{"id":52900,"date":"2026-07-25T19:13:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T19:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=52900"},"modified":"2026-07-25T19:13:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T19:13:54","slug":"english-home-maintenance-what-is-a-kerf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-home-maintenance-what-is-a-kerf\/","title":{"rendered":"English, home maintenance: what is a kerf?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about home maintenance terms: the tutor mentions &#8220;kerf.&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>\nThe following is by my understanding.<\/p>\n<p>\nA kerf is a notch cut lengthwise along a piece of substrate. It may be intended to receive a tab to hold other material, such as weather stripping.<\/p>\n<p>\nI learned this because I was refurbishing a door frame this week, the weather stripping of which fit into a kerf cut around it.<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p>\n<p>\nMish, F.C. (editor in chief), 2004. <em>The Merriam-Webster Dictionary.<\/em> Merriam-Webster, Incorporated.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about home maintenance terms: the tutor mentions &#8220;kerf.&#8221; The following is by my understanding. A kerf is a notch cut lengthwise along a piece of substrate. It may be intended to receive a tab to hold other material, such &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-home-maintenance-what-is-a-kerf\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English, home maintenance: what is a kerf?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2454],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-home-maintenance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52901,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52900\/revisions\/52901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}