A Queenslander house is usually up on stilts to facilitate airflow. It helps combat the heat and create good airflow to assist in cooling. Moving old homes about is fairly common and not just in Queensland.
As a Scotsman in Queensland I can tell you that it’s pretty common to see a massive house driving up the road with police/pilot cars in front and behind. They cut them into transportable pieces and convoy them for sometimes hundreds of kilometres. As a carpenter I can tell you that they never go back together as good as they were to begin with without a load of work.
To be labelled Mr love is quite a handle good sir !! Myself also a chippie of an age to appreciate homes of this vintage and a ken to the lovely Scottish brogue , l was keen on the vid .... in the small outback Qld in which I live, l watched a house on a truck cross the riverbed .... in a dry time . And months of good work for me when it landed on site .....
@@simonelwell9148very nice 😊 i used to build purpose built relocatable homes . Ours were built off an I beam chassis which were the bearers and we would bolt on 3 box Axel's with LandCruiser hubs and tyres and a drawbar at the front . We'd push them into place on site with a 4wd tractor. The subfloor would bolt back together on site. They were tiled ,carpeted , painted and the appliances were in when they got to site. Not as much fun as doing up an old place but it was interesting to do for a while . I love working on old places. It's very satisfying.
They are built in parts to be assembled at the distant end. They are not homes that are cut up and transported. I have been stuck behind one while driving on the roads of Adelaide.
I lived on a hill, alongside a main road. One day a truck crawled down the road with a house on it. On top of the house were men with poles, lifting up the electric wires that crossed the road so that the roof of the house could pass underneath them. Then the fun really started. The brakes on this enormously long truck gave way and the whole assembly picked up speed. The gallant workmen with the poles tried to keep lifting the crossing wires but in the end had to quit and jump for their lives ... the wires were still live and electricity doesn't mix well with corrugated iron roofs. Eventually the driver brought the truck to a halt some distance down the hill. The wires that had been broken were still live, and naturally we had a blackout. it was an enjoyable afternoon and I guess the workers probably didn't mind all the cheering that much.
Mostly they will go through and save the old houses when an area is getting developed, so the old houses get another life rather than being trashed and scrapped
I have done this here in Queensland 5 times over the years. It’s quite common. It’s ideal to have them raised high enough to build in underneath for garaging or more liveable space.
We also have removeable houses in NZ, it's a huge job trucking a house down some of NZ's narrow roads, sometimes they will cut the house in half then reassemble the 2 halves on the new bock... recycling at its best!
I'm a Queenslander and it's a fairly common sight in the early hours of the morning to see one of these houses being moved on the back of a truck. They're beautiful houses when renovated properly. Billy is absolutely spot on about the rain on the corrugated iron roof. The biggest drawback with these houses is that they're designed to shed heat so, in the winter, they're quite cold even in Queensland. I have English relatives and they visited us in the winter and said they'd never felt so cold because they're used to central heating.
@@anneloving8405 If the flood make it above the floor of the Queenslander 3metres (9’) above ground level. There as two things to consider. 1. If the house is still on the stumps after the flood or 2. You have it in the wrong location and It might be time to move it! NSW in Oz
A few years back, I got phone calls from 3 different friends one day, saying they’d seen my old childhood home on the backs of two trucks, moving down the highway. It had been on the outskirts of Melbourne, but many years later I found out that it now resides as a holiday home in Central Victoria. Ironically, I now live only about 20kms away from it, as I moved to Central Victoria myself.
Queenslander here. He is right. You can buy a wooden house and get it delivered. If it is too big to fit on a trailer or fit around a corner or whatever, they just cut it in half and reattach it later. Wooden house are typically mounted on stumps to allow air circulation underneath (and sometimes, floods!!!) How high? Anything up to 3metres, at which height, building rooms underneath becomes possible. The verandah was adopted from India, and gives a covered area for the kids to play when it rains, drying washing and BBQs,
I bought mine for $2500 , it cost me $50 000 to move , foundations , elec plumbing new roof but still a cheap house with no mortgage and its recycling something that would have been lost
Thank you. Love hearing the Scottish accent. Always love hearing Billy's funny stories. I think even his shopping list would be funny. Same with Irish accent.
Yes. House relocation is common. They are heaps cheaper to buy. In some cases the relocation cost can be higher than the price paid for the house. I live in the wet tropics in Far North Queensland. Nothing beats the sound of rain on a tin roof.
My father worked for company called Wolstonhome Homes in Dubbo NSW. They built homes for farmers and graziers to order, cut them in two and delivered to the site and put them back together. The old man put the them back together and did the plumbing work involved. That was way back in the mid to late 1950s. Just proves there's nothing new under the sun, Just realised the company was called Wolstenholm Homes
The transportable house place in Dubbo is called Taylor Made now, they have many houses being built on their site, and many house plans to choose from , worth looking into if you want a house delivered to your land
I live on an island in Queensland and removabke houses are common out here. One was moved up the street from me a month ago. They can be left rustic or completely renovated. Only thing is you need to pay a hefty bond to many councils which you get back when all permits have been issued and passed once completed, which can be not cost effective if doing on a budget. Brisbane's inner old suburbs are mainly filled with Queenslander houses. Both of my parents grew up in one. He is right, nothing like the sound of rain on a tin roof.
@@RosemaryDoyle-l1p I looked into buying land on Macleay, a buddy lives there. I did a lot of research and found Redland's Shire to be a right batch to work with re. Restrictions. I ended up buying up in Monto .
I live in Brisbane Australia and we were driving to the north coast a few days ago and saw these houses. One can also see the used house yards on the south coast road. At one time I used to drive out to Roma and frequently came across these houses being transported with a police escort.
And in Wellington, NZ they moved a hotel down the street. The relocation started in May 1993 and the entire project took five months, the building was turned into a railway carriage, and wheeled on 8 sets of parallel rails 100 metres alongside a busy road.
I love in Queensland, and yes they still do it. There are a few companies, and they offer different sizes from Granny Flat sized to full houses. Bigger houses get cut in parts and trucked in multiple goes. Queenslanders are a style of house. They then install them ON stumps again, which is part of the design of a Queenslander. There are 3 places within 30 minutes drive from where I live.
These are "relocated" homes and they're older timber framed homes on wooden floors which is why they can be jacked up off their original foundations and be relocated. There is also a big market for new "demountable" or "modular" homes in Australia, especially in rural areas away from metropolitan areas because of the lack of tradespeople and the high cost of transporting building materials to those regions. These are purpose built transportable homes, now usually steel framed on a prestressed concrete floor, which are then placed onto concrete footings that have been laid on-site before the house arrives on the transporter, with external connections for power, water and septic systems also done on-site. There are also demountable classrooms which are a common sight at schools in the newer, outer surburban areas around all major capital cities when, because of new housing developments opening up, there are rapidly expanding enrolment numbers outstripping the amount of available fixed classrooms . I'm worked in schools where there have been between 6 and 9 demountable classrooms located around the fixed build school buildings and they are there for many years before numbers have stabilised and government funding is allocated to build more blocks of permanent classrooms on the school site. Once the new build is complete, the demountables are removed and transported to other schools that require them. Also, here in Western Australia, in the remote regional districts, especially in the smaller, remote communities, the "permanent" school buildings will also be transportable because it would be economically unviable to build "traditionally on-site" because of high costs of having to bring in all materials and tradespeople.
This happens a lot in big cities like Melbourne. When a developer wants to build a new property they'll sell the house and it'll be moved to another location. Think this is about to happen down the road from me.
There's a home renovation show on the moment and they chocked the house up on blocks like that and slid it 20 meters across to the other side of the block because it got better light. They rubbed velvet soap on the joists and pushed it across with many car jacks
All over Australia, you can buy houses both secondhand and new that get trucked to your site. Sometimes, they cut large old ones half. New ones can come in one, two, three, or four truck loads that are put together on site. If you live rural, it's easier than trying to get builders and all the trades needed to finish a house.
There is a RUclipsr who has researched housing in Australia, and it seems that Australians have been moving houses around from the time the British first arrived in Australia. I know that mining towns, timber workers homes, towns being flooded or being bypassed by the railway were often moved. I do not know if the film still survives, but Old Adaminaby was moved to make way for the Eucumbene Dam.
Old Yallourn in the Latrobe Valley... houses from there were moved away so the coal under them could be mined. A house just in another street here in geelong was picked up, moved forwards, remounted, to give space for a unit to be built on the block.
Yes... these are Relocatable homes. They have this in NZ as well. You can buy them for cheap, well... my friends bought a 4bedroom home for $15K (but that was 20yrs ago) in NZ, and they had it delivered to a property they owned. They had a large garage built underneath that it sat on top of and just renovated the home inside and reclad it. These are carefully cut in half (sliced down the centre usually) so it can fit on the truck when transporting, and mostly in transit at night when less traffic. I live in Sydney now, and I had another friend here who bought a relocatable home for mere pennies and had it transported to their home and designed to sit on top of their garage.
Yeah you can buy a house and move it to where you have land if you find any for sale. they're quite often old farm houses not needed anymore.. I don't know if they are cheaper or not by the time you renovate them, but I have lived in one that was so old the ceiling under the plaster was made of horse hair..Not good as it was a breeding ground for various insects and spiders
My parents bought a transportable house in the 80s . They chose the design , chose four bedrooms and all the colour of the walls, the bathroom fittings type of toilet, bath and shower. It was great. Fifty metres from the local surf beach. Beautiful. It was delivered in two halves as it was a four bedroom and too long for regulation load length.
I'll bet that house yard is one of the ones on the Bruce Highway at Burpengary. I bought mine from one of them. So the story is that a developer will buy a block of land with a house on it. They don't want the house because they intend to cram as many people into windowless boxes with touching gutters on that block of land as possable, so they sell the house to the removers for a couple of grand. The removers take the house (sometimes cut into two or three pieces depending on the size) to their yard and put it up on stys (not stilts) and people come and check them out. The trailers they use are engineering marvels themselves, with six-to-eight independently steerable and raiseable axles, plus the hitch to the prime mover can also be raised and tilted. So they can get in practically anywhere. The advertised price is typically the basic house, with a new roof if the old one is super-six (asbestos), transported onto your block (with police escort due to the size) typically overnight with arrival at 5am or so, on 1m stumps (steel these days instead of old tree trunks). It's up to the purchaser to bring the house up to moderns standards wrt thermal effeciency and safety (eg tying the roof down). There's some small requests you can make (I paid for taller stumps to turn my 'workers cottage' into a high-set) but basically what you see is what you get, caveat emptor.
I live in Cairns, Far North Queensland. The suburb I’m in and the house I’m in was Grandma’s and the suburb was our family’s Sugar Cane farm, Whitfield. Family came from Scotland in 1876. Family kept every second block when they sold the farm as McManus Estate. They kept the spare blocks in between and sold them off over time and every Queenslander built on those was purchased somewhere else and transported, well many of them, including my neighbour. Grandma sold that block for about $50K in the eighties, it’s currently on market for $750K Old traditional Queenslander houses were built with high ceilings and 180 to 360 surrounding verandas. All louvres or casement windows, usually a combination because only louvres can remain open in the rain. Pre aircon you have to remember and pre mosquito screens. I’m 50 and when I was a kid no one had fly screens we went to bed with nets over the bed. I remember when ceiling fans were huge but fly / mozzie screens changed everything. To this day if I smell a mozzie coil burning I feel like I’m at home. That and the smell of a sugar can mill in harvest season given I grew up around sugar cane, childhood smells. When I had to re plaster the ceiling in this house, given that it was the farm house originally, I vacuumed out a centimetre of ash from the cane fires, because we burned the Sugar Cane every year, house had 50 years of burn off. Not done anymore now mills are configured for green cane. It had to be burned before hand cutting because of Weil’s disease (Leptospirosis), from rat’s piss, that nest in the cane, was killing the cane cutters, that and the Taipans in the cane (World’s deadliest snake). Anyway bringing in Qlder houses is still done and also a mate of mine makes a living from jacking up Qlders. Which is the process of making them higher off the ground with new metal posts. Enables the ground floor typically open like a shed and carport, people enclose now and build new rooms and kitchens bathrooms, and rent their bottom floors out.
in Darwin, Northern Territory Australia brother, we has same kind of place that sits between Darwin and its satellite town of Palmerston. Many houses ripped up from Darwins Airforce base and purchasable meaning that you can get these houses delivered to your property on a truck, and stumped (with actual foundations) for a price. One of my relatives bought her house ten years ago for $10,000 AUD delivered and stumped. The thing about that airforce base, was that many of these houses were "Classic" Darwin homes built in the 1950;s and were rebuilt after the 1974 cyclone Tracy that blew Darwin off the face of the earth.
This is the David Wright house removals lot at Burpengary in Queensland. This video is from 1995 and the company is still going strong. You can see this place from the Bruce Highway as you drive past.
It's not uncommon..... Firstly a "Queenslander" is a fairly basic house type, characterised by being almost exclusively timber, with a corrugated iron roof, with a verandah that covers most of at least three sides, which may be enclosed by latticework, blinds, screens or shutters; and high ceilings, all lifted above the ground on stumps, rather than foundations. It is typical for renovating to even raise an existing house higher and build a duplicate level beneath. And as Billy said move the house 200 yards uphill, rotate 60° to give a better view, and build another extension.
There's a business where I live in regional western Aus....sells homes like this. I remember it from when I was a child in NSW as well. See....there WAS recycling in the "olden days" too😉😊
As a Queenslander yep they do this the most impressive house move I know of was brick veneer house built on a concrete above ground reinforced ring beam for cyclone rating back in the 70s. Which was moved in the 90s form Cairns central to Varley Street Yorkeys Knob QLD by a bloke by the name of Danny Bar with help from the low loader heavy lift truck form Townsville Hastings Deering. The house was over 100T and was wider then the old bridge at the entrance to Yorkeys Knob and to get across the bridge Danny had to Chane-saw the guide post and replace them after the house passed the bridge. Don't know what happen to Danny but the mans a legend.
Qlder here, its very normal. Entire suburbs are made up of these houses, like in Bluey (see Bardon, Ashgrove, Paddington etc) and thankfully lots are saved from being demolished
Sometimes you can even get a house for free if you're willing to move it yourself (which costs 20 K, so... Not free). But yeah, people will buy an old crappy house just for the block of land, and then advertise for anyone to come take it away. That is where these "used house lots" get the houses, but it's possible to cut out the middle man (to an extent, still need the house- moving company itself).
They are just up the street and round the corner in Burpengary QLD, There are a few yards full of them. Some are HUGE! They do get delivered yes, expensive, not cheep
This is not only Queensland, it’s a great idea. Last year a house just up the road was moved, and Lo and behold, a bigger one appeared some months later. Looks great too. NSW. 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Yes, you can still buy removable houses. I don't know how many people buy removable homes, but it definitely still happens. If I had a big block of land and I needed a house, I'd consider it!
I know the owner of one of these 2nd house businesses. There are 2 in the Brisbane area, that I know about. There 1 north of the Sunshine Coast. A big house like that Qld'er most likely will be cut into 2 pieces for transport. It's a cheap way to recycle houses. Instead of ripping them down &/or starting new. I think it's a cleaver way of doing things.
I used to build transportable houses, and yes they still make them. It’s a cheap way of building houses, especially if you need them a long way from a city where the trades are usually. I’m not sure of the national regulations, but the maximum width for a new house is 7m, so they are made in modules of no more than 7m wide by 22m long I think. Moving Existing houses don’t have restrictions. I’ve made 3 piece houses and houses on stilts.
They have two house yards about 20 minutes away from me with about 20 to 25 houses on the yard lot. There is some beautiful houses to buy on these lots most go for around the $80,000 - $250,000. There in Burpengary
Houses on stilts is pretty normal up north. You have a choice between drought or floods. Gotta be prepared for the floods. They'll probably wash your whole house away, but you're in with a shot if you haven't drowned. Being a clown aside, you used to see half houses on the back of trucks being transported at 3am frequently. Super rare now. People want brick and mortar,or concrete, so chopping the bustards in half is impractical to say the least. Buying them off stacks of pallets is pretty new to me though.
Yes, I live In SE Queensland and there are, like car lots house lots. The Queenslander homes, unlike the one featured are absolutely fabulous when built new but are cold, drafty, and crooked when they are old, wether or not they sit on the land where originally built. AND YES, the home featured is for sale and can be relocated where requested. They are truly majestic are a big part of Queenland's home building heritage.
Yeah they still do it. Normally if you buy a property with a timber house on it, you can sell the house to these guys, they'll take it away. Resell it. It's in Caboolture, state of Queensland. Watch the part in the same show where Billy goes up in a glider. Hilarious.
I love driving past that place to see what new and beautiful old Queenslanders they have. I've been in a few times to check out the houses. Billy's right. Women walk through mentally renovating and repainting. 😁 Saving the old houses to resell is saving important architectural heritage of Queensland and they are the perfect style of house for the subtropics and tropics.
It's a normal thing here in Queensland. Friends of ours own a local house moving company. It's a common thing to see a house in 2 or 3 pieces being moved escorted by pilot cars, cops, etc.
They still chop and shift houses like this. They did this to a house just in the next neighbourhood over a few weeks ago. (Yes, I live in Queensland.) You can even buy kit homes now that come folded up on the back of a truck that are brand new. You just place the stumps, drop the floor down, stand the walls up, and crane on the roof. You can go from flat on a truck to roof on in about a day with an experienced builder, 2 days tops.
Queenslanders are a vernacular architectural style. They are built to maximise the breeze as the climate is often hot and humid. Often quite colourful. Verandahs. They can be moved on trucks but might need to be split into 2 or 3 bits. They wouldn;t make Queenslanders now I don;t think… but would seek to restore and renovate existing ones. If the owners want to build new, they can either move the house or demolish it which is where lots like this come into the picture.
I've lived my life in SA so I am not into Queensland homes, but I would imagine they have it on stilts because of the flooding that takes place up there. They have cyclones and floods, mainly in Queensland, and a bit of it down in New South Wales. We don't get flooding or cyclones down south in Adelaide. Because of flooding, people like to put their homes up high so the water flows underneath and doesn't damage the floors. I would say it is pretty secure with steel rods, obviously not wooden poles in the ground. The rods would be cemented and they'd do something to ensure they don't shift in heavy flooding.
Also Quite common in New Zealand as the house,s are timber construction apart from the odd brick chimney. It is mainly the older house's that are moved.
It's mostly in the country that wooden houses are cut in half and moved elsewhere. You just can't do it in the cities anymore. The house where my dad was born in Geelong was moved to another location in the countryside. I think that was done in the 60s after my grandparents sold that land and bought another house. The one Billy walked around would be at least 100 years old by now.
These wooden "Queenslanders" are common in flood-prone areas of QLD, which are also warm to tropical regions. They need ventilation and they need to survive quite substantial flooding. You don't see these houses in the temperate, desert or alpine areas, although some of those locations are seeing flooding now.
We call them pre - fab home's They still make them But it comes down to council if allowed Generally not able to in cities more on outside in country sides Which is strange if it's covered in cement fibre and render over it Most council will approve yet still the same timber framed home Just the outer skin uses different materials Most councils now require solid footings and why most homes are brick veneer Brick outer walls frames are either wood or steel and inside plaster boards These are the most common that councils will pass Our building is very regulated and lots has to be done by qualified tradies and expected by councils While under construction at certain times to be ticked of safe then the next stage happens until properties are built This is why I believe councils won't approve of pre-fab home's as no money in exspections just stumping and plumbing Not all the other like on built on site requires Also stumped home's are for flooding area's as well as humidity area's where air flows through the home from underneath
From next door to me there are 4 houses in a row that turned up overnight at different times. A little further up the street I went past an empty property one morning and when I was heading home there was a fully stumped and settled house with a garage on the previously empty block of land. They can work very quickly when the customer has enough money. My house was an old Mines Department house and was placed here in 1965. This has been a fairly accepted thing for a very long time at least in Queensland and I guess in other states as well.
They don’t really build houses like this anymore because while they were decent in a mild or hot climate with no active cooling and only a fireplace for the few weeks a year you needed it, now with minimal insulation they aren’t cheap if you try using an air conditioner or electric heater. They last hundreds of years and are really safe, they still renovate existing ones. They’re basically designed to lose heat without requiring electricity. But only if you’re willing to suffer on the hottest days and freeze on the coldest. The other plus is they survive moderate flooding. Or they did until people started raising them up and building a ground level addition underneath. There are some flood-able areas they still build these on quite tall stumps. Safe, but you can tell if your roommate has their partner over…. 😮
Yes, that's a Queenslander style. They do make some modern ones, too, with the wrap around verandahs. They were designed to make the hous cool in summer, but of course they can be cold in winter. They still move houses. They often cut them in half to transport them. There is more than posts in the ground. They are shored up by concrete under the posts. Buying a house and paying the tens of thousands to move it and reconstruct it works out cheaper than building, so if a house has good bones, it's worth it. Selling them means you don't have to knock them down if you are wanting to build something else on the land. I used to drive past that place every fortnight heading down to Brisbane, but they aren't the only ones. Southern houses are rarely moved because they aren't big wooden boxes. They are generally made of brick and on a concrete foundation and build heavy to keep out the cold.
We lived in a "Queenslander" for over 30 years & I loved the quirkiness - it was built in about 1910. We were sad to leave but there is a fair amount of upkeep & we were getting a bit old for the stairs so we sold & now live in a modern house.
The old Queenslander houses are just beautiful. Some have coloured casement windows and doors, large verandas and beautiful arches and fittings. They are designed for the Queensland weather, making the most of cool breezes. There are so many available because people want the land to build modern monstrosities on, so they sell off the original houses. In Cairns where I live there are many such houses that have been restored to their former glory.
They do this in New Zealand as well. If you own a property with an old house on it, you can advertise just the house for sale, these will be the ones on joists and bearer systems, and sometimes they cut the house in half to move it. They quite often move them at night when there's not as much traffic. I went to a house in the Gold Coast hinterland (Queensland) that had been cut into four pieces it was so huge, moved from the beach area, up into the hinterland, which has some really narrow and winding roads. They had a photo of the original house on the wall, and it was huge, I honestly don't know how they managed to do it. Sometimes when you're driving around, you see places that sell the old houses, it's actually similar to a car lot.
The place he visited is in Burpengary, Queensland. There are a few removal house businesses in the area (or they may be extensions of the same business) They'll buy the house for just a couple of thousand dollars and sell them on for a profit. It's a right bugger to get stuck behind one of the trucks on the highway. You can't over take, they have to stop and remove street signs so they can get past them, then put the signs back up. They only move the houses between midnight and dawn, so as to create the least disturbance to other road users.
I’m from New Zealand and we have places that sell and deliver houses like this, I remember getting a new boss at work, he had just arrived from the Uk and was late for a meeting - he was so perplexed that he’d been held up by a house being delivered!
I live in north Brisbane and confirm there is a company just road who has Queenslander houses for sale. There are multiple lots filled with Queenslander houses visible from the highway
the house im currently living in is 70 something to 80 years old and got here on the back of a truck that was about 40 years ago now i was not alive to see it but i did see plenty of houses and demountable's being moved around to schools and land blocks in Armadale Western Australia where i grew up in the late 80s early 90s
My mates dad used to own one of these companies. After the Charleville floods in the 90s when heaps of houses were destroyed they trucked probably 200 houses from Brisbane out there. Made a fortune then retired.
Yes, there are two places not far from me of Queenslander houses for resale. I went past them both about 2 weeks ago and they are almost empty because of the housing shortage. They are usually full and stock goes in and out fast. They are beautiful old homes and our State is famous for them. They become gorgeous modern homes inside now and I love the ones with the two staircases that meet at the top. You do know that Billy was always here. He is married to an Aussie.
As a Queenslander, it does happen. The company buys houses that are offered for removal (land owners want to build new house) rather than demolish it. Most houses are built as normal but sometimes it's a way to get one with historical charm instead of a dead box
yes, modern australian houses are built with virtually no eaves; relying on insulation and air conditioning. the classic queenslander was built with verandahs, wide eaves, breeze ways in order to mitigate the tropical climate.
Sometimes you will see adds for a free house just has to be removed from a block. But they are expensive to move and relocate, still cheaper that building new, and have lots of character
Yes, I live in Queensland and this is perfectly normal. If you are lucky you can buy an old house that was made from hardwood, not pine and the house will last for many generations with little maintenance. It is a great way to recycle and buy a bargain at the same time.
He's 100% right about the rain. There's nothing nicer than rain on a corrugated iron roof.
A Queenslander house is usually up on stilts to facilitate airflow. It helps combat the heat and create good airflow to assist in cooling. Moving old homes about is fairly common and not just in Queensland.
It also helps when we get those massive floods every 30-40 years..😂 I've never lived in a house with a slab. It would feel weird not to be elevated.
As a Scotsman in Queensland I can tell you that it’s pretty common to see a massive house driving up the road with police/pilot cars in front and behind. They cut them into transportable pieces and convoy them for sometimes hundreds of kilometres. As a carpenter I can tell you that they never go back together as good as they were to begin with without a load of work.
To be labelled Mr love is quite a handle good sir !!
Myself also a chippie of an age to appreciate homes of this vintage and a ken to the lovely Scottish brogue , l was keen on the vid .... in the small outback Qld in which I live, l watched a house on a truck cross the riverbed .... in a dry time . And months of good work for me when it landed on site .....
@@simonelwell9148very nice 😊 i used to build purpose built relocatable homes . Ours were built off an I beam chassis which were the bearers and we would bolt on 3 box Axel's with LandCruiser hubs and tyres and a drawbar at the front . We'd push them into place on site with a 4wd tractor. The subfloor would bolt back together on site. They were tiled ,carpeted , painted and the appliances were in when they got to site. Not as much fun as doing up an old place but it was interesting to do for a while . I love working on old places. It's very satisfying.
Backatcha Mr McCullen.....done similar also
.....building to specifics that are sizewise for transport and stitching halves together again
They are built in parts to be assembled at the distant end. They are not homes that are cut up and transported. I have been stuck behind one while driving on the roads of Adelaide.
@@yewenyi no in Queensland we move old homes in pieces all the time. I have friends who are about to move a 100 year old Queenslander
I lived on a hill, alongside a main road. One day a truck crawled down the road with a house on it. On top of the house were men with poles, lifting up the electric wires that crossed the road so that the roof of the house could pass underneath them. Then the fun really started. The brakes on this enormously long truck gave way and the whole assembly picked up speed. The gallant workmen with the poles tried to keep lifting the crossing wires but in the end had to quit and jump for their lives ... the wires were still live and electricity doesn't mix well with corrugated iron roofs. Eventually the driver brought the truck to a halt some distance down the hill. The wires that had been broken were still live, and naturally we had a blackout. it was an enjoyable afternoon and I guess the workers probably didn't mind all the cheering that much.
Our home in Brisbane was moved to it's present address by bullock dray in the late 18hudreds.
Mostly they will go through and save the old houses when an area is getting developed, so the old houses get another life rather than being trashed and scrapped
Still exists. I live in one. Wonderful life.
Me too, I love my verandah.
Ditto!
I have done this here in Queensland 5 times over the years. It’s quite common. It’s ideal to have them raised high enough to build in underneath for garaging or more liveable space.
We also have removeable houses in NZ, it's a huge job trucking a house down some of NZ's narrow roads, sometimes they will cut the house in half then reassemble the 2 halves on the new bock... recycling at its best!
I'm a Queenslander and it's a fairly common sight in the early hours of the morning to see one of these houses being moved on the back of a truck. They're beautiful houses when renovated properly. Billy is absolutely spot on about the rain on the corrugated iron roof. The biggest drawback with these houses is that they're designed to shed heat so, in the winter, they're quite cold even in Queensland. I have English relatives and they visited us in the winter and said they'd never felt so cold because they're used to central heating.
They are designed to be able to hosed out if they get inundated in a flood.
@@anneloving8405 If the flood make it above the floor of the Queenslander 3metres (9’) above ground level. There as two things to consider. 1. If the house is still on the stumps after the flood or 2. You have it in the wrong location and
It might be time to move it! NSW in Oz
God bless Scotland for giving us Billy.
A few years back, I got phone calls from 3 different friends one day, saying they’d seen my old childhood home on the backs of two trucks, moving down the highway. It had been on the outskirts of Melbourne, but many years later I found out that it now resides as a holiday home in Central Victoria. Ironically, I now live only about 20kms away from it, as I moved to Central Victoria myself.
That was just down the Rd from my house yards from where you lived!😊 it was in Burpengary on the side of the Bruce Hwy!
Queenslander here. He is right. You can buy a wooden house and get it delivered. If it is too big to fit on a trailer or fit around a corner or whatever, they just cut it in half and reattach it later. Wooden house are typically mounted on stumps to allow air circulation underneath (and sometimes, floods!!!) How high? Anything up to 3metres, at which height, building rooms underneath becomes possible. The verandah was adopted from India, and gives a covered area for the kids to play when it rains, drying washing and BBQs,
I bought mine for $2500 , it cost me $50 000 to move , foundations , elec plumbing new roof but still a cheap house with no mortgage and its recycling something that would have been lost
Yep, we own a 7 bedroom big old Queenslander house in Queensland. We raised ours and built in underneath. Best thing we ever did.❤😊
Thank you. Love hearing the Scottish accent. Always love hearing Billy's funny stories. I think even his shopping list would be funny. Same with Irish accent.
Yes. House relocation is common. They are heaps cheaper to buy. In some cases the relocation cost can be higher than the price paid for the house. I live in the wet tropics in Far North Queensland. Nothing beats the sound of rain on a tin roof.
My father worked for company called Wolstonhome Homes in Dubbo NSW. They built homes for farmers and graziers to order, cut them in two and delivered to the site and put them back together. The old man put the them back together and did the plumbing work involved. That was way back in the mid to late 1950s. Just proves there's nothing new under the sun,
Just realised the company was called Wolstenholm Homes
The transportable house place in Dubbo is called Taylor Made now, they have many houses being built on their site, and many house plans to choose from , worth looking into if you want a house delivered to your land
I live on an island in Queensland and removabke houses are common out here. One was moved up the street from me a month ago. They can be left rustic or completely renovated. Only thing is you need to pay a hefty bond to many councils which you get back when all permits have been issued and passed once completed, which can be not cost effective if doing on a budget. Brisbane's inner old suburbs are mainly filled with Queenslander houses. Both of my parents grew up in one. He is right, nothing like the sound of rain on a tin roof.
I live on an island too and we have lots of these houses here.
Macleay? Lamb? Russell?
@@jjjnettie Macleay. You?
@@RosemaryDoyle-l1p I looked into buying land on Macleay, a buddy lives there. I did a lot of research and found Redland's Shire to be a right batch to work with re. Restrictions. I ended up buying up in Monto .
I am a Queenslander and we've done this for ever and a day. I'm 63.
I live in Brisbane Australia and we were driving to the north coast a few days ago and saw these houses. One can also see the used house yards on the south coast road. At one time I used to drive out to Roma and frequently came across these houses being transported with a police escort.
And in Wellington, NZ they moved a hotel down the street. The relocation started in May 1993 and the entire project took five months, the building was turned into a railway carriage, and wheeled on 8 sets of parallel rails 100 metres alongside a busy road.
I love in Queensland, and yes they still do it. There are a few companies, and they offer different sizes from Granny Flat sized to full houses. Bigger houses get cut in parts and trucked in multiple goes.
Queenslanders are a style of house. They then install them ON stumps again, which is part of the design of a Queenslander.
There are 3 places within 30 minutes drive from where I live.
These are "relocated" homes and they're older timber framed homes on wooden floors which is why they can be jacked up off their original foundations and be relocated. There is also a big market for new "demountable" or "modular" homes in Australia, especially in rural areas away from metropolitan areas because of the lack of tradespeople and the high cost of transporting building materials to those regions. These are purpose built transportable homes, now usually steel framed on a prestressed concrete floor, which are then placed onto concrete footings that have been laid on-site before the house arrives on the transporter, with external connections for power, water and septic systems also done on-site.
There are also demountable classrooms which are a common sight at schools in the newer, outer surburban areas around all major capital cities when, because of new housing developments opening up, there are rapidly expanding enrolment numbers outstripping the amount of available fixed classrooms . I'm worked in schools where there have been between 6 and 9 demountable classrooms located around the fixed build school buildings and they are there for many years before numbers have stabilised and government funding is allocated to build more blocks of permanent classrooms on the school site. Once the new build is complete, the demountables are removed and transported to other schools that require them. Also, here in Western Australia, in the remote regional districts, especially in the smaller, remote communities, the "permanent" school buildings will also be transportable because it would be economically unviable to build "traditionally on-site" because of high costs of having to bring in all materials and tradespeople.
Sounds way better than a tent.
This happens a lot in big cities like Melbourne. When a developer wants to build a new property they'll sell the house and it'll be moved to another location. Think this is about to happen down the road from me.
There's a home renovation show on the moment and they chocked the house up on blocks like that and slid it 20 meters across to the other side of the block because it got better light. They rubbed velvet soap on the joists and pushed it across with many car jacks
All over Australia, you can buy houses both secondhand and new that get trucked to your site. Sometimes, they cut large old ones half. New ones can come in one, two, three, or four truck loads that are put together on site. If you live rural, it's easier than trying to get builders and all the trades needed to finish a house.
The overhang covered verandah is another living space and its shaded. Love our Queenslanders ❤
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I used to re-stump them when I was young and living and working up in Queensland 35 years ago 👍🏻
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There is a RUclipsr who has researched housing in Australia, and it seems that Australians have been moving houses around from the time the British first arrived in Australia. I know that mining towns, timber workers homes, towns being flooded or being bypassed by the railway were often moved. I do not know if the film still survives, but Old Adaminaby was moved to make way for the Eucumbene Dam.
And Tallangatta in Victoria, when the Hume wier was expanded in 1950s.
Old Yallourn in the Latrobe Valley... houses from there were moved away so the coal under them could be mined. A house just in another street here in geelong was picked up, moved forwards, remounted, to give space for a unit to be built on the block.
Yes... these are Relocatable homes. They have this in NZ as well. You can buy them for cheap, well... my friends bought a 4bedroom home for $15K (but that was 20yrs ago) in NZ, and they had it delivered to a property they owned. They had a large garage built underneath that it sat on top of and just renovated the home inside and reclad it.
These are carefully cut in half (sliced down the centre usually) so it can fit on the truck when transporting, and mostly in transit at night when less traffic.
I live in Sydney now, and I had another friend here who bought a relocatable home for mere pennies and had it transported to their home and designed to sit on top of their garage.
Quite common there are at least three yards between where I am at the Sunshine Coast and Brisbane
I lived just up the road from that house sale yard
Yeah you can buy a house and move it to where you have land if you find any for sale. they're quite often old farm houses not needed anymore.. I don't know if they are cheaper or not by the time you renovate them, but I have lived in one that was so old the ceiling under the plaster was made of horse hair..Not good as it was a breeding ground for various insects and spiders
That horse-hair plaster is tough as nails, though.
My parents bought a transportable house in the 80s . They chose the design , chose four bedrooms and all the colour of the walls, the bathroom fittings type of toilet, bath and shower. It was great. Fifty metres from the local surf beach. Beautiful. It was delivered in two halves as it was a four bedroom and too long for regulation load length.
I'll bet that house yard is one of the ones on the Bruce Highway at Burpengary. I bought mine from one of them.
So the story is that a developer will buy a block of land with a house on it. They don't want the house because they intend to cram as many people into windowless boxes with touching gutters on that block of land as possable, so they sell the house to the removers for a couple of grand. The removers take the house (sometimes cut into two or three pieces depending on the size) to their yard and put it up on stys (not stilts) and people come and check them out. The trailers they use are engineering marvels themselves, with six-to-eight independently steerable and raiseable axles, plus the hitch to the prime mover can also be raised and tilted. So they can get in practically anywhere.
The advertised price is typically the basic house, with a new roof if the old one is super-six (asbestos), transported onto your block (with police escort due to the size) typically overnight with arrival at 5am or so, on 1m stumps (steel these days instead of old tree trunks). It's up to the purchaser to bring the house up to moderns standards wrt thermal effeciency and safety (eg tying the roof down). There's some small requests you can make (I paid for taller stumps to turn my 'workers cottage' into a high-set) but basically what you see is what you get, caveat emptor.
Correct ! It's Burpengary !
My sister got one delivered like this , up on supports on an angled block. They fixed it up , lived in it for 20 years then moved to Brisbane.
This is exactly what I grew up in Queensland up until I was 16 in North Queensland Mackay
I saw one recently for $299,000 (the most expensive they had for sale) which included stumping and delivery up to 100km (60 miles) as the total cost
I live in Cairns, Far North Queensland. The suburb I’m in and the house I’m in was Grandma’s and the suburb was our family’s Sugar Cane farm, Whitfield. Family came from Scotland in 1876. Family kept every second block when they sold the farm as McManus Estate. They kept the spare blocks in between and sold them off over time and every Queenslander built on those was purchased somewhere else and transported, well many of them, including my neighbour. Grandma sold that block for about $50K in the eighties, it’s currently on market for $750K
Old traditional Queenslander houses were built with high ceilings and 180 to 360 surrounding verandas. All louvres or casement windows, usually a combination because only louvres can remain open in the rain. Pre aircon you have to remember and pre mosquito screens. I’m 50 and when I was a kid no one had fly screens we went to bed with nets over the bed. I remember when ceiling fans were huge but fly / mozzie screens changed everything. To this day if I smell a mozzie coil burning I feel like I’m at home. That and the smell of a sugar can mill in harvest season given I grew up around sugar cane, childhood smells.
When I had to re plaster the ceiling in this house, given that it was the farm house originally, I vacuumed out a centimetre of ash from the cane fires, because we burned the Sugar Cane every year, house had 50 years of burn off. Not done anymore now mills are configured for green cane. It had to be burned before hand cutting because of Weil’s disease (Leptospirosis), from rat’s piss, that nest in the cane, was killing the cane cutters, that and the Taipans in the cane (World’s deadliest snake). Anyway bringing in Qlder houses is still done and also a mate of mine makes a living from jacking up Qlders. Which is the process of making them higher off the ground with new metal posts. Enables the ground floor typically open like a shed and carport, people enclose now and build new rooms and kitchens bathrooms, and rent their bottom floors out.
in Darwin, Northern Territory Australia brother, we has same kind of place that sits between Darwin and its satellite town of Palmerston. Many houses ripped up from Darwins Airforce base and purchasable meaning that you can get these houses delivered to your property on a truck, and stumped (with actual foundations) for a price. One of my relatives bought her house ten years ago for $10,000 AUD delivered and stumped. The thing about that airforce base, was that many of these houses were "Classic" Darwin homes built in the 1950;s and were rebuilt after the 1974 cyclone Tracy that blew Darwin off the face of the earth.
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This is the David Wright house removals lot at Burpengary in Queensland. This video is from 1995 and the company is still going strong. You can see this place from the Bruce Highway as you drive past.
It's not uncommon.....
Firstly a "Queenslander" is a fairly basic house type, characterised by being almost exclusively timber, with a corrugated iron roof, with a verandah that covers most of at least three sides, which may be enclosed by latticework, blinds, screens or shutters; and high ceilings, all lifted above the ground on stumps, rather than foundations.
It is typical for renovating to even raise an existing house higher and build a duplicate level beneath. And as Billy said move the house 200 yards uphill, rotate 60° to give a better view, and build another extension.
There's a business where I live in regional western Aus....sells homes like this.
I remember it from when I was a child in NSW as well.
See....there WAS recycling in the "olden days" too😉😊
I live not far from this place. QLD House Removers. These houses are genuine old homes. Built with hardwood frames.
As a Queenslander yep they do this the most impressive house move I know of was brick veneer house built on a concrete above ground reinforced ring beam for cyclone rating back in the 70s. Which was moved in the 90s form Cairns central to Varley Street Yorkeys Knob QLD by a bloke by the name of Danny Bar with help from the low loader heavy lift truck form Townsville Hastings Deering. The house was over 100T and was wider then the old bridge at the entrance to Yorkeys Knob and to get across the bridge Danny had to Chane-saw the guide post and replace them after the house passed the bridge. Don't know what happen to Danny but the mans a legend.
Qlder here, its very normal. Entire suburbs are made up of these houses, like in Bluey (see Bardon, Ashgrove, Paddington etc) and thankfully lots are saved from being demolished
Sometimes you can even get a house for free if you're willing to move it yourself (which costs 20 K, so... Not free). But yeah, people will buy an old crappy house just for the block of land, and then advertise for anyone to come take it away. That is where these "used house lots" get the houses, but it's possible to cut out the middle man (to an extent, still need the house- moving company itself).
They are just up the street and round the corner in Burpengary QLD, There are a few yards full of them. Some are HUGE!
They do get delivered yes, expensive, not cheep
This is not only Queensland, it’s a great idea. Last year a house just up the road was moved, and Lo and behold, a bigger one appeared some months later. Looks great too. NSW. 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Yes, you can still buy removable houses. I don't know how many people buy removable homes, but it definitely still happens. If I had a big block of land and I needed a house, I'd consider it!
I know the owner of one of these 2nd house businesses. There are 2 in the Brisbane area, that I know about. There 1 north of the Sunshine Coast. A big house like that Qld'er most likely will be cut into 2 pieces for transport. It's a cheap way to recycle houses. Instead of ripping them down &/or starting new. I think it's a cleaver way of doing things.
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yep, house removal IS a thing.
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we also have prefabricated houses, that get delivered new.
I used to build transportable houses, and yes they still make them.
It’s a cheap way of building houses, especially if you need them a long way from a city where the trades are usually.
I’m not sure of the national regulations, but the maximum width for a new house is 7m, so they are made in modules of no more than 7m wide by 22m long I think.
Moving Existing houses don’t have restrictions.
I’ve made 3 piece houses and houses on stilts.
In some places they don't even use trucks, they wait for heavy rain and float them elsewhere......
They have two house yards about 20 minutes away from me with about 20 to 25 houses on the yard lot. There is some beautiful houses to buy on these lots most go for around the $80,000 - $250,000. There in Burpengary
Houses on stilts is pretty normal up north. You have a choice between drought or floods. Gotta be prepared for the floods. They'll probably wash your whole house away, but you're in with a shot if you haven't drowned.
Being a clown aside, you used to see half houses on the back of trucks being transported at 3am frequently. Super rare now. People want brick and mortar,or concrete, so chopping the bustards in half is impractical to say the least.
Buying them off stacks of pallets is pretty new to me though.
Yes, I live In SE Queensland and there are, like car lots house lots. The Queenslander homes, unlike the one featured are absolutely fabulous when built new but are cold, drafty, and crooked when they are old, wether or not they sit on the land where originally built. AND YES, the home featured is for sale and can be relocated where requested. They are truly majestic are a big part of Queenland's home building heritage.
I worked for a bit moving houses from Woomera....hard yacka & f#ckin hot!!!
Yeah they still do it. Normally if you buy a property with a timber house on it, you can sell the house to these guys, they'll take it away. Resell it.
It's in Caboolture, state of Queensland.
Watch the part in the same show where Billy goes up in a glider. Hilarious.
I love driving past that place to see what new and beautiful old Queenslanders they have. I've been in a few times to check out the houses. Billy's right. Women walk through mentally renovating and repainting. 😁 Saving the old houses to resell is saving important architectural heritage of Queensland and they are the perfect style of house for the subtropics and tropics.
It's a normal thing here in Queensland. Friends of ours own a local house moving company. It's a common thing to see a house in 2 or 3 pieces being moved escorted by pilot cars, cops, etc.
They still chop and shift houses like this. They did this to a house just in the next neighbourhood over a few weeks ago. (Yes, I live in Queensland.) You can even buy kit homes now that come folded up on the back of a truck that are brand new. You just place the stumps, drop the floor down, stand the walls up, and crane on the roof. You can go from flat on a truck to roof on in about a day with an experienced builder, 2 days tops.
Queenslanders are a vernacular architectural style. They are built to maximise the breeze as the climate is often hot and humid. Often quite colourful. Verandahs. They can be moved on trucks but might need to be split into 2 or 3 bits. They wouldn;t make Queenslanders now I don;t think… but would seek to restore and renovate existing ones. If the owners want to build new, they can either move the house or demolish it which is where lots like this come into the picture.
I've lived my life in SA so I am not into Queensland homes, but I would imagine they have it on stilts because of the flooding that takes place up there. They have cyclones and floods, mainly in Queensland, and a bit of it down in New South Wales. We don't get flooding or cyclones down south in Adelaide. Because of flooding, people like to put their homes up high so the water flows underneath and doesn't damage the floors. I would say it is pretty secure with steel rods, obviously not wooden poles in the ground. The rods would be cemented and they'd do something to ensure they don't shift in heavy flooding.
Also Quite common in New Zealand as the house,s are timber construction apart from the odd brick chimney. It is mainly the older house's that are moved.
I’m from Queensland, these are very normal and very common. Pretty sure I know exact.y where this is filmed too 😂
It's mostly in the country that wooden houses are cut in half and moved elsewhere. You just can't do it in the cities anymore.
The house where my dad was born in Geelong was moved to another location in the countryside. I think that was done in the 60s after my grandparents sold that land and bought another house.
The one Billy walked around would be at least 100 years old by now.
These wooden "Queenslanders" are common in flood-prone areas of QLD, which are also warm to tropical regions. They need ventilation and they need to survive quite substantial flooding. You don't see these houses in the temperate, desert or alpine areas, although some of those locations are seeing flooding now.
We call them pre - fab home's
They still make them
But it comes down to council if allowed
Generally not able to in cities more on outside in country sides
Which is strange if it's covered in cement fibre and render over it
Most council will approve yet still the same timber framed home
Just the outer skin uses different materials
Most councils now require solid footings and why most homes are brick veneer
Brick outer walls frames are either wood or steel and inside plaster boards
These are the most common that councils will pass
Our building is very regulated and lots has to be done by qualified tradies and expected by councils
While under construction at certain times to be ticked of safe then the next stage happens until properties are built
This is why I believe councils won't approve of pre-fab home's as no money in exspections just stumping and plumbing
Not all the other like on built on site requires
Also stumped home's are for flooding area's as well as humidity area's where air flows through the home from underneath
Have a look at removable houses Burpengary Qld and you will see quite a collection.
From next door to me there are 4 houses in a row that turned up overnight at different times. A little further up the street I went past an empty property one morning and when I was heading home there was a fully stumped and settled house with a garage on the previously empty block of land. They can work very quickly when the customer has enough money. My house was an old Mines Department house and was placed here in 1965. This has been a fairly accepted thing for a very long time at least in Queensland and I guess in other states as well.
They don’t really build houses like this anymore because while they were decent in a mild or hot climate with no active cooling and only a fireplace for the few weeks a year you needed it, now with minimal insulation they aren’t cheap if you try using an air conditioner or electric heater.
They last hundreds of years and are really safe, they still renovate existing ones. They’re basically designed to lose heat without requiring electricity. But only if you’re willing to suffer on the hottest days and freeze on the coldest. The other plus is they survive moderate flooding. Or they did until people started raising them up and building a ground level addition underneath.
There are some flood-able areas they still build these on quite tall stumps. Safe, but you can tell if your roommate has their partner over…. 😮
Yes, that's a Queenslander style. They do make some modern ones, too, with the wrap around verandahs. They were designed to make the hous cool in summer, but of course they can be cold in winter. They still move houses. They often cut them in half to transport them. There is more than posts in the ground. They are shored up by concrete under the posts. Buying a house and paying the tens of thousands to move it and reconstruct it works out cheaper than building, so if a house has good bones, it's worth it. Selling them means you don't have to knock them down if you are wanting to build something else on the land. I used to drive past that place every fortnight heading down to Brisbane, but they aren't the only ones. Southern houses are rarely moved because they aren't big wooden boxes. They are generally made of brick and on a concrete foundation and build heavy to keep out the cold.
We lived in a "Queenslander" for over 30 years & I loved the quirkiness - it was built in about 1910. We were sad to leave but there is a fair amount of upkeep & we were getting a bit old for the stairs so we sold & now live in a modern house.
I live only 10 minutes away from Burpengary where he filmed that segment. There are 4 or 5 of those lots within 20 minutes drive of here.
The old Queenslander houses are just beautiful. Some have coloured casement windows and doors, large verandas and beautiful arches and fittings. They are designed for the Queensland weather, making the most of cool breezes. There are so many available because people want the land to build modern monstrosities on, so they sell off the original houses. In Cairns where I live there are many such houses that have been restored to their former glory.
They do this in New Zealand as well. If you own a property with an old house on it, you can advertise just the house for sale, these will be the ones on joists and bearer systems, and sometimes they cut the house in half to move it. They quite often move them at night when there's not as much traffic. I went to a house in the Gold Coast hinterland (Queensland) that had been cut into four pieces it was so huge, moved from the beach area, up into the hinterland, which has some really narrow and winding roads. They had a photo of the original house on the wall, and it was huge, I honestly don't know how they managed to do it. Sometimes when you're driving around, you see places that sell the old houses, it's actually similar to a car lot.
The place he visited is in Burpengary, Queensland. There are a few removal house businesses in the area (or they may be extensions of the same business) They'll buy the house for just a couple of thousand dollars and sell them on for a profit.
It's a right bugger to get stuck behind one of the trucks on the highway. You can't over take, they have to stop and remove street signs so they can get past them, then put the signs back up. They only move the houses between midnight and dawn, so as to create the least disturbance to other road users.
I’m from New Zealand and we have places that sell and deliver houses like this, I remember getting a new boss at work, he had just arrived from the Uk and was late for a meeting - he was so perplexed that he’d been held up by a house being delivered!
I live in north Brisbane and confirm there is a company just road who has Queenslander houses for sale. There are multiple lots filled with Queenslander houses visible from the highway
Yes! My brother just moved a house onto his property, it's cheaper than building
the house im currently living in is 70 something to 80 years old and got here on the back of a truck that was about 40 years ago now i was not alive to see it but i did see plenty of houses and demountable's being moved around to schools and land blocks in Armadale Western Australia where i grew up in the late 80s early 90s
My mates dad used to own one of these companies. After the Charleville floods in the 90s when heaps of houses were destroyed they trucked probably 200 houses from Brisbane out there. Made a fortune then retired.
He is classic the Scottish guys here in Kuala Lumpur we drink with love him what a ledgend.
Yes, there are two places not far from me of Queenslander houses for resale. I went past them both about 2 weeks ago and they are almost empty because of the housing shortage. They are usually full and stock goes in and out fast. They are beautiful old homes and our State is famous for them. They become gorgeous modern homes inside now and I love the ones with the two staircases that meet at the top.
You do know that Billy was always here. He is married to an Aussie.
As a Queenslander, it does happen. The company buys houses that are offered for removal (land owners want to build new house) rather than demolish it. Most houses are built as normal but sometimes it's a way to get one with historical charm instead of a dead box
yes, modern australian houses are built with virtually no eaves; relying on insulation and air conditioning. the classic queenslander was built with verandahs, wide eaves, breeze ways in order to mitigate the tropical climate.
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If you haven’t done it yet, look up Billy Connely talking about Canberra. 😅😂
Sometimes you will see adds for a free house just has to be removed from a block. But they are expensive to move and relocate, still cheaper that building new, and have lots of character
We definitely still do that. I am currently dealing with 3 applications to move houses
Second hand houses. The traditional Queenslander was built on stilts for air circulation. Makes them transportable as a result.
That place is on Outback Truckers it's a TV show on DVD they're pretty good on that show you have to watch it
Yes, I live in Queensland and this is perfectly normal. If you are lucky you can buy an old house that was made from hardwood, not pine and the house will last for many generations with little maintenance. It is a great way to recycle and buy a bargain at the same time.