Family Owned Hot Tub Movers
St. George, Utah

Hot tubs are not the heaviest thing we move, but they are close to the most awkward. A spa is a large, rigid, slippery-sided box with no handholds, and the problem is almost never lifting it. The problem is getting it around the side of a house, through a gate that was built after the tub was installed, and down a slope without it running away.

Just-In-Time Moving is locally owned and moves hot tubs across St. George and Washington County.

Draining, lifting and the gate you forgot about

Start with the water, because this is the part that catches people out. A hot tub needs to be fully drained well before the move, and fully means more than pulling the plug. Water sits in the pipework, the pump housing and the heater after the shell looks empty, and that residual water is both weight in the wrong places and a mess in the back of a truck. Give it a day, and blow out the lines if you have the means.

Then the route. The single most common obstacle is a side gate too narrow for the tub, often because the fence went in after the spa did or because the tub was craned into place originally. Measure it. Measure the narrowest point of the whole route, not just the gate, and measure the tub. If the numbers are close, tell us, because the difference between two inches of clearance and one inch of interference is the difference between an ordinary job and a job that cannot be done that way at all.

Slope matters here more than in most places. A spa on its side on a dolly on a downhill run is a lot of mass with a lot of surface area, and it wants to go faster than the crew does.

Before we arrive

Disconnect the power properly. A hard-wired spa needs an electrician to disconnect it at the panel end, and that should be arranged before the day rather than discovered on it. The same applies at the destination if it is being reconnected.

Clear the route. Move planters, garden furniture, anything on the side path. Trim back growth that has crept over the route since the tub went in, which after a few years is usually more than people remember.

Tell us the make and model if you can find it, and the dimensions if you cannot. Send photographs of the tub in place, the gate, and the tightest point of the route. Five minutes of photographs on your phone saves a great deal of guesswork and produces a much more accurate estimate.

Call (435) 862-3080 or email office@movingjustintime.com and we will tell you honestly what is involved.