We are predominantly metric in the UK but we have the same island mentality as the US and won't give up on imperial without a fight. I would always refer to sheet material as 8x4 but it is sold as 2440x1220 and I would cut it using millimetres.
Stud work is referred to as 3x2 or 4x2 and still commonly referred to as that but sold in mms.
I still refer to doors as 6ft6, 6ft9 by 27 or 30 inches etc but they are sold in metric again.
We have probably converted to litres for fuel as it sold that way but mileage figures are still quoted as miles/gallon.
We drink wine in 750ml bottles but I don't know any who says they are going for 570ml of beer after work. Everything is still sold in pints and referred to that way. I guess that would be the last one us Brits would give up.
I can never see my weight or height in kgs or centimetres, that's definitely still imperial.
But everything to do with cutting any materials or any design work is 100% metric. I wouldn't ever consider using imperial for that. However once I worked out I needed 12 sheets of 2440 x 1220 I would always ask for 12 sheets of 8x4 at a trade counter as would every other UK tradesmen.
I could also never see a field size in hectares but I can tell you how big a 20 acre field is and to the best of my knowledge still use acres for everything but the crop yield is always measured in metric tonnes.
I could easily buy a 25kg bag of potatoes but at one time it would always have been half a hundredweight which was of course 112lbs!
Also who ever said they had a 177.8mm ****. It is always going to be 7 inches. And what about the lady with a cracking pair of 914.4mm DD's. It's just not the same.
We're not really so far ahead of the US on our conversion to metric.
Stud work is referred to as 3x2 or 4x2 and still commonly referred to as that but sold in mms.
I still refer to doors as 6ft6, 6ft9 by 27 or 30 inches etc but they are sold in metric again.
We have probably converted to litres for fuel as it sold that way but mileage figures are still quoted as miles/gallon.
We drink wine in 750ml bottles but I don't know any who says they are going for 570ml of beer after work. Everything is still sold in pints and referred to that way. I guess that would be the last one us Brits would give up.
I can never see my weight or height in kgs or centimetres, that's definitely still imperial.
But everything to do with cutting any materials or any design work is 100% metric. I wouldn't ever consider using imperial for that. However once I worked out I needed 12 sheets of 2440 x 1220 I would always ask for 12 sheets of 8x4 at a trade counter as would every other UK tradesmen.
I could also never see a field size in hectares but I can tell you how big a 20 acre field is and to the best of my knowledge still use acres for everything but the crop yield is always measured in metric tonnes.
I could easily buy a 25kg bag of potatoes but at one time it would always have been half a hundredweight which was of course 112lbs!
Also who ever said they had a 177.8mm ****. It is always going to be 7 inches. And what about the lady with a cracking pair of 914.4mm DD's. It's just not the same.
We're not really so far ahead of the US on our conversion to metric.
