Portable buildings
Yes, it’s possible to make a portable Backyard Pod. The key difference is in the foundations. Whereas a permanent Backyard Pod is mounted on steel piers that are set into concrete, the portable building is constructed on a pair of steel skids that run along the outer lengths underneath the building. Because the pod is a fully integrated structure, when on skids it can be moved to another location on the same site or winched onto the back of a flatbed truck for transportation. The practical size limit for the transportation of portable buildings is 3.2m x 8m.
Our customer wanted a low-cost home office pod against the boundary fence (usually a no-no) and erected on skids, as a portable building, so they could relocate it in the future.
The wonderful White Chapel function centre at Kalbar, in Queensland’s beautiful Scenic Rim region, needed a cost-effective and relocatable small building to use for extra storage and preparation space at their operations on the site of an historic former Church. One of the key factors in choosing a solution was that it needed to be portable.
It's amazing the many ways people are using Backyard Pods to find creative building solutions for unusual situations. Using skids, instead of foundation piers, smaller pods can be movable. This option has been adopted by customers in a variety of different situations. One of these on the Gold Coast we found quite surprising from several different angles when the full movable backyard pod project story was eventually revealed.
