{"id":184,"date":"2020-02-09T20:23:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T07:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ward.kiwi\/?p=184"},"modified":"2020-11-01T22:22:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-01T09:22:56","slug":"steel-and-polystyrene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ward.kiwi\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"Steel and Polystyrene"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s been a couple of weeks.&nbsp; We now have steel reinforcing supplies and the all important Maxraft EPS (Expanded Polystyrene) panels on site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the choices we&#8217;ve made to achieve a comfortable energy efficient home, is to go with a Maxraft slab.  Maxraft, is New Zealand&#8217;s only (at the time of writing) fully insulated slab.  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One of the choices we&#8217;ve made to achieve a comfortable energy efficient home, is to go with a Maxraft slab. Maxraft, is New Zealand&#8217;s only (at the time of writing) fully insulated &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ward.kiwi\/?p=184\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Steel and Polystyrene&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ward.kiwi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ward.kiwi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ward.kiwi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ward.kiwi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ward.kiwi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ward.kiwi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188,"href":"https:\/\/www.ward.kiwi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ward.kiwi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ward.kiwi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ward.kiwi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}