Garage Expansion

[roccit_53 at hotmail.com (C Boyko)]

A few things:
1- the guy down the road moved his entire two storey house from town, about 
a 15 minute drive. He had to get a bunch of clearances/ permits, and verify 
basic stuff like heights of hydro wires, and widths of bridges. Not cheap, 
but he got the building for essentially nothing, it was a historic home, and 
a candidate for demolition where it previously stood.
2. my brother had a company lift his home on steel beams, to put a basement 
under it. If the structure is secure, I don't see why it couldn't proceed 
from there to move it sideways a few feet. Again, not likley going to be too 
cheap/ need permits, etc....
3. those who have been here may not know that the building next to the Wind 
Tunnel ( the "pole barn" where Adam's Rabbit lives) was built from what used 
to be the house/garage roof. The contractor told me they were going to come 
in with a crane and asked where I would like the new building (when we 
decided to add above the house garage), and I thought he was on crack, or 
was pulling my leg. Nope, poles went in, the neighbours assembled to watch, 
and the roof moved across the driveway with the help of a huge crane. It was 
pretty cool actually. They just drilled some 6" holes into the roof, slid a 
big post under the trusses on each side, and hooked up chains to that for 
the lift. I have a cool picture of my flowers with the roof floating above 
them. The toughest part was figuring out where to park the crane so it 
wouldn't dig in too far.


So it is possible to move wooden structures, it's just a question of if it's 
cost effective to do it. And it would depend on how the thing is constructed 
too of course. Half a building may lose too much structural integrity, where 
are those engineers?
Cathy



>From: "Peter" <peter@thescirocco.com>
>Reply-To: peter@thescirocco.com
>To: <haygood@myway.com>, <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
>Subject: RE: Garage Expansion
>Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:42:25 -0100
>
>OK, so I've got a really stupid idea.  I've seen a couple of houses moved
>lately, and its intriguing.  I'm not sure how it all works, but apparently
>it is possible to basically pick up a house and move it to another lot.  I
>don't need anything quite that elaborate...
>
>I have a ton of room next to my garage.  Is it at all possible to cut my
>garage in half and move the lose half over about twenty feet?  I'd then 
>have
>a 3.5 car garage or so, which would be very cool.
>
>So does anybody have experience with moving a house, or in this case, part
>of one?
>
>I'd like to keep the hip roof attached to that side as well, and just fill
>in the gap with new framework, bricks and shingles.
>
>I know its rediculous, but I felt like sharing the idea in case someone
>knows how to make this easy.
>
>BH
>
>I don't think that's a good idea, plus the county would probably require
>blueprints 'n' permits.
>
>I'm looking into expanding my garage, but instead I plan on building onto
>the garage.
>
>In Delaware you can build a garage without a permit, as long as it's under
>600 sq ft.
>
>Check your local ordinances before you start. ;)
>
>  Peter
>http://thescirocco.com
>Feel free to call me at 302.832.8989, between 11AM and 11PM.
>
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>Scirocco-l mailing list
>Scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>http://neubayern.net/mailman/listinfo/scirocco-l

_________________________________________________________________
http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=http://hotmail.com/enca&HL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines