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You're getting ready to start a home improvement project, and you've heard the word square
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You're thinking it's got to be square. Are we talking about a carpenter square like this
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Well, yes and no. Here's what it means. Something is square when you've got a series of 90-degree angles in the object
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And for example, on a framing square, this leg of the framing square happens to be 90 degrees as opposed to the base of the square
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you do that on a big scale, forget about all the formulas. You don't need to know all that complicated math
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Here's the easy way. Simply make sure that the bottom plate or the top plate
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of any of the walls that you're building are the same length. I don't care what the length is
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Make sure that the wall studs are also the same length. Now you've got a rectangle
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If you're building a deck, the same principle is true. Make sure that the band boards are the same length
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and that their floor joists leaving the house are the same length
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And once again, you have a rectangle. Now, take a tape measure
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Go from one corner diagonally across the object to the following corner
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Check the measurement. Take your tape measure and do it across the other diagonal leg
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Odds are they're not going to be the same measurement, but guess what? If you shift the long leg and make it come in
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you'll shorten that distance up, and it will eventually, the two measurements when you take them will be identical
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When you get two identical measurements across the diagonals, the object is square
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Okay, check out this little. model that I made. It's square right now and why is it important when you're putting
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plywood or drywall or even decking on this system if it was the real size it
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would be so much easier. Keep things square. You won't be pulling your hair out
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