Square Walls Solo
When you're working alone and laying out walls, a simple plywood bracket holds your tape in place.
I was recently laying out walls for a new build. While working alone, I had to pull diagonal measurements from the corners of the intersecting stringlines I had set up for layout. Since I didn’t have anyone to hold the other end of the tape where the lines meet, I came up with a bracket built from scraps on-site.
It’s made from two pieces of 3/4-in. plywood and a couple 2x4s. I built it at a height just shorter than the top of the batter boards so it wouldn’t interfere with the strings. I secured the rig to the footing with masonry screws and placed a screw right at the intersection of the strings to hold the tape.
— Andy Steele; Purlear, N.C. Edited by Mark Petersen.
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