Recycling

[glatt]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

I would have thought it would have been cheaper to just rebuild

I doubt it's about the money. It's a historic house.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by glatt

I doubt it's about the money. It's a historic house.

I figured that, I was just wondering about the final real cost after all the legal bs she had to go through. But you prob better than most that after a while people will pay the cash just to prove a point and achieve the goal. I was also curious about the original motivation behind it all.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Soooooo, does the lady who had it moved still livein/own the part that was not moved? Or, are the owners the same or different. Seems like a strange thing. She lives in a house and shaves off part to move it somewhere else to make a new house. I would have thought it would have been cheaper to just rebuild considering all the legal fees and fights..

The old location is becoming a shopping center. She bought it from the developers for like a buck or something, because she's an old house freak. She will remain living in the 19th century farmhouse she bought from my Grandfather, and is installing this one in it's new location on her property.
Moving it isn't as expensive as you would think. I would think she would have to reimburse the town for the extra police and fire coverage, but I'm not sure. I am sure she doesn't have to pay the utility crews for their work moving the wires. The state and utilities have a deal, where the utilities use the airspace over public highways for free, but have to move them when necessary, on their dime. The legal fees won't be stratospheric, the courts were not involved, although there was probably a lot of letters, forms and phone calls. Like Cloud said, lawyers kill trees.

Now the whole deal is expensive, because the section moved has no plumbing, no bathroom, no kitchen, so an addition has to be built with all that stuff, and she's adding a two car garage. The old section could have been replicated a lot cheaper, but old house freaks don't want that. I don't know who will live in it, but as I mentioned in the beginning, rumor has it this is all to lure her kids to move back close to her.

Originally Posted by classicman

Where is the thread with the back story?

At the top of the page.

[classicman]

Doh

[TheMercenary]

Thanks Bruce. Great story.

[xoxoxoBruce]

The house sat in the field, just off the road for a couple weeks, but now it's been moved up the hill and set on the foundation.
I apologize for the picture quality, I'd left the camera in the car over night and it was cold. Apparently it was still sleepy because
it couldn't handle the bright hazy/foggy morning, and fogged all the pictures. But they show what I wanted to show.

When the foundation was poured last spring, they left notches for the four cross beams, and two carrier beams, the house is moved on.
I've been told they ease the house off the dollies and slide it over the foundation, by setting up rollers under the carrier beams,
in the cellar and in front of the foundation outside.
Then lower it into place, by what my brother described as judicious thinking, and occasional brute force.



On the other side is the foundation for the addition and the garage.
The addition, unlike the main house, has only a crawl space because it was so difficult/expensive to blast it out of solid rock.
It will house the kitchen, bathrooms, laundry and I suspect more.



I'll try to get a picture of the completed house, but that's the moving process.

[classicman]

Awesome! l love seeing this transformation.