Today the contractor on his own, tore down the garage. When I stopped by over my lunch hour he had the garage tore down and a majority of it in the garbage bin. It turned out that there was more to it then he thought so he was going to need another bin. He was hoping to get the current one emptied and hoped to have a second right way. But, when I came home over lunch there was just a fresh bin, so he will be back on Monday to finish things up.
An interesting note, one of the design things I wanted for the garage is to have the service door in the front as I do now. Apparently City Hall doesn't like that. They think that a door that is probably at most a less than a quarter of the size of the garage door it would be enough to flip the garage backwards. So they want to either separate the two doors more or move the service door to the side. I think just expanding the distance should be enough, I would prefer to have the service door in the front. We will see what happens I guess. Here is a look at what was the garage after day one of the demolition.