Dumpster rental in Jenkintown, PA

Jenkintown Borough requires a permit for a dumpster, including when you are doing the work yourself. If you are a resident handling your own home improvement, the fee is waived but the application is still required. If a contractor is running the job, the permit is $50. Applications are available at Borough Hall on Summit Avenue or on the borough's codes and forms page.

Get the application in before you set the delivery date, and let us know when it is approved. If the container has to go on the street, say so on the application. Fees and forms can change, so we confirm the current version with you when you book.

The borough covers about 0.6 square miles, with Abington Township on three sides and Cheltenham to the south. Most of the housing went up before World War II: single homes, twins, rowhomes and a few apartment buildings, on narrow lots with short driveways or none at all.

That makes the 13 yard the right size for most jobs here. It fits a single driveway or about one parking space. Where there is no driveway, the street is the option, and that is what the permit application is for. Trees and wires over the curb matter as much as width, because the truck tilts its bed to set the box down.

If your address is just over the line in Abington, the rules change. Our Abington page covers that side.

Prewar houses mean plaster walls, old flooring in layers, and sometimes heavy tile. That debris is dense, so size for weight: a plaster tear-out can reach the 1.5 ton limit in a 13 yard before it looks full, and the 15 yard with 2 tons included is often the cheaper box once overage is counted.

Estate cleanouts, attic and basement clearing, and kitchen and bath renovations make up the rest of the work here.