On 3/4/2011 6:59 PM woodworker plans spake thus:

responding to
http://www.homeownershub.com/mainten...on-623993-.htm
woodworker plans 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?

bump your tape into one corner or the other and measure out 10 inches and
make a mark, then measure from the other corner to the mark and add 10
inches. There you go no more trying to read the roll of the tape.

I think we got essentially the same answer about 10 replies up there.
Which you would have known had you read this on Usenet, which is where I
posted it, instead of the god-damned Homeowner's Hub web-scraping
service. (Wonder if they'll post this reply there?)


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