Did you do the demo yourself, or did a crew do it? That is not small talk. Mecklenburg County prices the same pile two different ways depending on the answer, and the rule that decides it is quoted further down this page — before you load anything.
Most people arriving here want a number. The county publishes two of them for the same material, and which one gets charged is settled at the fee booth before anybody looks properly in the bed of the truck. The test is not what the debris is. It is who delivered it, in what, and how they paid.
You may have typed construction debris removal charlotte to get here, or renovation debris removal charlotte nc. Those are usually two different people — a homeowner who did their own bathroom over a long weekend, and a contractor whose lettered van pays a rate the homeowner never sees — and the paragraph below is the single fact that separates them.
For contrast, and it is the only reason the resident sheet appears on this page at all: the same Group 2 line on the county's residential schedule reads “Construction & Demolition Debris: $25/ unit,” so an identical pile of drywall is $25 or $45 depending only on which schedule the booth applies to the vehicle that brought it.
Read the definition again and notice how wide it is. It does not only catch the contractor. It catches a homeowner who paid with the card belonging to their own small company, a friend who offered to help and happens to run ladder racks, a van with a magnetic sign still stuck on the door, and anyone who comes back a second time inside 72 hours because the first load did not fit it all. None of that is about the drywall. It is about the vehicle and the payment, and the booth reads it in that order.
Once a pile outgrows a pickup bed the question stops being price and starts being address. The county routes by trailer length and publishes the ladder, which is better than finding out at the entrance with a loaded trailer behind you.
The ladder in plain terms: under 8 ft you stay on flat fees, and over 8 ft you are weighed in and out. Hickory Grove and North Mecklenburg stop at 12 ft and redirect anything longer. Compost Central goes to 16 ft. Past 16 ft it is Foxhole — and at Foxhole anything 12 ft and longer is sent across the scales to the working face rather than dumped at the front.
The Saturday line is worth reading twice, because it is easy to hear as “the county is closed on Saturday,” and that is not what it says. The four full-service drop-off centers run Monday to Saturday, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. The landfill portion at Foxhole is a separate operation on the same site, and that part does not run on Saturdays. So a load big enough that it has to reach the landfill face is a weekday errand; a load small enough for the drop-off area is not. Those are two facts and blending them is how a full trailer ends up parked outside the wrong gate.
Our own figure comes off the published rate card on the home page once we know roughly what is on the ground, and the gate fee, the weigh-in and the drive are ours rather than yours. A photo of the pile is usually enough to price it.
Two piles that look identical to you are not identical to the scale. The county publishes both the definition of the category and the rates for material that arrives already sorted, and on a job with any volume behind it the gap between those is the difference between one expensive trip and two cheaper ones.
The practical reading, for anyone loading their own trailer: clean concrete on its own, clean unpainted drywall on its own and clean wood on its own each have a cheaper home than the same material stirred into one heap, because stirring is what makes the whole trailer C&D. Three of those rates are marked Foxhole only, so a sort is also a decision about which site you drive to, and that puts you back on the trailer ladder above.
The hazardous line deserves its own sentence, because renovations turn up exactly the material it covers — old paint, paint thinner, adhesives, half a can of something with the label gone. The county's household hazardous-waste program is for households, and the schedule says plainly that business and commercial entities are not eligible to use it. That material does not go on our truck either, at any price; the short list is further down.
This is where renovation calls most often reach the wrong company, so it is worth being blunt about it.
704junk loads debris that is already out and loose. Drywall and plaster off a room somebody has stripped, tile and thinset off a floor that has already been lifted, cabinet carcasses out of a kitchen, trim, doors, subfloor, deck boards, the old tub sitting in the side yard, the heap of scrap lumber behind the garage. The crew arrives with a truck, loads what is there, sweeps up after itself and takes it away.
We are not a demolition contractor and we do not pretend to be. Taking a structure down, cutting into anything load-bearing, disconnecting utilities and pulling permits are different trades under different licenses, and they happen before our truck is any use at all. Two categories we decline outright, at any price and for regulatory reasons, are asbestos-containing material and fuel tanks: if an older house is being gutted, get the survey done and the abatement handled by a licensed abatement contractor, and what they leave behind is the part we are for.
One City of Charlotte rule is worth exactly one sentence here, and it is a city rule rather than a county one: the City's bulky-item collection eligibility sheet lists “Any materials resulting from work performed by a commercial contractor” under its Items Not Eligible for Collection heading, which means a curbside set-out was never the route for a pile a crew left behind (bulky-item collection eligibility, charlottenc.gov, read September 3, 2026).
Not sure whether what you have is a hauling job or still somebody else's job? Describe it or send a picture and we will tell you straight, including when the answer is “a contractor first.” Text a photo or call (704) 459-5052.
Renovations come and go and this is not a renovation company. The same crew and the same truck do the ordinary work all year round: furniture, appliances, mattresses, garage and attic clutter, estate and rental cleanouts, office furniture, sheds and hot tubs, yard debris, and plain household loads with no story behind them at all. Construction and renovation debris is one line on that list, not a separate business.
The full item list and the published rate card are on the home page. If the question is where the material actually ends up once it leaves, that is the Mecklenburg County disposal explainer; if a whole property has to be emptied rather than one room, start at cleanout services.
Our refusal list is short and it exists for regulatory reasons: wet paint, oils, fuels, chemicals, asbestos, medical or biohazard waste, and ammunition cannot go on the truck at any price, and we do not remove fuel tanks. Renovation piles collect exactly those things — a half-used can of primer, a jug of adhesive, a can of solvent off a shelf — so mention it when you reach out. We work around them and take the rest.
The commercial-rate definition, two prices for one pile, the trailer ladder, and the line between a contractor and a hauler.
Because the schedule is written about the delivery rather than the debris. Mecklenburg County's non-residential fee schedule says any material delivered in a commercial vehicle, paid for with a commercial credit card, or brought by a vehicle providing services for hire is charged on the commercial schedule — and it names ladder racks, external advertising and multiple visits within a 72 hour period. A borrowed work van with a sign on the door reads as commercial at the booth even when the drywall came out of your own house. The sheet is linked and dated above.
On the July 2026 – June 2027 sheets, the Group 2 flat fee is $45.00 per unit on the non-residential schedule and $25 per unit on the residential one, for the same category of load. Once a load has to be weighed, the non-residential rate is $65.00 per ton with a $36.00 load minimum. A unit is one load, and the sheet's own example is that a loaded vehicle plus a loaded trailer counts as two of them. Both schedules are linked and dated above, and both roll over each July.
Anything over 8 ft has to weigh in and out. Hickory Grove and North Mecklenburg accept trailers 12 ft or smaller and redirect oversized vehicles greater than 12 ft; Compost Central accepts up to 16 ft; the Foxhole Landfill accepts over 16 ft, and directs all trailers 12 ft and longer to the working face after the scales. The county page those come from is linked and dated above.
The four full-service drop-off centers are, Monday to Saturday from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. The landfill portion at Foxhole is a separate operation and that part is closed on Saturdays — so a load big enough to have to reach the landfill face is a weekday errand, while an ordinary drop-off is not. Individual sites also post their own temporary notices from time to time, which is exactly why the linked county page is worth opening before a long drive rather than trusting a page like this one for it.
No. We haul what is already out. Demolition, anything structural, disconnecting utilities and pulling permits are a licensed contractor's work, and asbestos abatement and fuel-tank removal are jobs we decline outright. Plenty of contractors do the demo and leave the debris where it lands, because hauling is quoted separately — that is precisely the pile we come for.
No. The truck is full-service: furniture, appliances, mattresses, garage and attic clutter, estate and rental cleanouts, sheds, hot tubs, office furniture and ordinary household loads. Debris from a renovation is one line on the list. The item list and the rate card are on the home page.
Text a picture of what is out, or just describe it. We come back with a number off the published rate card — and if part of it still needs a contractor, we will say that instead.