Well, I’m always telling you guys how busy I am – I feel like I am either saying or writing, “Sorry, it’s just really busy here.”\u00a0 ALL THE TIME over the past few years…<\/p>\n
Well, that was just a JOKE – NOW I know what it’s REALLY like to be busy!<\/p>\n
Work started on the new shop around the 4th of July.\u00a0 The previous tenants left the place an absolute disaster, and in addition to a MAJOR clean-up effort of all of their industrial strength trash, the building itself needed total renovation.\u00a0 So that’s what was going on in July and August – being done by outside contractors, and we were just in a holding pattern waiting for them to finish that up – drywall, some minor framing, new ceiling, spackling, paint, etc…\u00a0 Well, I shouldn’t really say “holding pattern” – we were really busting our humps to get jobs cleared out and stock the shelves with as many panels as possible since I knew the storm was coming…<\/p>\n
Then, on August 25th, Brent and I went over and started preparing for a big work day on Saturday August 29th when a bunch of my friends came out and we built the mezzanine in one long day – it was like an Amish barn-raising!<\/p>\n
Since then, I have worked 7 days a week, 16 hours a day – in a pretty intense heat wave no less – building out the new shop.\u00a0 I think I’ve lost about 8 lbs so far – but it has to be all sweat – Holy Cow was it HOT!\u00a0 It is coming along GREAT though, and if it doesn’t kill me, it is going to catapult Monocoque Metalworks to a WHOLE NEW LEVEL!<\/p>\n
I have alot of photos to share – including photos taken on the very first day I saw the space (and what a dump it was!) – all the way up to the present day, and I will blog them, I PROMISE, but I just don’t have the time right now.\u00a0 But just so this isn’t a text-only post, I am including one photo to give you a taste.<\/p>\n
This photo was taken by my buddy Stan at the end of that long Saturday when we put up the mezzanine.\u00a0 He was using a panoramic photo app, but I though he was taking a video, so I was jumping around, probably yelling something like, “Oh Yeah, Baby!” – and so that is why my face looks all deformed like Quasimodo in this shot…<\/p>\n
This is a weird shot that makes things look a little smaller than they are – it’s a BIG space – although it’s getting smaller every day I think – hopefully we won’t outgrow THIS shop before we move in like the last one!<\/p>\n
So stay tuned – it’s going to be nuts for probably about another month, but when the smoke clears, expect great things from us! – Chuck<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, I’m always telling you guys how busy I am – I feel like I am either saying or writing, “Sorry, it’s just really busy here.”\u00a0 ALL THE TIME over the past few years… Well, that was just a JOKE … Continue reading ![\"mezzanine](\"http:\/\/www.monocoque-metalworks.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/mezzanine-wide.jpg\")
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