{"id":600,"date":"2008-11-22T23:00:11","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T22:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=600"},"modified":"2009-09-17T16:02:24","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T15:02:24","slug":"finished-the-dining-room-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/11\/finished-the-dining-room-floor\/","title":{"rendered":"Finished the Dining room floor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my last week before starting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/11\/new-job-at-peopleperhourcom-11nov08\/\">my new job<\/a> we laid our dining room wood floor:<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\">\n<tr>\n<td>\nBefore:\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div id=\"attachment_630\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/floorbefore.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-630\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/floorbefore.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Our horrid original carpet\" title=\"floorbefore\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/floorbefore.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/var\/www\/tomfotherby\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/floorbefore.jpg?w=1240&amp;ssl=1 1240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/var\/www\/tomfotherby\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/floorbefore.jpg?w=1860&amp;ssl=1 1860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-630\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our horrid original carpet<\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\nAfter:\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div id=\"attachment_632\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/floorafter.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-632\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/floorafter.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Our new oak floor\" title=\"floorafter\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/floorafter.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/var\/www\/tomfotherby\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/floorafter.jpg?w=1240&amp;ssl=1 1240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/var\/www\/tomfotherby\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/floorafter.jpg?w=1860&amp;ssl=1 1860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-632\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our new oak floor (+ French Door and painted walls)<\/p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>It took 6 days, &pound;600 and a lot of hammering and sawing. It&#8217;s a bit creaky and the room now has a echo but I like it much better than before. I just hope it doesn&#8217;t buckle when it comes to summer because there&#8217;s a few places where we don&#8217;t have a 1.6mm expansion gap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my last week before starting my new job we laid our dining room wood floor: Before: After: It took 6 days, &pound;600 and a lot of hammering and sawing. It&#8217;s a bit creaky and the room now has a echo but I like it much better than before. I just hope it doesn&#8217;t buckle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1269,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions\/1269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}