{"id":1200,"date":"2018-02-04T16:00:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T00:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2018-02-03T19:50:11","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T03:50:11","slug":"basement-floor-polishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/04\/basement-floor-polishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Basement floor polishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We decided that we liked the idea of polished concrete in our basement rather than laying down flooring &#8211; wood, carpet, tile, etc &#8211; and it is a lot cheaper, coming in at $2 \/ sq ft versus $5-7 for carpet and around $14 for wood.\u00a0 As we near the end of the project, we are looking for every opportunity to save a little money.<\/p>\n<p>Here is our rec room before.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1201\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_7579-1280x960.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_7579-1280x960.jpg 1280w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_7579-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_7579-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1202\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_7588-1280x960.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_7588-1280x960.jpg 1280w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_7588-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_7588-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here is after.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1203\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8687-1280x960.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8687-1280x960.jpg 1280w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8687-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8687-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1214\" src=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8693-1-1280x960.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"548\" srcset=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8693-1-1280x960.jpg 1280w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8693-1-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_8693-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a nice look and I hope it holds up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We decided that we liked the idea of polished concrete in our basement rather than laying down flooring &#8211; wood, carpet, tile, etc &#8211; and it is a lot cheaper, coming in at $2 \/ sq ft versus $5-7 for carpet and around $14 for wood.\u00a0 As we near the end of the project, we<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/2018\/02\/04\/basement-floor-polishing\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Read more about Basement floor polishing<\/span>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flooring"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1238,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions\/1238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buildingfromscratch.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}