Carpet Disposal in Meridian

Meridian's carpet comes out of two pretty different kinds of houses. In neighborhoods like Lochsa Falls, Paramount, Bridgetower and Spurwing, most homes went in anywhere from the 1990s through the past few years, and plenty still have the builder-grade carpet that came with the house. Around Old Town Meridian, where the lots and the homes are older, carpet's often been replaced once or twice already, sometimes laid right over the original pad and tack strips.

Either way, carpet itself isn't something you can donate or recycle through the usual channels. Once it's pulled up, it's headed for disposal, not a second life. The pad underneath and the tack strips along the walls travel with it, and those two pieces are usually what take the most care to handle safely.

What Usually Comes Out of a Meridian Home

What you're pulling up depends a lot on the age of the subdivision and whether anyone's touched the floors since the house was built.

• Builder-grade carpet and pad from original construction, usually one layer deep in newer subdivisions
• Carpet that's been replaced more than once, often stacked over old tack strips from a previous install
• Carpet glued straight to the subfloor in some older Old Town homes, which comes up slower than carpet laid over pad
• Tack strips and staples running along every wall, which need to come out nails and all, not left behind for the next flooring crew
• Hardwood or the original subfloor sometimes waiting underneath in older homes where carpet wasn't the first finish

What Changes the Time and the Price

A few things decide how long a carpet job takes and what it runs, more than the city it's in.

Square footage and number of rooms matter first, but so does whether the pad is coming out too or just the carpet on top. Glued-down carpet takes longer to pull than carpet over pad, and stairs add time room for room since each step has to be cut and pried separately.

Access plays a part too. Newer subdivision homes with three-car garages and wide driveways are usually easier to load from than older Old Town lots with tighter streets and less room to stage a truck. And any furniture that still needs to move off the carpet before work starts adds to the front end of the job, not the back.

Where It Goes From There

Carpet and pad count as construction debris, not yard waste, so they don't go out with a curbside bulky pickup. Most loads from a Meridian job end up at the Ada County Landfill at Hidden Hollow in the Boise foothills off Seamans Gulch Road, or closer to home at the Meridian Transfer Station on West Franklin Road, which handles the same waste streams before they move on to the landfill.

Both sites take carpet and pad as general trash. Tack strips and metal edging get separated out before that, since nail-studded wood doesn't mix safely into a load with everything else, and loose metal gets taken on its own at the transfer station at no charge. Loads also have to be tarped or secured for the trip either way, so carpet scraps get wrapped up rather than left loose in the back of a truck. Sorting it that way before it ever leaves the house is what keeps a load moving through the scale instead of getting turned back.

A carpet job in Meridian really comes down to how it was installed and how much of it there is, more than anything else.

If you're ready to get your old carpet out, call Boise Carpet Removal for a free estimate.