Hot Tub Removal

I know... that phrase is blasphemous. Why would we remove a built-in hot tub from our deck? WHYY?! Well, if you recall, our hot tub looked like this:

This sucker gots to go! Back in October we finally made it happen!

First we had to dig out all the weeds, er, plants and re-locate all the dirt to the woods behind our house. When we got 2/3 of the way down we hit rock bottom. Literally. The previous owners filled the bottom of the hot tub with red lava rock for drainage. Getting through all of the rock wasn't quite as easy as shoveling out the dirt but we got the job done.

After digging came the fun part! Sawing the hot tub into pieces.

My dad cut the hot tub into 3 or 4 pieces and we lifted it out.

Afterwards we were left with a gaping hole in the deck and a pile of crap on the deck.

We then built in some supports and laid down some new decking.

Later we made our neighbors proud with a classy dumpster in our driveway. Finnigan enjoyed gazing out at it.