Step 2. Arriving at Location

Silverdale Road

The trailer with the house on board can move just a few yards or hundreds of km to a new location. All this will happen in the dead of night when there is little traffic on the main highways. There is usually a scout car with flashing amber lights going in front of the trailer and another one behind. This warn motorists that there is a wide load on the road. They can pull into the side of the road where there is a farm access road, to wait and make way for the approaching house.

I saw this house arriving at location near my house at Sheridan Street and quickly went home to take my camera. The owner told me that they have moved from Taranaki, a couple of hundreds km away. I have seen workmen at a vacant lot preparing the foundation footing just a few days earlier. If you look again next week the house will be completed and occupied. Imagine going away on holidays and coming back home to find a new neighbour living next door on the vacant lot!