Room Sizes Only in Metres

vectistim

Down with a base ten system - the choice of factors is really quite poor.

xylophone

Four metres is almost exactly 13 feet - use that as a rough "visualisation" guide?

REDDDRAGGON

I work in engineering and it annoys me when the old guys (and even apprentices) talk inches and "thous". Even Fahrenheit is still used for temperature. (A throwback to when we were owned by the Yanks I guess)

They get confused as soon as I start talking micrometers or centimeters, they only understand "milli"!

Everyone should be able to handle SI units these days.

BeenThroughItAll

I was brought up with metric measurements, but I can't visualise things in them. I have to convert into feet and inches.

I spoke with an engineer recently. He's in his sixties and was amazed that I could actually read an imperial micrometer and vernier caliper.

Soot2006

While I can visualise room dimension in feet & inches, I always find it a lot easier in metres. My brain immediately provides me with the m square without prompting and I find I memorise the space a lot better.

Mind you, I think in metres most of the time. I'm probably the only doofus on the roads who when seeing the "30 miles to destination" road sign, will say "well as long as we stay at 50kmh we should be there in about a hour".

Errata

I blame the short legged Romans.

lazer

I was only ever taught metric measurements (started school in the mid 80's), however in everyday life i mostly use imperial.

Lengths - miles, yards, feet & inches
Weights - ounces, pounds and stones

I do however use Litres for liquids, as the only imperial liquid measurement i know is pint!

getmore4less

xylophone wrote: »

Four metres is almost exactly 13 feet - use that as a rough "visualisation" guide?

10ft for 3m is probably easier to work with and they are both very close one over one under by the same amount.

10ft = 3.0480 ( + 0.0320)
13ft = 3.9624 ( - 0.0316)

PasturesNew

westv wrote: »

Am I the only one that finds it very annoying when EAs only show room measurements in metres and are too lazy to show feet and inches too?

I hate it. It's laziness. Lazy, lazy, lazy - their job is to try to sell something and the way to do that is to make the house attractive to would be buyers, not to put obstacles in their face.

There's often no shortage of houses one could read more about, perhaps view..... and having the measurements in both standards would widen the property appeal.

AdrianC

Surely the easiest conversion for a die-hard Imperialist is one metre = one yard (roughly)...?