resident rather than an owner or a manager, the most useful thing you can do before ringing is find out who to ask.
Blocks that were built without alleys
Chicago is an alley city, but Hyde Park is one of the places where that breaks down. A substantial number of blocks here were laid out without service alleys, or had them built over as the neighbourhood densified and the university expanded. On those blocks there is no back way in at all — the rear of the building is a courtyard, a garden or another building.
Where there is no alley, street placement is the normal route rather than a fallback. That is a public way permit, which under the city code we hold rather than you, and it brings the usual considerations: the parking lane has to be clear on the day, hydrants and crossings stay clear throughout, and between December and April we need to know whether the street is posted.
Parking pressure here is serious, particularly near the university, and a container in a curb lane is taking spaces people are competing for. That argues for short, planned placements rather than leaving a container out for a fortnight, and for telling us the real duration at the start so the permit covers it properly.
Courtyard buildings, and getting material out of one
The classic Hyde Park building is a three or four storey courtyard block in brick, built in the 1920s, with apartments reached from shared entries off the courtyard. They are handsome and they are a genuine materials-handling problem.
There is no private outdoor space attached to a unit. There is frequently no rear stair of the kind a two-flat has, or if there is, it serves several units and cannot be monopolised. Lifts, where they exist, are small, old, and shared with everybody else in the building. So everything you remove from a fourth-floor apartment comes down a communal stair, through a communal entry, across a courtyard and out to the street.
That has three implications. Size smaller than you would for the same floor area in a house, because you will not be moving material fast. Protect the common parts before you start — the building will care about the stair and the entry, and so should you. And agree the hours with the management, because a crew carrying plaster through a shared entry at seven in the morning is a complaint waiting to happen.
Material-wise these are pre-war buildings: plaster over lath, cast-iron tubs, mortar-set tile, and the usual pre-1980 caution about tile, mastic and pipe wrap. Weight arrives before volume does, so a 15 yard is the common answer even on a substantial remodel. What cannot go in →
Where the container goes in Hyde Park
In Hyde Park it is usually the street, because many blocks here have no alley. Street placement is the normal route rather than a fallback, and the permit is ours to obtain. Where a building is managed by a board or a management company, their permission comes first and runs on their timetable. More on permits and placement →
What we deliver to Hyde Park
Roof tear-off
Flat roofs, tar and gravel, and pitched tear-offs by the square.
Chicago flat roofs mean tar and gravel, which is far heavier than shingle.
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Winter & snow routes
Overnight parking bans, two-inch routes and January alleys.
December to April the overnight ban runs on arterials whether or not it has snowed.
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Container sizes
10 to 30 yard containers, and which ones fit a Chicago alley.
A 30 yard is a different city permit class and will not fit most alleys.
Read more →What people in Hyde Park ask us
Who actually authorises the placement?
Usually not the person doing the work. Co-op boards, condo associations, management companies and the university control the ground here, and a board that meets monthly is a real constraint. Find out who to ask before you ring us.
My block has no alley.
That is normal in Hyde Park — a lot of blocks were laid out without service alleys or had them built over. Street placement is the standard route here, and the permit is ours to hold.
Fourth-floor apartment, no rear stair. What size?
Smaller than the floor area suggests, usually a 15. Everything comes down a communal stair and across a courtyard, so you will not be moving material quickly. Protect the common parts and agree the hours with management.
Is parking going to be an issue?
Near the university, yes. A container in the curb lane takes spaces people are competing for, which argues for a short planned placement rather than leaving it out for a fortnight.
Other neighborhoods we cover
Container delivery in Hyde Park
Tell us the cross streets, what is coming out and where it should sit. Size, placement and the permit answer in one call.
(619) 658-9555Serving Hyde Park · 60615