The Making Of Smile and Co. #2 — Episode THREE - Floor Plans, Architects, and Unexpected Surprises
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Yeah.
Hey guys, welcome to another episode and then making them smile and code. Yeah. Yeah. Number two. Number two. I'm actually Mopez. I'm Claude Samry. And we're gonna talk about some more behind the scenes. So this this is gonna be our third episode talking about opening this office this week. Um as we mentioned in the first episode, we breathed right through it. We really did.
Get so much footage and stuff of this office and we
I haven't seen it. Yeah. No and it's only been three years. Yeah. Oh yes. So Bacchus Island Company. In our last episode we talked about your financing for it. So you're finding location, getting everything buttoned up. You also had mentioned though. With this being your second location, uh, you didn't have like any grace period on repayment of this loan. So it started straight away when the building closed is yeah. You said okay. How long did it take to build this office? Two years. Two years. Okay. So there was a lot that happened in that two years and you're already paying back these loans. So let's just kind of go back to the beginning of what was happening once you followed this building. You have talked in the previous episodes or we're saying it's like the first one.
how you saw this face and you just instantly kind of envision what it was going to look like. And I don't know that we've talked about what you actually did. Drew up your own floor plan. I did. I did like literally literally enjoyed it. I drew up drew it up on I suck pa printer paper, I put like six of them, I taped them, and then I made a big float win with the probably not so realistic measurements of the building, but I had a general idea of what I And I don't even know that I know the answer to this, but does it look pretty much just like what you had in the original one? Because I have to know how you drew it like on The blueprint. Yes. But is it pretty Pretty to that? It's pretty to that. Okay. Of course, with an actual architect drawing it.
But no, it's so I actually I think you're gonna ask me about this. You wanna ask me? No. I need to call architect. Yeah. I'm gonna angry myself. So I used an architect for the second location and I knew I I wanted to because There were lots of things that I could do myself with the first location. But the look the Folsom building is a lot smaller. So a lot smaller of a scale. I didn't have to do a lot of like architectural details, but with this office, because of the height, So I think we have Oh. Teaching, I don't you know. So like fifteen feet. And hence very tall ceilings. And if I didn't have an architect and really plan like the scope of like drop ceilings and what is that gonna look and feel like 'cause you don't wanna just go into my office and think it's like a cave, yeah, some cavernous space that feels really cool.
And it's like, okay, we're gonna do this. We own the building, let's actually invest in a proper Dental artist. Gosh, yeah. Did you who did your core plans for the first location? I have a you did that yourself as well. You didn't have a vendor drawn up for you. I did. Okay. Okay. So I drew it myself. Gotcha. Okay. And like the the architect firm that you hire with the oriental specific. Um the contractor that you also have, DC. Is the same one for full time, yes. And he is also dental dental medical. Okay. Can you kind of walk me through maybe just the differences between having like an architect to do it versus like a G C helping you with Lordland as well. Like what do you see? You talked about the C lens obviously, but like what else for someone listening would be the benefit of either or combining the two?
Uh wa well one expands. Okay. So if this isn't your first rodeo and you are a startup. I don't think that hiring a subject architect is needed. Okay. Um in fact I would probably discourage you because it is it's a lot. They they charge per square foot.
What motivated Ashley to draw her own floor plan on taped printer paper?
We ended up spending Tens of thousands of dollars on just drawings of design. Yeah. So if I don't think it's needed, basically.
What about? And then with the architect there was One besides the expense, there's a lot of detail.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:02–4:37
2
What motivated Ashley to draw her own floor plan on taped printer paper?
4:37–7:31
3
Why did Ashley hire a dental‑specific architect for the second location?
7:31–12:16
4
How do the costs and scopes differ between an architect and a general contractor?
12:16–22:11
5
What insights did the Denver trip and 3‑D walkthrough provide for the design?
22:11–24:24
Speakers
1 identifiedMore from The Making of a Dental Startup
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