Bigger than a trawler, but still fun!

[koliver]

This move is underway: https://www.cheknews.ca/its-a-spect...ets-sail-from-oak-bay-to-powell-river-958828/

I June 2001 we did a similar move. Ours house is a mere 2300 sqft and not quite as old. Build originally on 10 mile Point, Victoria, so a close neighbour of the one on the news, ours came off the waterfront lot on April 19, 2001 and went to a storage lot in Sidney while we waited for a higher tide to get across the beach in front of its present location on Saltspring Island. The other half of its move came June 7th, 2001 with an added foot of tide. Working on it weekends and with a little professional help, our move in was complete by Decenber.
60 tons of recycling. By the same ratio, today's bigger move will recycle about 180 tons of building materials.

 

[ScottC]

Fascinating!
I understand from the video that she wants to "move house" for sentimental reasons - but what's not clear to me is why you are moving your house too. Is there something going on in this location requiring all houses to be moved or demolished? "Environmental Reasons" doesn't really give me the full picture.

 

[AlaskaProf]

Talk about waiting for your weather window!

 

[koliver]

Fascinating!
I understand from the video that she wants to "move house" for sentimental reasons - but what's not clear to me is why you are moving your house too. Is there something going on in this location requiring all houses to be moved or demolished? "Environmental Reasons" doesn't really give me the full picture.

This is just another way to accomplish getting the house you want, for a price. Cheaper than building new, but you get an older house. Some lots will permit the move in of a whole house, most wont. Some older houses need to go, for redevelopment of the lot, so can be acquired by someone (like me) with a vacant lot and the right combination of circumstances. Ours needed to go from its original lot to make way for a 16,000 sqft new build. Others go for other reasons.
We have a wall of pictures of ours being put on our lot. It was quite an engineering marvel at the time. Today's move is quite a bit more complicated than ours, which was described by the same Jeremy Nickel as one of their more challenging moves when it occurred.