{"id":382,"date":"2012-03-30T15:19:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T15:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanfloor.com\/blog\/?p=382"},"modified":"2017-10-20T19:26:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T19:26:51","slug":"ron-calls-tip-of-the-week-003-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/ron-calls-tip-of-the-week-003-2","title":{"rendered":"Ron Call&#8217;s Tip of the Week #003"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tip of the Week<br \/>\nMarch 30, 2012<br \/>\nby Ron Call, your Urbanfloor Guy<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_355\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Ron-Call.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-355\" class=\" wp-image-355\" title=\"Ron-Call\" src=\"http:\/\/urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Ron-Call-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-355\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ron Call, your Urbanfloor Guy<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When purchasing your new hardwood floor it&#8217;s a real good idea to make sure when\u00a0the job is\u00a0done you have a few extra boxes left over as an insurance policy.\u00a0 I have replaced many floors over the years because of a small amount of flood damage caused by a dishwasher or a washing machine that leaked. \u00a0Although the damage was limited to a small portion of the kitchen or the hallway, the entire home had to be replaced because the homeowner had no left over material from the original\u00a0install.\u00a0 Manufacturers are constantly changing products, colors and styles of flooring from year-to-year.\u00a0 If your hardwood floor has been discontinued by the manufacturer and you cannot match the original floor you may be forced to replace hundreds of square feet because of damage to a very small area.\u00a0 Having a few left over boxes of wood stored in your attic or basement could save you thousands of dollars in the future.\u00a0 So when your job is done if you have very little left over\u00a0 material go to your retailer and buy a couple extra boxes of wood.\u00a0 This is cheap insurance for your very expensive investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tip of the Week March 30, 2012 by Ron Call, your Urbanfloor Guy When purchasing your new hardwood floor it&#8217;s a real good idea to make sure when\u00a0the job is\u00a0done you have a few extra boxes left over as an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,109],"tags":[19,120,110,54,121,539],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-educational","category-tip-of-the-week","tag-hardwood-flooring","tag-matching-original-floor","tag-new-purchase","tag-ron-call","tag-spare-replacement-wood","tag-urbanfloor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2597,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/2597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanfloor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}