I’m always looking at inexpensive historic homes out in the middle of nowhere. I know that homes can be moved and I’ve often wondered if it’s cost prohibitive to move a house from North Carolina to NY, even if that house is free. I can’t imagine it’s cheap!
Plus, you have to buy land. Then there’s insurance, building the foundation, proper permits. It adds up.
Ah, but still….it’s something I wouldn’t mind looking into one day. Anyone know anything more about it?
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I’d love to know more about that too. Ummm, you first. 🙂
We’ll go in on one together! Upstate/Reclaimed Road Trip!!
Since I work in the heavy construction industry – I would think that moving a house gets prohibitively expensive.
To ship a Super load – high, wide, long, heavy or a combination of these requires permits, expensive equipment, escorts – forget about the cost of bracing and jacking the structure up and then lowering it at the other end.
For historic buildings it is done locally (a few miles or less) – you would probably be better off salvaging the details and building a new house!
Building a NEW house? Nah, where’s the romanticism in that? LOL
Im the president of Dawn House & Building Movers. With the number of bridges,wires,trees etc. that are in the way of any move, (especially crossing of state lines), it is almost impossible. You would need over-wieght-over hieght and over legnth permits in every state and if the house is over 16 feet high, most states require every utility company to attend the move to take down any wires that are in the way. At a cost of $40 a wire, most people dont go this way. Then the police escorts come into effect. Every county that you go into, you need their police escorts, so in the course of the trip, you may have had changed escorts 20-30 times. Although there is a way that SOMETIMES works. We can cut the house into several Trailer sized pieces and move them there one at a time, but that is getting into really big money. So in the long run, it is really almost impossibe to relocate any house OVER THE STATE LINES because of the strict laws regarding our highways.
How does it feel to shatter a person’s dream, Stan? 🙁
I am not trying to shatter any-ones dreams, im just informing you on the feasability of the jobs. I really wish the laws were not so strict but i do not control that.