House Moving Western Michigan

House Move in Progress

Holland, Michigan USA

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Deitz team member Jeff Wade surveys opening cut through the poured concrete for main beam installation.

Sixty foot long main lifting beam installed through perfect fit.

Main lifting beam starting to be installed under the house. Part of the foundation has been removed to facilitate installation.

Stacks of wooden blocking called cribbing. Steel rollers are placed between the beams and cribs for installation.

This view is from under the house as a cross beam is being inserted. Team member John Carr carefully guides the 1,200 pound beam into place

One of eight steel cross beams being installed under the house prior to jacking it up.

This is the hydraulic jacking unit used to lift the structure. Hoses lead under the house to remote lifting jacks.

This view is from under the house, the yellow beam is sixty feet long and weighs six thousand pounds. Two are positioned under the house.

Team members Jeff Wade, Patrick Carr, John Carr and Sean helping lift. The house has been lifted 1" at this point. Team members under the house for perspective. The house is now lifted twenty-four inches off the old foundation.

Picture of the house lifted off its' foundation and supported by the steel. Path cleared for the transport dollies. They will be installed under the support steel and replace the cribbs.

Dollies being installed under support steel. Six sets of transport dollies installed. The house is mobile.

Bridges of cribbing being installed ahead of the dollies. The house is in the process of being moved. The bridges of cribbing must continually be repositioned from behind the dollies to ahead of them.

The house is still supported by our steel beams. It is supported inches off the new wooden walls that are being constructed. The house is now in its'ew position. The poured concrete walls are installed and wooden daylight walls are being constructed.

A wrap around deck will be installed on this end of the house.

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