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Back after a leave of Absence. Was a bit busy with some prelimanary work in advance to the teardown of a wall and Clearing the lot for the planned six (Euro-)car Garage.
As it turned out the mild winter will Speed things up, as the Italian builder troop has some time left for erection of the building. They will start next week if the weather stays good.

Wait for more. ;)
 
Nice! I've been wondering where you have been lately. This is what I hoped you were up to.
 
I spent 15.5 years in Germany and never saw a building torn down.
 
They rarely are torn down, most often renovated, These are in vast majority solid built houses and in nearly all cases it would cost more to start all over again and get rid of the old debris. This house was completely planned and built singlehandedly Stone for Stone by the deceased orginal owner in 1964-1967.

Just a wall being torn down in this case. I hail that supposedly Russian digger Operator who lay that wall down with surgical precision. I have to say the Germans involved in this Project were the ones who messed it up, the Garage would have been there already last summer without them.
 
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They rarely are torn down, most often renovated, These are in vast majority solid built houses and in nearly all cases it would cost more to start all over again and get rid of the old debris. This house was nearly completely planned and built singlehandedly by the deceased orginal owner in 1964-1967.

Just a wall being torn down in this case. I hail that supposedly Russian digger Operator who lay that wall down with surgical precision. I have to say the Germans involved in this Project were the ones who messed this Project up, the Garage would have been there already last summer without them.

All the German buildings and barracks I lived in had concrete walls so tough that you couldn't hammer nails in to the walls. Had to have a special diamond tip hammer/drill to hang pictures on the wall.
 
Didn't use the home artillery because of ricochet, eh ? :D

A soldier friend of mine (drunk) accidentally fired a .357 in family quarters. I'm surprised none of us were hit with fragments bouncing around the room like a Roadrunner cartoon.
 
They rarely are torn down, most often renovated, These are in vast majority solid built houses and in nearly all cases it would cost more to start all over again and get rid of the old debris. This house was completely planned and built singlehandedly Stone for Stone by the deceased orginal owner in 1964-1967.

Just a wall being torn down in this case. I hail that supposedly Russian digger Operator who lay that wall down with surgical precision. I have to say the Germans involved in this Project were the ones who messed it up, the Garage would have been there already last summer without them.
Now I'm confused on what you're actually doing. Do you have a shot from the second floor?
 
The soil is going to be Doug out as well and a Garage put on ground Level. Going to do some Progress pics .
 
I wish I had pics of the garage I had while I was stationed in Germany. I rented the apartment above my landlord. When the tenant of the garage was getting ready to move to a new location, I asked the landlord about renting it. This was an odd-shaped shop, roughly 42' long x 38' wide at the widest point, narrowing to just 25' at the narrowest point. The floor was 12" above street level, so to get a car through the sliding barn door, I had to put out two homemade ramps! I did have five vehicles in there at one time. Crowded, but it worked. Everyone I knew that had a garage, had a tiny Euro-sized unit that was maybe 10' wide x 20' deep - barely big enough for a full-sized European car or US-made car...too damn small for a big C-body, of course!
 
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All gone now.
Now starts what I call the "Italian Job". :) The specialists in concrete from Etna Constructions take over for now.
 
Thanks for lightening things up. No one's getting buried in that grave, just a den for some inspection/repair work. :rolleyes:
 
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