House Relocation & Site Works in Canterbury
Bought a house to move, or thinking about it? We handle everything from there — foundations, services, drainage, driveway, landscaping. One contract, one team, one number to ring.
Licensed Building Practitioner · Trade qualified · Site Safe member · 12 month workmanship guarantee · Building in Canterbury since 2012
Moving the house is the easy part
Most people find the house first. It's the bit you can see, and there are companies who'll put it on a truck and drive it to your section.
Then it lands, and the real work starts.
A relocated house needs consented foundations, piles set to the right levels, water, power and wastewater connected, drainage that passes inspection, a driveway, and enough landscaping to make it a home rather than a building site. That's the expensive half, and it's where most of the surprises live.
That's the half we do.
What we take care of
Getting it standing
Site scrape and earthworks
Consented foundations and piling
Setting and levelling the house
Structural connections and bracing
Reinstatement of anything cut for the move
Making it a home
Water, power and wastewater connections
Drainage, including CCTV where required
Concrete — driveways, paths, patios
Decks, steps and balustrades
Fencing and gates
Topsoil, lawn, planting and mulch
Sheds, clotheslines and letterboxes
And the paperwork — council inspections, producer statements, and the certification that gets you to Code Compliance at the end.
One main contractor, not six numbers
On a relocation you're dealing with a house mover, a surveyor, an engineer, a drainlayer, an electrician, a concrete crew and the council. Left to you, that's a full-time job and every gap between two trades becomes your problem.
We take it as one contract. We're the main contractor, we carry our own team of builders who self-perform the building work, and we coordinate the specialist trades on top. You get one price, one programme, and one person to ring when you want to know what's happening.
We do this at scale
Relocation and site development is a core part of what we do — we deliver it on large government housing contracts across Canterbury and the West Coast.
The same team and the same method go onto a private job. You just get a smaller version of it.
How it runs
1. Before you buy, ideally
Talk to us before you commit to a house or a section if you can. We'll tell you what the site works are likely to cost, which is the number most people don't have when they're making the decision.
2. Site assessment
We look at access, ground conditions, levels, services and what the council will want. This is where the real cost of a site gets decided.
3. Fixed written price
A full schedule — foundations, services, civil works, landscaping — priced line by line so you can see what you're paying for and what you could stage for later.
4. Consents and programme
We work through the consent and give you a programme with real dates on it.
5. Build
Foundations in and ready for the house to land, then everything that follows, through to the driveway and the lawn.
6. Certification and handover
Council inspections, producer statements, Code Compliance, and a 12 month workmanship guarantee.
What drives the price
There's no useful average — a flat site with services at the boundary and a difficult sloping site can differ by tens of thousands. What moves the number:
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Ground conditions — what the geotech report says you're building on
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Levels and slope — how much earthworks it takes to get a platform
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Distance to services — every metre of water, power and wastewater costs
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Access — whether a truck and a crane can get in
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Drainage — stormwater disposal is often the sleeper cost
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How much landscaping you want done now versus later
We price it as a schedule so you can see each of these separately, and stage the ones that can wait.
Talk To Us About Your Relocation Project
Have you bought the house yet?, Tell us about the site
Why people call us for this
We do this work regularly, not occasionally.
Our own builders do the work — we don't sub the job out to whoever's free.
Licensed Building Practitioner. Trade qualified. Site Safe member.
Building in Canterbury since 2012, through the rebuild and out the other side.
Every quoted job carries our 12 month workmanship guarantee.
Where we work
Christchurch, Kaiapoi, Rangiora, Rolleston, Lincoln, Banks Peninsula and across Canterbury. We also work on the West Coast, so a job out that way isn't a problem.
We're mostly mobile — call or text and we'll arrange a time that suits.