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About colin

Cofounder, FLOAT. Colin has been an astronomer and a software developer. He's watched the sun set from Angkor Wat and rise over the Arctic Circle, and believes that life is much too important to take seriously.

Expanded hours

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We have just extended our hours adding morning and late-evening slots on Thursdays, Fridays, and Sundays beginning on March 26th.  If any of those times sound good to you, you can book them yourself using our online system, or write to us at booking@floatboston.com and we’ll be glad to help.  If you have booked a time later in April and want to change it, that’s no problem at all.

 

ETA: Starting April 6th, we’re adding 9pm on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays, and mornings on Tuesdays starting at 9am.

Current status: limited open (pt 3)

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It’s been two weeks since we officially opened our doors. We are open every day of the week, training our staff, and getting people floating!  We expanded our hours and currently our appointment times are:

Monday – Wednesday: 3pm, 5pm, 7pm
Thursday – Sunday: 7am through 9pm on the odd hours. Last appointment starts at 9pm.

As of this writing, we are booked through March 25th. In the meantime, you may book your future float through our online calendar (hover over the date to see the popup calendar for a specific date) or ask to be added to our automated wait list.

Booking system known issues

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People attempting to claim their pre-ordered floats are encountering a few issues in the booking system.

System is asking you to pay when you have already bought credits:

  • First make sure you’re logged in:  under “Booking” it should say “Welcome, yourname“.   If not, click “login” and use the email address you gave when you pre-ordered.  (If you haven’t logged in before, when you get to the login page, click on “forgot your password?”at the bottom.  Enter the email you used in our campaign (that bit is important) and hit “reset my password”.)
  • If you bought from our crowdfund campaign, you have 90-minute float credits.  Choose the 90-minute length from the green dropdown under “How would you like to pay for your floats?”  Screen Shot 2015-02-25 at 12.43.24 PM

The system should immediately switch to show you “existing credit” instead of the price of the float.Screen Shot 2015-02-25 at 12.45.47 PM

Can’t go back from “How would you like to pay for your float?”

  • This is a bug we have reported to our booking provider.  If you end up on this page and want to change what date or time you want to reserve, you can log out and log back in – this should at least let you get out of this page.  Fixed!  Click the red “start over” link at the upper left.

Thank you for your patience as we are getting this operation off the ground.  We’re fixing the problems as quickly as we can.

Construction progress 3

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The shop is taking shape!  Our walls are up, the ceiling is going in, and the showers are getting fitted out.  We spent last weekend in there painting, and will probably be in for two more weekends of painting before we’re done.

Reception desk and insulated wall
Our reception area, showing the insulated wall of one of the float rooms. We have thick interior walls: heavy OSB panels, insulation and doubled thickness of drywall, all to minimize sound transmission.

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Construction progress 2

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A piece of bad news to lead off with: after delays with inspections, some extra work from surprises in the walls, and scheduling problems over the holidays, our contractors our now saying they expect to be finished in early February.

The work so far is looking great, though.  Electrical and plumbing roughin inspections are both signed off, and we’ll be closing up the walls next week.

For several days after the electricians started, there were tangles of armored cable everywhere, like Doctor Octopus had just lost a fight.
For several days after the electricians started, there were tangles of armored cable everywhere, like Doctor Octopus had just lost a fight.

 

Float tank delivery
Our first two new float tanks arrived in the rain right before Christmas.

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