Update Part 2

We were up at 5:30 this morning to head to work WAY early to meet with the construction company before they started work. We met with the "head guy" who is there everyday, and we purposely delayed the other two workers who were there just as early to start putting up the walls around the swing support system poles. All the drywall materials were there, too. After about a 15min conversation, the two workers were told to start on another project. The new walls were nixed! We just needed to figure out the logistics of this huge change... and that was more complicated than we thought. The construction company are not going to be able to credit anything to our account to go towards the square padding we now need. Their argument is that they still had to pay the two workers for an all day shift, it'll cost for someone to come pick up the unused supplies, and the restocking fee of the supplies is no where near the price you pay for them. They said it'll pretty much be a wash. We went ahead and purchased the padding today, with a special My Gym discount. They were just under $700. We would like to see if the construction company/our landlord will negotiate with us on the actual moving costs. We are willing to move most of our equipment and put in some more hard labor for them to cover the padding cost. If they are not willing to adjust the budget or negotiate something, $700 is a lot out of our bank account, but it's not a lot for a free $75,000 brand-new location. I'm at peace about the decision either way because this new design is going to open up the gym so much more and be a lot easier to work around everyday (rather than cut-out walls indenting into the gym floor). The only thing I'm worried about is the arrival time of the 4 custom-made pads for the poles. Best case scenario, they will arrive the day of or day before we re-open. Worst case scenario, we will be open for a few days without the padding, and we'll have to come up with a creative set-up with our current equipment to protect the kids from the 4 inch metal poles that will be around the play area. Needless to say, we won't let this construction change push back our moving date. We will be closed May 25th - 31st to move and then open in our new space on Wednesday, June 1st. We really cannot wait!