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NICK EICHER, HOST: How many bars of ivory soap does it take to move a 220 ton building?

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Soap? To move a building?

EICHER: You know Ivory soap claims to float. Well, that’s kind of what it did, helping to gently move an old building.

Audio here from CBC News up in Canada.

REPORTER: The building was originally a one story home and became the Victorian Elmwood Hotel about 120 years ago.

Developers bought it to be part of a new apartment complex, but they had to move it. And to do it meant Sheldon Rushton’s engineers had to stock up big time on Ivory Soap:

RUSHTON: 700 cakes of ivory soap.

REPORTER: How many bars is that?

RUSHTON: That’s 700 bars of soap.

That gives a whole new meaning to the idea of “cleaning house”!

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