Boulder County
Hot Tub Movers in Boulder, Survey and Energy Offset Checked
Before a tub moves into the City of Boulder, find out whether its permit will also need a renewable energy offset, and we will raise it before you pay for the move. Boulder requires the energy a permitted spa uses to be offset by on-site renewable generation, and every spa to have an insulated cover.
Request a quote in Boulder
Tell us where the tub is, where it is going and when. That is usually enough for us to tell you whether it goes on a dolly or needs a crane, and what has to be ready at the other end before it arrives.
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Boulder's survey, energy offset and setbacks for a spa
In the City of Boulder the question is whether the new spot can get through the permit, not just whether a mover can reach it. The city's residential pool and spa guide requires a site survey stamped by a Colorado licensed land surveyor, a renewable energy offset form for a heated spa, and zone setbacks such as 25 feet from the front property line in RL-1. A tub going onto an elevated deck needs its load in a structural engineer's calculations. At the old address, draining into the street counts as an illicit discharge, because Boulder's storm drains run to waterways without treatment, so the water goes to a sanitary drain or onto your own landscaping instead. These are city rules; an address in unincorporated Boulder County answers to the county, and we will check which applies.
Heated spa going into a Boulder yard?
Tell us whether the house already has solar. It can decide whether the move makes sense before anyone prices it.
Hot tub moving and removal in the City of Boulder
Hot Tub Moving, House to House and Across the Yard
Get your hot tub or swim spa out of this yard and into the next one, working, with the drain, the carry and the reconnect planned as one job.
Hot Tub Moving in Boulder →Hot Tub Removal and Disposal
Get a dead or unwanted hot tub out of the yard for good, drained the right way and taken somewhere that will accept it.
Hot Tub Removal in Boulder →What the City of Boulder requires of a permitted spa
The City of Boulder requires that energy use by swimming pools, spas and other exterior equipment needing a building permit be offset by on-site renewable energy generation equivalent to the energy used, and that all spas have an insulated cover.
Source: City of Boulder, Planning and Development Services, accessed 2026-09-22
Boulder's residential pool and spa permit guide requires a site survey stamped by a Colorado licensed land surveyor and a renewable energy offset form for heated spas, and lists setbacks by zone, such as 25 feet from the front property line in RL-1.
Source: City of Boulder, Planning and Development Services, accessed 2026-09-22
Boulder's residential building permit guide requires additional deck or floor loads, including hot tub installation on elevated decks or floors, to be identified and included in the structural engineer's calculations.
Source: City of Boulder, Planning and Development Services, accessed 2026-09-22
The City of Boulder defines an illicit discharge as any discharge into the storm sewer system that is not composed entirely of stormwater, and notes that its storm drains go directly to waterways without treatment.
Source: City of Boulder, Stormwater Quality Program, accessed 2026-09-22
NOAA's 1991 to 2020 normals for the Boulder station, at about 5,484 feet, average 138.2 nights a year at or below 32F, with a median first fall freeze on October 5 and last spring freeze on May 6.
Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991 to 2020, accessed 2026-09-22
Send the Boulder address and where the tub will sit
Front, side or rear yard, on a deck or on the ground. We connect you with a vetted spa mover once the permit side looks workable.