{"id":40,"date":"2008-05-08T08:55:19","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T06:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=40"},"modified":"2008-05-27T14:07:56","modified_gmt":"2008-05-27T12:07:56","slug":"raise-high-the-roof-beam-carpenters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A whole lot of work&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/s6300351r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-41\" title=\"s6300351r\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/s6300351r-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/s6300351r-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/s6300351r.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/s6300350r.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42\" title=\"s6300350r\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/s6300350r-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/s6300350r-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/s6300350r.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; to gain about half a meter of headroom at the bottom and maybe 300mm at the top.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I couldn&#8217;t fit both the Libra Misty bath with glass and front panel and the Libra Neptune Euro in the Rand-Lover, so the Neptune&#8217;s still at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.exb.co.za\" target=\"_blank\">Exquisite Bathrooms<\/a>. Some other day.<\/p>\n<p>And unless we can find a very good match for the kitchen floor tiles this weekend (we need to replace two tiles) we&#8217;ll need to strip &amp; replace the whole lot. Now tiles are, or can be, relatively inexpensive. R50 or R60 per square meter. Having them laid, however, easily doubles this. On the third hand, I have a remarkably versatile chappy working for me, and I suspect he&#8217;d be able to lay tile at a rate of knots if properly instructed.<\/p>\n<p>Update, 2008-05-12 : We bought 10 square meters of &#8220;LC680 Bahamas Beige 408&#215;408&#8221; from CTM at R64.90 per square. Of course the little 110&#215;110 inset (pattern) tiles at R29.90 each pushed up the price quite a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A whole lot of work&#8230; &#8230; to gain about half a meter of headroom at the bottom and maybe 300mm at the top. Oh, and I couldn&#8217;t fit both the Libra Misty bath with glass and front panel and the Libra Neptune Euro in the Rand-Lover, so the Neptune&#8217;s still at Exquisite Bathrooms. Some other day. And unless we can find a very good match for the kitchen floor tiles this weekend (we need to replace two tiles) we&#8217;ll need to strip &amp; replace the whole lot. Now tiles are, or can be, relatively inexpensive. R50 or R60 per square&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}