Moving a house from one spot to another is no longer impossible. People in India are doing it, and one big house in Punjab state is being moved using simple tools and technique.

Farmer Sukhwinder Singh Sukhi learned in 2020 that his two-storey house in Roshanwla village in Sangrur is in the way of the government's Delhi-Amritsar-Katra Expressway project.

Sukhi was offered compensation by the Punjab government to demolish the house built in his land but he refused and decided instead to reposition the building to a spot 500 feet away, India Today reported.

To build a new house like the existing one completed in three years will cost Sukhi twice as much due to inflation, so the better option was to just move it, the homeowner told Hindustan News Hub.

Mohammad Shahid, a house mover, was hired to relocate the building. It will be Shahid's first time to relocate a house in such a distance — the farthest he had moved a house was only 30 feet.

Since starting the job in May, Shahid and his workers have moved the house about 250 feet. The process involves the technique used by local house raisers who elevate homes to prevent seasonal floodwater from entering it.

Hydraulic jacks inserted at the base of Sukhi's house synchronously raise the structure. Wheels also fitted to the base allow it to be rolled along a makeshift rail tracks. The moving is slow, 10 feet a day, to avoid damaging the structure. The movers reportedly will complete the relocation in two more months.

Filipinos, meanwhile, use the bayanihan technique in moving houses. Using only their muscle power, several men can lift on their shoulders a small house placed on bamboo poles. Together, they then slowly walk until they reach the relocation site where they put the house back on the ground. Such method is still practiced in barrios though only huts or lightweight homes made from bamboo and wood are carried and moved.

Residents of Barangay Ugong in Pasig City, however, are the only ones who can move houses fast by running. Their bayanihan version is called Buhat Kubo (carry hut) and they rush in bringing the house from one end of F. Legaspi Street to another. It's actually a race that serves as one of the highlights of the village's annual Bayanihan fiesta every November.