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Building a chocolate shop: blank slate
In order to start over with our shop space, we needed to give the city a plan to remove the bits we didn’t need. Here’s our demo plan.
We removed two full-height insulated demising walls that divided the space into thirds, two bathrooms, a break room/kitchen, the shower (which wasn’t on the original demo plan, but our new water heater wouldn’t fit otherwise), the old residential water heater, lots of plumbing and vents, too much blue carpet and grungy linoleum tile and the office box right inside the entry. And we spent many painful hours scraping up carpet glue. (Full disclosure: David did the lion’s share of that work.)
And here’s a view of the space after demolition. (No, it isn’t curved. The curved look is what you get when you stitch together a whole bunch of small pictures into a panorama.)
You can also see the excavation for the trench drain that will run the length of our prep and cooking area. We had some fun finding the drains to connect to, as they weren’t where we were told to expect them. Here’s another view of the drain area, after we cut up the concrete and went fishing for pipes.
We’re planning to create a working chocolate manufacturing shop, with a small retail space. Local zoning limits our retail use of the space to 15% of our total square footage. This block diagram is the one we used to help visualize our destination. We’re planning glass walls between the shop floor the retail and lobby areas, so customers can watch us work. Or make funny faces and heckle. :-)
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