It's been a long damn day. But we're closer to opening.
We were up and out of the house at 7:00am this morning and got back home about 8:00pm.
We had a plumbing and mechanical inspection today. Part of the plumbing inspection is a pressure test on the line. The gas line passed inspection. And, we passed the rough electrical inspection as well as the mechanical inspection. (That's the A/C and duct work.) Indeed. We passed gas.
All we have left to do for the city is get the dry wall up and the finish work for the A/C and the electrical. Then it's Final Inspection time. And final inspection could happen as early as June 9. (There will probably be a few issues that need to be addressed so we'll probably have a final final inspection on the 13th; which still gives us some time before opening on the 20th.) Unless we're misreading something, this is the final Magical Hoop™ we have to jump through for our building permit! (Thankfully, the Magical Hoops™ have stopped moving quite so much...)
We also figured out what to do with the bar wall coverings that the health department wants us to put up on the server side of the bar. (Ok, it's not a want; it's a requirement.) And we picked the fiberglass reinforced panels we need back there today as well.
And the final milestone passed today was we got our phone line installed! Our Phone number: "A.K.A. Buzz" which is pretty darn awesome if you ask me.
We're looking forward to Pride this weekend. You'll probably see Karl and I handing out little fliers about the bar. We would have done a float or something (Karl even toyed with the idea of just walking around with signs like those you'd see at a protest) but, quite honestly, we've had other major issues on our minds lately.
And that's today in a nutshell.
(P.S. The posting I made earlier today was done with the voice recognition thing on my phone. It doesn't capitalize anything and you have to speak the punctuation. It's a little annoying but it's a little faster than the on-screen keyboard and it does work. Mostly.)
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Thursday, June 2, 2011
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Opening Day Fallout
Thank you all for the positive response to our opening date announcement(s) yesterday! For the first time in a while, I became excited about the bar.
It's really been a struggle at times to make this work out. On top of that, it's taken far longer than I had anticipated it would back in October when the discussions turned toward purchasing the building. It seems amazingly naive now but I first thought we'd be open by February! And we know how that worked out.
And, as it turns out, we'll be opening about three months after we got our building permit. Had things moved a little faster with engineering and The City, and we got the permit in November like I thought we might have (and we were told) we would have opened in February.
Which brings up another positive thing. As we get bids from contractors and the like, I've learned that my out-of-the-blue guesses on how much they'll be have been pretty darn close. That means we've been "Under Budget" since the beginning. (I'd still like to have a little more breathing room in that budget but what can ya do? Especially at this point...)
We're a tad behind on our contractor schedule right now (but by only about two or three days) but I still think we're on track. (We wouldn't have broadcast to the Interwebz the June 20 and 25 dates if we thought otherwise.) We came up with this schedule about two weeks ago when we were trying to find an opening day so there's bound to be a few little hiccups.
Regardless, Karl's at the bar today again with (I think) the electrician and (definitely) the AC dudes. I envy him that; one of the AC guys is kinda cute. He even seems alright with gay folks, too. He mentioned yesterday he saw our news story on ABC30 about the graffiti and laughed when I told him what it said and spelled it for him (F-A-G-E-T) he laughed. So, he's cool. Hopefully, we'll see him at the bar; regardless of whether or not he's straight. The world needs more Cool-With-The-Gay folks.
It's really been a struggle at times to make this work out. On top of that, it's taken far longer than I had anticipated it would back in October when the discussions turned toward purchasing the building. It seems amazingly naive now but I first thought we'd be open by February! And we know how that worked out.
And, as it turns out, we'll be opening about three months after we got our building permit. Had things moved a little faster with engineering and The City, and we got the permit in November like I thought we might have (and we were told) we would have opened in February.
Which brings up another positive thing. As we get bids from contractors and the like, I've learned that my out-of-the-blue guesses on how much they'll be have been pretty darn close. That means we've been "Under Budget" since the beginning. (I'd still like to have a little more breathing room in that budget but what can ya do? Especially at this point...)
We're a tad behind on our contractor schedule right now (but by only about two or three days) but I still think we're on track. (We wouldn't have broadcast to the Interwebz the June 20 and 25 dates if we thought otherwise.) We came up with this schedule about two weeks ago when we were trying to find an opening day so there's bound to be a few little hiccups.
Regardless, Karl's at the bar today again with (I think) the electrician and (definitely) the AC dudes. I envy him that; one of the AC guys is kinda cute. He even seems alright with gay folks, too. He mentioned yesterday he saw our news story on ABC30 about the graffiti and laughed when I told him what it said and spelled it for him (F-A-G-E-T) he laughed. So, he's cool. Hopefully, we'll see him at the bar; regardless of whether or not he's straight. The world needs more Cool-With-The-Gay folks.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Equal Permits
Well, that's one more Magical Hoop™ we've jumped through.
But this one pretty much stayed stationary and was actually pretty easy. We received our Reseller's Permit from the State Board of Equalization late last week. Next is getting set up with accounts with the vendors and such.
And why is it called the Board of *Equalization*? What exactly is being equalized?
But this one pretty much stayed stationary and was actually pretty easy. We received our Reseller's Permit from the State Board of Equalization late last week. Next is getting set up with accounts with the vendors and such.
And why is it called the Board of *Equalization*? What exactly is being equalized?
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
The Rest of the Story
Ack! I forgot to mention a few details about Monday's visit to Fresno.
Over the weekend, I received a letter from the Health Department requesting a little more information that we had on the plans. It didn't seem like much of a problem; just where the sinks were, the location of the floor drain, and hand sink, etc. But I wanted to find out from them how they wanted the information. So, Monday morning, I talked to them and they just needed the stuff either hand drawn onto the plans or on a 8.5 x 11 paper.
I expected to have to make an appointment later in the week to go over the information but the nice woman was available that afternoon. So we, get into the car and drive down for the appointment at 2:00.
And, 45 minutes later, we walk out of there with their stamp of approval. So we head to City Hall. The Health Department was all we were needed so I figured we'd be able to get a building permit.
The Planning and Development Department of the City was fairly slow when we got there about 3:00 so that was good. But, the sets of plans we had were, well, kinda mixed up. Approval stamps from one agency on one set and only on some of the sheets in the other sets and things like that. But, we got it all straightened out and got the City the two sets of plans with all the appropriate approval stamps they needed.
After a visit to the cashier, we walked out with our permit.
And now you know.....................................
................the rest of the story.
Over the weekend, I received a letter from the Health Department requesting a little more information that we had on the plans. It didn't seem like much of a problem; just where the sinks were, the location of the floor drain, and hand sink, etc. But I wanted to find out from them how they wanted the information. So, Monday morning, I talked to them and they just needed the stuff either hand drawn onto the plans or on a 8.5 x 11 paper.
I expected to have to make an appointment later in the week to go over the information but the nice woman was available that afternoon. So we, get into the car and drive down for the appointment at 2:00.
And, 45 minutes later, we walk out of there with their stamp of approval. So we head to City Hall. The Health Department was all we were needed so I figured we'd be able to get a building permit.
The Planning and Development Department of the City was fairly slow when we got there about 3:00 so that was good. But, the sets of plans we had were, well, kinda mixed up. Approval stamps from one agency on one set and only on some of the sheets in the other sets and things like that. But, we got it all straightened out and got the City the two sets of plans with all the appropriate approval stamps they needed.
After a visit to the cashier, we walked out with our permit.
And now you know.....................................
................the rest of the story.
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