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About the only times I use Imperial are both very specific - it is when we are laying plywood or diaphragm floors onto joists which will use 8 x 4ft (2440 x 1220mm) sub-flooring or installing rafters which will get 8 x 4ft (2440 x 1220mm) sarking boards applied to them. Bear in mind that in those instances ceiling boards will be suspended on metal framing and not fixed directly onto the undersides of rafters or joists, so there is no need to accommodate metric PB, so those timbers (joists/rafters) all go in on 16in (and sometimes 24in) centres, for which I have a Bahco 8m/26ft metric/Imperial tape - but at this point I sometimes have difficulties getting the thicker ones to understand that when I say joists on 16in centres, I mean joists on 16in centres, not 400mm..... And still there's always one who can't understand why and has to be sent to do pennance (shuttering) in the deepest, darkest, wettest cellar I can think of ....
Everything else we do really is metric these days. One day, I'm sure, plywood will be, too - just don't hold your breath.
Everything else we do really is metric these days. One day, I'm sure, plywood will be, too - just don't hold your breath.
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