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Falkenberg and I won't be around much in the next few weeks. The restaurant above our game store had a fire in the kitchen this morning.
The restaurant is a complete loss. Our store suffered severe smoke damage and clean up hasn't begun yet because we still don't have power.
Hopefully, tomorrow the restoration company will get things moving, we can begin clean up soon thereafter and it will go quickly. Then we can come back to playing Warhammer regularly.
I'm so sorry to hear that Avyce. Sounds like the upshot is neither you nor Falk were hurt during the fire.
Yes, no one was at either place when the fire started in the resturant's kitchen. People who happened to be driving by called 911 to report smoke billowing out of the roof once the lack of emergency vehicles was noticed. Because the building was overbuilt (16 inch concrete walls and triple pane, thermal windows) the whole building was not incinerated. In fact, the fire crews had it out in less than 15 minutes. The fire marshall said the fire had mostly burned itself out and was only reignited when they broke in to investigate the smoke.
The downside is that all that smoldering stuff produced thick oily smoke that has totally coated our store and all of its contents. Lots of cleaning and rehabbing will need to be done so we can reopen. Tomorrow I hope protective inspection will be by to approve my request for restration of power and then we have to get the drop ceiling ripped out, and the space between the floors wiped down. then the restoration crew can begin on the other stuff that needs doing.
Keep your fingers crossed for us that it all goes well.
» Edited on: 2010-04-15 19:34:56
I hope the best for you and your business. We recently re-roofed our office/shop by ourselves and almost got it right. But as everyone knows almost only counts in horse-shoes and hand grenades so we had a ton of snow/ice/rain and had leaks all over the place. Luckily the insurance company let us make a claim and gave us enough to get it redone, right this time.
Being a small business owner my self i can truely say i feel your pain... hopefully between your insurance and the resteraunts where the fire started things move quick and you can get reopened soon. My thoughts will be with you. Im just glad neather of you was hurt in all this..
Smoke damage cleaning is such a pain. Tri-sodium-phosphate (TSP) works really really well and can be purchased at most home improvment stores. Between TSP and Chem sponges you can cover most of your bases, if you are doing some of the cleaning yourselves. Best of luck, hope it all goes quickly.
Sorry to hear about the fire, but it sounds like you have a good chance to restart. Good luck in the clean up and hope you get the power on soon to be able to work things out.
Warhammer won't be the same without you two! Drop in and say "Hi" when your schedule allows. Don't worry - We will save your private booth in the Tavern while you fix your gaming store. [hugs n stuff]
