{"id":13,"date":"2005-11-07T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-07T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/tiles-flooring\/wooden-floors\/wooden-floors-for-bathrooms-and-kitchens"},"modified":"2005-11-07T17:55:35","modified_gmt":"2005-11-07T17:55:35","slug":"wooden-floors-for-bathrooms-and-kitchens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/tiles-flooring\/wooden-floors\/wooden-floors-for-bathrooms-and-kitchens\/","title":{"rendered":"Wooden Floors for Bathrooms and Kitchens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='\/images\/listone-giordano\/cabreuva-bathroom-flooring.jpg' class=\"right\" alt='Cabreuva real wood flooring in a bathroom' \/><\/p>\n<p>Now that the Uk has fallen out of love with bathroom carpets &#8211; what are the alternatives?  Well, there&#8217;s vinyl, tiles or stone &#8211; but not wood.<\/p>\n<p>Suggest wooden floors in a bathroom and you&#8217;re likely to be met with much sucking of teeth.  &#8220;Oooh I wouldn&#8217;t do that &#8211; you&#8217;ll get shrinkage or cupping, gapping or splitting.  It&#8217;s the humidity you see&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But now, Italian company Listone Giordano claim to have found a solution &#8211; by combining a fine hardwood layer with a marine birch ply support base.  Listone Giordano say that this is more stable and durable than any other hardwood floor on the market, and they&#8217;re so confident, they&#8217;re even recommending it for installation in bathrooms and kitchens.<\/p>\n<p>The range includes 15 species of timber (the picture is of Cabreuva), available in several hardwearing finishes.<\/p>\n<p>Prices start from \u00c2\u00a351 per square metre.<\/p>\n<p><strong>web:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.listonegiordano.com\/\">http:\/\/www.listonegiordano.com<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>tel:<\/strong> (0800) 234 6866<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the Uk has fallen out of love with bathroom carpets &#8211; what are the alternatives? Well, there&#8217;s vinyl, tiles or stone &#8211; but not wood. Suggest wooden floors in a bathroom and you&#8217;re likely to be met with much sucking of teeth. &#8220;Oooh I wouldn&#8217;t do that &#8211; you&#8217;ll get shrinkage or cupping, gapping or splitting. It&#8217;s the humidity you see&#8230;&#8221; But now, Italian company Listone Giordano claim to have found a solution &#8211; by combining a fine hardwood layer with a marine birch ply support base. Listone Giordano say that this is more stable and durable than &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/tiles-flooring\/wooden-floors\/wooden-floors-for-bathrooms-and-kitchens\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[156,155],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukhomeideas.co.uk\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}