Learning to be a Carpenter

I’m using many skills to open up a store and learning new ones: planning, forecasting, budgeting, and most notably, learning carpentry.

That’s me below!  Oh boy.  In between working in the kitchen next door today, I spent the day spreading chemical solvent over a concrete floor then scraping up industrial glue that was underneath the carpet we pulled up yesterday.  I had no idea how bad this would be.  It was a bloody mess!

I’ve been to the hardware store every morning since we began the buildout.  As Ben Wood said, “Get used to it, you’ll be there everyday until we open!”  (He also told me this method of removing the glue would suck.  Should of listened....)

Clearly we could hire someone to complete the project start to finish, but it costs $$$.  Plus, where’s the fun in that?  We looked at the carpet and said to ourselves, “Sure we can pull that up!”  And when we saw glue underneath we said, “Sure we can remove that!”  Did we have any idea how?

Tomorrow is more scraping, then it’ll be retiling the bathroom, painting, replacing ceiling tiles, assembling furniture, etc.

It’s so exhilarating putting ourselves elbow deep into a project from the very beginning, being a part of it through and through every step until it’s complete.  And when it’s done, we’ll look at it and say “That’s ours.  We built that.”