{"id":1071,"date":"2009-11-02T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2017-06-27T13:35:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T13:35:56","slug":"this-perishing-flooring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=1071","title":{"rendered":"Monday 2nd November 2009 &#8211; This perishing flooring &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; is getting on my wick.<\/p>\n<p>I know now why it was reduced for sale at Brico Depot and why there was so much of it. Most flooring is just plain good old ordinary tongue and grooving and it slots together quite nicely. This stuff has &#8220;our special patented interlocking system&#8221; and that should have set the alarm bells ringing in my head. There&#8217;s nothing wrong with tongue and grooving and there isn&#8217;t any point changing it, especially for &#8220;our patented&#8221; system which, as far as I can see, doesn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<p>It clicks together nicely on the shortest ends &#8211; on the longest sides it&#8217;s quite a struggle even with Ashley, my super-heavy-duty mallet; but you try to do both together. It&#8217;s now four times that I&#8217;ve had this floor restarted in an attempt to get it fitted properly. I&#8217;ve now resorted to cutting off the ends of the clips, nailing it to the floor on one side and twisting it in on the other. It sort-of fits but it looks untidy but I&#8217;ve got to the stage that I knew that I would reach sooner or later, namely that I can&#8217;t be bothered to waste any more time and I just want to be in there and settled down no matter what.<\/p>\n<p>And who can blame ne with this weather? It&#8217;s pouring down with rain tonight.we&#8217;ve had 13.5mm of rain so far this evening and my water butts are overflowing. A far cry from the end of September when we went something like 15 days without any rain.<\/p>\n<p>At the Anglo French group tonight no-one could remember whose turn it was to animate the evening so I had everyone playing charades, miming the use of tools used in DiY. Everyone entered into the spirit of things although Gilles did get carried away with his impression of a chainsaw &#8211; cutting Mark&#8217;s hand off was going a bit too far, I thought<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-1071 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='1071' data-nonce='0a67b41dde' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-1071 lc'>+2<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-1071 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='1071' data-nonce='0a67b41dde' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-1071 unlc'>-4<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-1071 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; is getting on my wick. I know now why it was reduced for sale at Brico Depot and why there was so much of it. Most flooring is just plain good old ordinary tongue and grooving and it slots together quite nicely. This stuff has &#8220;our special patented interlocking system&#8221; and that should have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4507,1616,393,258,671],"tags":[382,429,363,2560,5565,646,499,5366,672,286],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-gilles","category-les-guis","category-mark-spurrier","tag-anglo-french-group","tag-attic","tag-brico-depot-2","tag-eric-hall","tag-france","tag-gilles-2","tag-laminate-click-flooring","tag-les-guis","tag-mark-spurrier-2","tag-rainstorm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8351,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/8351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}