Query on laser levels

[Handyman]

I've been looking at laser levels. I've found a "rotating" laser level which (as far as I can understand) sits on top of a tripod or any solid support in the middle of a room, and which you can then rotate to project a laser beam to all points around a room, thus creating a level line around the whole room. Useful, eh?

Forgive my ingorance of these things, but isn't that what all laser levels do? How do the non-rotating variety work? Come to that, how would I use a laser level if I wanted, say, to check the level on a worktop or shelves as I was setting them up? Normally, I'd put a spirit level on the three dimensions of the item, and adjust until everything was level/plumb. How would I do this with a laser level?

 

[breezer]

rotating laser levels are quite often used by the people who put up false ceilings

non rotating are / can be used for a strait line for people who fix (if that is the right word) tiles

 

[fitter]

As someone who is always on the lookout for new toys, I have been tempted more than once but really can't find a use for one.

Like a lot of tools it may seem more useful than it really is.

I was hoping somebody would post and say what they have done with it and how they wouldn't be without one now.

 

[david and julie]

I was recently watching some tilers working in the swimming pools steamrooms and changing area's of a new gym.

I didn't see them do the pool but for the other area's they they set up a rotating level. The lazer enabled them to look round the room and set their levels to suit awkward areas. They also opened all the surrounding doors to transfer the levels into the rooms. They used a Disto not one of the cheap ones. They are quicker and easier than using water levels.

I think the main advantage was it then enabled several teams to work in different area's at the same time.

In the past they would have used a dumpy level which would need more operator training. Lazers can be used by almost anyone once set up.

I can see the advantage in larger area's as above, for house kitchens and bathrooms it would just be more junk in the way in your van.

 

[fitter]

D&J, more junk in the van, sounds like the voice of experience.

 

[david and julie]

I've seen some people with so much must have kit that they need a tranny instead of an escort! You know the sort they usually have De-Walt radio chargers, hats, belts etc. saw a guy the other day with a De-Walt tape measure?

Working in houses the best thing you can have is room to work.

Sorry.... I'm not mean, but there is nearly always an alternative tool and you probably already have it too, plus if your van gets done you don't lose as much.

 

[fitter]

Human nature I suppose, always fill up available space.

I bought a house few years back, with 2 large built in workshops, the biggest being 55 x 25 seemed like a ballroom to start, when I moved 6 years later couldn't move, jampacked with stuff, most of which was never going to be used.

Give my right arm now for even the smaller of the 2.

 

[DAZB]

I bought a laser level around four years ago with a Line Generating Prism and all the gubbins. I can honestly say that I have never taken it on a job yet. It does have one good use though and that is to tease the cats in the streeet behind my house at night.

 

[2scoops0406]

please ensure that laser is spelt correctly, as I'm sure is known it's an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emmision Radition