Do I need to buy a laser...
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...measuring device?
Chaps - after a year of house renovation works, its time to turn my mind to my front garden/driveway. I am planning on doing this myself. I have laid patios and paths before so I am satisfied that whilst I will be slow, it will get done to a decent standard.
Plan is a combination of granite setts and gravel for the drive, and landscape the rest of the garden. Front of the house is on a bit of a slope so I will use sleepers to build up the levels for the non parking bit. Setts will be a couple of areas in front of the house and at the top of the drive totalling about 25 sq metres.
When I laid the patio at my old house, I levelled it (factoring in a slope for rain run off) using wooden stakes and a spirt level. It worked well but took ages. Is there some kind of cheap and cheerful measuring device that will speed things up using a measuring device? I will have other jobs over the next couple of years, patio, some decking, a couple of paths etc, fencing so it will get some use.
It obviously does not need to be accurate to .00001 of a mm, just something to help get the sub base and then the finishing level to a pretty decent degree of accuracy.
Front garden is around 12m x 10m so not massive. I have a starting level, being the level of the garage entrance, to measure from.
Am I barking up the wrong tree? Will this make my life easier with stuff like making sure I have dug out the area for the drive to the right depth for an equal layer of sub base etc?
Something like this?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Amazon-Basics-Horizontal-...
Chaps - after a year of house renovation works, its time to turn my mind to my front garden/driveway. I am planning on doing this myself. I have laid patios and paths before so I am satisfied that whilst I will be slow, it will get done to a decent standard.
Plan is a combination of granite setts and gravel for the drive, and landscape the rest of the garden. Front of the house is on a bit of a slope so I will use sleepers to build up the levels for the non parking bit. Setts will be a couple of areas in front of the house and at the top of the drive totalling about 25 sq metres.
When I laid the patio at my old house, I levelled it (factoring in a slope for rain run off) using wooden stakes and a spirt level. It worked well but took ages. Is there some kind of cheap and cheerful measuring device that will speed things up using a measuring device? I will have other jobs over the next couple of years, patio, some decking, a couple of paths etc, fencing so it will get some use.
It obviously does not need to be accurate to .00001 of a mm, just something to help get the sub base and then the finishing level to a pretty decent degree of accuracy.
Front garden is around 12m x 10m so not massive. I have a starting level, being the level of the garage entrance, to measure from.
Am I barking up the wrong tree? Will this make my life easier with stuff like making sure I have dug out the area for the drive to the right depth for an equal layer of sub base etc?
Something like this?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Amazon-Basics-Horizontal-...
Thanks for all the help and advice chaps - I hate it when these threads go cold, so as an update, I bought a 16 line laser level from DECTEAM, on Amazon.
Turned up yesterday, and chuffed with it - exactly what I was looking for for my current job and bound to get loads of use in the future as well.
Turned up yesterday, and chuffed with it - exactly what I was looking for for my current job and bound to get loads of use in the future as well.
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