"Battleax" wrote in message
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Well you can't just walk up to it and start jacking, you can't get a jack
under a building that's sitting on the ground. You must create a beam
system
inside to jack on, then you have to decide where you're going to pull from
without twisting the structure, more work. The only way it's "easily done
on
a Saturday" is if you spent the last three days getting everything ready.
A
building mover will do it in a day but not an inexperienced home owner.



All of which really goes pretty quickly if you've set your mind to getting
the job done. Half the battle is getting over the sense of being
overwhelmed by the thought of moving a building. Once you get to the task
at hand, it's really quite a straightforward project, even for the
inexperienced homeowner. Creating the initial lift is simple - as simple as
throwing diagonal braces into corners and jacking under them. No
complicated beam system involved. Of course, one would have to address such
things as (potentially) removing nuts from tie down bolts that may be in
place in the sill plates. That takes only a short time, perhaps up to an
hour if it's early in the morning and you're not up to full speed yet.
Deciding where to pull from, securing jacks, securing some sort of roller,
etc. are all things one can easily do the day before, or even that same day
depending on the availability of things. Point being - the actual work can
easily be done on a Saturday even by the inexperienced homeowner. I really
don't factor in the days of "thinking" about a project, or planning it as
part of the work effort. If I did, all of my projects would be considered
decades of effort...

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-Mike-