Now that was a long day...

What a day that was. I had the plumber in to fit the client bathrooms out with new taps and showers, sinks and toilets today. What a palava that was! The sinks were a nightmare to fit on both sides, and required lots of setting up and taking off and getting level and elongating holes in the porcelain where they hadn't been cast properly, and back on  the wall and off again. And so on and so on into the night. Eventually at 8:20pm, they were both done, and without cracking them. 13 1/2 hours later. Still they look like bathrooms now. I have a guy coming to quote for frameless glass surrounds for the showers too next week, so we will see what they come in at. Should look great in  both of them.

I think I have finally found Heritage plasterers to start work on the façade. All the guys that know how to do this are busy, so getting hold of one that could do the job was nearly impossible within the time scale we need. I had one guy say 8 weeks before he could start, only to ring me and cancel and say that he had a bigger job to go to instead. The best I can get is to start in 4 weeks (end of August). One could start in 3 weeks but his price was DOUBLE and then some of the other quotations. How can you justify that? Anyway, with any luck, we can finally get moving on the last parts of the work on the front. Oh....and then there's the external painting to be done too.....! (Did I say painting?) Like my mum says, it will be ready to open when its ready, and not a day before. Then we'll be busy if we ever thought we weren't before...

LHS bathroom before (RHS was similar!)....

RHS bathroom after. Far more respectable

Doors varnished and hung

Managed to get the doors all finished and hung on Monday. Big day tomorrow, with a sparky coming in to finish powering up places for the rest of the security cameras yet to be installed, our plumber fitting the new toilets and basins in the client bathrooms, and the carpenter fitting the door handles and the dining room cabinets. 

I will be fitting two fireplaces tomorrow, and arranging for a plasterer to come in and finish off the plastering around the chimney breasts, so they can be painted and finished. A busy day indeed. The carpet that will be going into the rear counselling room has been selected. Goes well with the colours we have in there, commercial grade as well.

 

3500 views and counting

Wow. Things have ramped up a bit. 500 views in 10 days. Awesome, and thank you again. I carried on with the doors today, getting a second coat on one side of them. They are starting to look really nice now, a good finish, but I am thinking they could do with a third coat for that really shiny glossy look. We shall see what tomorrow brings....I'm getting to the end of my days painting though!

Nice and glossy....

Our flyer has arrived

After a bit of argy-bargy with the printers getting the grey on the brochure green in the first print run (!!) (which was reprinted I might add...) we finally today got the correct colour Z fold flyer we will be using for families with family members needing treatment, for professionals that need to refer potential clients, and carers of potential clients in general. It outlines the three programs we have on offer very clearly, and gives details of how to get hold of us as well. All masterfully designed by our more than competent designer, Simon Cliff Associates. Beautiful product, all on 320gsm card too, so it has a pro feel to it. Thanks Simon.

The man that shot our web-movie was in touch last night to say that it is all coming together very well in the edit, and that we should have a finished product very soon, so I am looking forward to that as well.

Doors

I managed to get all of the doors that are hanging clear urethane coated yesterday, on one side. I've got a system for doing all 11 at the same time. The urethane brings these doors to life, and they will all look beautiful with the Victorian door handles I have for them. Just 4 more after this, the two front doors that are being specially made, and a dining room and kitchen door that have just been ordered in. They should arrive next week and at sometime in August on two different orders.

Quite a difference, lovely grain on

 these maple doors.

5 down, 6 to go....

....and done!

The door handles that are going on.

Our new Doctor and Medical Director

I am pleased to announce that our new doctor and Medical Director is Doctor Girolamo (Roly) Vinci. Roly is a very experienced GP, and runs several large clinics across the city, and has a practice literally a minute away from our rehab, over in Hutt Street. Perfect! I have copied his Bio that he sent me earlier below for interest. He brings a wealth of experience along to the table. Ken and I are both extremely pleased to have Roly join Visible Recovery, as this addition brings with it a raft of opportunity for us as a company, and a massive benefit for all of our future clients. It is rare to find a Doctor that supports abstinence as a treatment modality here, so we are lucky to have found one in Roly.

He writes...

"I have a passionate interest in General Practice as a profession, in expanding the number of medical graduates who consider this as their first choice for further training and as their vocation.  I am greatly interested in medical education, in particular in the community, in the well-being of general practitioners, in the good health of general practice as profession and in improving this in the future.  I have worked in the Western Division area, the Northern Division area, the Southern Division area of S.A., and also in Queensland, in Cairns and Brisbane. I have been involved for some years now in the multidisciplinary team approach to primary care. I have experience at Board level with a number of organisations. I have an interest in the local community and have been club doctor for Western Strikers, since 1998, a Super League soccer club.

I am passionately interested in the health of our community, in general and have been involved with aged care in nursing homes in the general community and continue to undertake regular home visits for my elderly patients. I have recently become president of  PISA,  which provides meals and services to the aged in our community, and am now one of its directors.

I am directly involved in a general practitioner training program as a trainer and supervisor and have been the Supervisor Liaison Officer for the Adelaide to Outback GP  training program, having contact with multiple supervisors and have been on the Board of the National GP supervisor association, representing GP supervisors, and have been the chair of GPSLON, a national organisation. (GP Supervisor Liaison Officer Network.)

I believe that I will bring a wide range of personal and medical expertise and experience from the general community, the medical community and from my experience in business and corporate governance to Visible Recovery  and would like to offer my services in this board nomination."

Both Ken and I welcome you to Visible Recovery whole-heartedly Roly. Thank you.

Security lighting in

Managed to get a few things done with a great sparky, Boris, yesterday. He fitted out the kitchen with new switches and sockets, one of the rooms with new sockets, cabled 2 HDMI leads through the wall cavity of the counselling room for the new TV, fitted 2 new exit signs above the doors, and fitted and cabled up 4 security lights on PIR's outside the building. Brilliant work. Some people that we have had on site in this refit have been brilliant to have around, and Boris is one good sparky. If you need a great electrician, call me for details, we actually now have 2 great electricians to choose from! Next week, Boris is back to cable in power into 4 areas to enable the cameras to be mounted on the ceilings, and the electrical work is done.

Rear Security Lighting

Two HDMI inputs cabled through to 
the TV in the wall cavity. Neat.