A palm boot is an old leaf base that stays on the trunk after the frond is gone. The trim page that mentions them is palm trimming. Whether a particular trunk should be skinned is a judgment on that palm. This site does not sell boot removal as its own service, and a smooth trunk in a photo is not a scope we copy. If you want them off, ask on the walk. If we do not take that part of the job, we will say so rather than scrape a trunk because a picture looked neat.
Boots are not the dead skirt. The skirt is the brown fronds still hanging. We do remove dead, yellow, or hanging fronds and seed pods on sabal and queen palms. That is the trim. Boots are the pattern left on the trunk after those fronds have dropped or been cut. Mixing the two words is how a skirt cleanup becomes an assumed skinning.
What it looks like here
On a sabal or a queen the boots are the crisscross or the stubs you can see up the trunk. Some owners like the rough look. Some want it smooth. Neither preference is a published price. We do not have a per-foot boot rate, and we will not invent one. A trunk buried in mulch is a different problem, a mulch volcano, and we pull that mulch off. We do not call the mulch a boot.
If the bud is dead, boots are irrelevant. The crown is brown and the palm is a removal. Skinning a dead palm is not a trim. Storm prep does not add boot removal to the specification. It only moves the date of the frond work earlier, and only while it is safe to be at the tree.
What we do about it
On the walk we look at the trunk you mean and we say yes or no for that tree. A yes is part of the trim quote for that palm, not a new service line and not the oak price. A no is a no. The frond work can still happen: dead and hanging material and seed pods, green head left in place. We will not hurricane-cut the crown as a trade for leaving the boots, or the other way around.
Name the palm and say whether you are asking about the skirt, the boots, or both. The page that keeps those words apart is palm trimming.