Ever Have to Move Your Glass Shop?

If not, you have no idea what you're in for. Worse than a root canal.
I moved 7 years ago from a small shop to a much bigger space only a few
blocks away, and it took me weeks.
I decided to let my buyer move into my back room to work, and we'll
share the space while we wait for his financing to go through. He has been
doing glass for 25 years, so you can imagine all the stuff accumulated and
stuffed into every possible space. He's been moving over crates full of
glass and stuff little by little over the past week. Today was the big
moving day. He called up every favor he had, and 12 big burly glass guys
showed up ready to help with the move. Glass truck was on the sidewalk with
the inside & outside racks full, and the front door was removed. The 1st to
arrived were the smaller sized partial sheets. As retailers we tend to
eventually sell off the pieces as we cut them down. He didn't do any retail
before, so he kept accumulating hundreds and hundreds of pieces. The guys
were each carrying handfuls of small sheets like Mickey with the pails of
water in the Sorcerers Apprentice. It seemed to go on endlessly with glass
stacked up everywhere you looked. Next truck trip the big sheets came.
Imagine a chain of guys starting outside in the driving rain, passing sheet
after sheet, like a bucket brigade, until they reached us at the racks.
They were coming quicker than we could stuff them in the already 3/4 filled
racks. It took 3 truck trips to get it all done. We moved his entire shop,
tables, cases of lead, file cabinets, tools, in about 3 hours with all this
experienced help, but of course there's still days of sorting ahead. This is
the ONLY way to move a glass shop. It was quite a day.


--
JK Sinrod
www.SinrodStudios.com
www.MyConeyIslandMemories.com

"glassman" wrote in message
...
If not, you have no idea what you're in for. Worse than a root
canal.
I moved 7 years ago from a small shop to a much bigger space only a few
blocks away, and it took me weeks.
I decided to let my buyer move into my back room to work, and we'll
share the space while we wait for his financing to go through. He has
been
doing glass for 25 years, so you can imagine all the stuff accumulated and
stuffed into every possible space. He's been moving over crates full of
glass and stuff little by little over the past week. Today was the big
moving day. He called up every favor he had, and 12 big burly glass guys
showed up ready to help with the move. Glass truck was on the sidewalk
with
the inside & outside racks full, and the front door was removed. The 1st
to
arrived were the smaller sized partial sheets. As retailers we tend to
eventually sell off the pieces as we cut them down. He didn't do any
retail
before, so he kept accumulating hundreds and hundreds of pieces. The guys
were each carrying handfuls of small sheets like Mickey with the pails of
water in the Sorcerers Apprentice. It seemed to go on endlessly with
glass
stacked up everywhere you looked. Next truck trip the big sheets came.
Imagine a chain of guys starting outside in the driving rain, passing
sheet
after sheet, like a bucket brigade, until they reached us at the racks.
They were coming quicker than we could stuff them in the already 3/4
filled
racks. It took 3 truck trips to get it all done. We moved his entire
shop,
tables, cases of lead, file cabinets, tools, in about 3 hours with all
this
experienced help, but of course there's still days of sorting ahead. This
is
the ONLY way to move a glass shop. It was quite a day.


--
JK Sinrod
www.SinrodStudios.com
www.MyConeyIslandMemories.com


20 years ago, I moved across the street, from a spot 1/2 the size I have
filled now, it took me 10 days, with me and 2 helpers...now, I will die and
someone else will have to do it, I hope.

Cannot imagine doing it again.

On Oct 27, 4:35 pm, "glassman" wrote:
If not, you have no idea what you're in for. Worse than a root canal.
I moved 7 years ago from a small shop to a much bigger space only a few
blocks away, and it took me weeks.
I decided to let my buyer move into my back room to work, and we'll
share the space while we wait for his financing to go through. He has been
doing glass for 25 years, so you can imagine all the stuff accumulated and
stuffed into every possible space. He's been moving over crates full of
glass and stuff little by little over the past week. Today was the big
moving day. He called up every favor he had, and 12 big burly glass guys
showed up ready to help with the move. Glass truck was on the sidewalk with
the inside & outside racks full, and the front door was removed. The 1st to
arrived were the smaller sized partial sheets. As retailers we tend to
eventually sell off the pieces as we cut them down. He didn't do any retail
before, so he kept accumulating hundreds and hundreds of pieces. The guys
were each carrying handfuls of small sheets like Mickey with the pails of
water in the Sorcerers Apprentice. It seemed to go on endlessly with glass
stacked up everywhere you looked. Next truck trip the big sheets came.
Imagine a chain of guys starting outside in the driving rain, passing sheet
after sheet, like a bucket brigade, until they reached us at the racks.
They were coming quicker than we could stuff them in the already 3/4 filled
racks. It took 3 truck trips to get it all done. We moved his entire shop,
tables, cases of lead, file cabinets, tools, in about 3 hours with all this
experienced help, but of course there's still days of sorting ahead. This is
the ONLY way to move a glass shop. It was quite a day.

--
JK Sinrodwww.SinrodStudios.comwww.MyConeyIslandMemori es.com

I moved my shop about 7 years ago. We spent about two weeks getting
everything together and selling off all the odd ball stuff. Then, in
one weekend, we moved everything with the help of 5 friends, two
pickups and a 4 horse horse trailer. It took another two weeks to getr
the new place organized and 7 years later, it's still not organized!
LOL

Andy

Thats why even tho my neighborhood has really detiorated in the last few
years I'm NOT moving..They can just bury me outback when I die!


--
Byron...
Wells Glassworks
www.wellsglassworks.com


"glassman" wrote in message
...
If not, you have no idea what you're in for. Worse than a root canal.
I moved 7 years ago from a small shop to a much bigger space only a few
blocks away, and it took me weeks.
I decided to let my buyer move into my back room to work, and we'll
share the space while we wait for his financing to go through. He has
been doing glass for 25 years, so you can imagine all the stuff
accumulated and stuffed into every possible space. He's been moving over
crates full of glass and stuff little by little over the past week. Today
was the big moving day. He called up every favor he had, and 12 big burly
glass guys showed up ready to help with the move. Glass truck was on the
sidewalk with the inside & outside racks full, and the front door was
removed. The 1st to arrived were the smaller sized partial sheets. As
retailers we tend to eventually sell off the pieces as we cut them down.
He didn't do any retail before, so he kept accumulating hundreds and
hundreds of pieces. The guys were each carrying handfuls of small sheets
like Mickey with the pails of water in the Sorcerers Apprentice. It
seemed to go on endlessly with glass stacked up everywhere you looked.
Next truck trip the big sheets came. Imagine a chain of guys starting
outside in the driving rain, passing sheet after sheet, like a bucket
brigade, until they reached us at the racks. They were coming quicker than
we could stuff them in the already 3/4 filled racks. It took 3 truck
trips to get it all done. We moved his entire shop, tables, cases of
lead, file cabinets, tools, in about 3 hours with all this experienced
help, but of course there's still days of sorting ahead. This is the ONLY
way to move a glass shop. It was quite a day.


--
JK Sinrod
www.SinrodStudios.com
www.MyConeyIslandMemories.com

"Byron" wrote in message
...
That's why even tho my neighborhood has really detiorated in the last few
years I'm NOT moving..They can just bury me outback when I die!


--
Byron...
Wells Glassworks
www.wellsglassworks.com

Your in Dallas/ Ft. Worth? Is there Wells Glass in Houston? or Glass by
Wells?