Metric or imperial?
Question:do you measure a job up in inches & fractions or are you a convert to the metric cm & mms ?
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I will get it in my ear if my brother ever comes on here and sees my answer. I weigh in pounds and ounces, measure in yards feet and inches and my head still uses pounds shillings and pence.
I am 54 and I just cannot visualise how far a kilometer is but I can with a mile or so many yards. I remember the 800 yard race on sports day from school, i know my garden path is five yards but havent the foggiest idea what they are in metric.
My brother tries to tell me its easier in metric but I am sorry to any converts out there but is definately not for me
Im young enough to only know cm's and not inches...
it depends on which side of the ruler I place down first, metric, imperial, it's all relative to me
I prefer metric. You don't have to remember how many sixty-fourths there are in nine and five eighths.
Depends on who the calculation is for - me (or possibly a customer). If either is more suited to metric or imperial, then I'd quote that way, and probably do a final conversion of the measurements, to allow their own easy comparisons, against other quotes, or recommendations etc.
Always make it easy for your customers, so that they don't get the hidden measage that you're harder to do business with - give them the opposite - that you make life easy for them.
Conversely, if DIY is to help me along, then I do what makes it simple and easy for me.
both, depends what nearest, i often mix the 2.
i think i know my 25.4 times table up to 120 !!
mm only
Still in old money
Meters, centimetres, millimetres
I am a builder and occasionally work with two different tradesmen. One likes metric and the other imperial. It is frustrating, however I can use both without any problem and if i give an imperial measurement can more or less convert it to metric mentally straight away.
Depends on who you are measuring the job up for. Use feet and inches for the younger generation, they don't understand it. Use metric for the older folks likewise. In either case you need to know what you're doing. Me - I order things like timber in a mixture of both ie 100m of 4x2, or 6x3 sheets of 18mm ply!
Good question! Depends how big the job is. If it's around the house, I use either, but tend towards imperial for larger lengths. For small items to a high tolerance, I prefer metric - it saves all the "three and thirteen sixteenths and a bit" stuff. But when metalworking on my lathe, often to a very high tolerance, I go for thousandths of an inch - I can visualise "thous" better than fractions of a millimetre, somehow.
depends on your age use what you feel best with. but if you can spend some time adjusting to metric it can be much easier to work with or move to states they still use imperial!!
as long as you get the end result it doesn't really matter,i use both,some diy shops i know still do,they measure the wood in metric,but provide a glass cutting service which is imperial. i tend to find working out some awkward measurements is easier in metric.
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