Sam Kidd's thoughts on business

Sam&Dan's is now well under way to actually becoming a real shop and not just being an idea.
I have posted some photos from the construction below.
We decided to rip the ceiling down on Tuesday, we discovered there was about 2 feet of dead space above the old one. Denis (the builder) said it was an easy enough job so we gave the go ahead and down it came. The frame for the new ceiling is now up, and we got almost 2 feet of extra height inside the shop now, and man it makes a savage difference to the room. I'm so
glad we decided to go ahead with it.

We also had a small bit of a headache during the week when we realised we would have to
re-tile the floor. Once we took the old internal walls out we found out that the existing floor
wasn't level the whole way through the shop. We thought this was going to turn into a massive
job, taking the whole floor out then levelling it off, but Denis was able to just remove the parts of the floor that were too high, then level it out. We are then able to tile over the existing tiles. You
can see in the end pic half of the shop was done today, I hope the rest will be done in
the morning.

             The new ceiling. You can see the mark from the old one on the right.

               The builders working on the shop.

              Photo from the back of the shop towards the front. The tiles are being prepared for the
new ones to go in.

                        These are the new tiles which are going in to Sam&Dan's.
Well that's the update so far, I will keep you posted over the week and let you know how it's turning out. I hope to see the shop start to take shape this week and not to look just like a construction yard.