$434 flat — one price, any size. We cut the shell into carryable sections, pull the cover, cabinet and frame, and carry the whole thing out of the deck surround or down the side-yard steps. No municipal program in this region will take a hot tub — not SPU's $30 curbside pickup, not the county truck. Quoted from a photo, usually same day.
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Drain it if you can. If it's hard-wired at 240V, have a licensed electrician disconnect it first — that part isn't ours to do, and we'd rather say so than fudge it. Plug-in tubs just get unplugged.
Cover off, cabinet and frame stripped, shell cut into sections a person can carry, everything walked out through the gate to the truck. The deck stays. The tub leaves. Site swept.
$434 flat. That is the whole job — the cut-apart, the carry-out, the haul, the disposal. We publish one hot tub price rather than a ladder of size tiers, because in practice the shell gets cut down either way, and a "small" spa in a walled side yard is more work than a big one on an open patio. Nor is there a deck-surround surcharge. What you're quoted from the photo is what you pay.
| Item | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Hot tub / spa (any size) | $434 |
| Outdoor lounge / daybed | $82 |
| Propane grill | $95 |
| Patio table | $120 |
| Trampoline | $156 |
| Swing set / play structure | $192 |
| Pool table | $812 |
Our $95 minimum is the floor for sending a truck and a crew anywhere in the metro — a hot tub clears it several times over, so it never comes up on this job. Clearing the whole back yard at once? The tub plus the swing set, the trampoline and the tired patio set price together off one photo, and a full yard or deck clear-out can price as truck-fill instead: quarter truck $325, half $580, three-quarters $790, full $985.
Third-party context. Cost guides from Homeyou and Yelp Costs put an average Seattle junk-removal job at roughly $253–$325. Published figures for 1-800-GOT-JUNK put a full truck at about $700–$1,000, with estimates given on site only. A hot tub is a full-truck-shaped job by volume, which makes it the single worst item to leave to an on-site reveal — a crew is already in your back yard by the time you hear the number.
On tax. Washington does not apply its retail sales tax (~10.35% in Seattle) to junk-removal service. The 3.6% state refuse and solid-waste collection tax (RCW 82.18) applies to the disposal portion of the job. Small, real, correctly named.
| Option | Cost | Speed | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPU curbside special-items pickup | Not available | — | Won't take it. $30-per-item bulky pickup is curbside-only household goods; a 700-lb shell with a frame isn't a curbside item, and SPU doesn't enter your yard |
| Cut it up and self-haul | King County $40.25 min/load, $243.38/ton, +$25 unsecured | A weekend, realistically | You do the demolition: drain, disconnect, saw the shell, strip the frame, load it, strap it, drive it — usually more than one trip |
| Sell or give it away | Free | Weeks, if ever | A working, current tub might move; a dead one doesn't. Buyers rarely arrive with the crew and trailer needed to actually take it |
| Traditional full-service franchise | ~$700–$1,000 full truck (third-party estimate) | 1–3 days | On-site estimate only — the price lands after the truck is in your driveway |
| JunkRabbit | $434 flat | Same day, usually | None — quoted from a photo, cut apart and carried out, no deck, stair or hill surcharge |
No. This is the cleanest answer on any of our Seattle pages, so we'll give it to you straight rather than dressing it up.
Seattle Public Utilities does run a bulky special-items pickup — $30 per item, by appointment, scheduled onto your next garbage day, and curbside only (seattle.gov/specialitems). It's a genuinely useful program for a couch or a mattress. It is not a hot tub program. A filled-foam acrylic shell with a steel or timber frame, a cabinet and an insulated cover is not a household bulky item you set at the curb; it commonly weighs several hundred pounds empty, it doesn't fit on a residential collection truck intact, and SPU crews collect from the curb — they don't come through your gate, onto your deck, or around the side of the house. There's no appointment you can book that changes any of that.
The county doesn't collect it either — it accepts delivered debris. Everywhere outside Seattle city limits — Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland, Sammamish, Issaquah, Renton, Newcastle, Mercer Island — you're in King County Solid Waste territory, with stations at Factoria (Bellevue), Houghton (Kirkland), Shoreline, Bow Lake, Renton, Enumclaw and Vashon. They will take a cut-up hot tub as garbage at the 2026 rates: $40.25 minimum per load (up to 320 lb), $243.38 per ton beyond that, plus a $25 unsecured-load fee if it isn't strapped down properly. Read that carefully. The county option assumes the tub is already in pieces, already in your truck, already tied down. The scale house is the last ten minutes of the job. Everything before it — draining it, having the 240V circuit disconnected, sawing a fibreglass-and-foam shell into sections, wrestling those sections out of a deck surround and down a set of steps, and doing it without cutting yourself on a rusted frame — is the actual work, and no public program does any of it.
That's the whole reason this page exists. There is no cheap civic path around a hot tub in Seattle. The choice is your weekend and a rented truck, or one flat number and a crew that owns saws.
What we don't do: alter, rebuild or re-deck your structure, cap plumbing, or perform electrical work. We remove the tub and its own cabinet and frame — a carpenter or electrician handles what stays behind.
Let's be honest about this one, because plenty of pages in this industry aren't: the shell goes to disposal. A cut acrylic-and-polyurethane-foam spa shell has no meaningful recycling market, and claiming otherwise would be greenwashing.
What is diverted is real and worth stating. The frame's metal goes to scrap, and the clean wood from a timber cabinet is separated out rather than tipped as mixed garbage — in King County, clean wood tips at roughly $115 a ton against $243.38 a ton for garbage. Seattle's SMC 21.36 rules require that kind of source separation anyway, tagging loads that show up more than 10% contaminated. And because Washington's 3.6% refuse tax rides on the disposal portion of a job, every pound we divert sits outside that tax base as well. Compliance, cost and your flat price all pull the same direction — which is exactly why we can quote a hot tub sight-unseen and hold the number.
The hillside side yard. Magnolia's bluff lots, Queen Anne's slopes, West Seattle's view homes and Newcastle's hillside subdivisions all produce the same geometry: a tub on a back deck, a side yard barely wide enough to pass a wheelbarrow, a gate, and a flight of steps down to the street. This is why we cut rather than roll — 40-pound sections go where a 7-foot shell never will.
The inset Eastside deck. On the plateau — Sammamish, Issaquah, Redmond — and on Mercer Island, big decks are commonly built around the tub, with a bench or skirt on three sides. You cannot lift it out; it has to come apart in place. We cut it down inside the surround and carry it out through the gap, leaving your deck structure alone.
The HOA that won't let you stage it. Master-planned Eastside communities and island associations restrict curbside staging and often require vendor check-in. Even the self-haul route quietly assumes a curb you're not permitted to use. We load from the yard, so nothing ever sits out front.
Rain-country rot. This is the Pacific Northwest, and damp is what finally kills an abandoned tub — and often the decking around it. Under a neglected cover you tend to find standing water, moss, a soft skirt and a frame that's given up. Rotten, waterlogged tubs are heavier and messier than dry ones, and they're most of what we take. It doesn't change the price.
Tub inset into a cedar deck with a bench on three sides, dead for two years. Cut down inside the surround, sections carried out through the side gate — deck untouched, nothing staged at the curb for the HOA to notice. $434 flat.
Back-yard spa on a view lot, three-foot side yard, fourteen steps to the street. Shell cut into carry-size pieces and walked out in an assembly line. No stair or hill surcharge. $434 flat.
Tub plus a swing set and a trampoline in one trip, before a house sale: $434 + $192 + $156, all quoted off one photo set, metal and clean wood separated at the yard.
Representative job types and real prices from our Seattle list — not customer testimonials. We publish star ratings only when they come from a verified Google Business Profile.
How much does hot tub removal cost in Seattle?
$434 flat, quoted from a photo — cut-apart, carry-out, haul and disposal included, any size, deck surround included. Other yard items on the same trip price at their own numbers (swing set $192, trampoline $156, patio table $120, pool table $812). The $95 minimum never comes into play on a job this size.
Does Seattle pick up hot tubs?
No. SPU's $30-per-item special-items pickup is curbside-only household bulky goods and won't take a spa (seattle.gov/specialitems). King County will accept the pieces as garbage at $243.38/ton, $40.25 minimum load, +$25 unsecured — after you've cut it up and driven it there yourself.
Do I need to disconnect it first?
Drain it if you can. Hard-wired 240V tubs need a licensed electrician for the disconnect and that's the homeowner's to arrange — we're a hauling crew, not electricians. Plug-in units: just unplug.
It's built into my deck — is that a problem?
No, it's the normal Eastside job. We cut the shell down inside the surround and carry the sections out. We don't alter or rebuild the deck itself.
What about a narrow, steep side yard?
That's why we cut instead of roll. Sections sized to your gate and steps, carried out by hand. No stair fee, no hill surcharge.
Where does it go?
Shell and foam to disposal — there's no real recycling market for a cut spa shell and we won't claim one. Frame metal to scrap, clean wood separated (roughly $115/ton vs $243.38/ton for garbage), which also keeps that material outside the 3.6% refuse-tax base.
Is it cheaper than a full-service franchise?
Third-party figures put a franchise full truck at roughly $700–$1,000, quoted on site only; a hot tub is a full-truck-shaped job by volume. Ours is $434, fixed before we dispatch.
Is there sales tax?
Not on the service — Washington's retail sales tax (~10.35% in Seattle) doesn't apply. The 3.6% state refuse tax (RCW 82.18) applies to disposal.
Drain it if you can — an empty tub is lighter and cleaner to cut, and most tubs drain from a spigot at the base or with a submersible pump. On the electrical side we will be straight with you: if the tub is hard-wired to a 240-volt circuit, the disconnect should be done by a licensed electrician, and that is on the homeowner to arrange. We are a junk removal crew, not an electrical contractor, and we would rather say so than imply otherwise. If it is plug-in, unplug it and we handle the rest. Everything after the disconnect — cover, cabinet, frame, plumbing, shell — is ours.
Yes, and it is the most common version of this job on the Eastside. Sammamish, Issaquah, Redmond and Mercer Island decks routinely have the tub dropped into a framed surround with a bench or skirt around three sides. We cut the shell down inside the surround into sections that fit through the gap and carry them out — no crane, no lifting the whole tub over a railing. We remove the tub and its own cabinet and frame; rebuilding or altering your deck structure is a carpenter's job, not ours.
That is exactly why we cut rather than roll. Hillside and view lots in Magnolia, Queen Anne, West Seattle and Newcastle often leave a side yard three feet wide with a gate at the end and a run of steps down to the street. A whole shell will not go through it; 40-pound cut sections will, in an assembly line. The carry is included in the $434 — there is no stair fee and no hill surcharge in our pricing, in this city or any other.
The acrylic shell and its foam insulation go to disposal — there is no meaningful recycling market for a cut spa shell, and we will not pretend there is. What we do divert is real: the frame's metal goes to scrap and the clean wood from the cabinet is separated from garbage, which in King County tips at roughly $115 a ton against $243.38 a ton for mixed garbage. Seattle's SMC 21.36 rules require that source separation anyway, and because Washington's 3.6% refuse tax is calculated on the disposal portion of a job, everything diverted stays outside that tax base too.
A hot tub is precisely the job where an on-site reveal hurts most. Published third-party figures put 1-800-GOT-JUNK at roughly $700 to $1,000 for a full truck with estimates given on site only, and cost guides from Homeyou and Yelp Costs put an average Seattle junk-removal job at about $253 to $325. A spa is a full-truck-shaped job by volume, so it is the one where 'we'll take a look when we get there' can land anywhere. Ours is $434, fixed from your photo, before anyone leaves the yard.
Washington does not apply its retail sales tax, roughly 10.35% in Seattle, to junk-removal service. The 3.6% state refuse and solid-waste collection tax under RCW 82.18 does apply, on the disposal portion of the job. It is a small, real line and we name it correctly rather than claiming there is no tax.