Old window units off a jobsite

Old aluminum window units in the trailer, frames and glass together, out of a replacement job. Single pane aluminum is what a lot of Texas houses built before the eighties still have in them, and it all comes out at once when somebody finally upgrades.

This is the debris nobody plans for. The window company delivers new units and installs them. What they do with the old ones varies, and often the answer is that they go in a pile by the driveway and stay there. Glass in a pile is a hazard for anybody working around it and it is not going in a residential trash bin.

A trailer handles it in one load. Frames stack flat, glass gets kept contained rather than broken loose in the yard, and the site is clear for the next trade.

Glass and windows

Sashes, frames, screens and shower doors. Handled contained, not swept up loose after somebody steps on it.

Framing and trim

Studs, headers, casing and baseboard, usually with nails still in them. See the deck lumber haul for what a curbside pile of that looks like.

Drywall, tile and flooring

Heavy and dusty. This is where weight beats volume, and where a small looking pile fills a trailer's rated load before it fills the box. Interior demolition jobs generate it by the room.