The Green Flag waves and the race is underway!!! Blog #13

So we entered the building at 8:00am Tuesday with the deconstruction team. Louise was sick and at 8:05 I had two contractors asking me for advice and what to do. Ummm I don’t know? ha ha ha. So I got them underway and I went about my business of starting to get the Hood (exhaust fan hood range) installed. This is probably going to be the most frustrating thing I do in the whole LBM journey. I have to get a Mechanical engineer with HVAC. Easier said then done. These guys are hard to find. But I found one. But I have to do drawings and measurements. 20 years later that grade 9 drafting class is coming in handy. I’ll take it to him tomorrow. I had fears that the landlord was going to tell me that I couldn’t drill a big hole in the roof, but I got the go ahead yesterday to go for it.

Also to do the façade I need a permit and, funny thing is, is that the lights, which are outside, were put up years ago without a permit. And through my own negligence and big mouth I mention the lights at the Permit office and got nailed. So I have to get a permit for lights which are all ready there. Also I want to put two signs up. One of the signs will be flush with the front of the store and one will be perpendicular so people can see the sign walking down the side walk. $100.00 permits for each sign. Aye Madam com’on!!! Oh well that’s the cost of doing business I guess.

So the Resto is gutted and the deconstruction team took today off. This works out nicely as it give the painters a space to paint everything that goes on the façade so on Monday if the City gives me the go ahead we’ll be able to put it up within a day. We need to get the front done before the snow flies and it gets too cold. I also contacted Patrick today to make a poster with our logo and “coming soon” on it so I can put that up in the window. I’ve heard so many people walk by in the last couple of days and ask what’s going on here?  Friday, the deconstruction team will grind the floor. This will get all the glue off from the carpet. We are going to keep the floor concrete and make it nice looking again. I love going to the distillery district in Toronto and the Resto’s attire have just a concrete floor. I find it very contemporary.

 Today I had to run some errands and size up the bar fridges as we’re building the bar from scratch. So I need to get the proper measurements.  Then Monday we should be ready to construct LBM.

I said in my last Blog that I would tell you more of business and less personal stuff. I got a couple of comments about not leaving out to much personal stuff. So that said, I have to admit I don’t think I’ve been this happy in years!! Of course there are headaches and I’m sure many bad days are ahead. But living out your dream has got to be the best high you can get. It reminds me of one time (in band camp lol) I was living in Scotland and I had a horrible day and I was at home staring out the window and I thought to myself. “This may have been a really bad day but at least I got to have it in Scotland”. AWESOME!!!

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Glenn