awhitwood
6th February 2005, 02:48 PM
Hi guys,
I'd like to ask if anyone has experience of moving a house from one location to another?
We live in a beautiful 1930s weatherboard house in Sydney (see photo attached).
The origianl owner worked at a timber yard and the house is made of the most gorgeous hardwood, possibly jarrah. The cladding, frames and some floorbaords are this hardwood.
We are renting and the current owners want to knock down the house and build their own new house. They will demolish the house. It seems criminal to loose such a beautiful house so we want to save it by moving it to a block of land.
It's a tricky problem mainly becuase of the access to the house which is down a narrow lane. One house mover said it was just too narrow to get the semi down.
Some other options are:
1 - Knock down the house so it can be put flat onto the trailer then rebuild at the other end
2 - Salvage as much of the wood as possible and build a new house using as much of the wood as possible.
I'd like to ask if you have any other thoughts? Any previous experience of moving a house, any recommendations for who to talk to? Any advice on stripping the cladding more easily? Pointers to a more appropriate forum if this is not the right one? Any thoughts at all would be very welcome.
I'm very gald to have found this forum and I hope that someone can point us in the right direction. We really do want to save the house.
Thanks, Alison and Stephen
I'd like to ask if anyone has experience of moving a house from one location to another?
We live in a beautiful 1930s weatherboard house in Sydney (see photo attached).
The origianl owner worked at a timber yard and the house is made of the most gorgeous hardwood, possibly jarrah. The cladding, frames and some floorbaords are this hardwood.
We are renting and the current owners want to knock down the house and build their own new house. They will demolish the house. It seems criminal to loose such a beautiful house so we want to save it by moving it to a block of land.
It's a tricky problem mainly becuase of the access to the house which is down a narrow lane. One house mover said it was just too narrow to get the semi down.
Some other options are:
1 - Knock down the house so it can be put flat onto the trailer then rebuild at the other end
2 - Salvage as much of the wood as possible and build a new house using as much of the wood as possible.
I'd like to ask if you have any other thoughts? Any previous experience of moving a house, any recommendations for who to talk to? Any advice on stripping the cladding more easily? Pointers to a more appropriate forum if this is not the right one? Any thoughts at all would be very welcome.
I'm very gald to have found this forum and I hope that someone can point us in the right direction. We really do want to save the house.
Thanks, Alison and Stephen