How to Remove a Hot Tub

How to remove a hot tub without the mess! Having a hot tub is a great addition to a home. A place to unwind in after a hard day at work or to soothe aching joints. It can also be a place to entertain another couple or to simply enjoy a glass of wine by yourself. Yet, if the hot tub no longer works or has been sitting unused for a while it can be a eyesore. An unused hot tub can also become a health hazard. If old water has gathered in the tub, it can be a breeding ground for insects since the water is stagnant. Other animals might find it a place to nest like inside the foam insulation of the hot tub under the plastic fiberglass. n For small animals like mice, and rodents, an abandoned hot tub can make a great home. It’s not uncommon for raccoons, squirrels, rats and possums to make this their den, especially in the winter. If you have young children, they could be at risk, especially if they think of the animals as being friendly. This is why you need to know how to remove a hot tub without the mess. Having a working hot tub that you no longer use can still cost money. It can be expensive to maintain it each year. Couldn’t that money be put to better use? 1 broken tub within the hot tub or a major component needing to be fixed usually costs more than the actual hot tub removal completed by Junk-B-Gone. If your home has a hot tub that has long since served its needs or no longer fits your lifestyle, then it’s time to get rid of it. If it’s still in working order, then you can probably list it on craigslist, but do NOT count on the hot tub moving. You might get a few bites, but moving the beast is a huge task that requires a lot of man power and heavy machinery! For those that can’t sell their hot tub or that has one that no longer works, then it means you have to get it to the junkyard, not an easy thing to do when even a small hot tub can weigh 500 and more than twice that for larger ones. And with their design, you can’t just toss one in the back of a pickup truck and haul it away. Do NOT ask yourself how to remove the hot tub any longer, now you can read and learn the methods that the PROS use to remove an old hot tub that has NOT been hot in years!

How to Remove a Hot Tub With Just Yourself and A LOT of Will Power!

Despite their size you can do the job yourself. You’ll need to make sure everything is disconnected correctly first, including water lines, electrical connections and maybe gas lines. Then once that is done you can begin to dismantle it. The problem is that the tub itself is in one piece and made of molded plastic or some other very durable material. A jigsaw or reciprocating saw can be used to cut the tub into smaller pieces, be advised that it’s going to be messy. Make sure your wearing safety goggles and protective clothing. And even after you’ve cut it up into sizable pieces, you’ll have to haul it away. A quick tip! You might want to pay a tarp down around the hot tub so the small debris is not flying everywhere in the wind. Even is you have a pickup truck, once the hot tub is cut up, you still have to manage to fit the big and small pieces into 1 load without having things fly out of the pickup truck bed on the road. Renting a dumpster is probably the best option if you’re doing it yourself. Then you can just toss everything in it and not worry about scratching up the bed of the truck or safely securing it for the ride to the nearest landfill. In the end doing it yourself will take time and there will still be expenses involved. The easy part is actually cutting up the hot tub, but the hardest part is loading the hot tub and then paying to dump it which is a labor intensive process round trip.

The Downside of Removing the Hot Tub with Just 1 Person

The major downside in removing a hot tub by yourself is the wasted time and the labor that it takes to complete this task. Not only do you have to use labor when cutting the hot tub down to smaller pieces, but then you have to worry about the labor intensive task of loading and then unloading the pieces of the now cut up hot tub. With a crew like Junk-B-Gone brings, crew members are loading the pieces on auto-pilot while the hot tub is continuously being cut up into 1 man sized pieces. Removing a hot tub by yourself can also pose many dangers and hazards. You could get cut on the sharp fiber glass. You could yank the cut piece of the hot tub and fall into the water because there was NOT another person to help. Removing a hot tub by yourself may sound like an average task, but at the end of the day, it will save you money hiring Junk-B-Gone to demolish and remove any unwanted hot tub. We are the PROS, we have over a decade of junk removal experience, and we remove hot tubs all the time, so our methods are professional and fast! We get the job done the right way and are Northern Virginia’s best junk removal and hot tub removal service.

Hire Junk-B-Gone to Remove the Hot Tub

The best way to take care of a hot tub is to have it taken away by professionals (Junk-B-Gone). They have the manpower and the trucks to haul it away quickly and efficiently. They can do it in a fraction of the time it would have taken you to do it yourself and there will be no mess. All small pieces of debris are picked up by hand and bagged up. We have completed thousands of hot tub removals since the birth of Junk-B-Gone, and we are the best choice. We have the most methodical approach to remove the hot tub, we have the most competitive pricing structure, we are careful, and lastly maintain an excellent track record and have the review to prove it! We answer the question How to remove a hot tub without the mess, and we have the best methods and practices for this task so there is NOBODY else you should call.