Re: [OM] Paul's PAW - catching up

[Chuck Norcutt]

But these guys (and many others) do move brick and stone buildings.
<http://www.wolfehousebuildingmovers.com/services/moving/brick-house-moving/> 
 The most difficult is apparently brick veneer where the recommendation 
seems to be to remove and restore or replace the brick veneer. 
Restoring the original brick is possible but likely much more expensive 
than using new brick due to the labor involved.
Chuck Norcutt


On 7/6/2014 4:20 AM, Jez Cunningham wrote:
> Chris - I always assumed it was more difficult (nigh impossible) to move a
> brick building (the norm over here) whearas a wood-frame building (the norm
> 'over there') will hold itself together and absorb some flex, shock and
> vibration.
> Jez, in stone and thatch.
>
> On Sunday, July 6, 2014, Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Each photo works well, Paul.  I like the frog (does it make much noise at
> > night?), and the foreman gives the structure scale.  I would have had him
> > off to one side of the shot, but no matter.
> >
> > Is it only in the USA that people move buildings like this?  I cycled to
> > work in Tampa (as I related some years ago) and was very surprised to see
> > the road (Bayshore Boulevard) blocked by a house being moved.  In the
> > morning twilight it was a surreal sight.
> >
> > Presumably in the USA the streets are generally wide enough to allow such
> > operations.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > On 6 Jul 14, at 05:23, Paul Braun <pbraun42@xxxxxxxxx <javascript:;>>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > The top six on this page represent views of the pond on the property of
> > the hospital where I work as well as our little garden pond, one of our
> > petunias, and the little frog who's decided to move into our pond.  We've
> > named him Kermit because, well, he's a frog.
> > > http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=2922
> > >
> > > snip
> > > http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=2911
> > >
> > > The photo of the job foreman didn't really turn out like what I had in
> > my head - I think what I needed was to go full-wide on the 12-50 and get up
> > really close to him.  However, since the building was already resting on
> > 5-foot-high cribbing, I would have had to use a really low angle and pretty
> > much look up his nose to get any recognizeable building in the background.
> >   What I had visualized was much more of him filling the frame with more
> > building fading away behind him.
> >
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