Sickmont said:
They moved a good sized house by barge here a few years ago. It was kind of funny sitting on a beach watching a house go by.....
http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2007/9/27/290928.html
thats cool, it'd take more work moving a house on a barge, but the risk's are much higher when traveling across ice.
the reason being you can plan accordingly for a barge (though more work!) & ice it's kinda a gamble - will it hold up or not? - you can use all your math ya want, it still comes down to, it's ice! & shit can happen! like the mover said "the other time the house fell through" (not his words)
LUCKYDOG said:
That is cool -- but I wonder is it worth the expense of moving the house as opposed to building an up-to-date replica?
it all depends on how far you're moving the house.
if moving is not far then, yes! it can be a better deal vs building new. though it also depends on what needs to be done to the old home to make it appealing & up to code (if it need's to be ?)
moving homes is nothing new in this state, there's people that buy home's to move & there's mover's that buy home's & place the home's in fields until people buy them.
those that buy them update them &/or add onto the old home.
though I find all older home's un-appealing cuz of the layout & the room sizes. though they were built better than whats being built nowadays! - to a point cuz there was also some hillbilly building going on back in the day
nowadays the home's are rotting from the inside out!!! while older homes didn't have this problem except their heating/cooling cost's were on the high end.
if you build new in this state your best bet is to sell it within 10 years or less cuz of our building codes, or be stuck with a heafty bill cuz of mold! unless if the home was built with "builtrite" you might get lucky to avoid the mold.
