I am curious about wood dimensioning using metric in Canada. Of course inches and feet are readily converted but I was wondering when you go to the lumberyard to purchase what down here we would call4/4 or 5/4 etc, what is the “Canadian” equivalent? 3/4” thickness is of course very common for many furniture pieces what is the common metric equivalent? 19 or 20 mm? Or19.1mm? It would appear to make for complicated ultra precise measuring and cutting on complicated structures built off non metric plans.
And when we buy ‘ 2x4’ etc what is your equivalent? Our lengths are in feet, so when you build a house what is your nominal inside ceiling height? Do you copy our “standard” that you have to turn into metric or do you have your own? I’m thinking of dimensions for door and window widths and so on.
I most certainly am not trying to say one system is better than the other, but do wish we were metric too. And living next to a big English system using country must create some interesting problems.