Construction Update

The bar is shaping up nicely. Plumbing work starts today.

Construction Update

Work is moving along nicely. Electrical work started yesterday and plumbing starts soon.

Day 6

I’m a marketing genius

It’s good I’m humble. One of my customers posted this very gratifying assessment of my apparent marketing acumen on their company blog.

An excerpt:
“To call Joel a coffee enthusiast would be like saying Charles Bukowski enjoyed the occasional cocktail. None of Joel’s beans dare spend time on a store shelf. He roasts them and delivers them to customers almost immediately. On Sundays at Summer Delights ice cream shop in Takoma, he also grinds and brews fresh-roasted beans, earning converts one cup at a time. For the record, his brew is righteous, but we also admire Joel’s devotion, his absolute obsession with crafting the perfect cup of coffee.”

Day 4

The walls are ready for paint and framing for the bar is coming together.

Construction Day 2

Most of the new dry wall is in and work on the bar has started.

A Coffee a day, keeps dementia away.

Actually, you need to drink a few, but according to recent findings, drinking coffee can reduce the risk or at least delay onset of Alzheimer’s.

“Middle-aged people who drank between three and five cups of coffee a day lowered their risk of developing dementia and Alzheimer’s disease by between 60 and 65 percent later in life,” said lead researcher on the project, Miia Kivipelto, a professor at the University of Kuopio in Finland and at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.

As if you needed another reason to drink coffee.

You can find the full article here.

Construction Begins

Build out officially started yesterday. There were a number of compromises we had to make to our original plans in order to satisfy DC codes. Perhaps the most significant was the need to create a higher-rated firewall between the first and second floors. This has meant removing the french doors between the lounge and the foyer and adding another layer of drywall to the joining wall.

Yeah!

It has taken twice as long as I expected, but DC has signed off on the building plans. Hopefully construction will start next week. Now the real fun begins.