New Store 31 Dec afternoon

Hi!

Ceiling is finally cleaned of nails and loose debris, and finally got the dumpster emptied and returned. So we could put the rest of the ceilig and such into it. I really underestimated the amount of time it would take to peel the ceiling, and how fast it would fill a 20 foot dumpster.

As you can see we've gooten the wainscotting moved downstairs where it will sit for all of eternity with luck. Up in the fron of the store we discovered a door hidden behind the nasty wallpaper. that's going to be completely sealed off with no trace of its existence. Also we uncovered a second back door, which is also going to be sealed and covered up.

I was going to remove the old plaster and learn-as-i-go re-plaster the north wall, but i learned at Lowe's that the under-plaster (its the gray cementy looking stuff) has to be removed completely or its just falls off with the new plaster. And since the bricks are over 100 years old, it was decided that taking a hammer to know it off would probably a lot of the bricks. So, the back and north wall are going to be framed, insulated and dry-walled. Which also is going to add to the time.

I'd ordered the drywall from CU Drywall for delivery last friday. With the Ice and all, they said it would get delivered monday. It didnt show up monday and the time requested, so i started calling. No one answered the phone all day. When i got a hold of them Tuesday, the response was" what? I thought that was taken care of? Let me look into it." 3 hours later, i called them back, canceled the order, and ordered it from Negwer Materials. Paid for it and they brought it out this morning.

The drywall was delivered this morning, at freaking 7am! It was cold, and its been a looong time since i had to be up at 7am.... But it was pretty cool how they took it off the truck and into the building.

Now we're waiting on the building permit, and have been for a week. The city keeps sending the application back with more questions. I really don't understand how construction people keep their sanity.

It looks like we'll be reopening in our original location on the 6th of January. Hopefully a week after that we'll start the move.