One more hurdle crossed

After having received the final drawings and calculations we contacted our landlords and met with the church. Father Morris gave us the green light to continue with the build and program in the builders. We supplied the drawing and calculations to the father and discussed the need to get the churches surveyors on board with the idea that this is not a commercial venture so that we should not be paying a rate that would amount to around 30% of our overall business costs. Once the meeting had been concluded we contacted Chris Clarke (one of the artists at T.H.I.S and started the ball rolling on redesigning the website to include all of the necessary elements for the residency and the new layout of both studio’s and web pages to bring our image up to speed. The rough deadline for its completion is the 1st of January as works on the Mezzanine are so far pushed back to the end of December due to unforeseen problems with the builders.

Tim will oversee communications with the builders and pressure them into committing to a fixed date around which we can then plan everything else from the de install and clear out to the documentations advertising and re installation of peoples studios.

I went away and re-costed the project based on two different elements. I joist or Posi joists. Its very difficult to get an exact price from simply surfing the net so this week I shall attempt to glean some quotes from several companies for each type of beam.

With 2 weeks away working followed by two weeks in Japan getting married I will now be taken out of the equation somewhat and with Frieze and other big art fares happing now and soon both Tim and I have been and will be a little side tracked over the next few weeks, so we really need the builders to commit to a solid date and then its all guns blazing……..