I'll tell you when, when you're measuring floorboards.
I've been trying to replace some softwood floorboards. I hold a tape measure against them and they're 22mm deep by 125mm wide. Wander off to B&Q to find that they only do 18mm by 119mm. Here's where the problem starts. I go to my local wood merchants, taking with me a sample floorboard. He measures it and confirms my measurements and picks out the flooring that I need. When I get it home and try to fit it, it's out. I then take the time to measure it myself: 18mm by 119mm. When I complain he says that it is 22mm as the nominal size is what they mark it as. The finished size is 18mm. Apparently I want 25mm by 130mm to get the correct finished size, but no-one does that any more. Irrelevant seeing as how he measured the piece of wood himself and therefore knew that it wouldn't fit.
Can anyone out there help and tell me if it's possible to get floorboards 22mm deep and 125mm across the face.
Thanks.