Change is scary!

Two and a half weeks ago we started the project I've looked forward to since 2008.  After taking over the florist and greenhouse in Nov. 2006, I soon began to realize what a white elephant the greenhouse structure itself was.  Because the greenhouse was attached to the flower shop building, there was a "ditch" where the two structures were conjoined, which trapped water when it rained.  For years, buckets had been kept in place to catch all the water than leaked into the building with each shower. This really bothered me!! 
By 2008 , I had had enough time to figure out that the price we had to pay to keep the water pipes from freezing was outrageous!  This was all because the water came from the meter in the back yard and came to the greenhouse, entering in an unheated section of the greenhouse.  Then the water traveled through pipes in the air, eight feet overhead through the length of the greenhouse.  The water finally entered the building and then supplied the restrooms and the workroom.  Heat tape had to be used to keep the pipes from freezing where they came up from the ground into the unheated section of greenhouse.  The two heated sections of the greenhouse had to be kept above freezing all winter to keep the pipes from freezing.  The only logical explanation I can come up with for all this is that the greenhouse must have had running water before the flower shop had bathrooms!
I hope you can imagine how expensive it is to keep a greenhouse heated all winter!  This was a greenhouse that had rain coming down inside of it, as well as snow falling in it!  So, if those forms of precip can get in, that means a lot of warmth can escape.  $$$$$ down the drain!!!
I asked for advice from plumbers, builders, and electricians.  No one wanted to tackle all these problems.  The only answer I could imagine was tearing the whole thing down!!
Side Note:  I always wondered how the old greenhouse kept from falling down when the wind blew.  I was always scared it would  fall and hurt someone.  Today I learned why it never fell!  The frame of the greenhouse was galvanized steel. Dave dug up four feet deep concrete pilings that secured the steel posts in the ground, with his tractor today.   The wood in the place was very old and fragile, and there were some pieces of the steel structure that were no longer attached to each other, but those steel poles in four feet of concrete were not going anywhere very easily!
So, 2 1/2 weeks ago, we started swinging the sledge hammer!  Today the last major part of the whole structure came!  When you drive along Main St, you can now see the backs of houses on Elm St. past where the greenhouse used to be.  When I walked into the shop this morning, I couldn't believe how sunny it was inside the building because the greenhouse is no longer blocking the morning sun on the east side of the shop.
I just can't wait until winter and Columbia Gas sends me little bitty bills!!!