Goodbye 1974, Please Take Your Fake Wood Paneling With You.
We’ve been working like crazy for the past couple of weeks to get the shop ready for business, and in the meanwhile our Brooklyn office is still operational so I’ve been running around like a madman trying to get everything done! Before I get into it, if you’re reading this from Facebook or another site and can’t see any pictures, click HERE to view the full post on our blog.
First of all, my father came by again and we glued down the section of flooring that we had previously cut, and despite the fact that we had no previous experience laying down adhesive OR flooring, it came out pretty well. Click for full-size.
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Floor adhesive is the single stickiest material I’ve ever dealt with – I made the mistake of letting it dry on my arm and I’m pretty sure it’s there for good. On the plus side, my inkjet printer broke in the middle of a job today and I took a wad of half-dried adhesive from the bucket and glued it back together temporarily. I never claimed to be a genius, but come on, that’s just impressive. We still need to do the rest of the floor, but having this section done will at least allow us to move some equipment in and start setting up.
Now on to the office. The guys stopped by and helped with a bunch of the office painting – the original office was covered in disastrous 70’s wood paneling and that had to change.
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I figured a nice coat…or 4…of white paint would take care of it. We spent a handful of hours and slapped a few coats of industrial grade paint on the stuff.
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You’ll probaby see more of these guys in pictures in future updates, so as soon as this building project is over I’ll make another, more in-depth post about our operation so you can get to know our team. For now, I’ll just tell you that the gentleman in the white shirt is Ryan, our lead vinyl tech and head of our sign department, and the gentleman in the green shirt is Brett, the head of our graphic design department.
On a side note, taping the edges of a desk with painters tape = good form. Getting paint all over the rest of the desk = BAD form.
That aside, the result is a nice clean atmosphere:
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Now we just have to get all of our t-shirt samples back up on the walls for display.
That’s all for now, I’ll try to get some better pictures for the next update. Also, we’ll be moving a bunch of equipment in soon, so check back in a few days for more news!
