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>>>> >>>>> "How much does a house weigh?"
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http://amazinglyenough.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-much-does-house-wei
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>>>> >>>> New or recycled house?
>>>> >>>> Around here it would have been cut in half or built in two
>>>> >>>> bolt-together pieces. The trailer and house held up ok. Would be
>>>> >>>> interesting to see how they got it off. Nice battery of
hydraulic
>>>> >>>> rams I guess. "There is an engineering solution to every
problem"
>>>> >>>> as
>>>> >>>> long as someone pays
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>>>> >>> In Cape Coral FL awhile back they built a brand new bridge with
>>>> >>> upramps and all that and in the process moved something like 80
>>>> >>> houses
>>>> >>> to new locations. Concrete block houses complete with concrete
>>>> >>> slabs,
>>>> >>> footings, all of it, in one piece.
>>>> >>> As of 2 years ago some of them were still sitting on trailers in
>>>> >>> vacant lots waiting to be re-planted.
>>>> >>> They would move them down the streets early in the morning, 3 am,
>>>> >>> and
>>>> >>> yank the overhead power wires, traffic signals, etc.
>>>> >>> These were houses in the 1500-2500 sf range.
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>>>> >> 139 - 232m2 ... some scary weight there - any images available?
>>>> >> Heaviest thing that moved around here in recent years was a
church,
>>>> >> but
>>>> >> in three pieces (it had moved before so the same cut lines could
be
>>>> >> used).
>>>> >> A fair amount of heritage stuff gets relocated, mostly hardwood
>>>> >> framed
>>>> >> and clad. Too expensive to build with the stuff now, and not PC to
>>>> >> harvest it. But it stacks up as an example of 'sustainability' in
>>>> >> practice - most of the embodied energy being retained for the
>>>> >> indefinite
>>>> >> future etc.
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>>>> > No pix.
>>>> > They may not be sitting around anymore.
>>>> > I personally wouldn't buy a house like that.
>>>> > In my opinion concrete houses shouldn't be moved.
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>>>> Why not? Properly moved they should have no damage. About 15 years
ago
>>>> I was
>>>> the architect for the moving of the Southeast lighthouse on Block
>>>> Island RI.
>>>> A brick structure 70' tall with a 2 family brick attached brick
>>>> structure.
>>>> Walls of the light were 3' thick at the base. 4' base was granite
over
>>>> brick
>>>> backup. Originally built in 1870. The 150' bluff it was on had eroded
>>>> back
>>>> 200' in 120 years, so we moved it back 250'. We did build a new
>>>> foundation.
>>>> It was moved on rails in one piece, with no cracks.Here is the whole
>>>> history:http://lighthouse.cc/blockisoutheast/history.html
>>>> EDS
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>>> Wow EDS, I think I saw that on educational TV!
>>> (Discovery or some darn thing), had my eyeballs
>>> glued to the TV. The mission scale is on a par
>>> with straighening the Leaning Tower full of Pizza.
>>> Ken
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>> It was on PBS, maybe some other shows. Of course the worker bees, the
>> architects, engineers, and local folks, are never mentioned but it was
>> pretty good. We went to the relighting party, with the politicos and
>> their ilk talking. but the food was good and free. BTW lubrication for
>> the rails was Ivory Snow soap.
>> EDS
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> Do you think a wood framed house is a little more *flexible* than a
> concrete block house?
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Yes, but the CMU house can be moved, but requires more care.
EDS
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