Many of you know we moved to FL to do some coral aquaculture.
Long story short - we ordered a building over a year ago, hired an excavator and concrete contractor, had that work completed by January of this year. Payed in full for the building and began waiting with high expectations of getting it erected and setting up the necessary aquariums and equipment to get fragging and growing. After five months and no building, and nothing but excuses from the sales company, I contacted an attorney. It seems the guy spent the money and lived too high on the hog. I found out he had sixteen orders at the factory in the same situation. This guy liked to sell buildings but not pay the factory for them. We threatened to take the case to the DA. The guy realized he was facing 3 to 5 years in the big house on just my case. If I proceeded it would have brought the rest of his sales to light and he would have been put away for a lengthier time. It took him three weeks but we got our money back. The factory sold us the building direct. It was delivered 12/3/07, the day before my 70th BD.
Here's what a 25' x 44' building looks like without air inside.
I found it difficult to believe that my building was just the three pallets in the center of this flatbed.
My son, Keith, came to FL from Montana for my BD and to help put the building together. We got a small start before he was scheduled to return home.
That's a bucket of 1500 1/2" nuts and bolts I'm sitting on, there are three of them. You can quickly do the math and come up with 4500 to install before the building is done. I guess there are a few extra. In any event, that's a lot of nuts and bolts.
Stay tuned, I'll keep this thread updated as progress warrants.
Dick
