Thanks for the well-wishes everyone!
To answer a few questions:
We rent the spot, but signed a pretty long lease, so we did some improvements ourselves. We would have loved to buy a building some place, but even in our somewhat depressed commercial real estate market, we just did not have the funds. Even moving into the new shop with all of the shelves, extra equipment, etc, it was pretty hard on the bank account--thankfully we were lean in the better years(started the business in jan 07), so we made the move/improvements with cash.
jeteast99, nope, we didn't have the room. My customers *rarely* wait on vehciles, but if they do the sister business in the building has a large waiting area.
RaskyR1, we negotiated that as part of the build out, but rumor has it that it was 30 grand--IMO one could do the same with prefab units on ebay for *much* cheaper. In my neck of the woods *no one* does this sort of thing(they just discharge the water anywhere and wait on the fines I guess), so the plumbers were not as familiar--they made forms and poured the catches??? I also think that the size was way overkill, but they stated that code called for such a contraption.
toyotaguy, that was just for storage, a few were done and needed to be picked up. We can work on five at the same time, but four is better(plus one being prepped in the washbay with either scenario).
Setec Astronomy, :dunno It was my first time even trying to set up a shop from "scratch." Heck I was just glad to have lights at all. I figured if they were too low, they would just get damaged by doors/people. The metal halide bulbs provide the majority of the lighting...... How low do you think they should be?
Hopefully the curtain will be here next week and the rest of the shelving will be installed soon--so many things to do!
Thanks again everyone!
