If the house is brick you easily lose 8 or more inches.

"Edwin Pawlowski" wrote in message
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"Bob" wrote in message ...
I have the new home about to close (in about a week or two). Today I did
measurements of the house. To my surprise the overall depth on the side
with the garage is one foot short. It turns out the builder made the
garage depth one foot less than the plan/spec (23' depth x 22' width but
now it is 22x22).

Can I assume you also check the 22' width? I'm just wondering of you are
talking inside dimensions and he is talking outside? If not, you got
screwed. You should be able to recover something.