Residential Carpet Removal in Boise

Carpet removal looks different depending on which part of Boise you're in. Pulling carpet out of one bedroom in a Southeast Boise subdivision is a different job than tearing it out of a two-story North End Victorian with stairs and several rooms to cover.

Boise Carpet Removal works residential jobs across the Treasure Valley, and knowing where the material actually goes, plus what your local options are, makes the whole thing easier to plan for before anyone starts pulling anything up.

Where the old carpet actually ends up

Ada County's landfill, known locally as Hidden Hollow, sits in the North Boise foothills off Seamans Gulch Road near Hill Road and Highway 55. It takes household trash along with construction and demolition debris, which is the category carpet, pad, and tack strip fall into.

The landfill won't accept waste generated outside Ada County, and county ordinance requires every load headed there to be tarped or secured before it leaves the property. That's one more reason to have old carpet cut, rolled, and loaded instead of tossed in loose - an unsecured load can get flagged, and any cleanup from material blowing off a trailer gets billed back to whoever hauled it.

What's commonly found once the carpet comes up

What's underneath depends a lot on when the house was built. In the North End, East End, and Depot Bench, where a lot of homes date back to the early 1900s, it's common to find original hardwood that got carpeted over at some point instead of refinished.

Out on the Bench and West Bench, where mid-century brick ranches are common, carpet more often sits over plywood subfloor. Newer homes in West Boise, Southeast Boise, and Barber Valley tend to have more consistent pad and tack strip throughout, usually from one original install.

• Original hardwood hiding under carpet in older North End and East End homes
• Plywood subfloor under carpet in Bench-era ranch homes
• Padding and tack strip with no real reuse value
• Carpet remnants left from a partial re-carpet job done years earlier
• Staining or wear concentrated near entries and high-traffic rooms

City pickup or a hauler

Boise residents get bulky item pickup through Republic Services' Curb It program, and carpet is one of the items it covers - up to six bulky items per household per year, set out at the curb or alley once you've called to schedule it.

That's a fine option for one room's worth of carpet. It makes less sense for a whole-house tear-out, a job with stairs or tight hallways to navigate, or a timeline where the old carpet needs to be gone the same day new flooring goes in. A hauler can take the full volume in one trip instead of spending your yearly item count on a single job.

Whatever the size of the job, knowing where the carpet is headed and what's likely underneath it makes the project easier to plan around from the start.

Boise Carpet Removal offers free estimates on residential jobs around the Treasure Valley - give us a call if you'd like one.