Elevating the river house

Today begins the work on 1726 Cottage Row Rd. The house movers are elevating the entire house up 40 inches. Prep work was done by them and us over the last few days. Dave removed all three wooden staircases from the house, he ripped off the garage door, and the house movers smashed huge holes in 8 spots (2 on each side of the house) in the cinder block foundation where the long red steel I-beams will enter the house. Its just crazy that this is happening! I drove over there this morning to look at the work, and with in a couple hours of working, they had all the steel beams in place. He said they'd have it raised up by the end of work day today or for sure by tomorrow morning. They are communicating with the brick people who are going to come in and lay the extra 40 inches of brick foundation so they can lay the house back down. I'll post pics later when the process is more complete.