Construction

Hi there,
It's so exciting! The contractors have taken over. Every day new things appear in my space. It's so fun to watch the progress. My office is all framed and I'm using it as storage for some of my catering items.

Some incredibly great news is we are on budget and maybe even under budget. You read it right UNDER budget! I LOVE DAN LEVY CONSTRUCTION.

I really want an epoxy life deck style flooring which from Dan Levy's sub was going to cost $12,000.00. My folks have that kind of floor in their garage so I checked with their contractor, making sure they understood skid resistance and commercial/health building dept requirements and it looks like I'll save $6000 using them! I bet Levy construction has a new flooring guy to refer.

The walk-in still isn't resolved. I thought we were all good with my walk-in choice and I find out there's a crazy guy (imagine that crazy & city employee in the same breath) signing off on my building plans. He wants mechanical drawings for my walk-in. Now, no one & I mean no one from the contractor, superintendent, designer, installer even a friend who works in the county's planning dept. has ever heard of this request. So our plan runner, Terri (who is a wizard) is going over this clown's head to get an answer as to really? and why?

More good news is I thought I was required by the fire marshal to have in addition to my ansul system a remote monitoring system. Looks like I don't!

Here's how the crazy code reads.... if you have a building that has fire sprinklers, you also need a monitoring system (if the ansul system can't handle the fire, the sprinklers deploy and in addition, an alarm is sounded at the alarm company)
BUT if you don't have sprinklers, you don't need the monitoring system (if I have a fire & the ansul can't handle it, the whole place burns ... no fire sprinklers and no alarm company monitoring)

Good news, it saves me $2000.00.

I sure am glad I forwarded that good luck Buddha email! I attribute all my good fortune to that email.

(ooh, is she kidding or not?)
we'll talk again soon,
Julie

website is up!!!!
www.justcalluskitchenrental.com