Subtraction of the Addition

(Out with the Old, In with the New: Part 5)

On Wednesday May, 12, we signed the official loan papers to purchase our new home with a private lender. On Thursday (the next day), we drove down to Idaho Falls to our home sales company, gave them a check, signed more documents, and drove home just in time to get the building permit from the county office before they closed. That night, the demolition on the old house began. Josh took down all the skirting from around the bottom of the trailer. On Friday, we took away our front porch and put the tires on the mobile home. On Saturday, May 15, I was boxing up and cleaning things inside and Josh was removing the old bike shed and completing all the preparations for moving outside. Saturday was our last day and night in the old house.

On Sunday morning, Josh got the home's addition ready to move. He put some logs underneath it and attached them to the floor beams to assist in moving. He disconnected the power and peeled off the roof that connected it to the rest of the house.
While he was doing all that, I was boxing up everything in the addition, which had been our bedroom for the last year, and moving it all out of the bedroom and into the main part of the house.
Josh hooked up Grandpa's backhoe to the addition with chains, and started pushing and pulling and dragging it the 50 feet across the driveway to its new location. This was the most exciting part of moving our house because it was the first big step we took, and seeing the addition be moved made it feel REAL.
The addition is now our new bike/4-wheeler shed--this summer we'll have to fix it up a little (fix the trim, add cupboards, take out the carpet, etc). The old shed had become too small to cover all our bikes/motorcycles/4-wheelers and it was also falling apart, so using our addition as a replacement was the perfect solution!

Old Shed:

Out with the Old/Ready for the New:

New Shed:
The project of moving the addition took all morning long. We were done around 1:00 in the afternoon. We stopped to have lunch, and then we moved the old house off the lot all afternoon/evening.

...to be continued