An unusual technique, but child's play: In Halifax, a 200-year-old building weighing 220 tons was moved on bars of soap.
The historic building was built in 1826 as a simple house before being converted into a hotel in 1896. Five years ago it was bought by real estate company Galaxy Properties to save it from demolition.
To accomplish this feat of moving an entire building, the construction company responsible for the mission used no less than 700 bars of soap to move the building with its fragile structure, bringing it closer to the street, according to Geo magazine bring.
The company boss's wife visited around fifteen stores
s to purchase nearly $1,300 worth of bars of soap that workers had placed under the building, the sexagenarian told The Washington Post.
“After weeks of preparation, the movement of about 30 feet was as smooth as…soap. Around 700 bars of soap,” the construction company said in a post on its Facebook page.
If the building has traveled 30 feet by December 8, Sheldon Rushton's company's goal is to move it 1,000 feet without causing any damage to the structure.
As a reminder, last April, the Department of Transportation in the US state of Utah moved a 2,400-ton bridge, more than 33 meters long, using only 60 liters of detergent.