Renovate Australia

Everything in place and ready to lift the house.
They are actually going to be lifting the house and then knocking out the rest of the block walls and some of them are load bearing, so they want to make sure that there in not any weight on the walls before knocking them out completely.
All ready [...]

Somehow I missed this photo that I had taken on about day 4 of the lift.
Crack in the Kitchen - the first of many?

When they were putting in the horizontal beems in the house to give it more strength and level it we had this rather large crack appear on our kitchen wall above the [...]

As we left the house at 7:00 on Monday morning the truck arrived with three absolutely massive I-Beams to span the length of the house for the raise and restump of the house. They used the crain on the back of the truck and position the steel under the house as much as possible. Below [...]

Not much got done on day 3 of the Raise and Restump. While they were working on our place Northern House Raising got an emergency call from another home owner in Townsville. The back of this other persons house had collapsed and they needed some posts and beams put in right away to make the [...]