This past week has been pretty much full of cables, cables and a tennis ball. At this point the building has been inspected and is ready for “cover up.” That means we’re ready to have the insulation and drywall installed. So by the end of this coming week, we will no longer be able to see through all the walls…..
Electrical panels have been hung and preliminary wiring is in place. We have two panels right now because one will have a second feed from the backup generator in case of a power outage. If the power goes out, in approx. 30 seconds, the generator will kick on and that panel on the left will switch over to that for power. We’re starting out with a generator that will keep four edit suites, the machine room and the screening room all on during an outage. As we grow we will either get a larger generator or simply add a second one.
Contractor Joe McCabe wearing one of the most stylish construction shirts I’ve ever seen! Here he’s drilling through the back of the machine room into the VO Booth so we can run some audio cables.
Network and A/V cables come together in the machine room. All the grey cables are Cat6 for running our keyboards / monitors remotely. All the Mac Pros will sit in the machine room and they will be connected to Gefen remote Cat6 boxes and in each edit suite, the DVI monitors and keyboards will be connected via the Gefen receive boxes. We can put the Mac Pros up to 200 feet away using these boxes.
Low voltage boxes in Edits 3 & 4 I believe. These are the end runs for all the cables coming into the rooms. I designed the rooms as much as possible so they would face each other resulting in easy cable runs. We pulled two cable bundles to essentially the same place. The orange boxes on the right are for future expansion if necessary. Really easy to add stuff like that now while there’s nothing on the walls.
Molly comes for her first visit to the new building! The last time she was here it was just raw dirt. Wonder what she’s waiting for…..
Ah, that explains it! A nice new tennis ball. One really nice feature of the new building… long 60′ hallways. And 80′ from the kitchen wall all the way to that door at the end of the hallway. Now we’ll be able to burn off some of her energy no matter what the weather is doing outside.
Daddy, you need to clean your lens. She’s checking out the new screening room.
And there we are, the happy entrepreneurs wondering what the heck we’ve gotten ourselves into this time. If you want to be a successful business owner, get yourself a good partner. And I don’t mean a financial partner, I mean a GOOD partner who will support you no matter what. I have the best partner I could ever ask for. More soon!
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