Pierre, this man has done it. "Metric Today" ran a major story on him in
2004 when he confronted Florida officials with metric-only house plans. His
e-mail address is [email protected] .
Robert R. Bullard, P. E.
Absolute Engineering Group, div. of Ahimsa Technic, Inc.
Office and Parcel Mailing Address:
440 Western Road (via Lakeshore Dr., off SR 415, Samsula)
New Smyrna Beach, FL 32168
Correspondence Mailing Address:
P. O. Box 291278, Port Orange, FL 32129-1278
(ph) 386.428.7361; (fx) 386.427.2198
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pierre Abbat" <[email protected]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: 2012-03-17 23:20
Subject: [USMA:51537] Anyone try to build a house in metric?
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
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La sal en el mar es más que en la sangre.
Le sel dans la mer est plus que dans le sang.
