Preparing to Move it Over (Part 1)

Yesterday's excitement and some media coverage made traffic on 3rd Street pretty interesting today. Instead of speeding by at 30mph, about half of the cars were going about 5-10mph and looking at the house and the basement hole. This amused Bert a bit as he went about building up the floor of the basement hole with more gravel and then building piers. These piers will be used to hold the beams that will slide the house over and will then hold the house while the foundation is poured and laid.

We had an unrelated thing to take care of, too, and that was that a big horizontal limb split in the huge maple tree. Then the split continued to open. The tree men from the village came and cut it back.

It is supposed to rain tonight (Tues), so that will impact building piers under the house and setting it down in order to get the dollies out and the roller beams placed. For clarity on how this will roll over the hole, go back to the post of "Three Exciting Events" and see how the house was rolled off the foundation. This will be quite similar.

 Ouch! Look at that split in the maple tree!

 After. Good work by the tree guys.

 Building sturdy piers is very important in preparation for rolling the house over from the yard to its proper place over this basement hole. Once it is rolled over on N-S beams, they will be removed and the E-W beams that actually hold the house will rest on these piers while the 6 foot foundation walls are poured and then 4 rows of concrete block are added for the exposed portion of the foundation. Then the house will be set down, the beams pulled, piers removed, and basement floor will be poured. 

 All four piers. Similar, shorter piers will be built under the house prior to the N-S beam being put in to remove the dollies and then roll the house over.