Push Rod Engines

What I hate is tape measures with metric on one edge, and all my lumber and sheet-goods, comes in feet or inches. Floor-joists are set on 16" ctrs, and walls on 24. The roof is sheeted with 4x8s and drywall comes in the same 4x8s.
But flooring is no longer 12 ft wide, nor is it sold by the yard; now it is 4 meters wide, to the rooms 11ft5inches. So I cut a 19" strip off the side and throw it away. which is about a half a meter...... that I just paid a lotta money for. Good sales strategy.
I'll fix 'em tho; Ima gonna make all my closets 19inches deep, and put the seam right under the door.