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Thanks ALLIWant - pmed you

You'd be surprised, they aren't huge as they travel down the roads. The company would check out all road closures etc for you. If you are SE London there are a couple of big crane firms near you that would do a site visit free of charge. Pm me if you'd like company names or if you pm your postcode my DH could probably give you a fairly good idea of what size crane, if you'd need road closures etc by looking on Google maps.

Brilliant!!!

Thank you so much AllIWant - we're probably too far from you - SE London way - but that sounds feasible for what I had in mind.

The plan would be to lift a small caravan (not a mobile home) over a two storey house from suburban street - don't know about need for road closure.

Would the company check that out beforehand? There's a layby near the front of the house - but I have no idea how big the crane would be/space needed .... huge I guess

My DH runs a mobile crane depot. If you look at a static caravan going over an average height house without access issues ie road closures, overhead cables, etc it would be somewhere between £650-£1000. You'd struggle to get a hiab to be able to lift the weight at a far enough radius.

You'd be paying for the crane, the driver, a supervisor, a technical rep etc etc.

Alternatively, if you're local to me (SW) my DH will come and do it for £200 and a bacon sarnie!!

I watch TV and I think every second house has something craned over the roof - clearly it's rarer than I thought!

Not sure, but what about flat-pack stuff that the manufacturer comes and puts up for you?

No idea but I'm interested!
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Depends on the weight of the thing being lifted, height of property it is going over, if a road closure is required.
A small hiab is quite cheap but a sectional crane very expensive.

Thinking of having a small rigid building/or caravan put in the back garden but we don't have wide enough access.

They're always cring stuff about on Grand designs and George Clarke's TV shows - have you ever had it done?

Any idea how much it would cost and what limitations there are in terms of how far the item can be swung from front to back - street to back garden?