Two brothers in Bengaluru are doing one thing extraordinarily uncommon. They’re shifting their two-storey home.
Your complete constructing will probably be shifted 100 ft to protect their late father’s recollections. The home, which sits on a 1,600 sq ft plot in Thubarahalli Palya, is being relocated to a different family-owned plot to flee frequent waterlogging points attributable to an overflowing lake and poor drainage, The Occasions of India reported.
Brothers Y Devaraj and Y Vasu, each of their 50s and dealing in actual property, initially thought of demolishing the home. Nevertheless, their mom, 70-year-old Shanthamma, was heartbroken on the considered dropping the house the place she had raised her kids.
In response, they determined to shift the home totally. The method will price round ₹10 lakh, with one other ₹5 lakh put aside for renovations, TOI added.
The household, initially farmers, first lived in a sheet home on the identical plot. In 2002, Yellappa, the daddy, fulfilled his dream of developing a three-storey residence. He handed away simply two years later.
Shanthamma shared that the home was constructed with ₹11 lakh on the time and was like a mansion to her. She couldn’t bear the considered seeing it demolished.
“I had my kids right here, they usually have been raised right here. After we began incomes extra, we constructed this three-storey-storey construction in 2002, and it was my husband’s dream residence,” TOI quoted her as saying.
Shifting course of
Shri Ram Constructing Lifting, , led by Vikas Rana, is finishing up the shifting course of. The approach entails utilizing 200 iron jacks, 125 iron rollers and 7 important jacks to rigorously transfer the construction with out inflicting any injury.
“We now have been doing this for over many years now. It’s completed rigorously with out breaking a single window, door or inflicting any injury to the property,” Rana advised TOI.
Presently, the home has been shifted 15 ft, and the remaining distance will probably be coated within the subsequent 25 days.
