House raising in Iowa City

Workers from Jeremy Patterson House Moving Inc. of Washington, Iowa, are raising an Iowa City home, using a series of hydraulic jacks and beams, so that the home's foundation can be replaced. The historic home, built in the Italianate style, is located at 829 Kirkwood Avenue and is owned by William and Mia Wang. Work was being done Friday, November 23, 2007. GazetteOnline video by Jonathan D. Woods.

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[1autotech01]

how much would it be to do something like this?



[mikey0himself]

Seems like nonsense for such an old house

[nrudenko]

its cost big money probably? 

[sunnykintyre]

Fantastic can this only be done on American built houses I have never heard of this being done in Scotland, can you expand your company to here? this is just amazing to watch, how do you then rebuild foundationd under the house on the new site? do you leave some steel girders underneath the house to be part of the new foundation???

[arckon09]

No problem!

[odmcarp]

i understand..ty

[arckon09]

Usually the height from floor to ceiling in a house is about 8 feet. There is a limit to the maximum height your house can be so you might only be able to lift the house 3 or 4 feet until you reach that maximum. To get the other 4 or 5 feet you need to make it a full floor you dig under the house. This makes it a semi underground floor but a floor none the less.

[odmcarp]

what does "gettting the height out of the ground" mean? are you lowing the house some?

[arckon09]

you wouldn't dig out the dirt under the house to move it. they are putting in a 2nd floor and getting the height out of the ground.

[smilingsteeles]

I can relate to the mounds of dirt! Our home was lifted 5ft last year.