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On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 03:57:42 GMT, "Edwin Pawlowski"
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All standard construction in the US has studs spaced at 16 or 24
inches. A sheet of plywood, sheetrock, etc is usually 8 by 4 feet.
Roofing shingles, carpetting, linoleum, are all sold in yards, feet or
inches. Plumbing pipe is one half, three quarters one inch and so on.

We cant just change these things, and it would be totally rediculous
to have separate building materials for both inches and centimeters.
How can we ever change this? I surely dont want to buy a sheet of
plywood or sheetrock that wont fit across my 16" walls or floor
studs/joists. And if we keep the size the same, but change to metric
measurements, instead of saying a 4 by 8 foot sheet of plywood we
would have to say a long decimal equivalant with POINT something at
the end.

Most of the molding machines we buy that are metric use standard pipe
sizes
of BPP sizes readily available. We make and export Insulating Concrete
Forms
(ICF's as www.integraspec.com ) to Canada and sometimes Europe in standard
US sizes and they work with them OK. I doubt we will ever see a pure
metric
society.



OK, here's a question to anyone that knows.
In countries that strictly use metrics, how big is a sheet of plywood?
Does it still measure 4x8 feet (but in metric)? Do they still space
studs 16 or 24 inches (but in metric)?
That's what I dont understand.
If not, what are the sizes they use?

Mark

I have asked several people from metric countries if eggs were sold by ten
or by dozens.

An interesting experiment. We leave it for the student . . .

Charlie