Day Fifty Three -- Internal Progress

We're now at day fifty three (work days) of the studio construction project. The exterior of the building is almost complete except for painting, and the work continues on the interior.

There is now drywall on one face of each of our interior walls. After a county inspection, insulation will be added. Another inspection will preceed the installation of the remainder of the drywall and its finishing.

Dr. Destructo has arrived on the scene, and has punched through the exterior wall where our front window used to be in preparation for making a passageway from our new reception area into the existing building.

Just inside the former window, the old reception area has been demolished to make way for a new office and a new storeroom. The walls for those will be framed tomorrow. We've had to move our major filing and storage cabinets into the hallway to clear out this area, so our already crowded facility is feeling an additional squeeze. The next few weeks will probably be the most challenging and inconvenient for the staff to endure. This, too, shall pass.

I met yesterday with a lighting consultant about a proposal to equip the studio with curtain tracks, curtains, light fixtures, dimmers, and a controller. Installation of these items will make the studio functional with our existing equipment once the basic construction is completed. We're already drawing up specifications for the high-definition cameras, switcher, and other equipment, but we may need a short financial breather before we equip the studio to operate at its full potential.