Australians moving house

[soup]

I am currently watching (well I'm not but son has it on) a YouTube video about Australians moving a house . They literally pick it up and move it . Why is it considered better to move the house than just sell it and build new at the destination. Is transport that cheap in Aus or is it so expensive to buy/build new

[Jim Stewart ...]

[Graham Harrison]

That happens in the USA as well.

Didn't someone move a lighthouse back from a crumbling cliff edge here in the UK? There you are:

[Andy Burns]

So they moved it 17m, and by the sounds of it the cliff has moved 11m since then ...

[GB]

Houses in this country are usually built of brick. In the USA, they are usually timber. That makes them far easier to transport.

Didn't Donald Trump's grandfather float his brothel down a river?

[Colin Bignell]

Also done with one of the smaller temples in that were going to be flooded by the Aswan Dam in Egypt.

[soup]

But that is an historical building not your run-of-the-mill Queensland "high-set".

[soup]

But that is an historical building not your run-of-the-mill Queensland "high-set".

[Colin Bignell]

Impressive though

[wasbit]

Lots on Youtube eg -

[David]

Also used to be quite commonplace in NZ.

The first time I saw a used house lot I was a little bemused.

Also, for larger houses they chain saw them into chunks to make them easier to move, then stitch them back together at the new location.

Mind you, the ones I saw were pretty crap, and you would have to be desperate to buy one instead of building new.

I think that sometimes/often they buy a plot with an old house and then ship it to the used house lot before building new.

Cheers

Dave R

[Paul]

There is no limit to human ambition.

That one is likely staying on the same plot of land. I don't think that would steer very well on public roads.

This is what it looks like, when you lift a smaller one.

Paul

[Andrew]

When Ceausescu decided to flatten huge parts of Bucharest to make room for that gargantuan folly, a local architect managed to save a couple of historic brick-built buildings by sliding them along some sort of greasy tracks with lots of RSJ's taking the strain, to a new location.