Noted previously, we're rebuilding our garage. Rather, people are rebuilding it at our request. They started with the floor of the garage about 13-inches too far south, and making the garage door opening two-feet too narrow.

There isn't anything we can do about the position of the garage. We (including our household) wanted to build a slightly bigger garage in the same spot as the old garage, two feet longer and deeper than the old one. A primary reason for this is that we both drive big Jeeps, one a 4-door Wrangler and the other a Grand Cherokee, which are larger than the cars for which the garage was built (which I think is silly, because it was built in the 1970s, and as I recall, those cars were generous, too).

They didn't pull the sidewalk on the north side of the garage, which was planned to make room for the extra couple feet. They had removed the old garage, floor and all) with a giant tractor, which left big buffer holes around the garage, so I thought maybe they were going to more gently remove the sidewalk. They didn't, so I think what happened, in the voice of our contractor, was "we (the builder and contractor) decided to move the garage to keep the space in the yard." The space they're talking about is a mulched area we've trained the dogs to use as their bathroom; it can be two feet narrower and none will care.

I've grumbled a bit about that, and resigned myself that it is what it is, because the only way to fix it is to tear up the yards of concrete they poured and scrap it to start over. C'est la vie, I guess, and get used to it. I've since reflected that it introduces a different problem because this shifts the opening a foot farther south, which could be problematic if entering the garage from the south, as that left-hand turn needs to be mindful of the utility pole and berm in the slim ground between the yards.

For the door opening, a fella came today and cut off the excess brick onto which the rest of the garage will be framed. He gouged the floor of the garage (on purpose) where the brick had been placed, and covered it with a layer of concrete he mixed in a bucket. He swept up, dumped the swill from the buckets he used into the trenches beside the garage, and carried on with his day.

I'm sure it'll be fine, but I have concerns about the small patch of concrete on the floor standing up to the winters we're likely to have. I'm not sure what a better solution might have been, either. Maybe a bigger gouge or a full-on dug-out section? Would that really matter?

At least the door is (probably) the right width for the opening we planned, so we should be able to get both Jeeps in there, for the firs time ever! Well, in another month or so when they're done framing and siding it, of course.