If you want to level something in the garden and dont have a spirit level, get a bit of clear pipe, mark one end with a felt tip ( better use a sharpie as the others in here are watching ! ) get the OH to hold the mark where you want it and then hold the other end of the pipe to whatever it is you want levelled, then pour water down the pipe, water will always find its level and so when the OH shouts the water is at the mark, your end is also at the same level, great for doing path laying or such.
Another good tip i if you don,t have any clear pipe get the wife to use a spirit level.
Quote from: davyw1 on May 07, 2010, 20:50:11
Another good tip i if you don,t have any clear pipe get the wife to use a spirit level.
:D :D ;D ;D ;D
Better still get the husband to use the spirit level and the wifes eye to correct it XX Jeannine
NAW The husband goes for the spirit level while the wife try,s to work out the clear tube method
Pfft, Davyw1: you have it all wrong. you leave the wife to do it while you go for a beer.
Try it with a normal hosepipe, when you get water over the OH its too high ;D
Quote from: superspud on May 08, 2010, 16:48:47
Pfft, Davyw1: you have it all wrong. you leave the wife to do it while you go for a beer.
In that case i could be out all night
Do youself because you want it done properly, meanwhile wifey is making a cup of tea and a sarnie, because you will need it after all that hard work. ;) ;D ;D ;D
This system possibly goes back to the time when they built the pyramids.
Many builders merchants sell them as water levels.
I only gid rid of mine a few years ago!
Very useful tool as you can do your levelling & watering with the same tool!
Whatever you do she will fix it for you while you are out XX Jeannibne
throw the spirit level on the ground a say to the misses "dam this this is broken" then send her up to b&q to buy a new bubble for the spirit level.
sit back and have a beer while she is out trying to buy a bubble 8)
You men wouldnt need to do it.
Wifey will already have done it because she's been waiting for years for you to get round to it.
Now just pipe down and pour her the nice cold glass of wine she deserves ;)
oh and she will have got it perfect first time too whilst multitasking of course ;D
oh and she will have got it perfect first time too whilst multitasking of course
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i can multi task
i can scratch my bum with one hand with the other i can pick my nose while walking
thats three things all at once
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i can multi task
i can scratch my bum with one hand with the other i can pick my nose while walking
Yep, men really are from venus!
Of course, you could always go back to "Pre-technology". Get a line (you do have a line, don't you?) hand something heavy on it (it's called a plumb line). Get a large Tee square (or make one), place it on the ground, hang the line on the top, move the square until the lne is in-line with the vertical arm and the horizontal arm is level.
To make a square follow the formula 3,4,5. Explanation: base = 3, vertical = 4, hypotenuse (the line joining 3 & 4) = 5, the angle at the junction of 3 and 4 is 90 degrees. This can also be used when laying out groundworks etc.
If the Egyptians got the levelling right for the pyramids they have since lost the knack. It rain for the first time for years when I went and the water was flowing into the hotel instead of out of it.
Women do not generally work there as builders so it much has been a man.
Quotethey have since lost the knack
Love it! ;D ;D