I mentioned buying us more time yesterday but did not say how much. Here is our present guess or goal, whichever you prefer, and a time frame for moving. No promises, just guesses.

• All personal property removed from the premises by Feb 7th. Any personal property not removed by February 7th becomes the property of TechShop unless specific arrangements have been made. We have too much stuff to move already. Please help us by removing all your stuff.
• TechShop Durham building totally empty and cleaned by February 15th.
• All major building and preparations to the TechShop RDU building completed by February 28th.
• Soft opening on March 1st then grand opening one year to the day of our first opening on March 21st or 23rd. March 21st was our celebration and the 23rd was actual opening for business.

We can think about this more as it gets closer. Of course, if we can do it sooner, all the better. The more help we get the faster it could go.

The roads are getting better and are now passable between the two locations however... we are not ready to start moving stuff into the building since it will make it harder to build the walls and paint and all that. Trust me, we do not want all our stuff in place when the sheet rock guys put up the rock and start sanding the seams.

So, thanks to the suggestion from one of our members, we are thinking we might complete the move in a slightly different way than originally planned. Here's what we are now thinking. And of course, this could change at any given moment. (:^)

We are thinking about loading up a few trailers. You know, 18 wheeler enclosed trailers that are used to haul goods across country. Anyway, we would load them up and move them to the new location. Once the building is ready, we would move the stuff out of the trailers and into the building. It all depends on the price and we will find out about that Wednesday. I should let you know the decision in tomorrow's blog entry.

Wallace Newton is heading up the "moving stuff" part of this and can be contacted by email at wallace@trimminc.com Please contact him if you want to help with this part of the move.

Matt Rouse is heading up the "wall framing" part of this and can be contacted by email at ratmouse@charter.net or by phone at 919-219-7104. Please contact him if you want to help with this part of the move.

At TechShop Durham, we offered private spaces at $2 per square foot per month. At TechShop RDU, we will be offering spaces for rent at $1 per square foot per month. I am drawing up the plans for building now and have already promised all the larger spaces I set aside in my first drawings. If you would be interested in renting a space at TechShop RDU, let me know what approximate size and I can plan it into the design. Let me know if you require a window or not. Right now, I have several rooms about 8' x 8' for around $65 a month and a couple around 100sf for $100. So please email me at scott@techshopdurham.com if you are interested in renting a room type space.

There will also be cubbyhole type spaces and sheet plywood spaces and long stock spaces but we're not talking about those right now. Those will be topics for another conversation.

Thanks,

Scott