Back in the late 1970s, when I was living in Canada, I worked for a home
builder who tried to do just this (in fact I was part of the conversion
program).
It failed of course, simply because (a) the Canadian building code for
residential was highly prescriptive, and didn't allow for such variations as
stud spacing, thickness, etc, and changing to a performance code, was (at
the time) a step too far; and (b) virtually all of the Canadian
manufacturers were highly geared to the American market, and weren't
prepared to manufacture what for them were relatively small quantities of
'oddball' sizes (rational metric though they may have been).
The idea is great - but are you ever going to be able to make a whole
industry switch en masse?
Great if you can, but I am not holding my breath.
John F-L
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From: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 7:16 PM
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:52288] Metric Home
Here is my version of how a Metric House would look like....
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-a-Metric-House/
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♽☯♑
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