A BIG Images photo journal—2 weeks of madness…

Because of the convenience of the internet and next-day FedEx shipments many of our customers never get to see BIG Images’ offices and production facility. Many are even unaware of the work we have put into our new facility (which almost tripled our size!) So, for the curious, here is a photo journal of our remodel and move.

We signed the lease to our new building on September 14^th, 2007. The very next day we started remodeling. The new building had alot of unnecessary offices and old flooring. So the first order of business was to tear out all the old walls and structures that we did not need and remove the old flooring. After all, we are a production facility and we need all the open space we can get.


Here we are at about September 19^th. After the demolition we had to prepare the shop for painting. Printing requires a fairly color-neutral environment so we decided to paint the walls bright white and the ceiling a dark grey. Below you can see Ken, after the walls have been painted, as we cover the walls and floor in preparation for painting the ceiling.


After the painting came floor prep. All our equipment is on wheels so we need a smooth floor to move it around. Also we must have a very clean environment and polished, smooth floors are much easier to keep clean. We kept the look of the old textured cement floor by sanding it down a bit and sealing it with an industrial wax. In the picture below the floors are about to be sealed with wax.


By September 22^nd the shop was painted and we were in the midst of working on the floor. We also rewired the entire shop at this point. Some of the old outlets had char-marks from electrical sparks! With sensitive equipment like computers and inkjet printers we could not risk a shady electrical system. This was probably the single most important thing we did prior to moving in.


September 28^th—we are beginning to move in! It was one incredible race to get the new facility prepped and ready in just two weeks, but now we have finished enough of the remodeling, cleaning, and newification that we can move in! Here you can see Ken and Ben as they begin to bring our equipment over from the old shop.


We closed down on Friday the 28^th, moved over the weekend, and were back up and running the next Monday, October 1^st, 2008. Below you can see posters, banners, and rigid photographs in-process. In the production area we installed high quality color-balance lighting, which you can see suspended in the ceiling.

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