10, 20 and 40 Cubic Yard
Dumpster Rental in Beaconsfield

We cannot answer “no” in Beaconsfield, and we would rather say so than let you find out. Two by-laws from the same town do not say the same thing. The table in section 5.6.2 of zoning by-law 720 answers “No” to a “waste container of more than 360 litres” for residential use h1 and h2, in all three yards, and closes its list: anything not listed “is considered to be prohibited throughout the territory”. Facing it, construction by-law BEAC-046, s. 4.3, requires every site to be “equipped for that purpose with a waste container”, and the town itself advises contractors to send their container to a CRD sorting centre. Our reading is that the zoning line targets permanent building containers — it refers to section 6.2.5.4, which deals with accessory equipment of a commercial use — and the list of certificates in force (BEAC-045, s. 3.2.1) provides none for a temporary container. But the text does not say “permanent”. The right reflex: a written request to the planning and permits department, 303 Beaconsfield Blvd, 514 428-4430, permis@beaconsfield.ca — the answer then stays in your file.

No, and Beaconsfield writes it twice. Section 8.6 of by-law BEAC-033 makes a prohibited nuisance of “placing, unloading or depositing on any public road a container, soil, stones, construction or paving materials without a permit”. The municipal grass strip along the street is no more available: section 2.2 of by-law BEAC-120 states that “occupancy of the surplus right-of-way is prohibited”, with only grass, a paved access lane and a sprinkler system allowed there. Temporary work in the right-of-way, including the installation “of equipment, of storage of any kind”, requires a certificate of authorization, a signage plan, a security deposit and liability insurance of at least $1,000,000; nothing happens there from December 1 to April 30; and the town may remove any unauthorized equipment after notice of at most 48 hours, at the owner's expense. Since street parking is also prohibited from 2 a.m. to 6 a.m. all year, the spot is in your paved driveway — that is where we deliver.

A wheelbarrow, yes; a job site, no. The bulky waste and CRD collection runs the first Wednesday of the month north of Highway 20 and the first Thursday south of it, from April to November only — eight times a year. It accepts “small quantities only: 2 m³”, bulky items and CRD together, in pieces of at most 1.8 m by 1.2 m by 1 m, each under 25 kg, with no loose material and no plastic bags, nails removed. And section 5.1 of by-law BEAC-102 gives the real measure: the quantity is “limited to what can be loaded manually by one (1) collector in less than five (5) minutes”. The municipal definition of CRD also excludes contractors' work, sand, soil, stone and all materials piled loose. As for the grey bin, it will not be collected if it holds CRD, and its RFID transponder counts every lift: 12 are included in the 2026 tax bill, the next ones billed at $1.95 to $3.65 depending on bin size. Two cubic metres is a quarter of a 10 yard box.

For a car trunk, yes. For a job site, the door closes fast. The depot at 300 Beaurepaire is reserved for residents on proof of residence and grants only 5 free visits per civic address per year; beyond that the town charges per trip, from $15 for a car to more than $200 for a two-axle trailer, on estimate. It opens on office hours with a lunch closure — 7:15 to 11:30 a.m. then 12:15 to 3 p.m. on weekdays — on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon only from April to the end of November, and not at all on Sundays. Then come the agglomeration ecocentres, in LaSalle or Saint-Laurent: 12 m³ a year free for a resident, then $31 per cubic metre, closed on Mondays year-round, and “ecocentre staff do not help with unloading”. The arithmetic is quick: a 10 yard box holds 7.6 m³, a 20 yard 15.3 m³, a 40 yard 30.6 m³. A single 20 yard already exceeds a resident's yearly allowance.

It says call a dumpster, and it writes it down. Its waste page, under Contractors: “Construction waste from work carried out by contractors is not accepted with the garbage. Advise your contractor to send the container of construction materials to a CRD sorting centre.” By-law BEAC-102 excludes from the very definition of CRD “debris from demolition and from work carried out by contractors”, and construction by-law BEAC-046 requires a waste container on every site. Three figures for your quote: at the agglomeration ecocentres a construction business pays $31 per cubic metre from the first one, with no free allowance; Sundays and statutory holidays are closed to noisy work; and right-of-way fines are doubled for the holder of a Régie du bâtiment du Québec licence — work in the right-of-way without a certificate goes from $1,000 to $2,000, and from $2,000 to $4,000 for a repeat offence — with the building owner liable to be prosecuted as well.

In the paved driveway, almost always. The zoning allows only one vehicle access per residential lot — two on Saint-Charles Boulevard, Beaconsfield Boulevard, Woodland, Sherbrooke, Windermere and Montrose streets and Lakeshore Road — between 5 m and 7.5 m wide, with a slope of at most 8%; at most 40% of the front yard may be paved, 20% on a corner lot, and the public right-of-way “must be grassed, except for a parking access”. The rest is lawn, and the municipal lawn cannot be occupied. Add the tree protection perimeter, whose radius is “at least 10 times the diameter of the trunk”: 3 m for a 30 cm trunk, 5 m for a 50 cm one. That is why we talk about the spot when you book, and why every dumpster arrives on its PROTEC-O-SOL planks. Our drivers' tip: four flattened cardboard boxes or a thin sheet of plywood on the chosen spot, before the truck arrives.

Less than elsewhere for the room, more than elsewhere for the ways out. For the room: a temporary car shelter is “prohibited throughout the territory of the Town of Beaconsfield” (zoning, s. 5.6.9), so your driveway never has to house a Tempo — a clear advantage over the North Shore towns. For the ways out: the Public Works depot only opens on Saturdays from April to the end of November, the bulky and CRD collection stops from December to March, and the LaSalle and Saint-Laurent ecocentres close on Sundays from October 15 to April 14 and open only at 10 a.m. Then come the snow rules: no vehicle may be left on a public road during a snowfall of 2.5 cm or more or within the six hours that follow, towing set at $75, and it is a nuisance to use, between November 1 and April 30, any object placed on public property within one metre of the road surface. In short: the room exists, but it gets booked.