A New Facility Coming – Help Arrives

Over the past few days with some help, we have made a lot of progress!  Dave came into town this week and told me — I am here for you so let’s get to work.  What do you need done?  With his help, things moved along quickly.  We were able to build the new wetsuit racks using structural steel components (lots of trips to Lowes in outside the loop — inner loopers have not discovered this yet so it was not available close-by.)  Dave became an electrical contractor and took over the ceiling fan installation; so, now the ceiling fans are up in the classroom and my office.

The painters have finished the ceilings and trim and are moving on to the walls.  The upstairs is about 75% finished and they will be trying to finish most of the second floor this weekend and move on to the first floor.  Ceasar has promised to finish at least the “wetsuit room” this weekend so we can attach the racks to the wall.

Joe surprised us today by not only loaning us a powerwasher but actually powerwashing the front of the building to remove some wild paint that was on the brick.  Joe spent a few hours cleaning the brick and the sidewalks removing dirt, grime and paint.  The brief rain shower didn’t even deter him from his work!  It looks so much better now!
We had a bit of a set-back with the electrical — we lost several circuits.  Christian came over and with some consulting with his Father, George, who is an electrician in Germany, we were able to get back some of the power but we still don’t have power going to the lights in three rooms.  We know it is a drop in the electrical daisy chain but we just cant figure out where it is.  It would seem logic could solve it but Dave and I finally decided there was some institutional knowledge we just do not have.  So, we have a call into our electrician for some assistance in solving the problem.
Chuck, from Chill-Co Air Conditioning  came by to rescue the painting crew by getting the upstairs A/C running again.  He still has to come back to do some other work but things are cool again upstairs.

Ann, Amelia and Coad have been making sure that everyone’s scuba needs are being met during this transition.  Of course they have been coming by to supervise as well.
Tomorrow, Zaide is coming over to the Bissonnet location to help me pull down some of the track lighting so we can put it up in the new facility on Monday!
So we are continuing to push forward to get things ready for the big move — which we have yet to schedule since we need to get the painting done and now the electrical issue resolved.