Finished 4 hrs of insulating ceiling in upstairs theater area. We have great friends who volunteered to help!

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Called the Coke guys to let them know we are finally ready to install equipment. They still have to run lines upstairs, and install the fountain equipment and ice bins at both the downstairs and upstairs lobby areas.

Bich and I put a top on the ticket booth downstairs. It took us several hours, but it looks pretty nice.

The flooring was put down in the lobby so that Ron and Ronnie could come in and work their magic. The lobby is coming along GREAT. I wish I could show you more detailed pics, but that would spoil the surprise.

We now have three crews working at once. Boyer’s crew is rocking and finishing the stairwells. Shahan’s group has now moved into the big theater space, which is the last big wiring job in the whole building. Ron & Ronnie are getting the built-ins and decor done for the lobby space.

The electrical and framing of the ceiling should be done by the weekend, which leaves Sat and Sun for me and Bich to stuff insulation in the ceiling. With any luck, they’ll have the ceiling up on Monday for finishing, then be able to do the final buildout of the stage and seating areas in time for the carpet installation, which is scheduled for Sept 20 & 21.

I’m trailing right behind them all, painting and priming walls, doing a fair amount of cleanup, and tackling the little bits of finishing here and there – baseboards, flooring, light fixtures, etc. The scary part is that we will have made so much progress in such a short time that I’m not sure I’ll be ready with the permits, licenses, and kitchen equipment to be up and ready when the construction is done! There are so many things to take care of, even after the construction is complete.

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Beginning last Friday, the Shahan crew has been working hard to rough-in the lobby upstairs, based on Ron’s drawings. They were up at 6am today to make sure they got it all done by tomorrow, which is when the Boyer crew is coming in to frame out the rest of it and start hanging and finishing drywall. They said they were coming along great this afternoon and I think it’s all done and ready.

Jepson’s also delivered a lumber order today for Ron and his crew to start tomorrow. Even though they can’t work in the lobby proper until the drywall is finished and the vinyl is on the floor, they are going to start putting big pieces together in the empty large theater space for installation next week.

My parents visited from Texas this weekend, and we took the time to paint and install the wall sconces in the booths downstairs, and then more tiling of the floor mosaic. With three people working at once – dad putting glue on the tiles, Bich selecting and setting them, and me pressing them permanently in place – it went a lot faster but STILL seemed to take forever. We have 10 rows finished now, which is 1/3 of the way done. With 90 tiles across, that means we have individually selected, cut and laid 900 so far – with 1800 left to go. Ugh. Check out the progress below.

The other thing we got done was some much needed cleaning. Dirt was really starting to get tracked all over the new carpet, so we vacuumed and blocked off the area to discourage folks from walking through. We also dusted the whole west side of the room – the walls and booths. Now that we’re not kicking up much dust downstairs anymore, this kind of stuff really needed to happen.

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