Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You’ve no doubt heard the carpentry proverb “Measure twice, cut once” and may even have made it a mantra for your own projects.

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. There are few items in your tool box that see as much use as a measuring tape. So it's important to make sure that the tape you use is ...

That tiny notch does a job most homeowners never knew existed.

Whether you’re measuring workpieces for a home DIY project, hanging a gallery wall or just trying to figure out if a new couch can fit in your living room, there’s no substitute for a good tape ...

The odds are good that most households have at least one retractable tape measure, either in a toolbox, a junk drawer or on a garage shelf. These measuring tools are relatively inexpensive, easy to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On most measuring tapes, the black diamonds are spaced 19 3/16 inches apart to indicate the typical spacing of joists. Wall studs, ...

Although it would be wrong to say that tape measures are difficult to use, they can sometimes certainly be a bit fiddly - a couple of examples include the measuring of objects that aren't ...

There are limits to what a tape measure can do, such as give you the dimensions of a curved surface. Or add. But the new InstruMMents 01 ($149), despite its clunky name, can do nearly everything a ...

On July 14th, 1868, 151 years ago today, Alvin Fellows, of New Haven, Connecticut, patented his "new and useful improvement in spring measuring tapes." Though not the first, Fellows' design is widely ...