Piano Removal in Boise
Hauled Out and Disposed Of, Not Moved
Treasure Valley Junk Removal books piano removal in Boise as a paid haul with the figure posted ahead of time: an upright piano is $200–$400 on the public sheet, carried out of the room it sits in by one independent local hauler and taken away for good. This is not a piano moving service. A piano headed to another home, a school or a church needs a mover, and that trip is not what this page offers.
Removal is not relocation
Search for piano removal in Boise and most of what comes back is movers: companies that wrap a piano, truck it across town and set it down in tune in someone else's living room. That is skilled work and it is a different trade. What is booked here is the other half of the question: the upright nobody has played in a decade, the spinet that came with the house, the console that will not survive another move and is not worth one. The hauler carries it out, loads it and it does not come back. If you want the piano kept, in your family or anyone else's, hire a mover and skip this page.
What piano removal in Boise costs
A piano is its own line on the sheet because it is heavier and more awkward than anything else that gets carried out of a house in one piece. The figures below are the public ones, and the hauler confirms the exact number at the door before the piano is touched.
| Item | On the sheet | What moves it inside the range |
|---|---|---|
| Upright piano | $200–$400 | The floor it stands on, the stairs and turns on the way out, and whether a second pair of hands is needed |
| For comparison: a single ordinary item | $75–$150 | The sheet's single-item row, which a piano sits well above |
| Minimum charge on any stop | $99–$150, typically about $119 | A piano alone clears the minimum, so nothing extra is added for a one-piece stop |
Every figure is lifted from the piano row of Boise junk removal prices and the rows around it; a grand or a baby grand is not on the sheet and is quoted from photos before the visit. If the piano is leaving with other furniture, the whole stop is priced together, and the pieces after the first cost less than the first.
Why nobody wants to carry it
An upright is the heaviest single object in most Boise houses, and the weight sits high and narrow, which is what makes it tip. The carry is the job. A piano comes down the stairs on a dolly, strapped, with someone below it and someone above it, and the route out is checked before anything is lifted: door widths, a tight landing, a railing that has to come off, the step down to the garage. When you ask for the figure, say which floor the piano is on, how many steps stand between it and the door, and whether the path runs over carpet, tile or a lawn. Photos of the piano and of the way out settle most of it.
The city pickup will not take it
Boise is a city of about 238,000 people in Ada County by the Census Bureau's 2024 estimate, and the city's Curb It program collects bulky items from its trash customers on request: furniture such as couches, dressers and bed frames, appliances such as refrigerators and dishwashers, and a miscellaneous list that runs from bicycles to swamp coolers. A piano is not on that list. In Meridian, the hauler's own list of items it will not collect names pianos outright, as this site's Meridian page explains. For a piano, in other words, the paid haul is usually the only route that starts inside the house.
Where a Boise piano goes afterward
The order every load is sorted in applies to a piano too: donate first, recycle second, landfill last. A playable piano is offered before anything else is considered, and the receipt for a donation comes back to you. Whether any charity in the valley will take a particular piano, and what a recycler will do with the cast-iron plate and the hardwood case, is decided on the day by people who are not this site, so no promise is made here about where any one piano ends up. What is promised is the figure, named before the piano moves.
Booking a piano haul
Text a photo of the piano and a photo of the way out to (208) 591-8785, or book the pickup online and name the floor it sits on. The hauler confirms the figure, sets a time, and the piano leaves the house for good. A heavy stop occasionally fits into a route the day the request comes in; nobody here promises that, and there is no rush charge when it works out.