Laser Measuring Tapes

Probably one of the most used tools around the house, other than the vacuum cleaner, is the tape measure and more recently - laser measuring tapes. It seems mothers and fathers are forever measuring something in or around the house. Mothers measure windows, prior to buying curtains. Fathers measure things outside, like the fence, the dog’s kennel and so forth. It appears without a tape measure, the human race couldn’t survive. Since the advent of laser measuring tapes, measuring has become so much easier and this has caused the number of people measuring to increase. Indeed in the old days if you wanted to keep a kid quiet, you would give him or her a standard measuring tape and ask both of them to measure the backyard – that’ll keep them quiet for hours. That’s how we managed to get a few hours of peace while the kids tried to remember the distance from the backdoor step to the clothes line- the kids never thought to write it down. Nowadays, if you happen to have one of the latest laser measuring tapes and hand it to those same two kids and ask them to measure the same yard, you’re going to have to send out a search party to find them. They’ll be measuring everything they can find.

 The CST Stanley 77-910 TL M100 Fatmax is reputed to be one of the best laser measuring tapes on the market. Retailing for around $100.00 it is supposedly able to be accurate up to 1/4 of an inch. The device is easy to use and is handy around the house for all those miscellaneous jobs. All that is required to operate the measure is to point and press the button. Within seconds you’ll receive a detail measurement of the distance between you and what you’re aiming at. Resetting the device, will allow you find out the distance between two different objects. The advantages to using this type of measuring tool are clear. One can measure longer distances without having to have someone hold their finger on anything. The measures are faster and don’t require the person using the device to take giant steps across the yard trying to fathom the distance from the garage to the pool. And finally, they are safer. Instead on balance in some precarious position while you try to measure a window for a curtain, you can do the measuring from the safety of the living room floor.

 I’m not sure if carpenters have taken to this new invention or whether they are sticking with the tried and true measuring tape. It seems to me if these skilled trades’ people were able to hang up their hammer in favor of a nail gun, then surely using one of the many laser measuring tapes on the market today, would make their construction life so much easier.