On 3/3/2011 9:36 PM, aemeijers wrote:
On 3/3/2011 10:21 PM, The Daring Dufas wrote:
On 3/3/2011 8:06 PM, Pete C. wrote:

David Nebenzahl wrote:

Alright, so this is Carpentry 101, but I'm gonna ask it anyhow.

Question concerns taking measurements where there is an inside corner:
how do you do it accurately? F'rinstance, say you're sheeting the
inside
of a closet and are measuring the wall height from floor to ceiling.
You
put the bottom of your tape against the floor, climb up on your
stepstool or whatever, then wrap your tape around the top corner of the
wall. What then?

I mean, it's really hard to know just what exactly the actual height
is.
It *looks* like 93 5/8--no, make that 11/16--maybe 3/4--WTF?

It almost makes me want to build myself a little "story pole", two long
sticks grooved together with a little clamp to take exact inside
measurements. (I think a sliding dovetail would work nicely here.)

How do you handle this? How did carpenters do this in the olden days?
What tricks do you use? How many times do you just cut a piece
oversize,
then trim to fit?

In the bad old days, I'd use my trusty Stanley Power-Lock and just
extend it floor to ceiling, read off the distance and add the case
offset. In the good new days I just use my Stanley laser measure and
point and shoot.

Um, won't that blow a hole through the wall? :-)

TDD

Gotta use the LOW power setting.


I didn't know the things had a stun setting. ^_^

TDD