The first visitors on Friday were the installation technicians from ADT Security, who set up and activated our intrusion alarm system. While they were working on that, an agent from Advanced Plumbing arrived, to do some looking around so he could provide an estimate on some work that we wanted done on the staff washroom.
My next visitors were a welcome sight - they were the guys who were sent by Irving to look after the propane setup. These guys were very good to work with. We disconnected the old tanks, then looked at requirements for moving them to the new location and getting them hooked up properly, and filled out an application for a license to make everything legal, since New Brunswick just started a permitting process for this kind of thing a couple of years ago. The biggest issue was with the removal of our old tanks. They were located into a sunken shed within the patio of the old restaurant in such a way that the tanks couldn't just be pulled out easily and moved. The guys suggested that they'd have to bring in a crane to pull them out, which sounded pretty expensive to me. I told them that if they could give me a couple days, I could get them pulled out by hand with the help of a few of my friends on the MTA varsity football team. They said that it would take a few days for the permit to be processed, so that would work for them. In the end, we decided that they would come back next Friday to move the tanks, replace some gas piping going into the new restaurant, and do the final hookups to our stoves. I was pretty happy to get this all sorted out, even though it was going to take another week before everything would be working.
During the afternoon, Tiffany worked on some of the tough cleaning work in the old basement, while Jeff and I brought more loads of stuff from the old place to the new place. We are definitely running out of room to put anything in the new location. Lois-Anne MacGregor arrived in the afternoon with some vinyl fabric, and she and Alison spent several hours doing re-upholstery work on the old chairs that were left behind from Remy's Bistro, the previous restaurant. The old chairs are the same style as the chairs from our restaurant, so we just have to spray-paint the metal black, and re-upholster them, and everything will match nicely.
