I am working on another renovation and doing a lot of measuring, cutting and placements. I have metric on my Fat Max tape and I just stumbled into using it. Those boys might be on to something there.
Example I have a wall 6 feet 6 3/4" long and I want 4 evenly spaced lights on it (5 equal intervals counting the ends)
I could convert this all to 1/4" segments and divide that, then reconvert back to inches (like they taught you in school) or I could just say this is 200 cm, divided by 5 so I measure 40 cm between each light and off I go.
At a certain point I am really only using the metric scale as an arbitrary decimal measurement but it does work pretty neat.
Since things like "1/2" plywood, trade marked '15/32" is really 12mm this transition may even start to get easier.
"Them furriners" may win me over here.
