How to make a homemade water level?

Question

i want to level my mobile home it is a 16 x 80 and i don't know how to make a homemade water level!

Answer 1

Use 90-100' of clear tubing. Fill it with water, remove any bubbles then add a drop of food dye to each end (it's safer than anti-freeze, and cheaper too). Hold the bottom of the meniscus (the "smily-face") to one of the points you want to place on the same plane, then mark the bottom of the meniscus at the other end. The benefit of a water level is that it is the definition of level that ALL other leveling devices use. If there is a discrepancy between a water level and a transit, spirit or laser level, you can calibrate the other level to the water level. Water levels establish equal distance from the center of the earth.

Other benefits:
cheapest level
most accurate
unlimited in distance

Answer 2

Homemade Water Level

Answer 3

Wow I haven't heard of anyone using an authentic water level in a long time.

I'd go a transit/level, or laser level if I was involved.

Without knowing at all how long you want the level to be, you might try clear tubing with the ends as 2.... 90 degree elbows
then "Up Tubes fit into the elbows, and maybe add removeable caps.

Steven Wolf

I live in a mobile, and about the same size. You might also try a 6 ft. carpenter level and place it on the underside of the frame. Even centered, it will show you LEVEL or not.

Beyond determining the LEVEL of the home, do you have the means and ways to actually perform the process?

Steven Wolf

Answer 4

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How to make a homemade water level?
i want to level my mobile home it is a 16 x 80 and i don't know how to make a homemade water level!

Answer 5

Water levels are great and extremely accurate but you can save yourself a lot of hassle by just purchasing a regular spirit level and using it on any manufactured surface (bumper, wall, floor, etc.). If you want to get really accurate front to back, get an inexpensive laser level (many incorporate a spirit level) and shoot a beam between any two points that you can use as guides and level from there.

Answer 6

90 ft of clear 3/8 in hose and a couple of corks for the ends. stretch it out end to end on the trailer, remove corks and hold it at trailers edge on one end and read liquid level at the other. whatever the difference is ,is how much its out of level. use anti freeze or windshield washer...easier to see. also check for bubbles along the tube, these will give you an inaccurate reading...water never lies...

Answer 7

buy 90 feet of clear plastic tube and fill with water. take out a couple of inches of waterand whala you did it.

Answer 8

Sounds like it will work to me , I wouldn't worry about a air stone , did you consider a fountain kit?

Answer 9

spend a few pounds or dollars ang get a level!!