Checking cabinet box widths on a repeating fit-out

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On a building of near-identical apartments the boxes arrive numbered and get set by a crew moving fast, which is exactly when one opening ends up out by a quarter and nobody notices until the tops are templated. Measuring from the back of the T1R Range butts the tool into the side of the carcass, so the blade crosses the opening flat instead of bowing into the corner. You read the opening, not the bend.

Why measure from the back

Repeating units hide a single bad box
A blade bowed into a corner reads long
Butt the tool into the side of the box
The blade crosses the opening flat
Boxes are numbered; so is the check

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Installed cabinet carcasses in an apartment fit-out are checked one after another, each box pencil-marked with its unit, 246 UNIT 9 written across a rail. The tool is butted into the side of a box and the blade run straight across the opening, the display reading in the thirties. Protective sheeting and a stack of shelves lie on the floor behind.