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.
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16 years ago