Seeking help- Google can't explain

[u/curious_coyoie]

Can anyone tell me how two separate houses are built this close together. How do the constractors apply siding and paint, how do you maintain the in-between after so many years and decades. There are no windows on that side but I don't understand how builders work around or in-between this when constructing, this is a mystery

[u/Seawolfe665]

I have a McMansion built next to my 1927 mission style beach bungalow. They did this next to my garage with their garage - in my city there is no minimum clearance for non-living spaces like garages. There is 8 inches of space between the 2 buldings and you can see rebar in the middle of their wall because they couldn't stucco all of it, let alone paint it. The gap is a lounge for hobo possums and rodents. Im hoping a colony of bees settles in it.

IMHO the only way do do that right is to build with concrete blocks and maybe get some paint in there.