{"id":918,"date":"2013-09-17T16:35:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T23:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=918"},"modified":"2013-09-17T16:35:44","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T23:35:44","slug":"flooring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=918","title":{"rendered":"Flooring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week 750 square feet of 5\/8 inch thick strand bamboo flooring was put down upstairs. Our master carpenter Mike and I installed it in 2 1\/2 days, it looks really phenomenal and will hopefully stay that way after our dogs start running over it&#8230; The old growth bamboo, which is 4 to 5 years for bamboo, has a &#8220;janka&#8221; (who came up with that hardness scale?!)\u00a0 rating of 3000, red oak comes in at 1290; which means that the bamboo is 2.3 times as hard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2101.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-920\" alt=\"IMG_2101\" src=\"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2101-249x300.jpg\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2101-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2101-852x1024.jpg 852w, https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2101.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2111.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-919\" alt=\"IMG_2111\" src=\"http:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2111-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2111-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/IMG_2111-1024x764.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We purchased it from a national liquidation chain, which had a great price and a wide variation of reviews, both positive and negative.\u00a0 The materials we purchased turned out to be great, no bad boards and minimal wastage &#8211; I ended up with 4 extra boxes. It&#8217;s hard to believe that the house will be in a home show tour in 10 days, it has been a long time coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week 750 square feet of 5\/8 inch thick strand bamboo flooring was put down upstairs. Our master carpenter Mike and I installed it in 2 1\/2 days, it looks really phenomenal and will hopefully stay that way after our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/?p=918\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":921,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions\/921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugglerscove.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}