Installing Batter Boards with String Line [Shop Foundation]
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 มิ.ย. 2023
- I am building a 20x30 shop and its time to break ground. Batter Boards are used to find the corners of a building and to find level. I am using some old deck boards ripped down to make stakes. You can use any board you have laying around or you can buy them specially made for this project. Batter Boards are placed out so that 3 legs are driven into the ground and horizontal boards are connected level from those. Start on the highest location and move down to the lowest spot. A string level can be used or a laser level to make sure all battery boards are at the same height. The spot where the strings cross is the location of the building corner.
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I'm more impressed to see someone use tires and rammed dirt, you belong to a very few, and put in elbow grease 👍🏼
I would of filled and off set them a tad more but just seeing someone using this mastery of building is impressive and hopeful for more people to understand the superiority of tires...
That tire wall took a long time to build but it is doing great! The price was amazing as well. free plus time.
Seth, I am a math teacher as well and we watched your video in all five classes. This brings a real life example of the pythagorean theorem! You did a great job!
Wow I am honored that the video was helpful! I actually use the pythagorean theorem in my ram pump work too. Finding input head pressure and lift height. Thank you for watching.
Very helpful sir
I'm a beginner, and no one showed me teached me how to mark the foundation of a HOUSE, this was a very good lesson for me. THANK YOU, SIR.
You may also want to watch the history of math has a great explanation of Pythagoras
Thank you very much, great video!!! I’m going to use this knowledge today im on my way to mark my house foundation
Great video, most clear sting line video on YT! Thanks so much!
The diagonal is actually 36’- 11/16”. I wouldn’t be so dismissive of nearly 3/4” in a structure that small. As you referenced later on in the video, you want to be as accurate as possible in the foundation stage. Mistakes and rounding errors now will follow you all the way up the building.
psidvivious, you obviously have no idea how to set a foundation and the math involved. His 36' at the early stage is only a point at which to get started. After all 4 corners are marked then a measurement is pulled diagonally from opposite corners. Adjustments are made depending on how much out of square the diagonals are. Temporary markers are placed to adjust for corrections and diagonals are pulled again and adjustments are made, then diagonals are pulled again and again until the diagonals are exactly the same thereby achieving Pythagorans triangle. The way this guy achieved his project, although there are better and simpler ways, is correct because the actual exact number does not have be know at the starting point, only the finish point.
@@rmoreland3583 Lol, You’re the kind of guy I know I would be letting go within about 2 hours. How many times are you going to go back and forth, walking from corner to corner measuring diagonals? If you are doing the Pythagorean calculation, you already know what the diagonal measurement is supposed to be. Why are you measuring over and over wasting all that time. Twice is all you need. Once to set it and twice to double check. But then again you’re probably the same guy that doesn’t actually do the math but instead thinks like diagonals equals square. Surprise, they don’t. You can have like diagonals without having a single square corner (isosceles trapezoid).
Thanks for coming! I think the supermarket down the street is hiring!
fabulous explanation Seth, thankyou so much for sharing.
Thanks Seth, I'm about to start my 16 x 20 Shed and I'm excited. It's my 2nd shed but many years between them. YOU ARE A GREAT HELP!
Nice! That will be a good size build.
Seth, thanks much for the video!.... great job detailing batter board setup.... been interested in the subject for years!...👍👍
Thank you for watching. Batter boards really do help to get footers lined up correctly.
Great teacher! Bless you
Very helpful content indeed and thanks for sharing!
Happy to help. Thanks for watching.
Nice work mate watching from England uk 👍👍
Thank you. This build is progressing nicely!
Enjoy watching your video learn so much thank u for sharing your skills 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Thank you for watching! Battery boards are very helpful to keep the foundation straight.
Thank you so much for this video. I am about to build a building and this helped a ton showing me what I need to do.
Nice! Happy to help. Be sure to check my 20x30 shop build Playlist. Each step is layed out.
Excellent video. Thank you
Thank you for watching.
I was looking for that kind of explanation. Very crystal clear. Thanks for the video, looking forward to your upcoming videos. The way form PNG👍
Nice! Thank you. These batter boards make a big difference in setting up the footers. This series is well underway for building a 20x30 shop.
that is very brief and detail great video☺
Good information. Thank you very much.
Happy to help! Thanks for watching.
Thank you very much. Just the information im looking for. Apprecieted it.. 😀👊.
Line level tool..
Nice! Happy to help. This method worked well for me. Got 35 footers set in a line.
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you could use a two ruler and use it at the same time with Pifogorean theorem. very quick method
thx i had to do this today helped alot thx u sir thx for helping me get my grades
Great content!!!
Thank you. These string lines make all the difference in keeping the footers straight.
Thanks for this video! It was informative without giving to much info all at once and you did a great job of showing each step. I'm having so much trouble as a first-timer trying to get my foundation square. My soil is stable but full of river rock. So every time I put something in the ground the sticks get wonky and don't go in the ground where I want. Hopefully, the batter boards will be the solution I need! Do you have any pro tips for dense river rock soil?
Thanks
Thank you very much
Happy to help. These make a big difference in building the foundation.
Very Good Vidéo Thanks a lot !!
Always measure layouts with steel measuring tapes.
Thanks bro❤
Thanks you
Happy to help. Batter boards are very nice to keep straight lines.
Thanks sir
Thank you for watching.
Nice
Thank you. These batter boards are a must when doing foundation work.
@@sethcraftworkshop got an upcoming pole barn/shop project coming up this winter had to refresh my memory on a few things it’s been about ten years since I’ve taken on a big project
So helpful! I love TH-cam
Nice! Happy to hear the video was helpful.
Thank you for the video im building the same size building and couldn't find any thing that explains like you did
Soooo what are we building next.
Nice! It's a great size building. I hope the series gives you some ideas for your work.
Short break as it's very cold here. But a carport should be next.
Nice and very good job ...where's laser level i really wait and hope to see how it measuring with it.
I brought that laser out and used it but the footage was so dark I left it out. All good! The skids on the footers are all level across the full 20x30.
when digging the foundation, do we dig it inside of the string or the outer of the string
A little on both sides to allow for extra space when installing the blocking and skids.
That is pretty cool how you stack the tires how did u learn that 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
I used to live in New Mexico and this was something that used to be done for homes. They would build the wall into a hill with tires. For a retaining wall it has worked well!
What about checking corner for right angles using theodolite in complex building setting out
In a future video I use the Pythagorean theorem to check for square on the foundation frame build.
@@sethcraftworkshopFor the means of providing education to everyone , I prefer looking your video which explain multistorey building setting out.
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Measurement!
Are this strings, squared 😮 already?....
The boards are placed far out enough to allow you to square the strings. All 8 string attachment points can be moved left or right until square.
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Thank you. These batter boards help a lot to level and square the foundation.
yr next video, should be making off a low side, how to bring it up to level with high side,
What is the name of that small plumb attached to the line
A line level 😊
this lets you remove the strings and get them out of your way for digging, and then put the strings back up to check what you did.
Yes very good point.I put mine close enough to the ground that I could just scoot them out of the way a little bit while digging the footers.
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36 ft 1/16 in.
Your math needs work, if you really want to get precise the square root of 1300 works out to 36 and 7/128th, or less than 36 and 1/16th which is the smallest increment i’ve ever seen on a tape measure, aka insignificant.
@@inmyimage1081 nice tape measure! Does it come with a microscope?
@@21trips Exactly my point. Your attempt to correct (possibly heckle) him at 21/32 was wrong and would have been far more significant of an issue being between 3/4 and 1/2 of an inch vs just reducing to the whole number of 36 although I could see an argument to use 1/16 since it’s a wee bit closer to absolute exact answer than 0 and is the smallest increment on the tape.
However, given the minor inherent inaccuracies of string placement and eyesight, any attempt to get more exact than 36 and 1/8th is pointless.
@@inmyimage1081 gotcha. All my tape measures read 16th so I can read down to a half of a tick mark which is 1/32. Not for everybody I guess.
@@21trips True but 21/32 is still wrong and 1/16th is closer to the precise measurement than 1/32 so still not useful. Also if you need that kind of precision you need calibrated metal tape measures and some form of uniform stakes that allow precise measurements to be taken. All goes back to your first comment still being wrong, and in terms of building science, really wrong.
Building ,,code,,,20ft,apart between structures!!!!
These will be connected together. They will become one.
Batter board
Did u check ,ur diagonal, to be square,,start at lower grade dig,n,that way water go,s to lower foster 4 drain,n it,who did test on site 4 compaction,with,in footer lines????!!!!
What was your benchmark for your elevation? You lost me, when you resorted to the line level.
Why so close with B,board ground is so hard ,,if digg,n with mini-x,,grand will break,out,,destroy b,boards
All digging was by hand.
Ground,,,,correction
Help me please and please
U need a next person to help u
Working with two people does make the job go faster.
He did it wrong .his math is bad 😅
No no and no
These served the purpose. The building was constructed.