How to Dispose of Roofing shingles
Roofing shingles go straight in a roll-off. The container most people use is a 20-yard, a median of $419 nationally, typically $350 to $490 depending on where you are.
What it costs
| Cost | Median | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| 20-yard container | $419 | 1075 companies |
| Each extra ton | $76 | 845 companies |
| Each extra day | $16 | 876 companies |
Typically $350 to $490 depending where you are, including 2 tons and 7 days before the extras start.
Those are medians of prices companies publish themselves, from 1,395 of them. Your own town's figure is on the price index, and the calculator will add the weight and the days for you.
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Find companies near youWhere it costs most and least
| State | Median | Sample |
|---|---|---|
| New Hampshire | $664 | 10 companies |
| Massachusetts | $620 | 26 companies |
| New Jersey | $597 | 28 companies |
| Utah | $338 | 26 companies |
| Iowa | $335 | 19 companies |
| Nebraska | $300 | 14 companies |
A $364 difference for the same container.
How much roofing shingles weigh
Architectural shingles are 400 to 430 lb per square (100 sq ft). A 25-square tear-off is around 5 tons.
The rule that catches people
Accepted everywhere, and the single most common cause of an overage bill.
Worth knowing. Tell the hauler it is a roof before you book. A 20-yard looks half empty at 5 tons and the weight is what you pay for.
The cheaper route, if you have one
Some markets have shingle recyclers who take clean tear-off cheaper than landfill.
Getting it ready
Keep a tear-off in its own container if you possibly can. Clean asphalt shingle is recycled into road surfacing in a lot of markets, at a rate well below the mixed-debris rate, and anything else thrown in removes that option. Load them flat rather than in heaps, because a heaped container cannot be tarped and will not be collected.
Weight is what turns a quote into a bigger invoice, so how overage works is worth reading if this is going in with a full load. See what else fits in a 20 yard.
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See what it costs where you are
Every company we list publishes its own prices where it has them, ranked by Index Score, and no one paid to be on the list. Find the ones near you and compare before you book.