Inspection Stress
Our church has been under the process of constructing a brand new Children's Wing over the past year or so. It's been greatly needed for a looong time - we have up to 120-130 kids and 20-25 adults participate for both Sunday School and Children's Church every week, and the previous building we had could only fit about 90 safely. It was crazzzy.
So now the building is nearly finished. Electricity works, plumbing works. The new servers for all our computers are huge and sweet.
We had our first inspection on Tuesday, but boo, we didn't pass. ;; It was just smaller stuff, I believe - not enough emergency lights was the big thing - but it needed to be fixed by this afternoon. I don't have a clue whether they got it done or not.
What's kind of ridiculous is that this building was supposed to be inspected in May and be ready to run in June. We had some construction issues around March ro so, so that moved the date of inspection to June and grand opening in July. Some technical issues popped up not much later after that, so we got moved to mid July/early August. That stuck for a while. Then, within the last month, so many stupid things have happened - We got sent the wrong type of tiling three times, the cabinets were delivered two weeks late, and the company we had purchased the carpet from didn't send us the right kind, but the people in charge of laying it down didn't find out about this lovely little fact until after all the carpet had been glued onto the floor, thus cutting another week or so into our deadline. >> The final inspection is today at 2:30. If we don't pass, then the move-in date will have to be moved to late September. ANOTHER MONTH.
We can't afford to wait another month. Sheesh, if we don't pas the inspection today, we'll have tonight and Satuday to re-do a schedule we've been planning for over three months. Not to mention that the space we've been using for Children's Sunday School/Children's Church will be completly occupied on Sunday.
SO, if we fail inspection...
Where in the world are we going to put 120 kids for three hours?
D=
My father's really stressed about this - he's one of the head honchos for this project.
So keep your fingers crossed that this works out.
~Nikira
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