On Feb 11, 2014, at 5:33 pm, Alan C <[email protected]> wrote: > Didn't know your house was damaged.
Yes it did sustain some damage but apart from the chimneys being destroyed the damage was superficial with just some cracking in the foundation and interior plasterboard. Even so it's about 5 weeks of work. A friend of mine is moving out soon for about 3 months. The worst for me was some cracking in the garage that was causing water to seep in when it rains. I'm sick of mopping it up so getting that repaired will be nice. Being able to move the shelving back into place means we might be able to get the car in again. We have a double garage at the rental house and it's bliss! We've been paid out for our driveway which suffered some minor separation between the slabs of concrete so we'll get that done when we get around to it. Our side of town came out pretty well. The street where my mother lives is a bit of a mess. > Do they build new foundations & then wheel the house into position or wheel > the house out of the way before repairing the existing foundations? It looks like they're going to move it out of the way before repairing the existing foundations as I didn't see new ones. > Moving wooden houses to new locations is not entirely fanciful - I remember a > shot of a whole house on a big low-bed being moved to a new location in the > USA. I bought my dad a book for Xmas about the history of heavy road transport in NZ with quite a few stories about moving buildings. Also lots of interesting stuff about moving heavy things for industry, eg boilers, wind turbine parts, electrical transformers etc. Sometimes they'll cut a house into two pieces if there will be obstructions on the route. We saw a house being towed towards the Lindis Pass on our way back from Wanaka a few weeks ago... we see this kind of thing every now and then while travelling. Often loads have to be raised up to clear the sides of bridges. http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/751/#peso There have been cases of people transporting good houses from red-zoned land to a new section but it's not as common as it should be. Pretty much all the new subdivisions come with conditions that only allow a new build so the houses are being moved out of the city. http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/christchurch-earthquake-2011/6783069/Company-buys-up-red-zone-houses-for-removal Cheers, Dave > Alan C > > -----Original Message----- From: David Mann > Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 2:20 AM > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: PESO: House on Wheels > > A cellphone snapshot on my way home from the pool. This house is on the > corner at the end of our street and I've been watching with interest as they > jack it up to repair the earthquake-damaged foundations. Today I was passing > it on its other side and saw wheels. > > http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/750/#peso > > They're just getting started with the repairs to our house - we moved into a > rental house the other day. A stressful and exhausting process even though > most of our possessions have been packed and moved into storage. Our repairs > are due to take about 5 weeks, then we get to move back. The upside is that > our house is completely empty so we get to have a good cleanout and maybe > rearrange a bit. > > This is our first experience using a moving company to do all of our packing > and it's been really good. What's even better is that it's all being paid > for by insurance :) If I'd had my way I'd have told them to take everything > to Wanaka but reality had something else to say. > > Cheers, > Dave > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > > --- > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus > protection is active. > http://www.avast.com > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
