The old spa on the deck that hasn't been fired up in years — dead, leaking, or just in the way. There's no city pickup for a hot tub, so a teardown-and-haul crew is the only route. We drain it, cut the shell down where it sits, carry it out through the gate, and recycle the scrap. One flat price from a photo: hot tub $434.
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Flat rates, photo-quoted before anyone shows up. The teardown, the cut-down, the carry, and the disposal are all in the number — and there's no Colorado sales tax on the service.
| Item | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Hot tub / spa | $434 |
| Sauna | $395 |
| Cold plunge tub | $365 |
$75 minimum (a spa is always well above it). Teardown, cut-down, carry-out, and disposal included. A crane or rooftop-access job is flagged in the photo-quote up front. No Colorado sales tax on the service.
A hot tub is a demolition job, not a lift — so it's priced as one thing done completely, not a pile of line items. For context, traditional full-service haulers typically quote roughly $300–$700+ for a spa depending on size and access, usually on-site; our flat photo-quote gives you the whole number before we ever roll up.
| Option | Cost | Speed & effort | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denver Large Item Pickup | Free | Won't take it — a spa is nowhere near the 5-item curbside limit | Nobody: no municipal program accepts a hot tub |
| Sell it / give it away | $0 (and rarely any takers) | Very slow; the buyer still has to move a 700-lb spa | A newer, working tub and lots of patience |
| DIY demolition | Dump fees + a sawzall, a truck & a crew | You drain it, cut it apart, and make multiple heavy dump runs | The very handy with a free weekend |
| Traditional full-service hauler | $300–$700+ | They tear it down — but usually on-site quoted | Those okay with a truck-side price |
| JunkRabbit | $434 flat | Same/next-day, drained-cut-carried-recycled, flat | A known price and none of the demolition |
A hot tub is the clearest case of "the city can't help you" — nothing municipal touches it. It's a demolition, and we do it at a flat photo-quoted price.
No — not in any form. Denver's Large Item Pickup is a curbside program capped at five large items every ~nine weeks, and a hot tub is nothing like a couch or a chair — it can weigh 600 to 900 pounds empty, it's plumbed and wired in, and it will never sit at a curb. No trash route, recycling program, or transfer station takes a whole spa either. There is simply no municipal path for it.
That leaves demolition-and-haul, and it's a real one: the tub has to be drained of hundreds of gallons, the power safely disconnected, the shell and cabinet cut down into pieces, and everything carried out and sorted for recycling. It's the definition of the job a homeowner can't self-solve — and the reason a licensed hauler that does the teardown is the only sensible route.
A hot tub is more recyclable than it looks. Once it's cut down, we separate the components: the pump, heater, blower, and the metal frame go to scrap-metal recycling, and the acrylic shell, foam insulation, and cabinet are disposed of properly. It fits Denver's donation- and recycle-first push and keeps the tip honest. Like every job we run, the load leaves tarped — Front Range disposal sites charge double for an unsecured load — and as a licensed Denver waste hauler we keep the disposal receipts on file.
Colorado's spa culture runs deep — a lot of Front Range homes came with a hot tub, and a good share of them are now sun-cracked and cold. The catch is always access: the spa sits behind a narrow side gate, up on a raised deck, or wedged into a tight Wash Park or Park Hill backyard. Because we cut the shell down where it stands, it never has to come out in one piece — which is how we clear a gate a whole tub could never fit through. On the flat west grid — Lakewood, Arvada, Wheat Ridge — the big ranch backyards make it easy; in the closer-in neighborhoods it's the gate and the deck that we plan around. Anything needing a crane for a rooftop deck or a landlocked courtyard, we call out in the photo-quote so there are no day-of surprises.
"Dead hot tub on our Wash Park deck, and the side gate was maybe three feet wide. They cut it into pieces right there and carried it out — never would've fit whole. Flat price from photos, exactly as quoted."
"Old spa in the Arvada backyard we hadn't used in years. Drained, disconnected at the breaker, torn down and gone in an afternoon. Recycled the metal, no tax surprise. Great crew."
"Selling the house and the inspector flagged the broken hot tub. Nobody municipal would take it. These guys handled the whole teardown, flat quote up front, done before closing."