An old hotel building in Canada was moved using soap (2 photos + 2 videos)

At first they wanted to demolish the building from 1826, but then they decided to simply move it to the right place. This event required a lot of effort and 700 bars of soap.





An unusual method of saving a historical building was demonstrated in Halifax, Canada. The building was in poor condition and was scheduled to be demolished. However, the Victorian hotel was then bought by a developer to restore it and put it back into use by combining it with an apartment building.



To free up the occupied space, it was decided to move the building. To achieve this, real estate company Galaxy Properties decided to abandon the traditional use of rollers. Workers placed dozens of steel beams and tried to move the hotel using excavators, but nothing worked. Then laundry soap was purchased - about 700 pieces were used so that the 220-ton building could slide along the beams.