Ever wondered how one would go about moving a house from one lot to another? Well, the answer is: very slowly. The team of developers at Gosset Jones Homes  purchased a house and lot in the Brentwood neighborhood in North Central Austin. The house was in decent shape, but they were planning on doing a new construction. So, someone decided to recycle the entire house and move it to a lot in East Austin. Hurray! The process was anything but easy. It started out with clearing out all the obstacles that would make it difficult to move the house off the lot. This included boulders, brush and a couple of dead trees. Next, the house was jacked up off its piers, placed on huge I-beams and rotated to an angle that would allow for easy movement onto a flatbed of a semi-truck.

 

After the house was at the right angle, a truck came and it was slowly (really slowly!) but surely moved from the lot to the truck.

 

Finally, the house was ready to move off the lot, across town, and to its new home where it will happily spend the next 60 years!