Aisle 05
Project Layout and Survey Materials
Stakes and string through to digital theodolites, so the job starts from the right line.
Chapter 01
Stakes and marking
Consumables move off this shelf faster than almost anything else we carry, because layout is the one part of a job that gets rebuilt every time the site changes. Whiskers and blue tops make a stake findable in long grass or after a scrape, which matters more than it sounds like it should at seven in the morning. Upside down paint is made to be used from standing height, which is both faster and straighter than bending over a normal can.
A digital theodolite, tripod, rotary laser level and bundled grade stakes on the trade counter
Measuring
String and a good tape will lay out a small rectangular slab accurately and there is no reason to make that harder than it is. String starts to cost you when distances get long enough for sag to matter, when the shape is not rectangular, or when elevation is what you are controlling rather than position. A string line tells you where. It is poor at telling you how high.
Optical and laser instruments
This is where one person can do what used to take two. A rotary laser with a magnetically mounted receiver on a grade rod gives a consistent reference across a whole pad all day, instead of a chain of measurements that each add a small error. Digital theodolites earn their place when angles matter: setting a building corner, or turning a known angle off a control line so a small error at one end does not become a large one at the other.
Contractors Supply, family and woman owned in Oklahoma City since 1956. Call (405) 525-7431.
Project Layout and Survey Materials
The full list, as we stock it.
Stakes and marking
- Hub, grade, and lathe stakes
- Stake whiskers/blue tops
- Wire flagging
- Engineer flagging ribbon
- Upside-down marking paint
- Lime
- Chalk
- String line
Measuring
- Measuring wheels
- Digital distance measures
- Measuring tapes
- Grade rods - story poles
- Plumb bobs
Optical and laser instruments
- Optical leveling instruments
- Digital Theodolites
- Self-leveling laser levels
- Magnetically mounted laser receivers
- Pocket laser layout
- Tripods
Stocked at 20 NE 30th Street. We do not handle special order items, so this list is what you can collect or have delivered. Call (405) 525-7431 to check today.