We’ve built our business on the core values of Safety, Precision, and Integrity—since 1956.
For over 60 years, Nickel Bros has been the Pacific Northwest’s largest and most trusted house moving company.
The company’s history of excellence is based on strong commitment to our customers and employees. Teamwork has been a vital part of Nickel Bros’ success, with our engineering, operations, and permitting departments working diligently together to provide safe, efficient solutions for every house lifting or house moving challenge. Our customers enjoy peace of mind—knowing that their project will benefit from our experience, safety record, permitting proficiency, and logistics expertise.
Why move a house?
The land that the house is on is zoned (or recently re-zoned) for another use such as multi-family or commercial use. Perhaps, customers have noticed a sign in their neighborhood that a certain house is going to be demolished and they decide to move the house to their own lot.
Some land owners find that by moving a house sideways or backwards on their lot, they can make room for another house or a lot subdivision (“short plat”). Often in these cases they find that they can sell the newly-created second lot at a price that gives them the needed funds to move and restore the original home with money or equity left over. Sometimes they might sell the lot and moved house and then build their new home on the second, newly-created lot.
Lot conditions may not be ideal
Occasionally, a house needs to be moved due to an adverse lot condition — i.e. prone to flooding, or too close to a road, or another development, and our customer wants to move the house back on the lot or to a new lot. Or they might find that a neighboring house has recently been built too close to them, or an addition added on top that causes a shadow to be cast on their house or causes their view to be blocked.
A change in scenery
Maybe the customer just simply wants to buy a lot in a new place — like the San Juan Islands — but they just love their original home so much that they decide to move it there.
And finally many times our customers fall in love with one of our fine recycled homes listed here on the website and want to move it to their own lot.
Our purpose is to Re-Purpose
There are many ways to describe what we do and there are many stories connected to the service we provide our community in the Pacific Northwest, Washington State, Vancouver and Vancouver Island. We save hundreds of quality homes from the landfill each year. We have performed hundreds of historic building moves, thousands of character and modern building moves and thousands of house lifting projects. On the industrial side, our industrial division has managed some of the most complex industrial equipment moves in North America however, we see our greatest environmental impact through the relocation of quality recycled houses and upcycled houses.
In all likelihood, you will find that an on-site estimate based on a physical survey
of the items that you plan on moving will be more accurate than an estimate that you
provide to your mover over the telephone or the Internet. So, unless circumstances warrant
(normally due to the time constraints of a short-notice move or because you are only shipping
a few items) think carefully before you elect to waive the required physical survey
of your shipment.
If you are receiving a non-binding estimate, the charges that your mover assesses on your
shipment must be based on the actual weight of the shipment. Your mover may not lawfully
assess transportation charges on shipments with non-binding estimates on cubic feet, volume,
time (hourly) or on any basis other than weight. Also, the federal regulations require that
shipment weights must be determined on a state certified scale with a copy of the weigh
master’s tickets provided to you in support of the final invoice.