Years ago, between jobs, I was working for an agency.Peter.N. wrote: 06 Apr 2020, 15:17 Reminds me of when we first came down here. I needed a new hot water cylinder, as we were now metric I ordered it in mm, certainly said the man, brought it down and put it on the counter, on the side was written 36 x 15.
Peter
I worked with some suspended ceiling fixers for a while, just labouring sort of stuff.
Sometimes the dimensions they gave me for cutting the ceiling tiles at the edges and corners of the room were mixed metric and imperial, and/or ambiguous between millimetres and centimetres. Usually I looked at where they were and if it seemed confusing I asked, but they got one or two surprises.