well guys this is not a video i ever wanted to make i um it is the day before our house
is scheduled to be moved it is about 3 45 in the afternoon i just got a phone call with our mover
and long story short tennessee denied our movement permit for the house so pretty much what the deal
is is uh we had to get a super wide permit to move our home because even though the house itself is
14 feet wide we added that new roof over with overhangs which is all nice sweet and pretty
but it measures out to be 17 feet wide total like point to point north carolina was cool
with that they said hey just pay extra we'll give you a super wide permit you're good to go
however tennessee has a law where they don't allow mobile homes wider than 16 feet
to be moved or set in the state now let me allow them to transport it through it
that does not matter if it's the house width or the roof line width it is a hard line in the sand
and was the reason they denied our moving permit so basically i've got to hit the road and see if
we are able to somehow get to 16 feet dead on our width of the roof so that we can move our
house if we don't we've got some some big issues ahead i'm hoping that i have enough leeway with
the roof overhang where the metal hangs over the drip edge that we will be able to just to trim it
and we'll be good but honestly i don't know until we get there so let's hit the road all right this
is after the fact but i'll go ahead and recap and relive the whole situation with you guys
to kind of explain what it was that happened how we addressed it and in the end how it got
fixed so when i showed up at the house angela's dad angela's brother and angela's cousin were
all there ready to rock and roll apparently she had called them just to give the news of well
our roof's too wide sans on his way out there to see if he can figure out what to do to fix it at
that point they're like hey we'll get some tools together and we'll go see if we can help so when
i showed up they already had their ladders out and they already had a game plan together the goal was
to measure first the total width of the roof right outside of the drip edge it's underneath the metal
roof panels and see if that was 16 feet or less thankfully it was it was about two inches narrower
than 16 feet wide so at that point all we had to really do was make a mark on both ends of the
house strike a chalk line from point to point and then follow that line and saw the roof panels off
so
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as you guys can see we've got some calvary out here we got austin angel's brother chuck angela's
dad and terry chuck's cousin right cousin angel's coming somebody's cousin he's my cousin as well
come on
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all right now turn it around hold it all the time yeah i'm gonna cut down here
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ends of the house strike a chalk line from point to point and then follow that line and saw the
roof panels off now that's a lot easier said than done although from the videos and given really
this only took two and a half hours total it was a lot easier than i was ever afraid it was going
to be too no doubt that is in large part to terry he had the skills he had the know-how the gumption
and most importantly the tool to get that job done super fast he had a dewalt cordless 60 volt
concrete saw but it had a diamond blade in it which allowed it to cut through metal like like
hot knife through a butter it made quick work of just sawing right along probably the worst part of
the job is the fact that it was on a roof that's probably the worst part of any roof job right yeah
i was ready to jump in and do whatever i could to help because they were all there as a huge favor
to angela and i ended up being i was just there as a spotter but i was on the roof the entire time
to help in any way possible i tried to not just be a bystander because they were all there doing us a
huge favor and hopefully was helpful although i don't feel like i was but i tried to be
in the end i can't really ask for that to have gone better than it did the the goal was oh my
gosh we've got a dilemma we've got a terrible disaster scenario can we fix it once we figured
out it could be fixed then the job was just to fix it and also try not to destroy the roof too bad
as i drove out there honestly my game plan was well i've got a sawzall i have a jigsaw and metal
blades i guess i'm just going to use a sawzall to do the roof i don't know i'm just trying to get it
fixed to get the house moved over to our property but thankfully better guys and better tools were
already there waiting working and ready to rock and roll so again what a huge blessing to have the
family close by and the friends and just people willing to literally drop anything they were doing
on a sunday evening drive out and help us out it's it's awesome really really really cool we did hit
the drip edge a little bit here and there as we trim the roof but that's okay the name of the game
was to get the roof legal width-wise so we can haul the house to tennessee anything that needs
to be fixed can easily be fixed once the house is over there so i will be having to do the drip
edge again probably some of the gable trim maybe i don't know we'll look at it and see but either way
the goal was accomplished in record time and everyone was safe happy and yeah i can't complain
all right guys welcome to um sam's workshop slash home office slash storage laundry uh palooza
so we're in the building that i built really originally from our workshop but right now it
is just an absolute catch-all um i wanted to come back to you guys this video is not over
our story is not over and let me fill you in with what's happened i think over the past five days so
the last clip you guys saw was me out there at the house cut the roof and wow that was an absolute
like spur of the moment go go go stressful thing get it done yay well next day we found out that
the permit wouldn't come back from the state until thursday so that was like four days down the road
so after that then we had to look and see what kind of schedule we had lined up with
our mobile home mover what they had already got booked and planned and committed to
and basically pushed our house move out another week and a half realistic date wise
we're talking about sunday march 27th is when i went and cut the roof off the house
the following monday march 28th is when we found out that the permit wouldn't happen
until an estimated day of march 31st so here it is friday the first april fool's day and here in
my workshop home office and at least wanted to give you guys a heads up to let you know that
our anticipated move date i won't even say it's the move date but the next one we are counting
on is wednesday april 6th so hopefully things work out hopefully the weather is cooperative
and no other surprises happen and we can actually finally move the mobile home here to our property
and then we can begin doing all the other work of calling our septic installer getting them lined up
get them out install our septic system trench for the water lines find or line up the person who we
want to do concrete block for the foundation of the house to give us a quote to see if we can
afford it to then do it or if we go back to north carolina and we just gather up all of the white
insulated underpinning we had there just haul it over and redo it we don't want to do that but
if we can't afford the block we will do that so yes it has been a frustrating experience it is not
any one person's fault it's just the way things go when you're trying to do something as complicated
and in-depth as moving a mobile home from one state to another when that mobile home has a
non-factory roof put on top of it and you're trying to work around weather and rain when
it's early spring it's just the way it goes that's gonna be it for now i just wanted to
come in here before this video ended to give you an update because i know a lot of people are very
curious a lot of people are really excited i want to know when the move date was probably
figure we've already moved into our house now okay it being april first and just to let you know that
as much as we planned and thought and assumed and we're ready
it hasn't happened yet we're still five days away so as always we appreciate you guys watching
if you got any questions or comments about this leave us a comment below and we'll try
our best to answer it otherwise take care and we'll see you guys next time on the homestead
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