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Thought my 4 foot level was lying to me on a fireplace job in Renton, turns out I was wrong about the whole thing
Two weeks ago I was laying a stone veneer fireplace surround and kept getting a bubble that drifted a hair off center no matter how many times I flipped the level. I blamed the tool and almost dropped $180 on a new one at the supply yard in Kent. Then an old mason named Ray watched me work for about 2 minutes and told me I was sighting down the wrong edge because my eye kept drifting toward the tall side of the stone. I checked the level against a chalk line on a flat wall and it was dead on the whole time. Now I set the level on a scrap of ply first to zero my eyes before I trust what I see on uneven stone. Makes me wonder how many levels I've replaced over stuff that was really just my own bad habits, you know?
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lilykelly21d ago
Wait so was it the tall side of the stone that was throwing your eye off, or the uneven bed underneath? I'm asking because I do the same thing on brick ledges and I always figured it was the material, not me. Did Ray say anything about how to check for that drift before you even start laying?
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