That sinking feeling

[mik]

I don't know what level of accuracy you need or if you have another pair of hands to help. A rotating laser level will probably be fine if you're on your own. It seems like it's all people use on site nowadays anyway, in my day we used to do it properly with an optical level.

Can hire it for not much money I'd have thought.

Less than £100 for a little self-leveling DeWalt job non?

edit: Yes. Accurate to +/- 0.3mm at 10m

https://www.toolstation.com/dewalt-dw08 ... vel/p98428

How would that work in my original application? In the video it’s being used to project on a pre-existing wall. In my case it would be projecting a laser in the air which wouldn’t be visible.

You need to insert a stick into the ground that you can project the laser onto. Then you take a piece of string from that stick to your foundation foot thing, and use one of those string levels to set the line, on which you balance one end of a 1m long, reassuringly expensive Stabila spirit level. Balance the other end on a clear rubber-pipe water level, and Robert is your mother's brother.

[Mito Man]

All that said, I'm just telling you the right and professional way. Is it necessary in this application? I don't know what tolerances Mito has in the structure that's going to sit on it... might not matter if it's a bit out of plumb (or you might be able to use packing and a spirit level if the bases are out).

Video is helpful, I'm crap at visualising things so needed that

It's a green larch framed structure so it will shrink and warp a significant amount as it all air dries together, and the sawmill isn't the most accurate thing as it's rough cut and not planed but still, would have been nice if I at least got one bit of it level

[dinny_g]

Viz Top Tip...

Don't waste your money on expensive levels - simply tilt your head when looking at it until it appears level.

[Swervin_Mervin]

Viz Top Tip...

Don't waste your money on expensive levels - simply tilt your head when looking at it until it appears level.

Reminds me of when I fitted a curtain rail in our previous newbuild house. Wife not happy that "it's not level!". It was level but the window wasn't

[jamcg]

Viz Top Tip...

Don't waste your money on expensive levels - simply tilt your head when looking at it until it appears level.

Reminds me of when I fitted a curtain rail in our previous newbuild house. Wife not happy that "it's not level!". It was level but the window wasn't

You’d be amazed how many times I have this argument with radiators and window sills. Many times I’ve had to unlevel my newly mounted rads to match the wonky as hell window

[Gavster]

Viz Top Tip...

Don't waste your money on expensive levels - simply tilt your head when looking at it until it appears level.

Reminds me of when I fitted a curtain rail in our previous newbuild house. Wife not happy that "it's not level!". It was level but the window wasn't

You’d be amazed how many times I have this argument with radiators and window sills. Many times I’ve had to unlevel my newly mounted rads to match the wonky as hell window

All my homes have been Victorian conversions and this has always stumped me. The engineer part of me has an allergic reaction to installing things wonky, however none of my homes have been level. In my first home I reinstalled the radiator level and then it forever bugged me that the skirting board looked wonky in comparison.

[mik]

All my homes have been Victorian conversions and this has always stumped me. The engineer part of me has an allergic reaction to installing things wonky, however none of my homes have been level. In my first home I reinstalled the radiator level and then it forever bugged me that the skirting board looked wonky in comparison.

First DIY tiling job I ever did was in a large tenement flat in Glasgow. Build date circa 1900. Was starting to tear my hair out until I realised that - in addition to a slight run on the worktop as the floor was nowhere near level (and I think they'd run out of adjustment range on the feet of the base units) the wall actually had a curve - increasing in severity towards the window. That was fun.

[Swervin_Mervin]

Viz Top Tip...

Don't waste your money on expensive levels - simply tilt your head when looking at it until it appears level.

Reminds me of when I fitted a curtain rail in our previous newbuild house. Wife not happy that "it's not level!". It was level but the window wasn't

You’d be amazed how many times I have this argument with radiators and window sills. Many times I’ve had to unlevel my newly mounted rads to match the wonky as hell window

I can well imagine It's now my first question to the wife when doing anything like this - do you want me to do this properly or do you want me to make it so it looks right?

[Mito Man]

Well, it’s been over 2 months and I’ve made no progress on the actual building. Was hoping to have my version of The Crooked House done this year but that’s not happening.

Was a few posts short of a building so needed another tree, found a nice one which had the top 1/4 of it snapped off so it would have eventually died anyway. It was in an awkward spot, leaning to the right which had a fence out of shot, and a tree directly in front of where I wanted it which it would probably get hung up on so I winched it to be safe.



Fucking love this car


Maybe I can get this lot milled up this weekend and then finally start working on my erection.

[mik]

You have wood

[dinny_g]

Loving this Mito...

You get to do all the sorts of stuff you see on those Alaska Homesteading type programs but in leafy Sussex, Surrey, Kent (delete as appropriate) without the threat of bears...

[Mito Man]

Loving this Mito...

You get to do all the sorts of stuff you see on those Alaska Homesteading type programs but in leafy Sussex, Surrey, Kent (delete as appropriate) without the threat of bears...

In the garden of England

When I was younger I always thought I'd end up doing this in Northern Sweden eventually - brown bears, wolves, moose, hard winters - I love all that.

[dinny_g]

Yeah me too - well not the bears bit...

A friend emigrated to rural Canada when I was 19 and it always appealed. However, I jumped on the College, work, mortgage bandwagon and here I am, 30 years later.

It's not too late for you...

[Mito Man]

I think you get to a point where you're too invested in a place to move and I feel like I hit that point a few years ago. I keep joking that if this country continues down the authoritarian path (bit of an extreme term, but you know what I mean) then I will up sticks but Europe, America, Canada etc are no better in that regard. And I don't wish to move to South America or East Asia just yet

[dinny_g]

And I don't wish to move to South America or East Asia just yet

Nah, too humid for me...

[KiwiDave]

*cough* New Zealand */cough*

[dinny_g]

They don’t want anyone going there mate…

They’re worse than us!!

[duncs500]

They don’t want anyone going there mate…

They’re worse than us!!

They're always hassling me to go there! Having a leaving do Sat for a mate who's moving to NZ in a few weeks. Bastards. Coming over here taking all our good Irishmen.

[dinny_g]

[Mito Man]

I haven’t flown a drone since all those flying rules and CAA stuff was implemented. Now I have a 249g one which is light enough to not need any registration and faffing about.
Took a picture of the build site

What’s more interesting is that some tree crown separation can be seen in the Japanese Larch
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/crown-s ... 20species.