Moving can be stressful, but transporting an entire
house in one piece sounds almost impossible.

This is the kind of daunting challenge facing teams
of structural movers in the third series of Monster
Moves, which features some of the most daring
relocation projects ever undertaken. This week’s
show follows two teams of engineers as they
attempt to move two enormous homes to new
locations. In Seattle, a pair of newlyweds want to
move a period house into the city. And in Texas, a
building collector dreams of transporting a stone
mansion for his mother.
This week’s programme charts the progress of two teams of movers who are determined to realise the dreams of some demanding customers. In Seattle, newlyweds Tawny and Ian Wilson want to relocate a period house across land and sea and set it down in the middle of the city. Aside from their love for this classical building, the couple have a practical reason for embarking on such an extravagant operation. Ian is six-feetnine- inches tall, and no house in the town has ceilings high enough to accommodate him comfortably. Can Canadian mover Jeremy Nickel deliver it to their garden intact?
Thousands of miles away in Texas, another man has dreams of providing his mother with the ultimate present: a vintage home that has been uprooted from its original setting and relocated to form part of a historical village. Building collector Adam Wooley has assembled a ‘town that time forgot’ consisting of reconstructed buildings from the early 1900s. He now wants his mother to live close by in a beautiful 200-tonne stone mansion.
A team of movers and engineers is set the enormous challenge of delivering this huge present – all the while dodging cacti and rattlesnakes on the dusty Great Plains of Texas.
And in an astonishing closing scene, Adam wraps up the relocated building in a giant red bow to present to his mother as a surprise. What will she make of this extraordinary gift?