rockweasel
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Sunny weather + a bit of spare time + a bit of spare cash = time for a new shed!
I wanted a storage shed to hide away all the things I needed to keep but didn't want cluttering up my workshop. This would be my first shed totally from scratch, so I'd try and do it right. *Try*
The plan was to sink a 4x4 fence post at each corner and build off that. No way this shed was going to lean and collapse in a few years when I'm too old to fix it. I'd allowed in my budget enough for a new spirit level. I fancied one of those digital ones that screamed at you when it was horizontal. Like my wife. Make the job that little bit easier. Materials and level bought, I dug my first hole and set about getting the post plumb. The level display reads to within 0.1 degrees, and that agreed with The Bubble Of Truth which lives inside The Tube Of Justice, so I was confident that this shed was going to be super-duper square.
3 posts in and I smugly go about checking the levels again while the fast drying postcrete is setting.
No happy beeping sound. 0.2 degrees out of plumb. In BOTH planes. It looked more like the Sydney Opera House that a box.
There isn't a plumb or level line anywhere in my back yard to use as a reference, so I wasn't put off by the fact that the posts looked a little off. After all, why would the level lie to me. WHY!!!???
It wasn't until I went back to using the bubble that I noticed that the display was out calibration. The posts were too late save and I was p*ssed off, so I set about trying to find out what went wrong. It turns out that if the level is dropped or gets a knock (LIKE IT WOULD IF YOU WERE HOLDING IT AGAINST A POST AND TAPPING IT WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER TO STRAIGHTEN IT!), then it can all go t*ts up and you have to recalibrate the display.
Long story short: I managed to get everything more or less plumb and level. The wood I'm using isn't exactly straight and true, so that adds further to my frustration. This is not helping my OCD.
I wanted a storage shed to hide away all the things I needed to keep but didn't want cluttering up my workshop. This would be my first shed totally from scratch, so I'd try and do it right. *Try*
The plan was to sink a 4x4 fence post at each corner and build off that. No way this shed was going to lean and collapse in a few years when I'm too old to fix it. I'd allowed in my budget enough for a new spirit level. I fancied one of those digital ones that screamed at you when it was horizontal. Like my wife. Make the job that little bit easier. Materials and level bought, I dug my first hole and set about getting the post plumb. The level display reads to within 0.1 degrees, and that agreed with The Bubble Of Truth which lives inside The Tube Of Justice, so I was confident that this shed was going to be super-duper square.
3 posts in and I smugly go about checking the levels again while the fast drying postcrete is setting.
No happy beeping sound. 0.2 degrees out of plumb. In BOTH planes. It looked more like the Sydney Opera House that a box.
There isn't a plumb or level line anywhere in my back yard to use as a reference, so I wasn't put off by the fact that the posts looked a little off. After all, why would the level lie to me. WHY!!!???
It wasn't until I went back to using the bubble that I noticed that the display was out calibration. The posts were too late save and I was p*ssed off, so I set about trying to find out what went wrong. It turns out that if the level is dropped or gets a knock (LIKE IT WOULD IF YOU WERE HOLDING IT AGAINST A POST AND TAPPING IT WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER TO STRAIGHTEN IT!), then it can all go t*ts up and you have to recalibrate the display.
Long story short: I managed to get everything more or less plumb and level. The wood I'm using isn't exactly straight and true, so that adds further to my frustration. This is not helping my OCD.
