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House Moving
Posted on 10/4/21 at 5:02 pm
Posted on 10/4/21 at 5:02 pm
Has anyone here had any experience with this? I know cost depends on several variables. If anyone has done this or known someone that has successfully moved a house, I’d like to hear about it.
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Posted on 10/4/21 at 5:12 pm to Gimme back that fish
Posted on 10/4/21 at 5:40 pm to Gimme back that fish
everything i heard about it says if you didnt get the house for free or nearly free its not really worth it unless you have some special attachment to it that makes you spend as much as building new to move and fix up an old building
Posted on 10/4/21 at 5:46 pm to Gimme back that fish
Cost is going to vary a lot depending on if the house can be moved in one piece, multiple pieces, height restrictions, DOTD permitting, distance, etc.
In the classiness scale of residential construction, you would rank the average tradesman in descending order of classiness as below:
1)HVAC technicians
2)Electricians
3)cabinet makers
4)floor men
5)plumbers
6)sheetrockers
7)framers
8)roofers
9) house movers
In the classiness scale of residential construction, you would rank the average tradesman in descending order of classiness as below:
1)HVAC technicians
2)Electricians
3)cabinet makers
4)floor men
5)plumbers
6)sheetrockers
7)framers
8)roofers
9) house movers
Posted on 10/4/21 at 8:06 pm to tenfoe
quote:
9) house movers
That ranks for the owner, not the guys doing the work
Posted on 12/4/21 at 12:55 pm to Gimme back that fish
I'm also moving to a new house, it's a pity the doors are falling off there haha, my mother said we need to make some repairs, it was my grandmother's house, and our roof is already leaking. Everything that is in that house needs to be changed.
Posted on 12/5/21 at 6:59 pm to eng08
So people who own house moving companies are trashy? TIL.
Posted on 12/5/21 at 7:56 pm to Gimme back that fish
We have a camp house in east Texas that we have spent the last year moving about 30’ back. If I had to move it any further I’d use gas, a lighter, then buy all new materials and rebuild it where I wanted it.
We jacked the house up a few inches at a time with 4 30ton bottle jacks, put huge ibeams under it, welded them together put the ibeams on railroad ties, sprayed wd40 to grease the skids, and gave it a good push with a skid steer. Been a lot of work but it was either do that or sell the place and we weren’t ready to get rid of the place.
We jacked the house up a few inches at a time with 4 30ton bottle jacks, put huge ibeams under it, welded them together put the ibeams on railroad ties, sprayed wd40 to grease the skids, and gave it a good push with a skid steer. Been a lot of work but it was either do that or sell the place and we weren’t ready to get rid of the place.
Posted on 12/6/21 at 4:06 pm to Gimme back that fish
I have a friend in Austin who moved an old house from close to downtown to his land in Wemberley. It was on a slab and they put joists underneath, then put it on a platform. He remodeled and added on to the moved house, so he already had the slab and rough-in plumbing poured and done as per architecture specs. I think they used a crane and just dropped it in place on the slab. I believe he paid $25k (it was a fairly small house 2000 sq. ft.(?). He didn't save much money in the end and the house didn't have historical value, so he's told me more than once he wouldn't do it again. Your situation may be different.
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