Originally Posted by cath8r
I use both as a tilesetter. In Canada, where I live within 20 miles south of Detroit Michigan, we mainly use imperial. I layout my jobs in metric and honestly it makes life alot easier. Everything in 10's and I can know about how big a piece of tile will be on the other end of a 100 foot room with about 20 seconds of quick head math.


I can do the same with the imperial system. Funny though most tile is made in various sizes of inches, a very common tile size is 1'x1'. So wouldn't it be easier in your 100' room to head math 1'x1'?

Dog I rescued in January

[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]