10, 20 and 40 Cubic Yard
Dumpster Rental in Saint-Mathieu

No, and for once it is not a deduction: it is written. Table 2.1 of by-law 318-2024 on permits and certificates lists “Conteneurs à déchets”, under the heading “Équipement accessoire”, in the None column — no permit, no certificate of authorization. Watch the neighbouring line: “Conteneur”, under “Construction accessoire”, does require a permit, but it covers the shipping container used as an accessory building (zoning 315-2024, s. 8.11 and 9.12), not the box we deliver. Two caveats, though: the spot on the lot deserves a call at 450 632-9528, extension 225 (see the next question), and the job site itself often needs a permit — which it is prohibited to get ahead of.

This is the question where we refuse to decide in the Municipality's place, because its texts do not converge. The permit table says “None” for a waste dumpster. But the siting table in section 8.21 of the zoning by-law, headed “Conteneurs de matières résiduelles”, answers “No” for the front yard, the secondary front yard and the side yard and “Yes” for the rear yard alone, with 2 metres from the side and rear lot lines, 1.5 metres from buildings and one dumpster only for Residential uses. Its special provisions — semi-buried, enclosure on a monolithic slab — clearly aim at the permanent container of a building or a business, not a roll-off set down for seven days. Our rule: the spot is confirmed at 450 632-9528, extension 225, before delivery. We will never write “put it anywhere in your driveway”.

Yes, and with a figure. The applicant for a building permit “undertakes to install on the site […] a waste dumpster with a minimum capacity of 5.6 cubic metres”, extension projects included, and “failure to comply with this obligation automatically revokes the building permit issued” (by-law 318-2024, s. 2.6 a). 5.6 m³ is 7.32 cubic yards: our 10 yard box, at 7.65 m³, is the smallest format that satisfies the requirement. The construction by-law adds, for any construction, extension, alteration, repair, renovation or demolition site, a dumpster “of sufficient capacity” and proof to be filed with the planning department within seven days of the start of the job site (by-law 317-2024, s. 3.29). The two sections do not cover the same work: for your specific case, 450 632-9528, extension 225.

Two pieces, and they are spelled out. Section 3.29 of construction by-law 317-2024 requires that “proof of compliance with this requirement” — having a dumpster of sufficient capacity on site — “must be filed with the planning department within seven days of the start of the job site”, together with “proof that the materials were disposed of in accordance with the Act”. In practice that means a dated rental contract and a disposal slip. We hand them over because the Municipality asks for them: keep them with your permit, which must itself stay posted on site, in a visible place, for the whole duration of the work.

Two Saint-Mathieu by-laws give different answers, and we report both. Zoning governs the occupancy of a roadway in front of a construction site: at most one third of the width of the roadway, nothing higher than 1.8 metres nor wider than the frontage of the site, drainage left clear, warning lights lit “from sunset until sunrise”, everything removed within 3 days of the end of the work, joint liability of the builder and the owner (by-law 315-2024, s. 7.40) — and table 2.1 of by-law 318-2024 places “Utilisation d'une voie de circulation lors de travaux de construction” in the Certificate column: a certificate of authorization is then required. But the same zoning by-law states that temporary equipment “may at no time encroach on the street right of way” (s. 7.1 d), and the traffic by-law prohibits “throwing, depositing or casting […] an object on a sidewalk, a shoulder, a public road, a public place or a bike path” (by-law 1008-17, s. 49), with no exception for job sites. For a simple cleanout, with no work and no permit, nothing allows it. This gets confirmed case by case at 450 632-9528, extension 225.

For a car trunk, it helps. For a job site, no, and the published rules say so. Volume is capped at 3 m³ per visit and one visit a week, “any surplus will be refused and you will have to take it back with you”; hydraulic trailers are prohibited, so nothing tips; “no employee will come and help you unload”; and sorting must be done BEFORE you arrive. Do the arithmetic: 3 m³ is 3.92 cubic yards, a 10 yard box holds 7.65 m³ — about three weeks of allowed visits, five for a 20 yard, more than ten for a 40 yard, all emptied by hand. Meanwhile planning requires 5.6 m³ on the job site as soon as a permit is issued.

One, and the Municipality names it itself. The municipal route is closed to you on two separate lines: “the service is not offered to professionals and contractors”, and “commercial and industrial debris” as well as “residues of commercial and industrial origin” appear among the refused materials. At the same time, by-law 318-2024 requires you to have a dumpster of at least 5.6 cubic metres on any site where a building permit has been issued, on pain of automatic revocation of the permit, and by-law 317-2024 asks you to file proof of it within seven days. So the dumpster is not a job site convenience in Saint-Mathieu: it is a piece of your permit file. We deliver the size, we supply the dated contract and the disposal slip.

Thirty minutes, and the by-law says so in plain words. A truck over 4,500 kg may not park on the public roads of Saint-Mathieu, “except […] for the purpose of picking up or delivering goods”, and “that pickup or delivery must however be carried out within a period of 30 minutes maximum”; the vehicle must be “parked parallel to the roadway” and unloading must be “without interruption” (by-law 1008-17, s. 34). Two more sections complete the picture and explain our tarps: nothing may escape from a vehicle or soil, clutter or obstruct a public road (s. 46), and a soiled roadway must be cleaned within two hours, failing which the Municipality cleans it at the owner's expense (s. 47). A clear spot on arrival, and everything fits inside the window.

It is a real question in Saint-Mathieu, because the housing stock here is unusual: 57.2% detached single-family homes and 29.9% mobile homes, Cité mobile included (urban plan 314-2024, 2021 census). Zoning requires any street giving access to mobile homes to be “surfaced with asphalt or with a hard, granular and well-packed surface” (s. 6.56) — surfaces that mark under a point load. Every one of our dumpsters arrives fitted with the PROTEC-O-SOL system, built-in planks that spread the weight. Nothing to supply, nothing extra to pay. Our drivers' tip for full protection: four flattened cardboard boxes, or a thin sheet of plywood, on the chosen spot before the truck arrives.

A great deal, and for longer than elsewhere. The temporary winter car shelter is allowed “between October 15 of one year and April 15 of the following year” — six months less a day — one per lot, “installed in the parking area or in its access lane”, 1 metre from any lot line and 1.5 metres from a fire hydrant, 30 square metres and 3 metres high at most (by-law 315-2024, s. 7.48 to 7.51). It stands exactly where the dumpster would go. And the street is no fallback: from December 1 to April 1, parking is prohibited there between midnight and 7 a.m. (by-law 1008-17, s. 32), and a vehicle obstructing snow clearing may be towed at its owner's expense, on top of the fine (s. 45). Add the bins, which the Municipality asks to be placed in the driveway with 60 centimetres clear all around. The spot is chosen when you book.