If you have never been in a remodel before.... DON'T VOLUNTEER! It is very exciting, but man is it stressful. Dave, my boss, was off today. Murphy's law states that when the boss is out of the office every possible problem will happen. Murphy's law was in place today! The tent for the abatement came down at an ok time... a bit too late for me but it was ok. Then the tile had to start going down. The area of the store that was done last night was the front end. You have to understand that this is the most critical part of the store and any tiny obstruction in the front end causes utter chaos. My front end had caution tape all over it, customers were basically put through a maze to get to a register... it is every manager's worst nightmare!
Shortly after we opened, a guy from the fire department showed up to demand that we put our fire alarm back online. We have been having issues and have a crew in the store 24/7 to watch for fire and to call 911 if necessary. That was not good enough for him. Keep in mind we are having the entire fire system replaced and back up online in about 2 weeks. So, LP had to drop everything and come up from RI, the fire marshal left me a voice mail on my cell phone (how the heck did he get that number???), and everyone was just stressed over this issue that we have been trying to fix for 3 weeks. The bad part is that the fire department has been called by the alarm company 4 times and have shown up for no reason. They have told us that we will be fined if they have to come out again... yet they want us to put back online an unreliable system. They also said that the guard we hired is not adequate and that if we want to be offline we would have to hire one of their guys to watch the store. Yet another way for the city to make money!
Here is what happened today (visually). There are no pictures of staff trying to pull out their hair in these pictures.
This is "the tent". It holds all the cancer causing asbestos until the guy from the EPA says "IT"S TIME!"
As opening draws closer this microscope becomes my best friend... as well as the EPA guy. Air samples are burned onto a slide and checked under a microscope to see if the air is clear!
All clear! Tear that tent down!
Abated floor in the front end. This had to be tiled today while we were open! Can we say headache!
After all said and done for the day this is what you see when you walk in the front door.
We even had a welder in the mezz (upstairs store room) adding support beams to the ceiling.
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