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Field-Check, Mitres & Rakes

Rooms are rarely square. A 500 mm arm-check measurement in — the real corner angle and mitre setting out.

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Skirting mitre, optional

Sloped ceiling rake, optional

Enter the arm length and the measured distance between the marks, then press Calculate.
From the book — Chapter 7. Corner angle = 2 × arcsin(c ÷ (2 × arm)), where c is the measured distance between two marks made at equal arm lengths up each wall. Mitre setting = half the corner angle.

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