One day I went out to help move an old spa from one house to another. When we arrived at the house where the spa was located, we noticed it had been installed in the deck, submerged in a hole. The owners were giving the spa to someone for free, that should tell you what they thought of the value of the spa. After disconnecting the spa, we attempted to start lifting the spa out of the hole one side at a time. We immediately realized that is was a full foam insulated spa. All of the foam inside of the cabinet was completely saturated with stagnant, smelly water.

We then proceeded to remove the cabinet. This was the easiest part of the job because the cabinet was rotten and falling apart. Then we started cutting chunks of water soaked foam insulation off of the spa. After we had filled 2 garbage cans with wet, rotten foam, we gave it another try. This time, we figured, it has to be light enough to lift out of the hole. We were wrong.

After more consideration, it was decided that the only way that it was coming out was in pieces. We told the homeowners that they would not be able to give the spa to the other person. After seeing what we had already done to try and remove the spa, they agreed. So we proceeded to pull out the saw and cut the 6 person hot tub into 4 equal pieces. Then, and only then, were we able to remove the spa from the deck. But instead of going to their friends house, that hot tub was going straight to the dump.