A quick update

I'm really tired and heading for bed...
A quick update though:
We received the plumbing and electrical drawings from Sol Chavez Engineering.
We went to Regional and did plumbing and electrical review.
Electrical was happy, but wanted additional details for the fault current calculations for the new 200amp service we are installing. We tracked down Josh from Sol Chavez and got the information added to the drawings.
Plumbing was happy, but would not approve until after CSU Wastewater and the Health Dept signed off.
We took it to Wastewater (Crazy Grease Trap Lady) expecting the worst. Her receptionist told us that she usually takes the drawings and gets them back to us in a week or so. We don't want to wait, so we insisted on seeing her. She was actually very pleasant, and signed the drawings with no issues. Woo Hoo!!
We went to the Health Dept, but the plan reviewer was not in the office. I set up an appointment for the next day.
We went to the Health Dept today and went through the plan review. They wanted an unbelievable amount of information. He had to fill out three applications, one of them being a 24 page application. We had to provide a detailed, item by item menu (including sources for everything, recipes for anything we are going to make, etc). We also had to supply a layout with all equipment that will be in use, along with manufacturer's cutsheets with technical data for every piece of equipment.
Then came the next thorn in our side. She did a hot water capacity calculation and decided we needed a hot water heater big enough for a hotel (roughly). Our engineer spec'd out a 30 gallon, 6KW unit. This unit would be small enough to fit on a platform over the mopsink and would cost $275. The one the health department wants is a huge commercial unit, 12,000 watts, and a recovery rate of 49 gallons per hour with a 100 degree rise. They assume a 40 degree inlet, so they want us to have 140 degree output potential. By code, we cannot set the unit for a temperature higher than 110 to any sink fixtures. The 140 mark is for commercial sanitizers, dishwashers, etc. The Crazy Grease Trap Lady won't allow us to have a dishwasher, so we only need a 110 setting. The Health Department is requiring us to meet he 140 degree requirement, even though we don't have any equipment that requires it. The larger hot water heater costs $1200. What a waste of money...

I received all of the computer components to build the POS computer today. I put it together (without using the instructions!) and everything pretty much worked. I have a computer I built for the kids last year based on an AMD Sempron (slow) processor. The kids games (like I Spy, Learning Adventures, SpongeBob, etc) would cause it to crash. As a result, it has been a big paperweight for a long time. I decided to use that copy of Windows XP for the POS computer, instead of buying a new copy. I couldn't find the installation disk, so I took the hard drive out of that computer and put it in the POS computer ( and took the new hard drive out of that one). Everything worked, but it said my hardware configuration had changed significantly and I have to reactivate Windows within three days.

Our drywall bid came in at $5600, and we were expecting about $3500. One of my friends from Intel (Steve Griego) is coming to the shop Monday to bid the drywall work. We are hoping to get a better price from Steve...

Tomorrow we are getting the phone lines installed, and we had our construction dumpster taken away yesterday. They will be bringing us a new dumpster tomorrow, in a much smaller size. That will be the start of our weekly service.

Tracy is continuing to work on our vendor line up and preparing our first orders. I am hoping to get all the construction done, get up and running, and still have about $25,000 in operating capital in the bank. I need to do some serious number crunching this weekend to see where we are in comparison to our budget...

That's enough for now. It is midnight and I'm getting up fairly early tomorrow. I need to be at the shop by 7:00am. Have a good night!
JD