On Thu, 5 Apr 2012 09:33:24 -0700 (PDT), DerbyDad03
wrote:





Because we're a non-profit, he rents the armory to us for a few
thousand for the weekend, even though it costs him $1,200 a day to
heat the place.

BTW...the owner is blind and has never seen the building he owns and
operates. Rumor has it that he was told that if had been able to see
the building, he never would have bought it.

Very generous of the owner.


When we first bought this building, one section was used as warehouse
from the old plant. Two people would bring material over first thing
in the AM. turn all the lights on and leave them on all day; 9 to 10
hours and went back to the other building. A couple of bulbs burned
out so the shipper asked me to get a couple of new bulbs.

She handed me a bulb and it was 1,000 watts. Electric at the time was
15¢ a kW. Not only was the bulb $110 to replace, it costs $36+ a day
to light an empty building with 30 fixtures. Once explained, they
turned on only a couple of needed lights and the overhead was less.

We since replaced those 1000 watt fixtures with 200 watt fluorescent.