Float centers, more so than some other brick and mortar businesses, tend to be desperate for maximizing the efficiency of their space. And float rooms would have so much extra space if they didn't have to deal with a door swinging in and out all the time. Why don't float centers do it this way instead?

Well... Graham and Ashkahn explain exactly why centers don't do this already, along with the vast majority of other buildings being made currently. It's likely a code violation and even if it weren't, it'd probably be unnecessarily hazardous to travel through your center that way.

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Float centers, more so than some other brick and mortar businesses, tend to be desperate for maximizing the efficiency of their space. And float rooms would have so much extra space if they didn't have to deal with a door swinging in and out all the time. Why don't float centers do it this way instead?

Well... Graham and Ashkahn explain exactly why centers don't do this already, along with the vast majority of other buildings being made currently. It's likely a code violation and even if it weren't, it'd probably be unnecessarily hazardous to travel through your center that way.

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Graham: Alright.

Ashkahn: Welcome. Welcome everyone.

Graham: I think that might have actually been our longest intro that we've ever done. Referential intros'll get like that.

Ashkahn: My name's Ashkahn.

Graham: I am Graham.

Ashkahn: And, we had a big Q coming.

Graham: Big Q coming your way. And that is, “I haven't started construction yet.”

Ashkahn: Nice.

Graham: “But, I'm sitting here, looking at my blueprints and wondering; would it make more sense to have the float room doors open into the hall instead of the rooms, to increase usable space in the small float rooms?” That old doors opening into the hall dilemma.

Ashkahn: The old doors going outside instead of inside so you can get more accessible square footage space in the float room question.

Graham: Classic.

Let's say you buy a center and want to use H2O2  instead of the chlorine that was being used by the previous owner. Or maybe you want to switch over to H2O2  after using chlorine for a while. Let's further assume that this is in compliance with your health department and your UV system is sized adequately. What else do you need to know to make this happen? Do you need to change the water? 

Ashkahn and Graham lay out all the things to consider and why someone may or may not want to replace the solution in their tank at the same time as replacing the water treatment method in a float tank.

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Let's say you buy a center and want to use H2O2  instead of the chlorine that was being used by the previous owner. Or maybe you want to switch over to H2O2  after using chlorine for a while. Let's further assume that this is in compliance with your health department and your UV system is sized adequately. What else do you need to know to make this happen? Do you need to change the water?

Ashkahn and Graham lay out all the things to consider and why someone may or may not want to replace the solution in their tank at the same time as replacing the water treatment method in a float tank.

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What you Need to Know about UV - DSP 328

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Graham: All right, salutations.

Ashkahn: Okay-dokie. Welcome everybody.

Graham: Yeah, hi there.

Ashkahn: Warm those hands up cause-

Graham: Yeah, cause what?

Ashkahn: It's here then you say-

Graham: Good set up there-

Ashkahn: Warm up-

Graham: It's just like throwing the basketball out of bounds. Where were you on that one?

Ashkahn: Jeez I'm just the setup guy.

Graham: All right, today's question is “hello”.

Ashkahn: Hello.

Graham: Hi.

Ashkahn: Hi.

It's not an easy decision to sell a float center. But when you do come up to that point, what do you do? Who do you talk to and how does it work? Should you hire on a broker? What sort of timeline should you expect?

Having never sold a business, Graham and Ashkahn aren't exactly experts on the subject, but they offer informed advice on where to sell and how long it'll probably take.

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It's not an easy decision to sell a float center. But when you do come up to that point, what do you do? Who do you talk to and how does it work? Should you hire on a broker? What sort of timeline should you expect?

Having never sold a business, Graham and Ashkahn aren't exactly experts on the subject, but they offer informed advice on where to sell and how long it'll probably take.

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The Deal Room Podcast

Usedfloattanks.com

The Float Collective

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Graham: Hey, how are you doing? All right, how are you doing, audience?

Ashkahn: Welcome. That's weird if you address it to people in the real world, you know?

Graham: How you doing over there, Ashkahn?

Ashkahn: I feel uncomfortable. That's how I'm doing.

Graham: I'm Graham.

Ashkahn: I'm Ashkahn.

Graham: Today's question is “what is the best way to market the sale of my float business?” That's kind of ... Hopefully you're selling it for happy reasons.

Ashkahn: So you can open two more float businesses.

Graham: Yeah, so how do you, If you get into this salty industry and you now have built a float center and want to get rid of it,

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) required the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop regulations protecting the privacy and security of certain health information. This means that most medical information recorded by healthcare providers has to be stored based on a certain standard of security.

This is only just now becoming an issue in the float industry as centers are starting to accept insurance and medical referrals. However, this is still extremely rare. If this is something that may affect you personally, definitely research additional resources to make sure you're in compliance.

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The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) required the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop regulations protecting the privacy and security of certain health information. This means that most medical information recorded by healthcare providers has to be stored based on a certain standard of security.

This is only just now becoming an issue in the float industry as centers are starting to accept insurance and medical referrals. However, this is still extremely rare. If this is something that may affect you personally, definitely research additional resources to make sure you're in compliance.

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HHS Health Information Privacy Site

HHS HIPAA Summary

HealthIT.gov

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Graham: Alright, hello everybody.

Ashkahn: Welcome.

Graham: I'm Graham.

Ashkahn: I'm Ashkahn and let slam it up. That's what we say, that's our new catch phrase.

Graham: Today's question is ...

Ashkahn: That's our old catch phrase, “today's question is”,

Graham and Ashkahn light one up to honestly answer what they think about people coming into float centers high. 

The guys share their experiences having Float On share a wall with a dispensary and the number of problems (or lack thereof) that it has caused over the course of many years. 

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Graham and Ashkahn light one up to honestly answer what they think about people coming into float centers high.

The guys share their experiences having Float On share a wall with a dispensary and the number of problems (or lack thereof) that it has caused over the course of many years.

Sit back, grab some munchies, and enjoy the ride with these guys.

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Graham: All right. Welcome everybody.

Ashkahn: Welcome.

Graham: How's it going out there? Good. Good, us too.

Ashkahn: Yeah, definitely.

Graham: Yeah, we're doing great.

Ashkahn: Pretty much just what's happening over here.

Graham: I'm Graham.

Ashkahn: This is Ashkahn.

Graham: Today's question is, "What do you think about people getting high and coming into your float center?" So, we thought that we'd actually get high while we answer this question as well.

Ashkahn: It seemed appropriate.

Graham: It's legal here-

Ashkahn: Just so you know.

Graham: in Oregon. Yeah, we're not breaking the law.

Ashkahn: Yeah. We like to go method for our answers here. Just like for UV ones, we expose ourselves to UV light before we answer those questions.

Graham: Yeah, absorb the beams subjectively as well as objectively. I mean, it's cool, man. People float stoned or whatever. People can smoke and still do podcasts. Floating is even less crazy than podcasting.