Slowly but surely ...

Good news is the gas pipeline is in and hooked up to the dryers. 

The not so good news is we're still waiting on the gas pipeline to the building and permission to turn on the gas. 

But we're making progress.

Another plus - the industrial iron is hooked up and ready to run - now all we need is a store to start processing those hotel orders.

The heater piping is in place, and these air-vents (that we were not anticipating) are now a part of the store. We were more than a little upset when we saw Abilit put these large stop-light style vents in the store, they were never previously discussed. But everyone who's seen them says they like them, and that it adds another 'industrial' element to the store ... so for now they stay. And the Bubbles chandelier boxes are wired, and cut for lighting.

At this point we are just looking forward to opening the doors for business and giving the people an option beyond line-drying. Not to sound too altruistic, since we are doing this to make a profit, but after living here for three months, we are personally ready to have dryer dried towels rather than crunchy line-dried. Far too many hours a week are consumed with washing, hanging, rotating, re-hanging, and waiting on wet clothes to dry - not to mention if there is humidity or a slight summer shower, clothes (especially jeans - and we all know there's not a shortage of denim in Ukraine) can take days to dry. How do people manage in the winter?!