{"id":2056,"date":"2011-03-23T09:09:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T14:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/?p=2056"},"modified":"2011-03-23T09:09:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T14:09:13","slug":"goodbye-linoleum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=2056","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, Linoleum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have hated the floor in the bathroom for years.  It was original-issue linoleum, was impossible to get completely clean, and was peeling in areas near water, like the tub and under the window.<\/p><p>So, late last year, when my favorite contractor called to see if work needed to be done, I was able to bargain with him a little on installing a new floor, since I had just enough materials left over from the kitchen\/livingroom\/hallway project to do so.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/100_4469.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/100_4469-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"100_4469\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2059\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/100_4471.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/100_4471-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"100_4471\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2060\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/100_4476.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/100_4476-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"100_4476\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2061\" \/><\/a><\/p><p>We scheduled the work for today, so yesterday, Ron removed the baseboard and I ripped up the old linoleum.<\/p><p>It&#8217;s not clear whether this was time wasted or not.  It did allow us to see the condition of the top subfloor, which was badly water-damaged.  The carpenters ripped that out so that the new floor would be even with the hallway, similar to what they did in the kitchen.  <\/p><p>I think the carpenters knew what they were doing and the PM did not.  Amazing, workers knowing more than management!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have hated the floor in the bathroom for years. It was original-issue linoleum, was impossible to get completely clean, and was peeling in areas near water, like the tub and under the window.So, late last year, when my favorite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=2056\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}