Despite the fact that Townsville City Council only approved our house raise and restump on the 14th of February (see Building Permit has been Approved article) the contractor will be starting the lift in only two weeks time! We’ll have to be out of the house for a week, and we don’t have a place to stay yet, but this means that we should have about a month in the house after it has been lifted before the new baby is born (April 14th if it’s on schedule).
We have been really impressed with the contractor doing the raise and restump. The company is Northern House Raising and is run by Gary Robertson. He seems to be great guy and has been helping us to move along really quickly. Unfortunately we have found that we were given some pretty crappy advise from the previous contractors that we were talking to (see Bad Townsville Contactors… article) so now we are paying for it in extra time and some costs. Gary and his builders have already saved us about $4000.00 by changing how our exterior walls on the bottom of the house will be constructed, which will be good, but more on that later.
Like pretty much every other builder and contractor in Townsville they don’t have a web-site but here are the other details for Northern House Raising if you are looking for someone to do your Raise and Restump in Townsville:
NHR PTY LTD
Northern House Raising
Director: Gary Robertson
46 Grove Crescent
Kirwin, QLD
4817
Office Ph/Fax: (07) 4723 8646
Mobile: 0409 074 324
I’ll be giving updates and hopefully posting photos of the actual process of lifting the house, but from everything I have seen of Gary so far I would definitely recommend him.
(Please note that I do not get any benefit from recommending him, but you could always mention where you heard about him from.)
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Renovate Australia » Blog Archive » Day 8 of the House Lift - Massive Footings // Mar 16, 2006 at 2:31 pm
[...] Gary from Northern House Raising, who is doing our Raise and Restump, called me to our house today to have a look at the footings for our house. From what he told me he has never seen anything like it before in Townsville. He even called out the engineer to have a look at it. The engineers advice was to leave it in place and bolt the stumps onto it as the thing was so solid that it would be a waste to remove it. [...]
Renovate Australia » Blog Archive » House Lift is Complete // Mar 27, 2006 at 3:17 pm
[...] Below are some photos of the house now that the raise and restump is complete. Northern House Raising, the same company that did the lifting, should start to pour the slab tomorrow (actually he will probably be starting in about six-hours) and he should be finished by the end of the week. Then we just need to find a builder to do the walls under the house, re-attach our old deck and put on some front stairs. Front of the House after Lifting – sans stairs [...]
What to do with our Concrete Stumps when Building in Under? | Renovate Australia // Jan 1, 2007 at 12:29 pm
[...] The new steel stumps are available in 75mm and 90mm width, depending on the load that they need to bear. The great thing about this size is that they can easily be concealed in walls, which are what we are planning to do under our house. It is something that you can attempt to do yourself if you are game enough, or the guys at Northern House Raising can also probably do it for you (they raised and restumped our house). [...]
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