Electricians will finish up putting in the outside meter box and the rest of the wiring (as much as they can at this point) today. The have all the conduit run in the shop, just a matter of pulling through the wires when the machines are in place. After meter box is in I just have to wait for Vectren (local power company) to put in pole and transformer and run wire from across street. Also need to get gas to building, but that's not critical right now, we will not need it until it gets cold.
Bought three 48" x 96" sheets of 3/8" polycarbonate. Paid for them Tuesday, the local vendor said it was too late to get order on this Thursday's truck so it would be next week Thursday. Promised to deliver it next Friday, said they would give me a call first, I left my business card w/ph#, wrote ph# on invoice, it's also on check. You guessed it - got call from lead sparky on site, truck with three sheets of plastic just pulled up , should we unload it here? Luckily his two apprentices are well paid, neither one appears to have missed too many meals, they unloaded sheets with no real effort or complaints bless their hearts.
Met loan officer on site at 3 in afternoon, he needed to take pictures of work done so far to put in file. They have really tightened up a lot of procedures for building loans, if you borrow money for a building that's all you can spend it on, not hookers and cocaine or anything stupid like that. No problems, we are doing everything the right way.
Guys, I gotta tell ya, after working in a shop that is so small that I can touch the roof truss cross members standing flat footed, and I can take five steps and cover the length of the longest walkway. the new building seems huge. With the doors shut, I was talking to lead sparky and hearing an echo from the other end of the room. And with a 12-14 foot ceiling even Shaq could stand on a box and not touch the ceiling. I looked up at the lights and just kept having to crane my neck upwards. The interior is white baked on enamel finish on steel, the ceiling is the same except for the tiny holes that dampen sound and allow for some air circulation from the building through the crawlspace and out the soffet vents. We will never have to paint the interior walls, and it won't take much to clean any dust and oil off.
Hope to take some more pictures this weekend and will post here.