Hello,
I'm going to be stripping my house of wood sidewall shingles, and I'm trying to estimate the size of dumpster or debris box I'll need. I know what the volume of the new replacement shingles will be, but those are packed very tightly in cartons with almost no wasted space. What sort of multiplication factor should I use to estimate the volume that the shingles would take up loose in a dumpster?
Thanks, Wayne
P.S. For specifics, at the moment I need to remove 300 square feet of
18" cedar shingles installed with a 4.25" exposure. A box of new shingles covers 30 square feet at that exposure and is about 0.10 cubic yards in volume. So the replacement shingles, tightly packed, will be about 1.0 cubic yards. What will the volume of the torn-off shingles be?