Hot tub removal in Pasadena

The Precise crew takes hot tubs out of backyards in Pasadena and all over the San Gabriel Valley. Text a photo to (626) 590-3118. The tub does not come out whole. It is wider than every gate and door around it, so the work is cutting. The crew pulls the skirt panels off, cuts the shell down, breaks the frame apart, and carries the tub out in sections. A tub that quit getting used years ago sits there the same way whether the owner bought it or inherited it with the house.

Two things are on the homeowner before the crew pulls up. One is the power. The spa needs to be off at the breaker and disconnected before haul day. The other is water. A tub still holding water cannot be cut or carried, so it needs to be drained down to the bottom of the shell. A garden hose and a small submersible pump will do that overnight. If the drain plug is seized or the pump sits in standing water, say so in the text and the team will plan around it.

Most yards do not need the deck or the fence taken apart. Cutting the shell into pieces is what keeps the rest of the yard where it is, and a standard side gate is wide enough once the tub is in sections. A tub sunk into a deck is different, and if the boards are coming up anyway, ask the crew when you text about taking the deck out too. The photo they need shows the tub and the path out to the street, and they will tell you which one you have.

What goes on the truck

• Acrylic shell, cut in sections
• Skirt panels and trim
• Frame lumber and bolts
• Foam insulation
• Pump, heater and plumbing
• The cover and lifter bar
• Spa steps and handrail
• Deck boards around the tub

Text a photo of yours to (626) 590-3118.

From the full list of what goes on the truck: hot tubs, sheds, decks and fences.

The pile a hot tub makes

A hot tub shows up as one object in the yard and leaves as a truckload. The cover and the steps come off first, then the skirt panels off all four sides. Behind the panels is a wood frame packed with foam, with the pump and the heater bolted into one corner. The shell is acrylic over fiberglass, thick and springy, and it gets cut into pieces a person can hold at arm's length. That is what makes a tub different from the rest of what the crew hauls. Furniture and appliances get carried. A tub gets taken apart with a saw first, in the spot where it sits, and the pieces get hauled after.

What a hot tub costs to haul

$50 is the floor on any job, and the number for a tub comes off the photo you send. The team sets it by how much room the cut up pieces take on the truck, then sends back one price for the whole thing. A full size tub in sections takes real room, so the whole tub needs to be in the frame of the photo. Stairs are +$50 each. A slope steep enough to fight you adds at least as much, and the exact figure rides on how rough the carry looks, so it lands inside the price off the photo. Cash, a check or an online payment all work. How a photo turns into a number is written out longer on the pricing page.

Where the pieces end up

The crew checks for a donation center first on anything that still has use in it, which on a spa is usually the steps or a cover that is not cracked through. After that the load splits by material. Frame lumber and the metal off the pump and the heater go with the recycling, and about 75 percent of everything the crew picks up gets recycled. The acrylic shell and the foam packed behind it are real trash, so those ride to the landfill. Taking the tub apart in the yard is what lets the lumber and the metal go one way and the shell go the other.

How the crew cuts it down

The crew takes the cover and the skirt panels off by hand, then pulls the pump and the heater so nothing wet or sharp is hanging off a piece later. The shell comes down in strips with a saw, cut to the width of whatever the piece has to fit through on the way out. Last is the frame, which breaks back down into the lumber it was built from. Pieces get stacked where the team can reach them, then carried out to the truck. The crew does the cutting and the hauling, and Precise Junk Removal is insured. If something else in the yard is going on the same load, ask the crew when you text.

Getting the sections out to the truck

Once the tub is in pieces the rest of the job is the carry. The crew wants the way out in the photo too, so the gate and whatever steps sit between the tub and the driveway should be in frame. A tight gate is not a problem by itself. It only changes how small the shell has to be cut, which adds time in the yard. Steps add to the price. The plan stays the same, and the add-on comes back with the quote. The sections ride out in the white Isuzu NPR heavy duty with a 24 cubic yard dump bed. Hours are 8 AM to 8 PM every day, and the arrival window is two hours.

Pasadena yards and the rest of the valley

Precise Junk Removal works out of Pasadena and runs the same job across the San Gabriel Valley, and it has been in business since 2009. Two tubs can sit the same distance from the street and still price apart, because one yard is flat to the driveway and the next is up a flight of steps off a slope. That is all the stairs and slope add-ons are. The team sees it in the photo and says so with the number. Pasadena, South Pasadena, Altadena, Sierra Madre, Monrovia, Arcadia, San Marino and Duarte all get the same saw and the same truck, and every town the crew drives a load out of is named on one page. Nothing changes past a city line except the carry.

How the price works

Text a photo of what needs to go to (626) 590-3118. Precise looks at how much room it takes on the truck and texts back one number for the whole job. No hourly rate. Jobs start at $50. The only add-ons: stairs +$50, steep slope +$50. More on how pricing works.

Where Precise does this

All of the San Gabriel Valley. See every town Precise covers for hot tub removal.