A call went out and the community answered.

Dave Keating needed a hand today – a HIAB crane to lift his grand-daughter's special and substantial playhouse over the garden fence and onto the back of a truck for relocation.

Special because the playhouse belongs to Dave's grand-daughter Skyla who's bravely battling an incurable cancer known as DIPG - cancerous tumors on the brain stem. The prognosis is not good.

And because Skyla has lost some co-ordination and balance she's had to move to a safer place in Maungatapu. The hefty playhouse was gifted to Skyla by the Make-A-Wish Foundation and grandad Dave was insistent Skyla had continued access to the playhouse for whenever she felt up to playing.

And within minutes of the story appearing on SunLive yesterday, Pollock Cranes in Marsh Street answered the call. 'What a wonderful place we live in,” says Dave.

This morning the big orange Pollock crane and the big orange Pollock truck was outside Dave Keating's Anne Road home in Bellevue lifting the big playhouse over the fence and onto the truck for the trip to Maungatapu.

Pollock and Sons Cranes lifting the playhouse.

Skyla's mum Ange Keating was on hand to watch the playhouse lifted into place.

Ange says Skyla couldn't sleep last night because she was so excited.

'She woke up this morning and the first thing she mentioned was ‘when is the playhouse going to be here'.

'Every time she heard something outside, she thought it might have been the truck, and then we heard the truck and she got very excited.”

Skyla and her mum watch as the truck moved the playhouse into position.

'She was so excited when she knew she was getting it back. It's been about five months since she has been able to play in it.”

She was excited and grandad was extremely grateful.

'We were blown away by the response,” says Tracey Keating, Dave's wife. 'Four other people also made contact offering to help.”

So now the playhouse is back with Skyla, she's happy, grandad Dave is happy and Pollock Crane Hire can take a bow.

Skyla and her granddad Dave.

John Foster and Dean Cooper moving the playhouse into it's new location.

Skyla's drawings were still inside the playhouse.