Secrets to using a tape measure

By Franklyn Gallup of I Teach Wood Floors


I teach do it yourselfers how to install, sand and refinish their own wood floors. 

One of the things I have found very useful is some secrets to using a tape measure. In school we learned to reduce fractions. In using a tape measure that might not be the best thing to do.


Let me tell you that there is no "Half Inch" on my tape measure. It's .8 , "three quarters of an inch" is .12 five sixteenths is .5 I use a standard tape measure....Read More