Residential Carpet Removal in Garden City

Garden City is a small town wrapped almost entirely inside Boise, and that geography shows up in the carpet jobs here. You've got older, smaller homes and mobile home parks along Chinden Boulevard sitting close to newer riverfront townhomes in the Waterfront District, and what's underneath the carpet in each one tends to look pretty different.

Boise Carpet Removal handles residential carpet removal throughout Garden City: pulling up carpet, pad, and tack strips, and hauling the whole mess out so you're not stuck bagging it yourself.

What's usually under the carpet here

Older homes along the Chinden corridor and in the mobile home parks nearby often have carpet that was laid directly over original subfloor or even older flooring. It's worth a quick look before demo starts, since a decent hardwood floor underneath is worth keeping and refinishing instead of covering back up.

Newer construction in the Waterfront District and other recent infill tends to have fewer surprises underneath, just more current subfloor and less to sort through. Either way, the carpet and pad themselves are rarely in good enough shape to donate once they've been down a while. Padding especially tends to break down and isn't something that gets reused.

Where it goes once it's out of your house

Garden City sits just south of the Ada County Landfill at Hidden Hollow, a short drive north off Glenwood or Hill Rd to Seamans Gulch Rd. It takes general trash and construction and demolition debris, which is the category carpet and pad fall into.

The Boise Transfer Station, run by Republic Services on Curtis Rd, is another drop-off option and takes similar loads for a fee. Either way, loads need to be covered or secured before they're hauled, and anything headed to the landfill gets sorted as trash and C&D rather than run through a diversion or recycling stream.

Mistakes that slow the job down

The most common one is treating torn-out carpet like regular trash. Republic's curbside carts don't take loose piles of carpet or padding on a normal pickup day, so you're left calling for a bulky item pickup or timing it around Garden City's Unlimited Clean-Up weeks in May and right after Christmas.

Dumpster placement trips people up too. Garden City's streets fall under Ada County Highway District right-of-way, so a dumpster parked on the street or shoulder needs an ACHD temporary use permit, not just a call to the rental company.

• Flattening carpet to stuff it in a trash cart — loose material isn't collected on regular pickup days
• Setting a dumpster on the street without checking ACHD right-of-way rules first
• Leaving tack strips and staples in place, which makes the pull-up and the haul-out more work
• Assuming old padding can be donated or reused — most of it is too broken down by the time it comes up
• Skipping a look at what's underneath before you start, especially in older Garden City homes
• Hauling an uncovered load to the landfill, which isn't allowed regardless of what's in it

Carpet removal in Garden City isn't complicated, but what's underneath the carpet and where the old material needs to go both depend on the house. Call Boise Carpet Removal for a free estimate and we'll walk you through what your specific job involves.