Concrete, brick, dirt, and rock — hauled legal.

Heavy debris is a category of its own for one reason: weight runs out long before space does.

A trailer that looks a quarter full of broken concrete can already be at the most it should legally carry. That's physics and highway law, not a sales tactic, and it's the single thing that separates an honest heavy-debris quote from a bad one. We price this work on weight, we cap the load, and we tell you all of that before we start.

What counts as heavy

Broken concrete — driveways, sidewalks, patios, slabs, footings, and curb. Brick, block, and CMU. Flagstone and pavers. Retaining wall block. Tile, thinset, and mortar bed. Plaster and lath. Dirt and soil from a dig. Sod. Landscape rock and cobble. Gravel and road base. Roofing tear-off, which people never think of as heavy right up until it's on the scale.

If you can't lift a five-gallon bucket of it comfortably, it's in this category.

Why it's priced on weight, not the size of the pile

Disposal facilities charge by the ton. A trailer has a rating and a truck has a legal gross weight, and neither of them cares what the pile looked like in your yard. So a job that is physically small can be a full load, and a job that fills the trailer visually might be light.

Anyone who quotes heavy debris by eyeballing volume is going to be wrong in one direction or the other, and the correction always lands on the customer. We ask what the material is, roughly how thick and how many square feet, and whether there's rebar or wire in it. That gets us to a real weight, and a real weight gets you a number that holds.

We'd rather send two legal loads than one overloaded trailer. An overloaded trailer is a citation, a safety problem, and a real risk to the road — it isn't a cost saving.

Clean loads are worth separating

Clean concrete, brick, and block are recyclable. Crushed concrete becomes road base and aggregate, and there's an established market for it on the Front Range. Clean fill dirt often has somewhere useful to go too.

Mix wood, plastic, trash, or drywall into that pile and it stops being clean fill and becomes mixed debris, which costs more to dispose of and loses the recycling path entirely. If you're doing the tear-out yourself, keeping two piles — clean masonry in one, everything else in the other — is the single easiest thing you can do to keep the number down. Rebar and wire mesh are usually fine in a concrete load; ask us about your specific material before you assume either way.

The stuff we look for before quoting

Access. Where the pile is relative to where a truck and trailer can sit changes this job more than anything else. Twenty feet of flat driveway is one price. A hundred feet of wheelbarrowing up a grade, through a gate, and around a corner is another, and it's honest to say so up front.

Rebar. Reinforced slab breaks up into pieces that hang together. It's heavier per piece, harder to load, and sometimes needs to be cut. Tell us if the slab was reinforced.

Dirt. Soil weight swings hard with moisture. The same yard of dirt after a wet week is meaningfully heavier than it was dry. We factor it; just don't be surprised when we ask about the weather.

What we don't take

Contaminated soil, anything from a site with a known environmental issue, and material we suspect contains asbestos. Colorado regulates asbestos abatement as licensed work, and old plaster, mastic, and some flooring assemblies are exactly where it hides. If there's any question on an older property, test it before it's in a pile.

How it fits with the rest

Heavy debris usually shows up attached to something else — a patio tear-out, a driveway replacement, a retaining wall rebuild, a landscape regrade. If demolition is part of it, Frontier Demolition is the same company, so the breaking and the hauling come as one scope and one invoice. If the same job also makes a pile of ordinary remodel debris, that rides on the construction debris side and we'll quote both together.

Tell us the material, the rough dimensions, and where it sits. Get a quote.