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Are folding rulers common in Canada?
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Measuring tapes are more widely used by a massive margin. Folding rulers are rare I would say. That being said I have about half a dozen, but all were provided by European manufacturers. I don't think I've ever seen one in a hardware store but I think you can get them on Amazon fairly readily.
That being said, maybe they are more popular than I think as I never need to buy one.
Seems more common in trades that need more accurate measures on a large scale like engineering site or machine setups. Our CAD software has a dimension setting based on the Engineers 6 foot Ruler. Dimesniona are in inches up to 72" at that point measurements become Feet and inches.