- Hey guys, welcome back
to the DrCliffAuD VLOG.
This is vlog number 34,
and you may have noticed
that last week I did not post a vlog,
and the reason I did not is
because I actually took my wife
on a little road trip for a few days.
So I didn't actually get a
chance to do a vlog last weekend,
but I promise I'll make
it up for you today.
Really the two things I
wanna talk about today,
one, I'm gonna talk a little bit
about the trip that I just had,
and the reason why I wasn't
able to record a video last week
and the progress on the
clinic, the new clinic.
I wanna give you an update there.
I do have some video that I wanna show you
with how the clinic looks right now
and what we're doing to get back on track.
So, first and foremost, a couple weeks ago
I posted a vlog about
how I spend basically
all of my free time when
I'm outside of the clinic
working on video content for my channel
and at the expense,
basically, of family time.
And so a lot of individuals
reached out to me directly
and on comments on the video saying that
"Cliff, you really need to be focusing
"more attention on family."
And so, I took that to heart
and actually took Ashley out of town.
You know, obviously with COVID,
we've been trapped inside for months now,
and she's really itching to get out.
Just to give you a little
bit more information there.
My family's from Illinois,
Ashley's family is from Kansas.
And because we have not been able
to travel really at all this year,
it's been really hard on her, hard on me
of not being able to see family.
And then when we're spending
all of our other free
time basically working,
we really needed to do
something to get away.
So I basically said, "You
know, just plan a trip."
Actually, I think she kinda
just took it on herself
to just plan a trip just to
get out of town for a few days.
And, you know, where we live in Phoenix,
it's fairly simple for us just to drive up
to Sedona, and Prescott, and Flagstaff,
and to take a little bit of time off.
You know, basically, myself
and Ashley are cheap dates.
The only thing that we really care about
any time that we travel
someplace for vacation
is what we can do physical activity-wise,
meaning we like to hike,
we like to trail run,
we like to do, you know,
sightseeing stuff like that.
So basically we just did a bunch
of different hikes and trail runs,
some of them more interesting than others,
but I'm gonna go ahead and show you
about 30 to 45 seconds of
some of the different trails
that we did up in Sedona
and up in Flagstaff.
And even the Grand Canyon is in there too.
So, if you're not
interested in that stuff,
go ahead and skip ahead.
I will put a timestamp in
the description of this video
to show you where you can skip ahead to
if you don't wanna see my
2020 slideshow of my vacation.
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All right, so hopefully
you guys enjoyed that.
And if you skipped right ahead,
let's go ahead and get
into the other thing
that I wanna talk about today,
which is the new clinic update.
This is something that I
have not talked at all about
over the course of the last five months.
Recently, as of about three weeks ago,
we were basically forced
to change contractors.
Our original contractor quit.
Fortunately, we've been working
with a management company,
a construction management company.
We were able to get their advice
or their recommendation on
a new general contractor
that could kind of pick up the ball
and keep running with it.
And it's actually been a really,
I would say beneficial thing for us.
It's a breath of fresh
air to get a contractor in
that is truly, truly good at what they do,
and you can definitely
tell the difference.
You know, they're coming into a situation
that is not perfect.
I mean, they're kinda trying to figure out
what the heck's going on,
why has this been done,
why has that not been done?
You know, we have not really passed
many inspections to this point,
and I'll probably be able to explain
all of that stuff in future videos.
But, what I wanna basically
show you right now
is what this new contractor is
walking into with this space.
So let me go ahead and cut over
to me taking you through
a tour through the space.
All right, August 28th, 2020,
let's show you what we have going on here.
And sorry, I don't have my lights,
so hopefully there's enough natural light
in here to show you what's going on.
But right here, this
is the front desk area.
Basically, almost nothing's
been done since March,
so we're kinda left off where we were
five months ago, basically.
But, waiting area here.
You can see that not
a whole lot, you know,
has been done in here
since I last showed you.
One thing that has happened here
is that we've made the
hallway much smaller.
So it's more narrow
than what it was before,
but the rooms were extended out a bit.
If you look here, you
can see that all of this
has been extended out to give
it a extra couple of feet.
I think it was, actually,
I think right here
is where they started extending it from.
But you can see that it's added
a little bit of depth to
the rooms, which is good.
And that's why we had to take
some space out of the hallway.
But those rooms still, they're gonna be
about 13 and a half foot
long instead of 14 and a half
like we had originally spec'd.
And then the hallway is
definitely, you know,
about a foot and a half more
narrow than what it was before.
And then we also took some
depth out of the restrooms here.
So, you know, the restrooms
are still the same width here,
but in terms of depth, it
is a couple feet, you know,
more shallow, I guess I would say.
Still, of course, ADA compliant,
which was the main concern there.
But there's the second restroom.
This right here is the
second treatment room
and the third treatment room
right here, still 12 foot wide.
This right here is kind
of that spare room,
but I'll explain to you here in a minute,
this is probably where the
sound booth is gonna have to go
just because of space
requirements for the sound booth.
Because as we go back here
into the original sound booth area,
this space was basically
not done correctly.
We should have had 12 foot across here,
but that right there is only
nine and a half foot or so.
So there won't be enough room to get
the size sound booth that we want in here
and still have space to move around.
So, this'll probably turn into
kind of the spare room, I guess.
But, as we go this way, the kitchen area,
this was largely unaffected.
I mean, a little bit of the space
was taken out from the hallway.
It was shifted in about a foot and a half
here at the doorway, but you know,
all the area for where the table
and break room area's gonna go
is still the same size in there.
And then our workroom is
basically the same size as well.
It's about 11 and a half foot across.
We're gonna have a
bunch of cabinets there,
but this really wasn't affected.
We had the option of taking
that wall and pulling it in
to give us more space
in that room over there,
but we decided that the
workspace was more important
and that we would just
shift the sound booth
over into this room over here.
But, we have a new general contractor.
They came in here with the inspectors
for a courtesy inspection this last week,
and so we got a little bit more guidance
on what needs to be done
and what's, you know,
within code and what's not in code.
So hopefully here pretty soon,
we'll be right back on track.
So there you go.
I took that video this morning
of me walking through the space.
And the new general
contractor that we have
I would have to say is just phenomenal.
He's on the ball with every
little thing that's going on.
He's trying to work
with us to try to get it
to where we can stop the bleeding of money
that's been going out.
We're trying to finish the space,
do it in a cost effective manner.
It definitely, you know, with the issues,
I mean, what since mid-March
is basically when we said,
"Hold on, stop construction."
And keep in mind,
this has nothing to do
with COVID going on.
But we're really trying to get
the build-out of the space back on track,
and based on the estimate from
the new general contractor,
he believes that it's
gonna be about two months
between now and when we have
a completely finished space
that we'll be able to move into.
So if you add another, you know,
15 to 30 days on top of that,
a little bit of buffer time,
plus the time to actually move
and notify all of my
patients that we are moving,
we hopefully will be in there, you know,
in about three months from now.
So we're what, end of August?
So basically, September,
October, November, you know,
hopefully before the end of the year
we'll be in to that new space.
And you know, out here in Arizona,
things tend to pick up pretty quickly
in the fall time when
everybody comes back.
In fact, you know, it's
kind of a weird situation.
Because of COVID, not
all of my patients left
to go to their more northern states
to their summer homes that
are in cooler destinations.
A lot of them actually just stuck around,
but it doesn't change the fact
that we'll definitely
be busier in the fall,
and we'd like to be in the
new clinic when we are busy.
We also have a new audiologist on staff,
someone who came on
board about a month ago.
So we're in the middle of
training him up to get him
up to speed with how we
practice inside of our clinic.
And you guys'll probably be seeing him
on video here shortly as well.
So stay tuned to get
introduced to him as well.
So okay, that is it pretty
much for today's vlog.
Again, I apologize for not
posting a vlog last week.
You know, I took your
guys' advice and said,
"You know what, I'm just
gonna not do anything
"for a weekend filming-wise
"and tend to some family downtime."
And it was really enjoyable.
So thanks for bearing with me.
And I truly mean it this time when I say
I will see you next week,
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