Lobby Renovation January 2025
Please make sure your management company/renters are aware
of the lobby renovation. It will be noisy at times.
Mail and packages will be available for pickup.
After 5:00pm will cut down on the traffic in the renovation area.
1/6/2025 The Lobby Renovation Has Started, An Exciting Day. This Photo Shows All The Different Items In The Ceiling. There Is Electrical, Plumbing & HVAC.
1/6/2025 Preparing The Ceiling For Temporary Plastic Wall Going Up.
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1/6/2025 There Will Be A Walkway From The Sliding Driveway Door To The First Floor. As The Email Stated From The Board, The Doors Going To The Embassy Will Be Locked During Renovation. The Embassy Locked Their Doors And We Posted Signs.
1/6/2025 Grid Work Coming Down Tomorrow
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1/6/2025 The Electrician, HVAC and Glass Company Coming Tomorrow
1/6/2025 Temporary Wall With Caution Signs
1/6/2025 End Of Day 1
1/7/2025 Day 2, Measuring Space To See If We Can Cut Off Some Of That Big Wall & Looks Like We Can
1/7/2025 Photo Taken From Owner’s Room Of The Wall That Used To Have Brick On It. The Electrician Is Rewiring What Is Needed For Temporary Lights So They Can Remove The Rest Of The Grid Work
1/7/2025 Stone Wall With a Mural On Side
1/7/2025 Almost All Sides Are Down On The Partial Wall That Used To Have The 1980s Mural. Tom Met With The HVAC Guys, Electrician and Waiting On The Glass Company To Remove The Glass In The Owner’s Lounge.
1/7/2025 End of Day 2. Ceiling Grid & Lobby Glass Will Come Down Tomorrow
1/8/2025 Start Of Day 3. Removing The Sheet Rock On The Wall Going To The Embassy
1/8/2025 Most of The Grid Work Is Down and Temporary Lights Have Been Installed.
1/8/2025 This Is The Long Wall By The Embassy Walkway
1/8/2025 The Stone & Mural Walls Are Done. Some Of The Studs Will Be Removed To Make That Wall Smaller.
1/8/2025 Wall By Embassy. Two Sheet Rocks, Back to Back, Serves As a Firewall
1/8/2025 Stone Wall Side
1/8/2025 This Photo Has The Stone Wall On The Right
1/8/2025 Cleaned Up For The Day With The Middle Wall Down
1/8/2025 Standing By The Stone Wall Looking Towards The Driveway
1/8/2025 Long Wall Going To The Embassy. End Of Day 3
1/9/2025 Day 4, Lounge Cleaned Out and Ready For Tile Removal
1/9/2025 Removing Tile
1/9/2025 Standing In FOAK’s Office Looking Into Where The Vending Machines Were. Slop Sink On The Right. All The Walls Are Coming Down and Their Office and Will Be Open To The Electrical and Washer/Dryer Areas. The Hallway Leading Into Their Office Will Be Closed Up and Used for The New Mailbox Area. The Hallway Leading Into the Mailboxes Now Will Be FOAK’s New Entrance
1/9/2025 Slop Sink Would Be On The Left. The Washer Will Be Moved and a Dryer Added. A New Utility Tub Will Replace The Slop Sink. FOAK Uses The Washer and Dryer For All Their Mop Heads, Towels etc. They Will Be Happy To Get A Dryer.
1/9/2025 FOAK’s Office Looking Into The Vending Area
1/9/2025 End of Day 4, Tile Chipped Out In Homeowners Lounge
1/10/2025 Mid Day 5, Photo Is Taken From Where The Vending Machines Used To Be
1/10/2025 Inside FOAK’s Office Taken From Doorway
1/10/2025 Photo Taken From The Door Entering The 1st Floor
1/10/2025 Photo Taken From The Driveway Sliding Doors
1/10/2025 Tile Almost Done Throughout
1/10/2025 Hallway Standing At The 1st Floor Door
1/10/2025 Photo Taken From Standing By Door Going To The Embassy
1/10/2025 Standing By Door Going To The Embassy
1/10/2025 End Of Day 5. They are Working Tomorrow To Keep On Schedule
1/11/2025 Start of Day 5, Photo Taken From Door Going To 1st Floor
1/11/2025 This Is FOAK’s Office. Most Owners Haven’t Seen This Area. It Was 3 Separate Rooms With Their Office, Electrical Room and Cleaning Area. This Will All Be 1 Large Area. The Wall On The Left Is The Restroom
1/11/2025 Photo Taken From Maintenance Office Door
1/11/2025 Photo From The Embassy Door
1/11/2025 Photo Taken From 1st Floor Door Looking Towards The Driveway.
1/11/2025 Tile and Thin-Set Being Removed From In Front Of The Elevators.
1/11/2025 This is The Area Entering FOAK’s Office
1/11/2025 Entrance Into The Mail Room
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1/11/2025 FOAK’s Office Area
1/11/2025 Photo Taken From The Door Going To The Embassy
1/11/2025 Standing By The Owner’s Lounge. End of Day and Will Start Back Up On Monday. Only a Small Amount Of Tile Left In FOAK’s Office Area. 99% Of The Ceiling Is Done. Now That It’s All Open The Electrician, Plumber and HVAC People Can Evaluate Everything. The Front Elevators Were Shut Down For A Short Period Of Time. Our Building Is Pretty Empty So It Was a Great Week To Start The Reno
1/13/2025 Start Of Day 7. Lobby Glass Coming Down
1/13/2024 Owner’s Lounge Is Gone
1/13/2025 Bathroom Getting Cleaned Out
1/13/2025 Looking Into FOAK’s Office
1/14/2025 Photo Taken From Where The Homeowner’s Lounge Was
1/14/2025 Driveway Sliding Door On The Left. A Portion Of The Wall Was removed That Will Open Up That Area. The Old Part Is In Dark Areas
1/14/2025 Old Stone Wall, End Of Day
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Lobby Renovation Video 1
1/15/2025 Mail Boxes Being Moved. All Packages and Mail Will Be Available For Pick Up Just In A Different Location. They May Be Moved A Few Times During The Construction. If Owners Can Get Their Mail/Packages After 5:00pm It Will Help With The Traffic
1/16/2025 Mailboxes Moved
1/16/2025 Mailbox Temporary Location
1/16/2025 End Of The Day. Demo is Done on Schedule, No Surprises. A Couple Minor Things Left That Will Be Taken Care of at the Right Time, Like The HVAC In This Photo. Electrician Rewired In FOAK’s Back Office, Slop Sink Area & Electrical Room. The HVAC, Plumbing and Electrical Are All Being Addressed Work Will Resume Next Week. The Floors Will Be Ground Down To Make For a Smooth Surface. Framing Will Begin So That Will Be Exciting
1/21/2025 Starting To Mark Off Where The Walls Will Go
1/21/2025 Some Of The Electrical Boxes On The Left Were Relocated To Keep All The Boxes Together. The Washer, Dryer and Utility Tub Will Be On The Back Wall Behind The Yellow Cart And The Plumbing Was Completed Yesterday For That Area. The Bathroom Will Stay In The Same Place. The Entire Area Was Sectioned Off Before Which Made For A Bad Area For Our Maintenance Company. It Will All Be Open Now Holding The Laundry Items, FOAK’s Office, Computer Equipment, Building’s Electrical and Storage. The Entrance To That Area Will Be In The Hallway Going To The Mailboxes and Bathroom. The Other Hallway By The 1st Floor Door Will No Longer Exist. It Will Be Used For A Larger Mailroom.
1/22/2025 This Photo Is Looking Into The New Area For FOAK and The Much Larger Mail Room. There Will Be An Area For Boxes and Will Be Secure. On The Photo You Will Enter The Mailbox Area and It Will Go To The Right and Jog Left For The Area For Boxes
1/22/2025 The Restroom Will Now Be ADA Compliant
1/28/2025 The Framing Has Started In The Maintenance Room, Restroom, Grocery/Luggage Carts Storage and Mail Room
1/28/2025 End Of Day.
There Hasn’t Been Much To Post Since Work Is Being Done On The HVAC, Electrical and Plumbing. 2/7/2025 Photo Taken From Front Driveway Doors. The 18″ Wall Will Help To Protect The Glass Wall From Carts. The Upper Part Will Be All Glass.
2/7/2024 This Is An Example Of The New Mail Room. On The Left Wall Where The Packages Are Will Be A Shelf And Floor Room For Packages. This Will Eliminate The Packages From Being Under The Mail Boxes
2//7/2025 Mail Room
2//7/2025 Standing By The Front Elevators. The Area Has Been Opened Up Allowing For A Larger Lobby Area. By Cutting Down On The Lobby Space Will Hopefully Eliminate The Parties From Large Groups
2/10/2025 We are waiting on quotes for electrical & plumbing. The new HVAC is almost complete with relocating the 2 new HVAC systems and duct work. We reused one existing HVAC that was in good shape. We had 4 HVAC systems for the lobby and maintenance areas and 2 have not worked in a long time. They were able to go from 4 HVAC systems to 3. All the walls must remain open until the electrical and plumbing are complete. The studs are up and waiting for the electrical and plumbing contractors to finish on their end so the drywall can go up. The board is working on flooring, paint and furniture with the interior designer and general contractor.
2/11/2025 Plumbers are here today and electrical expected Thursday, some is already completed. All the HVACs will be completed Monday after the electrical is done. After all these contractors are complete the drywall will go up. The board cut down on the lobby space to help with the large parties we have. Space was taken out of the maintenance area for a larger mail room and restroom. A shelf will be added in the mailroom for packages and will be secure for owners.
2/12/2025 New Hot Water Tank, HVAC and Utility Tub For The Maintenance Area. FOAK Will Now Have Hot Water To Wash The Mop Heads and Towels/Rags. The Board Purchased a Washer a Few Months Ago Due To Our Recycled One From The Brighton Died. They Never Had a Dryer So The Donated Dryer Will Help With Their Items Also.
2/12/2025 New HVAC Where The Stone Wall Used To Be. The Plumbing Will Be Finished Today and Will Need To Come Back Once The Kitchen Is In.
2/14/2025 Electrical will be done today, plumbers will finish Monday and HVAC is mostly done, just some last minute work. Flooring is being voted on today with the board and designer. The designer is advising on the floor, wall color, lighting and furniture.
2/16/2025 Electrical & HVAC are done. Plumbing will be finished tomorrow. The next step is getting all inspected. After the inspection, the drywall will go up. That will be exciting. It looks like not much was done but all the plumbing, electrical and HVAC was being worked on. We will notice a big difference when the drywall goes up.
2/17/2025 Electrical Where The Kitchen Will Be. There Will Be A Counter In The Middle With Lower Cabinets, a TV and A Banquette On Each Side. A Picture Will Be Hung Above The Banquettes On Each Side With A Photo Light. (This Is The Driveway Wall)
2/17/2025 On The 18″ Wall with Added Outlets There Will Be Glass On The Top Part With Double Doors. We Only Had 2 Outlets In The Owners Lounge
2/17/2025 This Small Wall Where The Brick Used To Be Will Have a Seating Area
2/17/2025 The 18″ Wall Have Glass Above And Possibly a Banquette Seating
2/17/2025 This Is The Small Side Wall That Will Have A TV
2/19/2025 Inspector was here today and all plumbing, electrical and HVAC passed. Drywall will be delivered in the next couple days and it will be the start of sectioning off the different areas.
2/21/2025 Drywall Going Up
2/21/2025 Drywall On Driveway Wall Where The Kitchen Will Be
2/21/2025 Cart Corral On Right Going Into The Mail, Restroom and FOAK’s Area
2/21/2025
2/21/2025 Lots Of Action Today With The Drywall
These Are The Plans For The Lobby Renovation
1/10/2025 These Will Be The Signs Going Throughout The South Hampton. This One Is In The Garage Lobby
New South Hampton Signs With Our Logo. These Are What Our New Signs Will Look Like. Once We Move Through The Building, All The Signs Will Match.
1/6/2025 Areas Patched Where Old Signs Were
1/6/2025 The Painting Begins. Painting Will Continue When It Warms Up. 1/22/2025 The Patch and Paint Will Continue When The Weather Warms Up
1/6/2025 Landscaping Going On Around Our Building
1/8/2025 Landscaping Continues
1/8/2025 Still Removing Rocks
1/11/2025 Landscaping Done So Far Up To The Garage Entrance.
1/28/2025 Finally Getting To The Beds On The Parking Lot Side. Stones Were Removed Months Ago and Now Cutting The Bed Down To Stop The New Mulch From Spilling Into The Walkway.
1/28/2025 They Have Worked Their Way Around To The Front of Our Building With The Landscape Project. Soon All The Red Stones Will Be Gone and Replaced With Mulch. We Have Been Waiting For This Since 2016
2/17/2025 New Mulch Continues
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