After we finished lunch, we noticed that the guys had started to roll the house across.
They put support beams under the house, and then put those beams on rollers. They then rolled those across the square tubing they put in the basement this morning (see the previous post, first picture). There were two guys working the winches (you can see them in the far left of the above photo), and they rolled the house across. It actually went very smoothly, and in no time it was across.
The next step was to lower the house down onto the sill plate. While these guys worked on that, the delivery driver needed to get the carrier out of the way so he could pull the second half up. In order to save time, he had Jason pull it out with a tractor.
I took a quick shot of the house as Jas pulled the carrier out. Starting at the far left, you have the master bathroom (door is open) and then our closet (door is closed). Then the big opening is the kitchen (the wood supports in the middle of that opening will come out when the two halves are connected later). Then on the far right is the hallway leading to the kids' bathroom and the laundry room.
Given the sloppiness of the ground (and yesterday's difficulties getting the house into place), the delivery driver decided to drive as quickly as he could across the front. He almost made it the whole way, but got stuck right at the very end. So Jas used the tractor to tow the truck and the house the rest of the way.
Right after that, the delivery driver handed me an envelope with the keys to our new house. And that was totally awesome! As he said, once you have the keys in your hand it really makes it real. Now I just can't wait to use them to get into the house for the first time! :) Here's Connor holding the keys for me . . .
Unfortunately, by the time the guys got the jack posts attached in the basement we were losing daylight. So they headed to a motel, and we finished burning the rest of the trash. Tomorrow morning they plan to finish moving the front half of the house onto the basement and securing the two together.
More photos tomorrow!
