what is up everybody Matt with Mikey Designs welcome to an edition of running
your screen printing business at home today we get the keys to the shop stick
around as we show you what we have going on today hey welcome back gang just kind
of want to show you what we got going on I have all these orders that we've been
working on this is one completed order another there's another here that it's
gonna require a little blowout this order is ready this one is ready as well
that one is ready as well and then we have that lovely pile right there still
that we need to go through and then here are some more orders as you can see
they're keeping us pretty busy it's kind of hard maneuvering around all these
boxes not a bad problem to have though screen printing video log take two we're
working on t-shirts we're whittling down this pile chopping them get out the way
camera and it's pouring what time is it
see the sheets of thirty shannon the shop gnomes running on themes
how long have you even twenty days so it is a new day and we have been absolutely
slammed this week we've had about around a thousand shirts to do for various
clients and then we had a rush order that came in yesterday so we had to run
the TSC pick up some shirts there's some
memorial shirts client needed them today at 12 and because of that because we're
really trying to help these people out it's a good client of ours took care of
them it I hadn't had any sleep really aside from I think I slept from maybe
eight o'clock to 12 at night that was my sleep for the day I
was hoping to record more of what we've had going on but we've just been so busy
it's been crunch time really this past week and I still even need to go back to
the house and print about 70 more shirts that have a two color print on the front
and back well just dropped off a client shirts they are happy that they got them
in time and these glasses I got smashed at some point there I think they're done
for but back to the other side of town 60 miles back the other way
it's Good Friday I'm trying to get a little bit of stuff done do you have an
order I have to take care of it that is it I'm taking the rest of the weekend
off
so we signed the contract and we have the keys
let's go in and check it out there's a couple things we're gonna talk to them
about about replacing kind of fixing up a little bit but for the most part it's
a shop and it will do us just fine so let's go in but here is the office
space there's the front door they put a new AC unit in here so we're
just testing that out a moment ago but we're kind of thinking desk over here
desk here in this area which would be my desk Chinna the shop news desk will be
here this wall will put a wide erase board with some bins that will hold job
tickets so we can kind of keep track of everything and we'll put perhaps a
couple displays one will display here one of those wire racks just to hang
some shirts off of same thing over here we're gonna have a sofa here and we'll
put a little display over here it's kind of hoping we'd have a little bit of
space for a wire rack display but might be a little tight we're gonna get a
meeting fridge in here once we get everything in we'll kind of figure that
out here is the bathroom we need to clean it up a little bit
we're going to paint everything and make it nice and tidy
going to put the washout booth here we got to get them to fix that kind of
doing this as well just to kind of document the condition of this place and
what they need to fix but washout boots will go there exposure unit screen racks
will have you have to build some sort of cabinet to put our coated screens in
which will go in this area over here in this corner and then we'll have our ink
our inks right over here I'm gonna put a little bit of storage over here a couple
shelves thinking the press will just go right here and this big area the center
area and then the conveyor dryer will be running along this way the vent is
straight up ahead so put the conveyor dryer here tint it up through the vent
in the ceiling this side here we'll put our table with our heat press and all
our heat press stuff we're going to build a a nice big stacking table
organizing table that will take up quite a bit of this space I think we're gonna
do it about eight foot long and from about this point on over this area will
be where we have our incoming orders because we could probably even today we
didn't fill this wall up and then over this little section here
but our outgoing orders still trying to figure that out
this whole wall right here we're going to take whatever leftover paint we do
have and just kind of pour it down there's a place here in Houston that's
kind of done that but it's for the gay community but we're gonna do it our own
style we thought it was kind of cool and so we're just gonna kind of get a ladder
pour all the leftover paint down these walls here and then the wall directly
behind me we're just going to leave it as is there's a couple issues that I
thought that was taken care of but we're gonna get them to fix that and then that
hole over there not a big deal it's a shop but we're excited one of the great
things about this space is that it does have the double doors and we open both
of them up and you can feel a breeze just coming in from that door blowing
straight out as soon as we opened it up a little bit of the leftover trash
that's on the floor it's just starting to blow that way so man been in that
garage without any kind of breeze especially in Houston summers where it
gets well over a hundred degrees I was kind of miserable so this will helpfully
help the printer a lot yeah we've already got a few things big spenders
here we got something
some painting trays and rollers tape drop cloths and probably one of my
favorite things thus far is the whatever I'm Lady Lake locked and they gave us a
couple clickers - thanks for tuning guys I really appreciate it
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