Ok, everyone, here’s the skinny.
Goals
Our first goal is to get the pallets into the new space without damaging anything. This is an all day affair because we don’t want to rent the truck twice.
Out second goal is to get the benches assembled so we can move stuff off the pallets and make room for the stuff arriving in the later truck loads.
The Plan
The move on Friday Jan 9, starting at 7am.
Truck rental opens at 7:00am.
John will be at the SW warehouse at 7:30am.
I will be at Cook St by 7:30am.
Can you help with
- driving the truck
- riding along and helping load pallets
- unloading pallets at cook st and navigating the halls
- unpacking the pallets
- music for happy working
- lunch (4x pizzas and some 2L sodas?) @ 13:00
- connecting door buzzer 104 to the VHS phone so we can let people in. (means talking to landlord.)
- setting up the membership system for cash payers (paper token system from the vending machine)
- setting up the membership system to rent lockers (space is a premium)
- setting up the membership system to the door lock (rfid? phone in and key a code?)
Moving
The halls have enough room to move pallets carefully, but not enough for a pallet and an empty jack to pass each other. This might produce a bottleneck that will slow unloading.
The loading docks may also be a bit of a challenge: the SW dock is at a funny height and cars like to park in the way. Try to get the cars moved before hand and it will make loading a lot less janky. Backing into the new dock will be trickier than at VHS due to the design.
Prep
There are large floor-to-ceiling mirrors on one wall. They are 1/4" out from the wall, probably because they are covering up the power outlets. An electrician needs to come through and (ideally) make everything awesome before Friday. If the mirrors have to come down, so be it - cut yourself off a square for whatever you need.
My earlier post about the modest proposal is still a go. I’d like to raise $400 from members so we can install the pegboards as the benches are assembled and then pushed up against the walls. Each bench would cost $25.
The pegboards would be purchased as 8x4’ sheets and cut down at Home Depot. The LED lights can be done any time.
Anything else
I’ll be the primary contact, the guy who knows what’s going on. You can reach me on 604 916 2281.
THURSDAY NIGHT UPDATE
I have the cook street key. I will be going to burnaby at 7:30 to sign the papers, then farrall and I will get over to the SW warehouse to meet john. We’ll load the first batch and head over to cook street. From then on I’ll stay at cook and people will take turns riding in the truck while I stay with the space and play tetris with the pallets.
End of the day I hope farrall can take the truck back on his own.
heh: cook street, no kitchen.
