Step 1:    Initial Enquiry → Consultation → Find the perfect home →Contract Offer

Prior to purchasing your land we recommend you obtain a copy of our “11 Secrets to Successfully Relocating your Home”.  Once you have purchased your land, visit www.laingrelocators.co.nz and complete the enquiry form, a member of our team will contact you to provide initial information for homes that may be suitable for your requirements. 

 

Following from this initial information, we will work with you to find a suitable home to meet your requirements.

 

Once we find a suitable home, we will forward a detailed Letter of Offer and Building Supply Agreement for your perusal and confirmation.  This information will clarify many of the aspects relating to the supply and relocation of your new home.

 

Step 2:        Contract Acceptance → Site Visit

Upon receiving the signed Building Supply Agreement, we will arrange for our Transport Manager to visit your site to complete the relocation assessment to confirm whether there is sufficient access for our relocation equipment.  Our Transport Manager will advise whether any obstacles need to be removed to provide suitable access.

 

Where Laings are completing the preparation and lodgement of the Relocation Consents our designers will accompany our Transport Manager to your site.

 

You will need to provide us with the following information prior to the site visit:

·         Copy of Certificate of Title

·         Confirmation that your property does not have covenant restrictions preventing the relocation of a pre-lived in home

·         Site services

 

Step 3:        Obtaining Relocation Consents

A number of consents need to be applied for prior to the removal of your house, or the relocation to the new site, these consents include...

 

REMOVAL CONSENTS

The existing building needs to be disconnected from the site services to allow the building to be removed from the site.  A Demolition and Removal Building Consent is required to be lodged with your local council to initiate this process and will be issued by the local council.  Purchasers should check to ensure that no additional consents are required should the building have any historic significance.  Once the building has been removed from the site, the site will require clearing and the site services will need to be terminated by qualified tradespeople.

 

RESOURCE CONSENT - The Resource Management Act (RMA) (generally a four week process)

This is a planning matter separate to the building consents.

 

This approval is generally to allow the Council to comment on the suitability of the building to be located in the proposed location.

 

A bond may be required to insure that certain maintenance work, remedial work is carried out.

 

At this time a suitable drainage / effluent design may also be necessary.

 

The items below are needed to accompany the Resource Consent:

-    structural report by a registered engineer

-    photographs of the exterior

-    drawing documentation

·      site plans setting out drainage and boundary separations

·      elevations

·      floor plan

 

Some councils may require neighbour approval in writing.

 

At times a Notified Resource Consent may be required and this should be asked for at the local council.

 

BUILDING CONSENTS – The Building Code (NZBC) (generally a six to eight week process)

This is where the building code must be adhered to and complied with.

 

The items below are examples of the information that will be needed but may not be limited to this list:

-    structural report by a registered engineer

-    photographs of the exterior

-    drawing documentation

·      site plans setting out drainage and boundary separations

·      elevations

·      floor plan

·      pile plan

·      deck / step details for access

·      details of where construction joints are required for transportation

·      remedial work in line with structural report

·      bracing schedule

·      heating appliance details / model etc

·      written specification job specific

·      details of any alteration work

·      details of any upgrading work for different wind and earthquake zones

·      details of the effluent design

-    Certificate of Title (or Sale and Purchase Agreement) to prove ownership

 

We recommend that you engage a suitably qualified designer / draughts person to prepare the required documentation, co-ordinate with the other professionals and lodge the Onsite Relocation Consents.

 

Step 4:        Site Preparation → Delivery → Completion

Once we receive confirmation that the Relocation Consents have been approved and issued, we will confirm the relocation delivery date.

 

Some work may have to be done on your property prior to the house arriving.

 

We will have advised you at the time of the site access inspection as to what will need to be undertaken.

 

Such items may include:

·      Remove trees, paths, old foundations etc

·      Temporarily remove or lower fence(s)

·      Place concrete crossing culverts over water races

·      Level the site

·      Remove or spray vegetation

·      confirm the position of the house and provide a final floor height

 

It is important, particularly with residential sections to establish the exact boundaries of your property.  It is critical that the minimum distances between the boundaries and the house, together with the correct floor heights, as required by the local council, are correctly defined.  This work will need to be undertaken by a registered surveyor.

 

We will then prepare the house for relocation, lifting the house off the original foundation, splitting the house into the allowable transportable sections if required, lowering the roof if necessary, then transporting the house to the next site, rejoining the house whilst placed on temporary styes.

 

The timber pile or concrete perimeter foundations are then constructed and finally the house is lowered and tied down to the foundation.