Dumpster Rental in Logan Square
Greystones and two-flats on wide boulevards, and the most concentrated rehab market in the city. Half our work here is somebody undoing a 1970s conversion.
(619) 658-9555Northwest Side · 60647Deconversion is the job here
More of our Logan Square work is deconversion than anything else, and it is the neighbourhood where that is most true. Buildings that were cut into three or four units somewhere between 1950 and 1980 are being put back to one or two dwellings, one block at a time.
The debris from that is its own category and it is deceptive. You are removing things that were added — a second kitchen, an extra bathroom, partition walls that were never in the original plan, a dropped ceiling, panelling over the original plaster, sometimes a whole separate stair. The floor area you are touching is modest. The volume absolutely is not.
It also packs badly. Cabinetry, pipework, drywall laid over plaster, flooring over flooring — nothing nests. That argues for a bigger container, while the plaster underneath argues for a smaller one. The resolution is nearly always a 20 yard with a planned swap rather than a 30, and in these alleys the 20 is the only one that fits comfortably anyway.
Greystones, and what the front elevation hides
The housing here is greystone and brick two-flat and three-flat, much of it on the boulevard system where the lots are a little wider and the buildings a little grander than the city standard. The limestone fronts are landmarked in places and are not generally part of the job.
What is part of the job is everything behind them. These buildings are pre-war, which means plaster over wood lath throughout, and plaster is what decides the container on nearly every interior project in this neighbourhood. It comes off in slabs with the lath still nailed on, it does not compact, and a 20 yard reaches its legal travelling weight while it still looks two-thirds full.
Add the bathrooms — cast-iron tubs, mortar-set wall tile, hex floor tile in mortar — and the kitchens, where a century of layered flooring comes up together, and the weight adds up faster than the volume does. If you tell us the building is pre-war and the walls are plaster, we will size it correctly without any further questions.
One thing worth stopping for: the cast-iron radiators. A three-flat yields a real tonnage of them and they have a scrap route of their own. Putting them in the mixed container is the easiest recycling percentage you will ever give away.
Boulevard blocks and the alleys behind them
Logan Square's alleys are mostly the standard city width, which makes this an easier neighbourhood to deliver into than Lincoln Park or Bridgeport. A 20 yard will sit along one side and still let a car past on most blocks.
Two local complications. The first is the boulevard system itself: Logan, Kedzie and Humboldt are boulevards with their own rules and their own character, and a container in a boulevard curb lane is not the same proposition as one on an ordinary side street. Where a boulevard property is involved we will steer firmly towards the alley.
The second is that this is a neighbourhood where a lot of people are doing work at once. On some blocks there is already a container, a skip or a contractor's truck in the alley, and alley capacity is finite. Telling us the cross streets lets us check what the back of that block is actually like rather than assuming.
Overhead is the usual caution. These alleys carry electric and cable, the sag mid-span is lower than it looks, and we need roughly twenty-three feet to tip a container off the truck. Stand where you want it and look up.
Where the container goes in Logan Square
In Logan Square it is usually the alley behind the building. Alley placement is public way, so the dumpster permit is ours to hold under the city code rather than yours to chase. What we need from you is the cross streets, so we can check the width, the surface and what is overhead before the truck is committed. More on permits and placement →
What we deliver to Logan Square
Alleys & permits
Where a container can legally sit, and who has to hold the permit.
In Chicago the dumpster permit is the hauler's, not the property owner's.
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C&D recycling
The city's 50 percent requirement and the paperwork behind it.
The obligation sits with the permit holder for the work, and it is documented after the job.
Read more →What can go in
Illinois bans a specific list from landfill. Electronics are on it.
Illinois has no bottle deposit but it does ban electronics — the opposite of some neighbouring states.
Read more →What people in Logan Square ask us
What size for a deconversion?
A 20 yard with a planned swap, usually. You are removing an added kitchen, an added bathroom and partition walls, which is far more volume than the floor area suggests — while the original plaster underneath keeps the weight high.
Can I get a 30 yard in my alley?
On some Logan Square blocks, yes — the alleys here are mostly standard width. But a 30 is taller rather than longer, and the height is what causes trouble under the overhead lines. Give us the cross streets and we will check.
My building fronts the boulevard. Does that matter?
For placement, yes. A container in a boulevard curb lane is a different proposition from one on a side street, and we will steer firmly towards the alley behind.
Should I save the radiators?
Yes. A three-flat yields a real tonnage of cast iron and it has its own scrap route. On a permitted job it also counts towards the city's recycling requirement by weight — put it in the mixed container and none of that applies.
Other neighborhoods we cover
Container delivery in Logan Square
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 Logan Square · 60647