Go down to Home Depot and get yourself a $1.98 string level. Stretch string
tight across your pad. Hang level on string per instructions and adjust
string accordingly.

On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 15:41:30 -0400, "C.M.German"
wrote:

Go down to Home Depot and get yourself a $1.98 string level. Stretch string
tight across your pad. Hang level on string per instructions and adjust
string accordingly.


Agreed except maybe two of them. I'd run at least two strings
perpendicular to each other ie- north/south and east/west such that
they intersect in the middle of the pad site -or- perhaps to get more
accurate run 6 strings such that you could run say 2 north/south along
the edges of the pad site and one in the middle and then do the same
thing in the east/west direction.

wrote:

Go down to Home Depot and get yourself a $1.98 string level. Stretch
string
tight across your pad. Hang level on string per instructions and adjust
string accordingly.


Good idea except for one thing ............. A string line with a level on
it sags after a short distance ..................

Steve

Nothing you'll ever notice in a 30' pad with a 6 foot rule......... and a
tightly stretched line. How many houses do you suppose are set out this
way?

Nothing you'll ever notice in a 30' pad with a 6 foot rule......... and a
tightly stretched line. How many houses do you suppose are set out this
way?


Not too many anymore - most are shot with a transit. And the ones
that were set with a line level could be shot with a transit and you
would see the error. They will get you "kinda close" but every time I
ever had to use a string level, I would always take several readings,
sliding the level back and forth to the same position, re-read, etc.
Most line levels are only about 2 or 3 inches long, and most are made
cheaply, and they are surely not something I would set a house with.
If a good transit is not available - the water hose would work,
although cumbersome.
Ken.

Always place a line level in the MIDDLE of a string. That way the slope
is the same on both ends.

SteveB wrote:
wrote:


Go down to Home Depot and get yourself a $1.98 string level. Stretch

string

tight across your pad. Hang level on string per instructions and adjust
string accordingly.



Good idea except for one thing ............. A string line with a level on
it sags after a short distance ..................

Steve



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On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 11:30:55 -0400, Glenn Ashmore
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Always place a line level in the MIDDLE of a string. That way the slope
is the same on both ends.

Agreed, and important, but oft forgot (DAMHIKT!)

But the _height_ is not necessarily there if you then take another
"level" from the middle of the string.
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