Tape Measure Internal Measurement Trick

Awesome. All right, so this one looks like a tape trick uh to get measurements inside doorways or any kind of area where you have to bend your tape measure. It's very annoying to do that. You don't get the right number. It could be off by like a quarter inch sometimes. Uh so you just what? You just butt it up to the wall. Okay. Interesting. So on the bottom of it, so at the bottom of it looks like there's a number at the bottom. So that number just add it to whatever. His is I guess 2 and 7/8. So you get your measurements, you butt it up against, get your measurements, add that number that's below and uh makes it easier without bending the the tape measure and getting more accurate readings. Well, hell, I got plenty of tape measures. Let's try it. Got my trusty Stanley power lock here. Looking on the back here, we have plus 3 in side to side here. So we're going to come here. We're going to measure this outside doorway. So, we're only adding 3 in after we see what we got here. So, I got 27 and 7/8 plus 3 and 7/8. Now, how do we verify this? Uh, my way that I learned from somebody to have like detailed measurements before I learned about this trick, instead of bending it in like this to get the number, what you could do is measure one side. You could pick a number that's easy for you. Like, uh, I don't know, we'll go we'll just make it easy. So, we'll go plus three. Make our little mark there. And all we're doing is measuring from here to that plus three. I got 29 and 1/4 + 3. What is that? 32 and 1/4. Hold on. That doesn't make sense. 32 and 1/4. And this is saying 27 and 7/8 + 3 is 30 and 7/8. I don't know. Am I doing this wrong? I was off by a solid inch. I know what an inch looks like. Hold on. 3 in. >> All right. This one should be That's 3 in. >> Okay. >> Right there. >> Almost. >> What about a quarter? >> It's pretty close. 12. >> Okay. This one actually is deceiving. A little bit longer. Uh trying to put my foot up there. I'm a size 12 shoe. All right. Uh lock it in. A still off by two. I suck at this. Oh yeah, my shoe is way bigger than that. That's 12 and a half. Well, he's got big feet and I suck at reading tape measures. I guess that's the moral of the story. I got to get to the bottom of this. I know I'm doing something wrong. So, I'm going to use my other tape measure to see if that number is correct. So, it it is indeed 3 in. So if we come here and the actual reading is 79 in. But if we butt this up…