Three generations.
One family name.
Same Ohio dirt.
Klier Structural Movers started in a Wellington shop with a single set of beams and a stubborn belief: no Ohio building should be torn down if it can be saved. Sixty-plus years later, that's still how we work.
"We don't bid jobs we can't do right. We don't sell jobs the customer doesn't need. That's how my dad ran it. That's how Mitchell will run it after me."
Built on Wellington dirt.
The Klier family has been moving structures in Northern Ohio since the early 1960s. What started as a one-truck operation out of a Wellington garage has grown into one of the most trusted structural moving and raising outfits in the state — but the values haven't changed and the address hasn't changed either.
Today, Jim Klier and his son Mitchell run the day-to-day. You'll meet them on your jobsite. You'll get their personal cell numbers. And when something needs to be done right, they'll do it themselves instead of handing it off.
We've moved farmhouses across township lines. We've raised barns onto new foundations the neighbors had given up on. We slid an early-1900s train depot across town to a museum lot in a single day. We've added basements under homes that were never supposed to have one — and we've turned down jobs that we knew weren't right for the customer.
The unusual job is our favorite job. The honest answer is the only answer we give. And every truck that leaves the Pitts Road shop has the same name on the door it had in 1962.
Four things that haven't changed since 1962.
Same Wellington shop. Same Klier name on the truck. Same Jim picking up the phone he's picked up since 1978.
The lift, the dig, the cribbing, the foundation pour — all our people. We sub only what the law requires us to (electrical, plumbing finish).
Stamped drawings on every lift over scope. We don't skip permits, and we don't talk customers into skipping them either.
If weather, permits, or the engineering will push your job, we tell you up front. Hopeful dates make bad customers and worse marriages.
Meet the people on your job.
Tap any card to read the bio.
A year on the road,
told in nine photos.
The Klier crew rarely poses for the camera — but the work makes for good pictures anyway. Here's a slice of last season: lifts, moves, slabs, and one retired Lake Erie pilothouse.
Sixty-three years.
One family name.
- 1962First job.
The Klier family runs its first structural move out of a small shop in Wellington, Ohio.
- 1978Second generation.
Jim takes over from his father. Dollies get bigger. The territory expands across the Lake Erie shoreline.
- 1991Basement specialty.
We become one of the only crews in Northern Ohio adding full basements under existing homes.
- 2004Historic preservation.
First museum partnership — relocating an early-1900s train depot to a Lake County preserve.
- 2014Third generation.
Mitchell joins his father in the field. The shop adds the green-and-black Klier truck mark.
- 2025Still here.
Family-owned, family-run, three generations deep. Same Wellington shop. Same straight talk.
All the gear we run, we own.
We're a small, fully-equipped shop. The dollies, the steel, the jacks, the excavators — all Klier-owned and Klier-maintained. When you hire us, you don't get a sales rep brokering work to a rented crew. You get our people on our gear.
- 14-axle hydraulic dollies. Up to 80,000 lb structural loads, road-rated.
- Synchronized hydraulic jacks. Unified lift system — fractional-inch control around the perimeter.
- Steel W-beam inventory. On-hand stock of red W-beams for any sill or load-bearing run.
- Excavators & skid-steers. From 4-ton minis for tight access to full-size for foundation digs.
- Pilot vehicles & permit gear. Oversize-load signs, lights, and permits handled in-house.
Sixty years of local press.
Train depot relocation, 2004 — featured in society annual report.
Octagon House move, archive feature on three-generation Klier crews.
Multiple feature pieces on hometown family business since the 1980s.
Cited in a 2019 piece on saving the state's vanishing barn stock.
What it's like to work with Klier.
"I have a 100-year-old cottage in need of floor joist jacking with very tight access. Jim and Mitchell came and did a superb job. I'm very content with the results. I highly recommend them."
"Great expertise, service, and communication. I was refinancing my home and my bank required a foundation inspection. The owner scheduled it on short notice and quickly provided what we needed."
"Honest and precise. Klier did exactly what they said they would, on the timeline they promised. You don't find that often anymore."
"I have seen houses lifted by other companies and they do not compare to the quality that Klier Structural Movers offers. Everyone — from your own staff to the subcontractors — was extremely knowledgeable in their roles."
Ready when you are.
Free quotes. Honest numbers. Three generations of know-how on every job.