Luxury new 3 bdrm home | 4 beds | 2 baths
Week 3: Viola! new foundations installed
Foundations delivered
New foundations in situ
New foundations in situ
Now that made a loud noise when these heavy steel piles rolled off the truck!
New foundations in situ
New foundations in situ
New foundations in situ
Twenty eight piles drilled and await next step.
Week 3
Scrape
Gravel raft
Gravel raft
Site scraped, gravel delivered, and truck filled with scrapings - very efficient!
Gravel raft
Gravel raft
Gravel raft
Solid base of gravel spread
Measure
Gravel raft
'X' marks the spot
Surveyors plot proposed location of house connecting to satellites and hub, tolerance is 5-10 mm.
'X' marks the spot
'X' marks the spot
Ready for piles to be screwed.
Drill
Repeat x28
Each steel pile took about 10 minutes to drill - this is the first bit.
Repeat x28
Repeat x28
Double speed - took about a day and half to complete the job.
1881 foundations
Old foundations in situ
Old foundations in situ
Old foundations in situ
Once the house was moved this is what was left....
Old foundations
Old foundations in situ
Old foundations in situ
We may use some of these as a momento in the garden ....
Milestone One of Four...
Limbs lifted
Temporary resting place
Temporary resting place
Lower limbs lifted to make way for move.
Temporary resting place
Temporary resting place
Temporary resting place
Ready for new foundations.
The Team
Temporary resting place
The Team
Post house move beers & pizza.
Week 1:Site prep for move
Lift - check ✔️
Steel beams - check ✔️
Rollers - check ✔️
Successful 1 metre lift in preparation for today's 13 metre slide backwards.
Rollers - check ✔️
Steel beams - check ✔️
Rollers - check ✔️
Steel rollers for house slide - love the low-tech wooden wedge to stop movement!
Steel beams - check ✔️
Steel beams - check ✔️
Steel beams - check ✔️
Steel tracks in place all ready for the big move
1 April 2022 - April Fools Day
Work begins...
No kidding, work finally kicks off - 337 days since project kick off. Site works begun in the dark this morning to prep for house for lift and slide onto our front yard in less than two weeks - eek! Check out the length of these screws to support the tracks being used to move the house.
31 Jan 2022
Houselifters
The folk from House Lifters, Stuart and George and Project Manager, David discuss how the house will be slid back onto our front yard for 6 weeks. The actual slide will only take 30 minutes we're told!
29 April 2021
Project Kick off
An exciting start to the project with the kick off meeting today with the architect, engineer, builder and project manager, including, a walk through of 250. Great to have everyone onboard!
- William Fulton - Architect
- Mike Walker - Engineer
- Andy Bean - Builder
- Joe Tonner - 'care-takers'
- David Norriss - Project Management
22 Feb 2010
Canterbury Earthquakes
Earthquake damage caused to 250 Kilmore.