Building the Batter Boards
Batter boards are temporary wooden frameworks used to suspend the layout strings for a foundation. Once they are built, the batter boards resemble hurdles.
Their placement is crucial to building a foundation exactly as the plans specify, and certain elements of their construction must be exact.
The batter boards are used throughout construction as a reference for the foundation. So after building these, we weren’t too happy to find them in the basement, along with the picnic table and some extra lumber…thanks to a mischief night prank.
So after putting them back together and back where they belong, we got the final approval from the man in charge.
During this process, we’ve had many little helpers come to assist us.
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