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Fancy laser level cost me $150 and a whole Saturday
I picked up one of those self-leveling green beam lasers from Home Depot thinking it would speed up my layout work. Spent over 4 hours getting it calibrated and aligned on a big living room install in Austin. Turns out the beam was drifting and throwing off my reference lines by a quarter inch. Ended up ripping out a whole afternoon's work and doing it old school with a chalk line. Has anyone else had bad luck with those automatic lasers on carpet prep?
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joseph_baker8d ago
Blame the technology not yourself on that one, those green beams drift like crazy once they heat up. Quarter inch is a huge error for floor prep where a tight level floor makes or breaks the whole install. Chalk lines may be old school but they don't lie when you need a straight reference.
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the_alex8d ago
How long does it take for that drift to start on a hot day though?
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