{"id":42303,"date":"2022-07-20T09:33:34","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T14:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=42303"},"modified":"2022-07-20T09:33:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T14:33:34","slug":"kitchen-reno-day-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/kitchen-reno-day-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitchen Reno &#8211; Day 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Post 194 of 263)<\/p>\n<p>Finally ready for cabinetry and the electrician!<\/p>\n<p>This was the first day that I really inspected as I know they are finishing up the paint and concrete work so it was the now-or-never moment to get nitpicky. There&#8217;s a ton of paint touch-ups to do.<\/p>\n<p>I was pretty devastated to find a huge structural crack in my sink counter, which probably happened when they were cutting the rebar. So I need to address that today. I suspect it can be filled and will virtually disappear under the polishing, but I&#8217;m bracing myself for a &#8220;it&#8217;s no big deal&#8221; conversation.<\/p>\n<p>All of the concrete is cracking, but I did my research before going WTF and learned that&#8217;s normal as the concrete dries and settles, so I&#8217;m not worried about that. I actually like the effect and can&#8217;t wait to see everything polished. I suspect the cracks are just going to add colour and texture. I&#8217;ve seen polished concrete in other people&#8217;s homes and I find it amazing that the current matte dusty finish is going to get so soft and shiny &#8212; maybe today!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kitchen Reno - Day 13\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fY5RbXD9ULQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Post 194 of 263) Finally ready for cabinetry and the electrician! This was the first day that I really inspected as I know they are finishing up the paint and concrete work so it was the now-or-never moment to get nitpicky. There&#8217;s a ton of paint touch-ups to do. I was pretty devastated to find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[895],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42305,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42303\/revisions\/42305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}