Victorian construction worker Jim Zacharias shared a clip of two homes in Sunbury, in Melbourne’s northwest, with just centimetres between the garage walls.  

An incredulous Mr Zacharias questioned how builders would fit bricks and a gutter on the roof with such little space between the properties. 

“I’m just looking at these two garages side by side. They’ve framed it up. But how do you brick it?” he asked in a video posted to TikTok. 

“How do you put anything on it between that little gap? Seriously? What’s happening here? This is a common practice in Melbourne, it is disgusting.”

The ‘TikTok Building Inspector’ Zeher Khalil questioned if the home was compliant. 

“That builder stuffed the process up, most likely to get paid for the frame stage,” Mr Zhalil told Yahoo News. 

“It’s a complete shemozzle, it’s going to be difficult to achieve compliance now.”

Mr Zacharias told the publication his video highlighted a growing problem with building practices on major housing estates in Australia. 

In another video, the tradie showed another home with a similarly tiny gap between it and the house next door. 

He stuck his camera into the crack to show there was rubbish in the space, peeling on one of the walls, and nothing to facilitate water run-off.