What hot tub removal costs in Ottawa, and what the price pays for.

Hot tub removal in Ottawa costs $389 for a small tub and $689 for a large one at Junk Ninja, an Ottawa junk removal company, and both are estimates before tax. HomeStars puts typical Canadian removals at $300 to $1,000. Hauling it yourself is far cheaper at the gate: the City's 2026 rate at Trail Road is $172.70 a tonne, so an empty three-person tub weighing 283 kg costs $48.87 to tip. A crew's price moves with four things: the size of the tub, whether it leaves through the gate whole or in sections, what is built around it, and whether the power and water are already off. None of these figures is ours. We quote after seeing the tub.

The published prices, and what each one covers.

We read every hot tub removal price we could find for Ottawa and Ontario on 2026-10-06. One Ottawa company publishes a hot tub price. The other figures come from a national directory and three haulers in Southern Ontario. None of them is our price, and we do not publish one.

Junk Ninja, an Ottawa junk removal company, gives two estimates on its hot tub page: $389 for a small tub and $689 for a large one, taxes not included. The same page asks you to unplug all power lines to the tub, drain it, and have it completely empty and dry before the crew arrives, with a clear path to it. So the disconnect and the draining sit outside those two numbers.

HomeStars, the Canadian home services directory, says hot tub removal typically costs $300 to $1,000 in its Canadian hot tub price guide, updated 2026-08-21. It lists what moves the price: access, disposal fees, dismantling, and the electrical disconnection, where it says a licensed electrician may be needed.

The Southern Ontario haulers publish a floor. Quick Junk Pro starts hot tub removal at $249, and Junk Professionals says its price starts around $249. Rush Removal, in Burlington, says most homeowners pay $250 to $650. Its online calculator shows where the money goes: $120 more to saw out a tub recessed into a deck or built into an enclosure, and $90 more for a narrow gate, a fence panel taken off, or a tight stair carry. Those are Burlington prices. We include them because the add-ons show how much cutting and access move a bill.

Why a hot tub is harder to move than a sofa.

Getting rid of a hot tub is hard because it is four jobs: the power, the water, the weight and the dump. Each one comes with its own rule, which is why a hot tub costs more to remove than a sofa.

The weight comes first. Hydropool, a hot tub maker headquartered in Mississauga, lists its three-person Self-Cleaning 379 Gold at 283 kg empty, which is 623 pounds. Its six-to-eight-person 799 Platinum is 439 kg empty. Full of water, the smaller tub weighs 1,086 kg, and it measures 165 cm by 213 cm.

Then the disposal. The City's Waste Explorer sends a hot tub to the landfill, where a tipping fee is charged, and lists construction and demolition waste as its other route, which the City does not collect with regular garbage. The cover is the only part of a hot tub the curb will take.

Do you need an electrician to disconnect it?

In Ontario, a hot tub's wiring is disconnected by a Licensed Electrical Contractor, or by you in your own home after filing a notification with the Electrical Safety Authority. Nobody else is allowed to do it. Either way, switch the breaker off first.

The Electrical Safety Authority, ESA, oversees electrical work in Ontario. It says the Ontario Electrical Safety Code requires almost all electrical work to be reported to ESA with a notification of work, which it also calls a permit, filed by whoever does the work before it starts. And if you hire someone to do electrical work in your home, ESA says that by law it must be a Licensed Electrical Contractor.

Doing it yourself is allowed. ESA says only you can do electrical work in your home, that friends, family members and neighbours cannot, and that even little jobs need the notification first. It puts the fee for many small residential projects at less than $100. A tenant may do electrical work inside a rental, but ESA says to check with the property manager first.

A junk removal crew is someone you hire, so unless the company is itself a Licensed Electrical Contractor, the wiring is not its job. Book the disconnect before the removal and budget for it as its own bill. Junk Ninja's two prices assume it is already done.

Where the water is allowed to go.

The tub has to be empty before anyone lifts it, and in Ottawa the City decides where that water goes. Hydropool's 379 Gold holds 772 litres. Its 799 Platinum holds 1,385.

The City's pool and hot tub discharge guidelines say chlorinated water and saltwater from pools and hot tubs should never go into a storm sewer, because storm sewers carry water to the nearest stream, creek, pond or river without treatment. For closing a hot tub, the City allows three routes. The water can go into the sanitary sewer through a connection, and the City says to contact a licensed plumber about that. It can go onto your own property, if it soaks into the ground without flowing onto a neighbour's lot, over a valley or into a ravine, or causing erosion. Or an appropriately licensed wastewater hauler can take it away.

Those rules come from Section 22 of the City's Sewer Use By-law, 2025-94, and the City says breaking them may lead to fines. Its page adds that if pool water reaches a stream, a river, a lake or a storm sewer without proper treatment, the owner is legally obligated to report it to the province's Spills Action Centre at 1-800-268-6060 and to the City at 3-1-1.

Leftover chemicals have their own route. The Waste Explorer files pool chemicals as household hazardous waste, which goes to one of the City's one-day hazardous waste events, never in the garbage or down the sink.

Whole through the gate, or in sections.

A 500 pound hot tub, about 227 kg, moves empty, on its side, on a dolly, along a clear path. Hydropool's delivery guide asks for 40 inches of width and 100 inches of height from the road to the tub, because most tubs travel on their side. Standing on edge, its 37-inch 379 Gold is 93 cm wide, which leaves about 9 cm to spare in a 40-inch path. That tub weighs 283 kg empty, so a 500 pound tub is a small one.

Removal runs the delivery backwards. A tub that came in through the side gate, with nothing built around it since, can usually leave the same way in one piece. If a fence, a deck or a shed went up around it after delivery, or the path is narrower than 40 inches, it comes out in sections. Hydropool notes that some deliveries need boards or fences removed, and that a crane can lift a tub in the hardest cases.

Cutting is what the access charge pays for. Where a tub cannot leave whole, the crew cuts the shell and its cabinet into pieces small enough to carry out. That is the $120 sawing line on Rush Removal's calculator, and the reason a tub sunk into a deck costs more than one sitting on a pad.

If the deck around the tub is coming out too, that part is deck demolition. Deck lumber is construction waste, which the City does not collect with regular garbage. A concrete pad has its own row at Trail Road, $144 a tonne with a $36 minimum, but only if it is free of waste including metal, so a pad with rebar in it does not qualify.

Where an old hot tub can go in Ottawa.

An old hot tub in Ottawa has three ways out: another backyard, the landfill, or a crew.

If it still heats and holds water, sell it or give it away first. The buyer brings the dolly and deals with the wiring at their end. You still pay for the disconnect at yours.

Otherwise it goes to a landfill. The City's Waste Explorer lists the landfill, with a tipping fee, as the best option for a hot tub. At Trail Road in 2026, residential garbage, which the City's rate table says includes construction material from the homeowner, costs $172.70 a tonne, and any load under 250 kg pays a flat $43.20 instead. Steel toe boots and a high visibility vest are required at the main tipping areas, the scale house sells the vest for $8.50, and it takes Interac, Visa, Mastercard or Amex but no cash.

Strip the parts first. The Waste Explorer counts a pool pump as scrap metal, which Trail Road takes without a tipping fee when it arrives separated from other loads, and charges for once it is mixed in. A Take It Back! member store may take a pump too, if you phone ahead. The cover goes the other way: the Waste Explorer suggests reuse first and regular garbage after that.

The gate fee is the cheap part. A load that is only a 283 kg tub costs $48.87 at the scale. Getting it there still takes a trailer, enough people to lift it, and a weekday, since Trail Road opens to the public Monday to Friday from 7 am to 6 pm and on the Saturdays the City lists. Our guide to the Trail Road landfill covers the hours, the rest of the rate card and what the gate refuses.

How we quote hot tub removal.

Hot tubs are on our list alongside furniture, appliances and renovation debris. We price one the way we price all junk removal in Ottawa: on what leaves the property, not by the hour.

When you call, tell us whether the tub sits on a pad or in a deck, how wide the side gate is, and whether the power is disconnected and the water is out. Photos are enough for most jobs. The access decides whether the tub leaves in one piece or in sections. We confirm the price on site, once we can see the tub and the path to the street, and you approve it before anything is lifted.

We separate as we load, so metal comes out of the pile on its way to the truck. If the deck around the tub is coming out too, we do that demolition as well.

We do not publish a price list. For what Ottawa crews charge by the truckload, our junk removal prices page sets two companies' published figures side by side. Call or text (613) 852-4059 with a photo of the tub and the gate, in Ottawa or Gatineau.

Sources

• City of Ottawa, Rates for the Trail Waste Facility Landfill: 2026 rates, scrap metal, fill, boots and vests read 2026-10-06
• City of Ottawa, Trail Waste Facility Landfill: public hours and the Saturdays it opens read 2026-10-06
• City of Ottawa, Pool and hot tub discharge guidelines: Sewer Use By-law 2025-94, Section 22 read 2026-10-06
• City of Ottawa, Waste Explorer: the Hot Tubs, Hot Tub Covers, Pool Pumps, Pool Chemicals and Pool Water entries read 2026-10-06
• Electrical Safety Authority, Notifications and Inspections: who may do electrical work in your home read 2026-10-06
• Electrical Safety Authority, Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Electrical Work: the homeowner's notification and its fee read 2026-10-06

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Page last updated October 6, 2026