I have a meeting for a new job doing sales for a Glass company.
Custom glass, showers, mirrors, railings.
Doing measurements on sites/homes.
I have done sales before and have the experience. But I don't have a lot of experience doing measurements and having to be super accurate in this field. Is taking measurements super difficult for this job? I am freaking out over the idea of screwing up measurements etc.
I am not sure if they use lasers and or just tape measures.
I need to get one of those EZ read tape measures.
How hard could it be just get accurate measurements and I'm sure they will give you some training
>I need to get one of those EZ read tape measures.
You're one of THOSE guys
That is literally one of the first things they will tell you. Ask what your coworker recommends and then get that.
Things to look out for
DO NOT use a laser, jesus fricking christ those things are good 99 percent of time, but that 1 percent whoops its a half inch off for no god damn reason, and it wont be when your cutting a 2x4
look at pic related: You see that worthless gap before zero? well guess what. That shit will ass rape your measurements. You will be off by however much that gay ass gap is if you use the ruler to but into a wall and take a measurement.
to combat this get a combination square, just a 12 dollar piece of shit s good enough.
you need one of these to take proper inside measurments
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Who the frick would measure a shower with a ruler
hey you fricking moronic pile of ass. you would measure tiles with a ruler. so you can also scrie
or maybe you need to find the center of a pipe and in order to do that you have to butt a tape measure into the wall but there is some shit in the way and a tape measure wont fit so you would use a ruler
there are shit loads of reasons why a ruler is often better than a tape.
Where won't a tape measure fit?
when you have shit in the way. Like any sort of shit, maybe you have a valve in the way maybe you have tile in the way
maybe its a piece of trim
perhaps its a pile of fricking thinset that you could chip off but frick it your ruler will fit so why bother
could be that you want a set of measurments to stay on the ground and your tape measre wants to fall over well guess what a ruler wont fall over cuz its already fricking over.
a ruler is flat while a tape measure blade is round which makes it less accurate for marking with.
This sounds less like a gotcha and more like a fundamental misapplication of a ruler instead of a tape measure. What do you do, make a pencil mark at the end so you know where to put the ruler to measure the next foot?
no you do what I already said which is to buy a combination square and use the ruler it comes with, because it starts a zero like a ruler fricking should
I know I said dont get lasers and what I mean is dont by a laser measure
DO buy as many laser levers as you can possibly afford
DO get a laser square
DO get a laser plumb bob
>DO get a laser plumb bob
Why would you get a plumb bob that takes batteries? What's wrong with a regular bob?
you dont need to have a anchoring point on the ceiling to use a laser
its a million times faster
they are not affected by wind
I use mine to mark ceiling junction boxes center onto the floor, then I board over them and then I put the laser back on the floor mark and now I know where the center is on the board.
Lol Jesus dude. Measure twice and mark down your on your note pad.
I've worked construction sales for 10 years. Shit is not hard.
>Measure twice
Meaning take the measurement and do it again from the other end, if possible, for you complete fricking morons.
>measurements
Pffft. Just pull sting to length and cut it. Then put all the strings completely unlabelled into a single envelope. Write the (job number + the current date - your phone number ÷ π) on the envelope. And mail it COD.
Is it renewal by andersen?
OP when in doubt, ask a colleague. Don't try to wing it.