We still haven't poured that final concrete floor yet, but we're getting closer. The plumbers finished up all the rough-in this week and most of the interior masonry work is now complete. We still need a couple steel staircases to be installed so we'll have a smooth transition with the new floor. Hopefully we'll pour next week, cause I'm starting to lose sleep over this delay. I'm self medicating with a nice dunkel lager tonight.
The carpenters came back to the jobsite today and began work in the dinning room. Other than the plumbing for the bar which shoots up from the floor, this is the first visible sign of life in the front of the building. As we moved tanks and our collection of bourbon barrels into the basement, we've made room to start framing walls up front. Since our overall design calls for a pretty open space, there aren't many walls to frame up front. Here you can see the platform for our raised booth area taking shape beyond a wall of copper vent lines:
Other than that, I've been busy making tabletops and custom lighting fixtures. More about that when they are ready to show off. In addition to carpentry, the electricians are due to getting started any day now (tomorrow?) as is the HVAC subcontractor. Ordered the fireplace today and am about to order the pizza oven and the walk-in coolers. We'll probably wait to take delivery of the rest of the kitchen equipment for a few months when the dust settles. However, it will be hard to fit the pizza oven in later when all the walls are built and it will be a hell of a lot easier to put in place with the forklift.
