This is the official week of our house lifting, and man is it dramatic! The house is undergoing three movements in this process:
1) Raising about 1.8 metres higher (so we can build in underneath it later)
2) Moving closer to the side boundary
3) Moving closer to the front boundary
This process has been accomplished over the course of four days, and now it sits perched up on its stacks looking just a little bit forlorn.
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| The little back balcony stripped bare. |
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| Removing the front stairs |
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| The stacks |
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| The destruction of the back balcony (and stairs) well underway |
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| The house before it was moved sideways or forward |
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| The house after it was moved. See how close it is to the fence now! |
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| The bobcat in operation pushing the house into its new position |
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| The naked back area, now moved forward |
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| The now much smaller front yard |
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| OK... I need gumboots. |
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| The house as it stood on Wednesday night. |
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More pictures to come showing it raised to its final height of 8.485m (just a miniscule 15mm lower than the maximum height restriction of 8.5m). Whew!
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