Unloading The House

rusty6 · Jan 10, 2020

This is part two and finale of how they set they house down on the new wooden basement. A follow up of the one I posted yesterday. Those guys made it look pretty easy backing the house up right in line with the basement and then jacking/winching the house into position.

House Moved

David G · Jan 10, 2020

How is the wood foundation holding up?

rusty6 · Jan 10, 2020

The wooden basement seems fine but of course the part that is beneath the ground is not visible. This was built into a side hill so the North side only has a couple of feet out of the ground while the South side is fully exposed. If that treated lumber is as good as the old creosote treated power poles I guess it will be there a long time.

David G · Jan 10, 2020

I had wondered how they held up, this is going on 30 years.

Thanks for posting.

BillinCentralMO · Jan 10, 2020

I always enjoy your videos. Were you the photographer ? Or are you in the video ?

rusty6 · Jan 10, 2020

(quoted from post at 19:59:11 01/10/20) I always enjoy your videos. Were you the photographer ? Or are you in the video ?

Bill I am the camera man in this and most of the videos. Only ones I can think of that I appear are the harvesting and some of the other field work. Some of those times somebody else ran the camera for me.

gregww · Jan 10, 2020

I have heard of wood foundations before, but it still befuddles me. Never seen anything like that around here. Could be though, and I just don't know about it. I have seen treated 4x4 nearly rotted off at the ground supporting a deck. I don't think a wooden basement would be for me. But to each his own.

BillinCentralMO · Jan 10, 2020

Well , you?re an excellent photographer. I?d miss your videos , if I couldn?t look forward to them.

JMS/.MN · Jan 10, 2020

Local ones are longer than that- 40 or more. Have a son on sand, a daughter here on clay, with wood foundations. When she proposed that, county inspector went ballistic...said it wouldn"t last. Yet local ones, few miles away in a different county, have lasted for decades in clay. Luckily, inspector is gone now.

Traditional Farmer · Jan 10, 2020

They were tried here years ago finally outlawed.They were guaranteed 30 years but then what? I'd imagine the farther South the worst for wear they'd be,any wood in the ground here goes downhill pretty quick.

gregww · Jan 10, 2020

My son in law use to have a job with a landscaping company. Then he worked with me for a while siding houses, installing windows, and a few other small jobs. Now, he and my daughter own and operate a small motel, and he is on he local fire department first responder team. Last year, he took a six week course for inspecting houses and is now a licensed home inspector. So much for inspectors. He is a good guy, husband and father, but would not know a 16d nail from a carriage bolt. Seems just about anyone can inspect houses.

Olyj1947 · Jan 11, 2020

About 40 years ago, FmHA built 6 low income homes here with wooden basements. They are still up, inhabited and look great. And I am surprised to say the least!

Gambles · Jan 11, 2020

The house that I live in was moved to the spot it now sits from about 8 miles down the road. It has a full basement. My house was moved about 15 years ago. A neighbor of mine, who does concrete work on the side, did the footings. I took off two weeks of work and my mom, my brother, and I assembled the styrofoam blocks that made the basement walls. I had them filled with concrete using a local pumper truck and concrete plant. My house was moved into place by a local house mover. Since the house was plaster and lath, it was gutted with new wiring and insulated. After it was in place, I had a bathroom, kitchen, laundry room a sun room and a mud room added on. It had a lot of sweat equity, but really wasn't that big of a deal. As far as the house moving and coming apart while it was being moved, that doesn't happen. The house mover told me that he had recently moved a house that had brick chimney in it and it arrived just fine.
If I remember right, my house weighed somewhere near 35 tons. It was quite the site moving down the highway at about 5 mph and blocking traffic.

showcrop · Jan 11, 2020

There must have been rollers under it but I didn't see any. Were they one inch pipe?

DoubleO7 · Jan 11, 2020

I helped my best friend build his wood basement back in the 90's.
One long side in the hill, walk out on the other.
Sandy loam, well drained.
2x6 or 2x8's every 12 or 18" with 3 /4" plywood and then visqueen. All treated lumber, most likely the good stuff back then.

gregww · Jan 11, 2020

(quoted from post at 05:56:54 01/11/20) About 40 years ago, FmHA built 6 low income homes here with wooden basements. They are still up, inhabited and look great. And I am surprised to say the least!

here is here? Curious about your moisture conditions.

IaLeo · Jan 11, 2020

I live in a 34 x 54 single story house with a wood basement installed by an outfit from Wisconsin. 1998. It sits on 100 ton of pea rock with a rock filled pit on the lower downside corner tiled out to the road ditch. Guaranteed 75 years if that is worth anything. The floor is comfortable to walk on barefooted any season. No noticeable sagging or leaking. So far so good, don't know what sales resistance will be, come selling. Leo

rusty6 · Jan 11, 2020

(quoted from post at 08:43:41 01/11/20)
There must have been rollers under it but I didn't see any. Were they one inch pipe?

Yes, I think at some point in the video it showed the guys putting pipe rollers between the bottom plate of the house and on the new wood basement so it would roll as the winch pulled. Seems to me if they needed to "steer" it one way or the other they would angle the rollers a bit.
The outer wall of the basement is covered with heavy plastic wherever it is beneath the ground. Drainage pipe all around the footings to take away any moisture. Notice how dry and dusty the soil was as the loader was picking it up and dumping.

fixerupper · Jan 11, 2020

Leo my son put a new house on a wood foundation ten years ago. Might have been done by the same outfit that did yours. Like you mentioned the wood is not placed against the surrounding soil. Drainage is important. There is 24" of pea rock surrounding the foundation and 12" or more under the floor. He chose to have a wooden floor too. Tile runs under the pea rock around the diameter of the house and tile is under the basement floor. The outside of the basement wall is also covered with thick plastic. The eve troughs drain into a separate tile that takes it away from the house. He chose to have a 9' basement so the basement walls have 2X10 studs. With that much insulation in the basement walls the basement is the same temperature as upstairs and the basement air is just as dry as upstairs. A good friend of mine lives in a house on a wood basement that has been there 40 years and is still standing well.

Rich'sToys · Jan 11, 2020

The house we live in was moved about 20 miles to our site 21 years ago this month. I have a bunch of photos, but no videos. It was parked right next to it's final location. The following spring the hole for the basement was dug. The house was then moved over the hole and set on stacks of wood cribbing, while the block basement was laid up under it. When the block were cured the house was set down on it.
We then added a kitchen, dining room and double garage on one end. The existing kitchen was turned into a bathroom/laundry room and walk in closet. The existing dining room became our master bedroom. An attached single car garage was removed (before the house was moved). We brought it out separately and set it down in the back yard.

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