The guys show up, all riding in
Carl's pickup.
Day Two - 24 September, 2015
He has a Sport Trac too. An omen, perhaps? They get
directly to work cutting poles down to size to use as stakes, which they
promptly pound in various places around the yard. Much better than beer
bottles.
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| Stakes Appearing All Over the Yard |
Omar spent much of this first day, supervising
placement of the stakes. Some of them are measurement stakes and some
will be holding corner boards.
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| Measure Twice and Stake Once |
All the measurements for level stem from measurements
done earlier by Omar to find where the floor level was at the back of
the pool house. Everything comes from that level. There's high-tech
solutions, to accomplish the same thing, but the best and cheapest is
still the ancient water level.
A form of the water
level is credited by many to Theodorus of Samos,a 6th-century BCE, Greek
sculptor and architect. Carl Sagan, in his series Cosmos, said that
Theodorus invented the level, several other tools, and bronze casting.
Good enough for me.
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| Ancient Water Level Technology Determined Floor Level |
Now come the corner boards. They do a couple of
things. The corner boards help keep the block lines running true, that
is straight, and also carry on the level as determined by the water
level. They also help determine square corners.
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| Corner Boards Come Next |
Here you can see a slightly more modern level, a
spirit level being used to determine the straight run from two points on
the corner boards.
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| Floor Level DeterminesString Levels |
As you can see, if you look close, corner boards
become somewhat complex items in and of themselves. They'll be used
clear up till about when the foundation walls are finished and the floor
is ready to be cast or poured.
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| Surrounded With String and Corner Boards |
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