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Watched a guy lay a curved garden wall in Boise and now I'm rethinking my whole laser level habit
I was in Boise over the weekend helping my brother in law with his backyard and the fella next door was laying this half moon garden wall by eye, no line, no level, just a story pole and a string. I stood there waiting for it to go crooked and it never did, which got me thinking about how much I lean on my laser for stuff that a taut string would handle fine. Any of you still run string lines as your first move, or has everybody switched over by now?
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grant72818d ago
That half moon shape is the part that gets me. A string line works fine for straight runs but the second you're laying a curve every course has to step in by the same amount or the whole thing looks lumpy. Did the guy have a radius stick cut to a set length that he was swinging off a center pin, or was he just eyeballing the step on each block? I keep a laser for grading and drainage where I need numbers, but for brick and block I've gone back to a line and a level, it's faster to set up and you feel the work more. Curious what his setup actually was because a story pole and string shouldn't handle a curve that clean unless there was something else going on.
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