Hot Tub Removal in Orland Park, IL
Hot tubs and swim spas drained, cut down, and hauled out of Orland Park backyards, usually in a single visit.
A hot tub is not a large piece of furniture. It is a molded acrylic shell wrapped in a full skirt of insulating foam and a cabinet, sitting on a slab or a deck, hardwired to a spa panel, and it commonly weighs 700 to 900 pounds empty. Nobody moves that intact through a five foot side gate. The job is a teardown: drain it, kill the power, cut the shell into panels, and carry it out in pieces. Orland Park Junk does the whole thing in one visit and leaves the pad swept, which is usually the part homeowners care about most.
Serving Orland Park, Orland Hills, Tinley Park, Palos Heights, Palos Park, Homer Glen, Mokena, Frankfort, Oak Forest, Lemont, New Lenox and nearby.
Priced by the item, disposal included
Exact quote from a photo before we drive out
We carry it out from basements and upper floors
Usable items offered for donation first
What We Remove
This is not a bulk item and it never will be
Orland Park's contract with Waste Management allows one bulk item per household per week, and the Village defines a bulk item as something you would take with you if you moved out. It also caps regular refuse at three cubic yards a week, with any overflow limited to bags or containers no larger than 45 gallons that weigh no more than 50 pounds each.
A hot tub fails every one of those tests at once. Even the annual curbside Spring Clean Up in April is set up for bagged, contained, or bundled household material set out in an orderly pile, which is a different thing entirely from a nine hundred pound spa shell.
That leaves a rented dumpster and a weekend with a reciprocating saw, or a crew. People who go the dumpster route usually call partway through, because the sawing is the easy part and the foam is not. Cutting a foam filled skirt makes a blizzard of insulation crumbs that will be in your grass until the next mowing if nobody is catching it.
How the teardown actually runs
Drain first. A full tub holds three to five hundred gallons and it needs somewhere to go, usually a hose run out to the yard or a driveway low point. That takes one to two hours on a submersible pump, so if you can drain it the day before we come, do it. We can drain it for you and the charge for that is small compared to the day it saves.
Power is next. Most tubs here are hardwired through a spa disconnect panel on the house or on a post. We shut it off at the breaker and disconnect at the tub, but if you want the abandoned circuit and the panel removed cleanly, that is an electrician's job and worth scheduling separately.
Then it comes apart. We pull the cabinet skirting, strip the foam, cut the shell into carryable panels, and pull the pump, heater, and plumbing out as a unit. A standard tub is usually three to four hours from arrival to a swept slab. A swim spa is most of a day because the shell is longer than most gates are wide and the frame is heavier steel.
What is still there when we leave
The concrete pad or paver base stays unless you tell us in advance that you want it out, since breaking and hauling a slab is a separate scope with its own weight and its own price. Same with a deck. Plenty of tubs here sit in a cutout in a wood deck, and once the tub is gone you have a hole. We can cut and haul the surrounding deck boards if you want the whole thing to go, but decide before we start rather than after.
Expect the ground under a tub that has been there ten years to look rough. Grass will not have grown under it, and if there was a leak the soil will be soft. The spa panel and the conduit stay in place for your electrician.
What It Costs
Hot tub pricing covers the full teardown, hauling all of it away, and disposal fees at the transfer station.
| Job | Typical price |
|---|---|
| Standard hot tub, four to six person | $650 to $750 |
| Large spa, six person and up | $750 to $900 |
| Swim spa or exercise pool | $1,000 to $1,400 |
| We drain it for you | Add $75 |
| Surrounding deck or slab removal | Quoted on site |
Text photos to (708) 840-0147 showing the tub, the gate or path we would use, and what it is sitting on, and we will send an exact price. Ask about our discounts, since a hot tub going out with a shed, a deck, or a yard cleanup prices better as one job than as two visits.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How much does hot tub removal cost in Orland Park?
A standard four to six person tub runs $650 to $750 all in. Larger spas are $750 to $900 and swim spas are $1,000 to $1,400 because of the size and the steel frame. Draining it for you adds $75.
Do I have to drain it before you come?
It helps and it saves you money, but no. Draining takes one to two hours on a pump. If you would rather we do it, add $75 and plan on us being there a little longer.
Do you need to get a truck into the backyard?
No. That is the reason we cut the tub down rather than lift it whole. The pieces come out through a standard gate by hand. Send a photo of the gate and the path and we will tell you if anything needs to come off first.
What about the electrical hookup?
We shut the breaker and disconnect at the tub. Removing the spa panel and the abandoned circuit is electrician work and we will tell you that instead of improvising.
How long does the whole job take?
A standard tub is three to four hours from arrival to a swept pad. A swim spa can take most of a day. It is one visit either way, and everything leaves with us.