If You Saw This On The Banks Of The River Thurne, Would You Be Worried?

[Viking23]

Over the last few years I have seen a fair few riverside properties lifted, the quayside heading raised and garden heights increased.

Do you think this guy knows something ? (Not seen on broads, but taken from internet lol)

 

 

[ExUserGone]

Now with a bit of robotics on that steel work you could build a house that got up and ran away when burglars appeared, that'd confuse the gits.....

[grendel]

there are houses in Holland where the basement traps air and the house floats up in a flood, there are two walls to the basement so the house can rise vertically but not move laterally - a bit like a floating pontoon really.

[Polly]

There was a Grand Designs on the Thames that did the same.

[Timbo]

2 hours ago, grendel said:

there are houses in Holland where the basement traps air and the house floats up in a flood, there are two walls to the basement so the house can rise vertically but not move laterally - a bit like a floating pontoon really.

There are houses in Lincoln built like this too...on a floodplain of course.

[BroadScot]

7 minutes ago, Timbo said:

There are houses in Lincoln built like this too...on a floodplain of course.

Ah ha, so that is why they built the cathedral so high off the ground!

Iain

[Timbo]

3 minutes ago, BroadScot said:

Ah ha, so that is why they built the cathedral so high off the ground!

Iain

Nah Iain...the cathedral is so high off the ground to avoid contact with the Christmas Market...don't want religion interfering with the true commercial spirit of Christmas!

[JanetAnne]

9 hours ago, LeoMagill said:

Now with a bit of robotics on that steel work you could build a house that got up and ran away when burglars appeared, that'd confuse the gits.....

That's tempting. If we could take our house with us we could move back to Lowestoft much easier!