I keep seeing guys skip the line check on long walls and it's a mess.

Worked on a big commercial job in Omaha last month and the crew before us laid about 80 feet of foundation brick without checking their line once. I mean not once. By the time we got there to start the veneer, the whole run was out by almost an inch and a half. We had to tear it all out. The foreman just shrugged and said, 'It looked straight from the end.' It doesn't matter how it looks from one spot. You have to check that line every ten, fifteen feet, especially with a breeze or if the ground isn't perfect. A snapped line isn't a set-it-and-forget-it thing. How do you guys handle keeping a long run true when you're working solo?

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gavin6924d ago

Reminds me of how people skip steps in all kinds of jobs and it always comes back to bite them.

norab214d ago

Maybe it's just me but sometimes you gotta trust your eye more than the line, especially if the ground's shifting. A string can lie to you too.