I think you would find better material availablility if you stick with Federal guidelines, as Federal building is about 10% of the construction industry. Non-Federal metric construction is about 0%. Here are a couple of Federal guides to get you started. You can Google more. http://www.usaid.gov/policy/ads/300/metricproducts.pdf http://www.ofeo.si.edu/ae_center/docs/gsa%20metric%20design%20guidelines.pdf The Feds use a 100 mm module, but usually multiples of it, 400 mm spacing for studs (and 1200 x 2400 mm for drywall, plywood) and a lot of 300 mm and 600 mm multiples.
--- On Sun, 3/18/12, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: From: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:51541] Re: Anyone try to build a house in metric? To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, March 18, 2012, 8:28 AM I would love to build a metric home, but I would insist with 500 mm spaced studs (that falls right between 16 & 24 in.), and would have to order dry wall in meter lengths (but keep it 48 in wide so not to piss them off to much) from the factory, a truck load of course. I have an idea for the outer walls, it's a double wall configuration, instead of a 140 mm or 190 mm studs, two 90 mm studs alternating spaces from the inner wall and outer wall, so the two studs are never sided by side, in order to weave insulation between the studs. Studs are a heat sink in the walls, a bad thing. But you can still use a single 190 mm top and bottom plates. Bruce E. Arkwright, Jr Erie PA Linux and Metric User and Enforcer I will only invest in nukes that are 150 gigameters away. How much solar energy have you collected today? Id put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we dont have to wait til oil and coal run out before we tackle that. I wish I had a few more years left. -- Thomas Edison♽☯♑ Mar 18, 2012 12:24:39 AM, [email protected] wrote: =========================================== I'm designing my house, which I'm going to build hopefully this year, maybe the next, in western North Carolina. (It depends on how soon I get the money, and I have a few things to do before actually starting to build the house.) The plans are all in metric. I'll be directing the work. Right now I'm designing the collar tie braces, which have slots every 400 mm. If I ask around for carpenters and say "you'll be working six meters up", and give them drawings of the pieces of wood in millimeters, what reaction am I likely to get? (The top of the truss is 5873 mm above the floor, to be precise.) Pierre -- La sal en el mar es más que en la sangre. Le sel dans la mer est plus que dans le sang.
