Hi! I’m Bob Schmidt with Home Remodel Workshop. Now you’re building these walls down here in you basement or garage or wherever, and you spend at lot of time getting these lines down on the floor and getting everything squared up and straight, exactly the way you want it. Well now it’s time to get these lines up on to the ceiling so you’ll know where that walls going to end up, up on top. There’s an inexpensive and the most accurate tool available for doing that. I’ll let you know what it is. Let’s get to work.
The tool I’m talking about is called the plumb bob. It’s really truly as nothing more than a weight you hang to end of a string. This is my plumb bob here, I’ve had it for a long time, and I’m really fond of it. To be honest with you, I get a lot of agree with my fellow carpenters because I use it so much, because it’s a little bit more time consuming and sometimes you need help using it. But this tool is the most accurate tool you can get for plumbing up any walls. There are a lot of different variances when you build walls. You know that, you got to anchor your plates at the line on the floor, if you’re off with just a little bit that could throw your wall off a plumb.
You have to, a lot of people when will use a four foot level and they’ll put it on to a stud and they’ll level up from that line and get a mark on the ceiling. Well if you’ve ever use the four foot level, there’s always a little bit of play between the lines that’s kind of a judgment’s call and also your four foot level is only good as the last time it was dropped, say by your helper or yourself. Now this is never inaccurate, this will always be accurate. It pulls down straight with gravity. If for some reason the gravity pull changes in our world, that little thing we call atmosphere goes away, in which case you’re really not going to care if your walls plumb.
Unlike using a four foot level, when you’re using a plumb bob, you’re going to get a little bit more up close and personal with the floor and with the ceiling. Generally it requires two people to do. So you’ll have somebody out in the ladder right here and there’ll be a guy in the floor directing him until they make sure this is swinging free and make sure that you get it exactly on that line. When the time comes that you’re right on the line and you’re sure that it’s swinging free, you go ahead and call it good and you have them mark that spot on the ceiling. I guarantee you, if you do it this way, you will have the plumiest wall that you can possibly get.
There you go, the plumb bob, it’s truly nothing more than the weight on the string. And it was no likelihood that they used this during the building of the pyramids and it was as accurate back then as it is today.
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