Might as well have been my Dad. He's a retired contractor, and he often complained about having to use inches. :)
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Michael Payne <[email protected]>wrote: > I had a contractor who was from Poland, he was ecstatic when I told him I > preferred metric because he did as well, he was forced to use inches and > fractions because that was the status quo. > > Mike Payne > > On 18/03/2012, at 06:13 , John M. Steele wrote: > > No, I have no experience at it. Federal construction is supposed to be > metric so I would look for tradesmen who have worked on Federal building > projects. Otherwise, I would guess you are VERY unlikely to find anyone > with metric experience. (Another possibility is illegal immigrants from > metric countries). Most people in the construction trades are going to > blank out when you mention metric. > > --- On *Sun, 3/18/12, Pierre Abbat <[email protected]>* wrote: > > > From: Pierre Abbat <[email protected]> > Subject: [USMA:51537] Anyone try to build a house in metric? > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, March 18, 2012, 12:20 AM > > 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. > > >
