Junk Removal of Mt. Juliet
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Construction Debris Removal in Mt. Juliet, TN
Construction debris removal in Mt. Juliet means hauling C&D debris, the waste TDEC's landfill rules describe as coming from construction, remodeling, repair and demolition of structures, and three things decide the job here: the Wilson County landfill's fees, the weight of the material and the rules for older houses. The County's landfill charges $18 a cubic yard for construction and demolition waste and $100 a ton for shingles, effective November 1, 2022, takes cash or local check only and turns away untarped loads. Drywall, roofing and broken concrete weigh more per cubic yard than uncompacted mixed trash, by EPA's conversion factors. Paid work that disturbs paint in a pre-1978 house falls under EPA's lead-safe rule, and TDEC says it must be notified of any demolition. Each rule below carries its source, and each price its survey and date.
$300 to $1,000 on average, national (HomeGuide construction debris guide, January 27, 2025) · full pricing guide
National surveys price this work by how much of a truck the debris fills and how heavy it is. HomeGuide's construction debris guide (dated January 27, 2025) runs from $300 to $500 for a quarter truck to $700 to $1,000 for a full one; Angi (updated Jul 8, 2026) prints $100 to $300 for a quarter truck and $500 to $800 for a full one, with a $450 average; Fixr (updated January 31, 2025) gives $200 to $600. HomeGuide names the drivers: the type and amount of debris, access, location and local disposal fees, with higher fees for concrete, gravel or dirt. None of the surveys publishes a figure for Mt. Juliet, Wilson County or Nashville, so every figure is national; the national price table on our cost page sets them beside other hauling prices.
Much remodel debris is heavy for its size, so weight decides what a load costs and what can carry it. EPA's "Volume-to-Weight Conversion Factors" (April 2016) lists composition roofing at 731 pounds per cubic yard, drywall at 467, bulk mixed debris at 484, broken concrete at 860 and clean dimensional lumber at only 169. By our arithmetic, 10 cubic yards of drywall weighs about 4,670 pounds, or 2.33 tons, and 10 of concrete with rebar about 8,600 pounds, or 4.3 tons. Single pieces add up as well: Georgia-Pacific's 5/8 inch Fireguard X board weighs 2.2 pounds per square foot, so a 4-foot by 8-foot sheet runs about 70 pounds by our math, and NIOSH says a concrete block can weigh up to 50 pounds. Ford rates a 2026 F-150's maximum payload between 1,715 and 2,440 pounds by engine and drive.
In Wilson County, a remodel's debris goes to the County landfill at 378 Dump Road in Lebanon, since the convenience centers take only small amounts. The centers take no commercial loads, and one household visit allows ten bags of garbage plus one choice that may be 5 pieces of lumber, flooring included, or 20 shingles; staff may send a load on to the landfill. The landfill takes construction and demolition waste and shingles for a fee, Monday to Friday, 7 am to 3 pm. Its page prints no rate for concrete and does not use the word, so confirm a concrete load before driving it there. Under Tennessee Code section 68-211-104(4), transporting or disposing of solid waste against the State's rules is unlawful. Our landfill and convenience center page lists every County rule.
Sorting comes first on the job. Keep shingles in their own pile, because the County charges them by the ton and other remodel debris by the cubic yard, and set paint, solvents and adhesives aside: we do not take household hazardous waste, and before the job we tell you where each item can lawfully go, as listed in our Mt. Juliet disposal guide. HomeGuide notes that upper floors and active work sites add time and cost. On a second-story tear-out, OSHA's demolition standard 29 CFR 1926.852 bars dropping material outside the exterior walls unless the area below is protected. Each load is tarped before it leaves your property, and the spot where the pile stood gets swept.
For a quote, send photos of the pile and where it sits, a list of the main materials with rough amounts, the floor it is on and the year the house was built, since that year decides which asbestos and lead questions apply. If a contractor did the work, check the contract: HomeGuide's guide puts debris removal on the contractor and says to confirm it before the project begins. Our quote costs nothing, comes before anything is lifted, and sets a price you agree to before the work starts. In writing, it lists what that price includes and states whether any line is subject to Tennessee sales tax.
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Signs your remodel debris needs a hauler
The remodel debris we haul from Mt. Juliet ends up in one place, the Wilson County landfill in Lebanon, and the County's own rules decide whether you can get it there yourself. These are the conditions that point to hiring the haul.
- The pile is bigger than one convenience center visit allows, such as more than 5 pieces of lumber or 20 shingles, or the load is commercial, which the centers refuse.
- No one can reach the landfill's scale house by 2:30 p.m. on a weekday, the check-in cut-off before its 3 pm close.
- Your truck has no tarp, and the County's landfill says plainly that loads not tarped will be turned away.
- The debris is broken concrete or block, which EPA's table puts at 860 pounds per cubic yard and NIOSH at up to 50 pounds a block.
- A new house in a City subdivision is nearing its certificate of occupancy, which the Subdivision Regulations hold back until construction waste is removed.
Wilson County's landfill and center rules for remodel waste
Wilson County takes loads of construction and demolition waste at its landfill and only a few pieces a visit at its convenience centers, and the landfill page sets its terms briefly. The fee list opens "Wilson County Landfill rates are as follows, effective November 1, 2022:" and prints "Construction/Demo Waste: $18 per cubic yard" and "Shingles: $100 per ton". In July 2018 the County's newsletter gave the tipping fee, the landfill's charge to accept a load, as $9.00 per cubic yard. Payment is "Cash or local check only", the hours are Monday to Friday, 7 am to 3 pm, with no weekend hours printed, and under "Terms" the page says "All loads must be checked into the scale house 30 minutes prior to closing." and "All loads entering the landfill must be tarped." Shingles are priced by weight, so their cost follows EPA's 731 pounds per cubic yard for composition roofing: by our arithmetic, 10 cubic yards of loose shingles, 3.655 tons, comes to $365.50, and a single cubic yard to $36.55.
The page does not mention concrete, contractors or permits, and does not say who besides residents may tip. The convenience centers are for residents with a Wilson County vehicle tag and list "NO Commercial Loads", "NO Partial Loads" and "One Visit Per Day"; the page does not define a partial load. Their per-visit allowance includes "5 Pieces of Lumber (flooring included)" or "20 Shingles" as the one item choice, and in July 2018 the County listed "construction or remodeling waste" among the items the centers exclude.
Asbestos and lead: the notices and rules for older homes
Tennessee requires an asbestos inspection before demolition or renovation, TDEC says any demolition needs a notice to the State, and EPA's lead rule reaches anyone paid to disturb painted surfaces in a house built before 1978. Wilson County's demolition page cites Chapter 1200-03-11-.02 of the Tennessee Air Pollution Control Regulations for the inspection, which needs a State-accredited inspector. TDEC's asbestos page says its Division of Air Pollution Control must be notified of any demolition even when no asbestos is present, on Form CN-1055, at least 10 working days ahead, with no fee. Wilson County is not among the four counties with their own programs, so Mt. Juliet notices go to the State.
TDEC warns that structures built before 1975 may contain significant asbestos, in textured ceilings, floor tiles and mastics, roofing felts and shingles, and drywall and joint compounds, and EPA adds that you generally cannot tell it by looking and should not saw, sand, scrape or drill it. The federal rule, 40 CFR 61.145, sets the same 10 working days for written notice, and its facility definition in 61.141 leaves out homes of four or fewer dwelling units, though EPA does not exempt those torn down in a commercial or public project. For lead, EPA's RRP rule requires certification for those firms and training for their workers, notes that about three-quarters of U.S. homes built before 1978 still hold some lead-based paint, and counts a job as minor repair only while the paint it disturbs stays within 6 square feet per room indoors or 20 square feet outdoors, with no window replacement or demolition. Owners working on their own homes are generally outside the rule unless they rent the home, run child care there or flip houses.
City permits, site rules and the contractor license line
Inside the City of Mt. Juliet, demolition needs a City permit and City rules bar burning construction waste and, in subdivisions, burying it; outside the cities, Wilson County issues no demolition permit at all. The City's Building and Codes Department requires a permit before anyone constructs, alters, repairs, moves or demolishes a building or structure. Its fee schedule (Ordinance No. 2026-32, effective 03/23/2026) sets $125 to demolish a single-family house and $75.00 for a residential re-roofing permit, and starting first brings "a penalty of 100% of the usual Permit Fee in addition to the required permit fees".
The Subdivision Regulations, section 4-102, bar burying construction debris on a lot, require its removal before a certificate of occupancy and allow no debris burning in the subdivision, and the City's open burn rules exclude building wood and other construction components. City Code section 24-5 makes it unlawful to track mud or let materials fall on a street. Wilson County's page reads "At this time Wilson County does not require demolition permits to tear down or remove structures on a piece of property" and adds that the State still requires notification. On licensing, Tennessee Code section 62-6-102 counts demolition as contracting where the total cost is $25,000 or more, and the State's Board for Licensing Contractors requires a license for projects of $25,000 or more; its home improvement license, for remodels of $3,000 to $24,999, applies in nine listed counties, and Wilson County is not one of them.
Haul it to Lebanon, rent a dumpster or hire us
Remodel debris leaves a Mt. Juliet property one of three ways. HomeGuide's construction debris guide (dated January 27, 2025) says the lowest-cost route is to rent a dumpster and load it yourself, and prints $220 to $780 a week for a dumpster against $300 to $1,000 a load for a junk removal service, both national.
Drive it to the County landfill
Self-hauling suits a homeowner with a pickup or trailer and an open weekday morning. At the County's $18 per cubic yard, our arithmetic puts a level-full 2026 F-150 box at $35.20 for the 5.5-foot bed, $41.53 for the 6.5-foot and $51.60 for the 8-foot, and a 5 x 10 dump trailer with 18-inch sides, level full, at $50.00. Tennessee Code section 39-14-507 lets a private pickup carry a secured load, but the landfill still requires a tarp.
Rent a roll-off container
A roll-off suits a remodel that throws off debris for days. Inside a City subdivision under construction, the Subdivision Regulations make debris dumpsters mandatory for construction debris, and Angi's construction debris guide (updated Jul 8, 2026) prints $300 to $500 nationally for a dumpster rental. Our dumpster rental page covers sizes, weight ratings and where a container may sit in the city.
Have our crew haul it
A crew haul suits heavy, upstairs or mixed debris and anyone without a weekday to spare. We quote first, load the debris, tarp the load, take construction debris to the Wilson County landfill and sweep up. Angi's same table prints $100 to $800 for a junk removal service, a national range rather than our price.
Construction Debris Removal FAQs
How much to charge for construction debris removal?
National surveys put it at $300 to $1,000 on average (HomeGuide, dated January 27, 2025) and $300 to $800 for hired removal (Angi, updated Jul 8, 2026), priced mostly by truck volume and raised for heavy material. HomeAdvisor (updated Jun 19, 2026) prints $100 to $800 per truckload for construction debris, gravel or dirt. None of these is a Mt. Juliet or Tennessee figure, and none is our price: we quote each load from photos or a list. The local cost underneath is public, Wilson County's $18 per cubic yard at the landfill, effective November 1, 2022.
Can concrete and other heavy debris go in the truck or a dumpster?
Yes, within weight limits, which concrete can reach before it fills the space. EPA's table puts broken concrete at 860 pounds per cubic yard and rock or gravel at 999, and one hauler's rules say "Concrete, rock, and dirt are more weight than volume, and usually you can only fill the container half full." Another hauler's chart sends concrete, brick and dirt to its 10-yard size. HomeGuide's concrete page (dated May 27, 2025) prints national dump fees of $90 to $160 per ton. Wilson County's landfill page prints no concrete rate, so a concrete load is priced by quote.
Do you take shingles, drywall and lumber?
Yes. Shingles, drywall and lumber are construction debris, and we take construction debris to the Wilson County landfill, where shingles cost $100 per ton and other remodel waste $18 per cubic yard, effective November 1, 2022. In a house built before 1975, TDEC lists roofing felts and shingles and drywall and joint compounds among materials that may contain asbestos, so the asbestos question comes first on an older home. Lumber is the light one: EPA lists clean dimensional lumber at 169 pounds per cubic yard, against 467 for drywall and 731 for roofing.
Which building materials can you not take?
We do not take household hazardous waste, which on a remodel means leftover paint and solvents, other chemicals, used oil, batteries and propane tanks, and we tell you before the job where each can lawfully go. Tennessee Code section 68-211-866(a) also keeps whole waste tires, lead-acid batteries and used oil out of municipal solid waste landfills. Material that may contain asbestos is a separate case: EPA says to leave its removal to people trained and qualified in handling asbestos, and Fixr notes that construction debris for junk removal cannot contain it.
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