Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Let's recycle old houses

[Mmariner (Mmariner]

Joani Blank said:

..My thought was that it would be neat to search out dilapidated and
abandoned Victorians from all over Oakland, move them to the site and put
them immediately adjacent to each other.




I strongly support recycling old houses and/or rebuilding on land in the
city, as opposed to building new structures on near lands, as I've posted
before.

Questions:

What would be the $$$ cost of moving them be?  Cost per mile?  

Would the *environmental* cost of moving them be versus the cost of materials
from building brand new?  Sounds like a few gallons of diesel fuel & pouring
a new concrete pad versus all the wood, drywall, plumbing, HVAC, wiring, etc.
 Plus it would be extremely costly to replicate the materials and workmanship
in the typical Victorian.

I assum you could only move smaller Victorians.  Many of the Victorians I
know in Denver/Boulder in the core cities are large to huge.  

MikeM