About Drake

Drake Removal Homes, also trading as Drake Homes and Drake Character Homes specialise in buying, removing and selling New and Used Houses for Removal and Transportable Homes and Buildings. Drake are a family owned and operated business that have been buying, selling and removing homes and buildings for over 35 years. 

Drake also deals in Portable Buildings, Prefabricated or Prefab Buildings, Relocatable Homes, Manufactured or Factory Built Homes, Sheds, Demountable Buildings and basically any Removable Structure.

Drake operate from Loganholme south of Brisbane within a radius of about 500kms, supplying Southern Queensland and Northern NSW. Drake's display and house storage site is a prominent landmark on the Pacific Highway at Loganholme 4kms south of the Logan Hyperdome Shopping Centre adjacent to the Logan Motorway interchange, and just north of Beenleigh and the Logan River. Use exit 31 off the Highway to access the service road on the eastern side of the highway.

Click here to see the homes and buildings currently for sale by Drake. 

Removal Homes

Removal Homes are an affordable alternative to other forms of housing, and contribute significantly to the recycling of building materials by limiting the need for demolition during redevelopment of urban areas.

Removal Homes are conventional secondhand houses not originally designed for relocation but able to be moved to a new site with specialised equipment in the form of hydraulic house removal trailers or transporters and jacking systems unique to the house removal industry.

Removal Houses are usually timber homes like older Queenslander or Colonial homes, but can also be brick veneer, stucco, fibro, or any type of home built on a timber platform floor. Although it is possible to move homes built on concrete slabs on ground, it is usually avoided, due to the costs and practical concerns involved. Many conventionally built homes unfortunately do not suit removal for various reasons and end up being demolished to make way for redevelopment. There is however a large number of homes that can be saved and recycled by removal and Drake are committed to that cause.

House Removal has been around in Australia since the early days of our colonial history when houses and buildings were transported by horse and dray, in some cases quite long distances.

Removal Houses are often transported complete in one section, however in many cases they are separated into two or more smaller sections for transport and rejoined at the final destination. It is quite a sight to see a full size house being carted along a roadway and many a motorist has been greeted with this amazing sight early in the morning amid flashing lights and police escorts.

There are three basic categories used when discussing removal homes.
1. Queenslander and Colonial (Built prior to 1946)
2. Post War (Built between 1946 and 1960)
3. Semi Modern (Built from about 1960 onwards