Garage foundation and backfill

With the garage pad set much lower than the backyard grade, we had to pour a four foot concrete wall at the back of the garage, and stepped down walls along the side and middle. This allows us to have two different heights of the garage pad to account for alley slope, and it retains the earth in the backyard so it can be flatter than it otherwise would be.  Backfilling and grading of the rear lot now becomes a problem as machine access is very limited.  We will have to resort to plan B the next day to complete the grading

garage walls are stripped and now form an exceptionally strong base for the walls to be framed. Note that the walls themselves are flat but the pad will be poured to slope toward the alley

Excess dirt is left in the yard to allow for backfill of the trench surrounding the walls

With space behind the wall, adding a weeping tile in a fabric sock is possible to ensure water that accumulates behind the garage can escape

with a gravel ramp built, the wheeled skid steer can't safely make it over the wall