House moving

[mike194]

I have some interesting photos of my house moving, the house has a max width dimension of about 36 feet and it is 60 feet long. The house was built brand new in a town about 120 miles away from my 16 acres of land. the move took about 1 day and setting it down took about 3 hours.

 

[johnk]

One word.....Amazing...
Looks very nice. Had to cost a fortune to get it moved that many miles???

 

[mike194]

It was 30 dollars a mile, so around $3600

 

[inveresk]

Great shots and a fascinating process.

Usual practice in this neck of the woods when moving existing houses is to build the kerb after the house is in position.

Any problems in the wall plates lining up with the kerb?

 

[EddieWalker]

I saw an episode of "moving house" something like that where they had one of those tilting trailers. It's gotta be the most impressive trailer ever built!!!

Thanks for sharing the pics, it's just amazing that you can move a house for that cheap.

Eddie

 

[Nightrain1]

I hope you're sending the mover a Christmas card every year cause he worked cheap. Insurance, permits, fuel, etc, I don't know how he made out on your deal. Neighbor of mine moved a trailor(14x80), 4 miles at a cost of $1600 and that was shopping around to get down to that price.

 

[vettemanwight]

That was a great job. Was the $3600. getting house off of old foundation and on the new also ?? My sister and B-I-l moved a house 30 years ago and I think it was $3500 1/4 mi and didnt go down the road. What state dio you live in? V

 

[MarkV]

Mike that is fascinating and costs were much more reasonable than I would have suspected. I am curious why a new house was built and then moved that far?

MarkV

 

[Bird]

Very interesting project. And like the other guys, I think you got a real bargain on the cost to move that house.

 

[mike194]

They do have charges for picking up the house on the builders lot and setting it down on my lot. They included all of that in the purchase price of my house. all i had to pay is mileage. but i do beileive the pick up and set down fees are like two thousand. so the total cost of moving is probably up around 6000 when you include the charge for lifting all the power lines, the 120 miles, and the pickup and setdown fees.

i live in SD

 

[mike194]

as far as the house lining up with the foundation and walkout wall the house movers got it within a half inch.

 

[rox]

Do you mean to say that the home was built by the builder with the intention of moving it? Was this a factory built home? It sure came out nice, especially that last pick the back of the home in witer you can't tell that it wans't jsut built on site, the siding matches up good.

 

[mike194]

yeah pretty much i contracted them to build the house. i told them what i wanted and they just built it on a lot on cement blocks. they have about 5 houses being built right next to each other at all times. they were quite a bit cheaper than a contracter that would build my house on site and still used the same materials.

 

[WayneB]

Hello Mike,

That is an amazing story! Thanks for posting the pictures.

Where are you located?

Around here all of the factory built houses are done in sections and then final assembly at the location. No way you can move something that big around here with all the turns, hills, and roads that shift to go around the olde maple tree.

Must be something to see when they elevate one side of the trailer to go past an obstacle!

Wayne

 

[KYErik]

Amazing!

I assume you have drywall inside. Was it already fiinished when they moved the house? If so, were there any nail pops or cracked joints after the move?

 

[mike194]

yeah the house was completely finished on the inside, i did have two very small cracks one in the vaulted ceiling and one around one of the doorways. the builder had a guy come by after it was moved to fix the cracks. the house didnt flex much, that could be due to the 24" 2x4 floor trusses.

 

[schiker]

Wow 120 miles in a day is pretty fast truckin for a house move. That far would be uncommon around here. 30 years ago maybe but still a 60 mile move was pretty big back then. Even then 60 miles would have taken several nights to move with traffic and obstacles but was done. One of the biggest obstacles is big old trees in older neighborhoods no one wants the limbs or trees cut; doesn't look like you have those headaches.

Cool pics. It brings back memories. My dad had a house moving business and its amazing stuff sometimes. No doubt they have done thier homework and gotten most of the headaches out of the way. Helps to repeat loadings with similar layouts, set location, and preperations. $6000 today is still dang cheap mobilizing that kind of equipment, coordination, planning, paying the crew, liability etc etc. I want to say that was the price or somewhere around that for a ~15-30 mile move back in the late 70's. But there is more labor in picking up an existing previously lived in home (and not built with intention of moving) on a homesite so not quite apples to apples comparison.

Congrats on the new house.