Layout and Measuring Tools: Verify Before Trusting the Mark

Foreman script

Field check

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Layout and Measuring Tools: Verify Before Trusting the Mark

This measurement is from [reference] to [face/centerline]. Are we using the same benchmark and finished-surface reference before I lay it out?

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Watch out

Do not mix centerline, outside, inside, and finished-face dimensions or trust a dropped laser without checking it.

Check

room/grid/area
photo of the condition
current drawing/detail/submittal
measurements or test information
what has already been checked

Say this to your foreman

layout and measuring tools: verify before trusting the mark measuring, field verification & layout marks layout tools tape laser level benchmark control line centerline face dimension this measurement is from [reference] to [face/centerline]. are we using the same benchmark and finished-surface reference before i lay it out?