If you know your U.S. history, there have been several attempts to adopt the metric system, all to no avail. It's the universal standard for most of the world and way more intuitive, yet the chances ...

You’ve no doubt heard the carpentry proverb “Measure twice, cut once” and may even have made it a mantra for your own projects. But unless you know how to use a tape measure and correctly read its ...

Why do some imperial tape measures have a mark at 16, 32 and 48 inches, and so on? • The extra marks found at 16-inch intervals are simply the standard spacing for joists and studs in carpentry.