So anybody relocated a house?
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@R-L said in So anybody relocated a house?:
@Bones one of my faves was the cave transformation, did you see that one? Madness. Mind you that might not have been grand designs...
Sounds like a heck of a night.
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@Bones
It was Grand Designs just Googled.. Can't find a clip..
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Book a stay at The Rockhouse Retreat, Worcestershire, Britain's first modern luxury cave home, as seen on Grand Designs.
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@R-L It's easier when they're not brick or pebble dashed.
In the 25 years I have lived in my place there must have been a dozen houses uplifted and taken away so that they could be replaced by (leaky) townhouses. There are still quite a few original houses but the streetscape is now a mish mash of 1920's, 60's and early 21st century.
As @Snowy said if you have a guy that knows what they're doing it's relatively straightforward. The rigs they put under the houses are amazing - independent hydraulics to every wheel so they can all be set to different heights to keep the house level as it goes over broken ground. Wheels that can turn 360 degrees.
so disconnect the utilities. Cut the house up into manageable pieces. Slide the trailer underneath and inch it out. Then its simply a question of very careful route planning.
the last Kiwi series of grand designs had a Victorian two story home moved from Christchurch to the Kawerau Gorge. At times the clearances were millimetres.
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@dogmeat said in So anybody relocated a house?:
@R-L It's easier when they're not brick or pebble dashed.
In the 25 years I have lived in my place there must have been a dozen houses uplifted and taken away so that they could be replaced by (leaky) townhouses. There are still quite a few original houses but the streetscape is now a mish mash of 1920's, 60's and early 21st century.
As @Snowy said if you have a guy that knows what they're doing it's relatively straightforward. The rigs they put under the houses are amazing - independent hydraulics to every wheel so they can all be set to different heights to keep the house level as it goes over broken ground. Wheels that can turn 360 degrees.
so disconnect the utilities. Cut the house up into manageable pieces. Slide the trailer underneath and inch it out. Then its simply a question of very careful route planning.
the last Kiwi series of grand designs had a Victorian two story home moved from Christchurch to the Kawerau Gorge. At times the clearances were millimetres.
And the house (along with a second one the same guy moved) looks incredibly out of place in the landscape. It's a city house designed to be in close proximity to others now sitting in open ground in an area that never had houses of that design.
Talking about route planning, how’s this one. Would have also come through the Kawarau gorge but then heading south through Devil’s Staircase.
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Since we're talking about moving big objects, I worked with a contractor who got bridge beams delivered to a site in the middle of the night.
Unfortunately, they were loaded the wrong way around, and this was only discovered with the rig onsite and not enough time to get back to the factory and delay the lift.
No worries - they reversed to a nearby roundabout, did a massive three point turn with dodgy blokes in hi vis stopping traffic, and then reversed the beams to the site. Lifted into place, all sorted, no problem to see here move along.
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Our first house was a relocated home, not by us but the original owners some 15 years before we bought it. Where we live there are quite a few homes that were once from other parts of Auckland. There’s companies that sell a bunch of them, some are ex class rooms or churches etc. reasonably priced too. Not that I’d be silly enough to buy one and move it etc.. have to be certifiable to do that
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@Crucial you not know how to rotate images, one step back from filming in portrait mode bro!!
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@taniwharugby said in So anybody relocated a house?:
@Crucial you not know how to rotate images, one step back from filming in portrait mode bro!!
When you import them straight from phone the software always tries to flip into landscape. Even if you rotate the original it will flip it back.
Only way around is to crop into landscape shape and I can’t be arsed.
Seriously though, who pulls their phone out to snap something quickly and turns it around. One handed shots -
@dogmeat absolutely love it, fascinating! What a project though, hope Snow has the patience of a Saint.
Will have to check out the kiwi grand designs too sounds like a good watch. -
@Crucial said in So anybody relocated a house?:
@taniwharugby said in So anybody relocated a house?:
@Crucial you not know how to rotate images, one step back from filming in portrait mode bro!!
When you import them straight from phone the software always tries to flip into landscape. Even if you rotate the original it will flip it back.
Only way around is to crop into landscape shape and I can’t be arsed.
Seriously though, who pulls their phone out to snap something quickly and turns it around. One handed shotsI usually listen to your advice about broadband/ISP type stuff. I'm not so sure now, this old man pic posting leads me to think you've been lying on your Fern CV.
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@Nepia said in So anybody relocated a house?:
@Crucial said in So anybody relocated a house?:
@taniwharugby said in So anybody relocated a house?:
@Crucial you not know how to rotate images, one step back from filming in portrait mode bro!!
When you import them straight from phone the software always tries to flip into landscape. Even if you rotate the original it will flip it back.
Only way around is to crop into landscape shape and I can’t be arsed.
Seriously though, who pulls their phone out to snap something quickly and turns it around. One handed shotsI usually listen to your advice about broadband/ISP type stuff. I'm not so sure now, this old man pic posting leads me to think you've been lying on your Fern CV.
'Old man pics', yeah, check your phone buddy I bet you have plenty as well
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@Nepia said in So anybody relocated a house?:
I'm not so sure now, this old man pic posting leads me to think you've been lying on your Fern CV.
Gold!!
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@taniwharugby said in So anybody relocated a house?:
@Nepia said in So anybody relocated a house?:
I'm not so sure now, this old man pic posting leads me to think you've been lying on your Fern CV.
Gold!!
My Fern CV is full of bullshit. How else can one claim omnipotence?
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@NTA said in So anybody relocated a house?:
@Snowy said in So anybody relocated a house?:
new joinery, double glazed, insulated
That's the main thing: efficiency. Building code should start having double glazing and minimum standards for ceiling and wall insulation. Also LED lights as standard. The best kWh is the one you don't buy.
Fucking recessed halogen downlights are a huge vagina for energy consumption and have the added shittiness of not allowing insulation within 250mm.
Other than ensuring a good passive design (appropriate North facing etc ) and the things you've listed, looking good for efficiency
Yep. Already has LED down lights in it (was renovated 2 years ago) but I will still have plenty to do. The site faces due north so the solar should be efficient (not sure of the roof pitch - hopefully reasonably steep as we are about 36S latitude), although I am still considering an array of PV at ground level (possibly rotating) as we have plenty of land to play with. Anybody done that?
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@R-L said in So anybody relocated a house?:
@Bones I remember watching that one years ago. Grand Designs is therapeutic, love a bit of Kev.
Have been watching it for years. Love it too, but they do end up over budget, living in a caravan and the wife is pregnant. It is a recurring theme.
I went and saw Kev do a talk in AKL a couple of years ago, really interesting and quite amusing. Have his book too. He's given me lots of ideas over the years about renos of which I have done about seven and still fallen into many of the traps.
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@R-L said in So anybody relocated a house?:
@dogmeat absolutely love it, fascinating! What a project though, hope Snow has the patience of a Saint.
Ummm, ahhh, not so much really.
This whole thing could end badly if patience is required. I have definitely never been Saintly.
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@Snowy said in So anybody relocated a house?:
although I am still considering an array of PV at ground level (possibly rotating) as we have plenty of land to play with. Anybody done that?
You probably need to deal with bigger companies for that. Not sure what the situation is in New Zealand but costs for ground mounting go up along with planning requirements etc. At that point you're probably talking to people who do tracking mounts but not sure what the IRR is.
