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Bought a house some years ago, with a bit of space (our area is very populated, no "outdoors" here), I got lucky to actually stumble onto a house with some weird property lines, providing some room for an attached garage.

The house on the right is ours, our garage extends behind the neighbour's house (left side of the pics).

Where you see the excavator, that used to be an alley, with another house where my garage will come. Some 60-70 years ago, the owners bought (or took) that house and the alley, and annexed it to their property.

Main part will be a 32*22 workshop with a small (9x20) entry from the street, due to existing space constraints...


Finally started the build... here's some pics of the progress.
I'm the one with my son on my arm!
 

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Concrete poured and dry, now gathering materials.
Back-breaking work...
 

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Had a really busy time last year, so other than putting a roof on the garage, I didn't get much done.

Ready for isolating (3 inches) and concrete pour (6" thick slab).
The brown/red tube you see, is for a floor spot in order to have light underneath the car lift.
 

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(1) With isolation

(2) just after pouring (street is on the bright end)

(3) halfway finishing (pic taken from street side)


You can see there's a difference in height. It ramps up about 25 cm or 10" over 4 m / 13 ft. First part of the garage is level, the larger part (where the car lift will come) is also completely flat.
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almost finished (still need further painting, cleaning, I moved all my stuff to this garage but it still needs to be organised, ...)
 

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Wow, that is the strangest land use I have ever seen, but I'm happy it's working your favor.

How much space is there between your walls and the neighbor's walls?

Nice job overall.

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4" of insulation...

Yes, my property goes behind the neighbour's house, apparently they sold their garden 50 yrs ago to the previous owners of the house I live in now.
 
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