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Okay, you've got a project starting soon and you want to establish a level line
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in a room. Perhaps you want to put up crown molding. Maybe you want to put in a
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suspended ceiling and you want it to be perfectly level. Well, how are you going to do that
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A lot of times I see people take a four foot level and they work their way around the room
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and generally when they get back to where they started they're off by a quarter or a half an inch
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It drives you crazy. I know people have told you you can use one of those water levels or some other way
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Here's the way I'd like to see you go. Why not rent a builder's transit or a level
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They're available at most tool rental places. They're easy to set up. You've seen them
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They've got a tripod and they've got a really neat little instrument on top
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It's got a great little bubble level that you level in two directions. And once you get the level set up and established
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it rotates 360 degrees all the way around the room, and it allows you to look through the instrument
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You can focus it, and it's got a neat crosshair. It's just like a periscope on a submarine
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And that crosshair gives you an exact level line all the way around the room
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So what do you do? You make marks, little pencil marks, on the walls at the different points
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And then you can measure up or down from that line to establish the level line that you need for that suspended ceiling or the chair rail
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Remember, you're going to need two people to do this project. Someone's going to have to be using the transit, and someone's going to have to be on the wall holding a pencil
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to make the marks where you tell them to. It's an easy job to do. It doesn't cost very
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much and remember they're available at almost any tool rental place in the Tri-State area
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