This is an amazing product shown by Bob. Thanks for letting us know about this simple and inexpensive tool.

Inside the Bob is great, wind tends to cause it some hassles outside though. Good clip Bob. Keep them comming

Bob was transferring a line to be able to install the top plate...not plumbing a framed wall. Once you raise your framed wall (which in a basement most folks would build in place) then hanging the Bob at the top of the wall over the spacer, say 3/4 plywood block, then adjusting the wall to get 3/4" at the bottom of the wall to achieve plumb.

Glad I found this channel! Lots of good stuff up here! Thank you!!!!

If you're using the plumb bob outside you can get better string for it at a kite shop and some home centers. It has a smaller diameter and is less susceptible to the wind. Well, that and a bigger bob. :)

totally right...lasers and stick levels can often be 'off'. Plumb Bobs are just one more tool that has been tried to be improved on (based of time efficiency) but has yet to be met in practice.

Hello Mr. Schmidt & thanks for the video. Keep up the great work. To be honest I have been kind of dragged into the handyman line of work kicking & screaming. . I wish I had seen this video years ago, as anyone can tell you that 4 foot level is accurate but only within a margin. It is pretty much just to check your eyeball. I would much rather use this method to make sure the wall is completely plumb.

I also love my Bob.. however I don't try to plumb directly over the line.. I just get it in the area and measure the offset to the line.. then I measure the same distance on the ceiling from the pin holding my Bob. this speeds thing up with two people but really helps when you're alone.. I also love the Tajima plumb bobs.. check them out, they're the best $40 you can spend..

Even if the walls are completely plumb you still have to deal with the crowns of the studs to keep wall straight, just as important! You may appreciate my building straight wall video. Thanks for watching. +++Bob

Hi Bob, Good video instruction! Helpful and informative. Thanks!!

this was great! thanks so much for making this.

Thank you for a great video. You really taught me something new!

I don't know, I just remodeled; adding 6 rooms to a large basement. I tried using a plumb in the beginning, but it was just so much work for each mark I would need to make. I duct taped my new 4' to a true 2x4 cut to my ceiling height (technically it was an 83" level.

Will do Thanks+++Bob

Nice video bro!

Great channel! what do you do when it runs out of batteries? seriously, you saved me...... I was going to frame a wall in my shop this weekend and it would have been a real mess if I had not checked utube first. Thanks!

Thanks Bob I have checked that video out and I am following the steps. I guess you just keep on adjusting the lines until they come out in the 3,4,5 method? Or is there an easier way to get there? Thanks!

How is it attached/anchored on top? Fun video!

Great Video.

the egyptians did use a plumb bob extensively, their use involved a plum bob attached to an apparatus of one long board, 4' to 6' with 2 short stubs @ more or less 1/8th distance from each end, then the plum bob string hangs against the top stub, going on down so that the string would just touch the bottom stub or rhe lower location would be an index point that the string would hang next to at level or other indexes for a pitch, regards

Bob how do I get my lines on the floor with an uneven concrete wall to measure off of?

and great video by the way

But JIMMYS are a candy we put on ice-cream cones.You can't have all the fun+++Bob

Get a couple different color chalk lines and make adjustments!+++Bob

I dont care if my walls are that plumb!...good vids anyhow.

...but the pyramid walls are out of plumb! :) Great video, Cheers

You should have mentioned that you need to make a spacer at the top if you are measuring to an offset line. duh....how could you pass that up? otherwise, great instruction.

@HomeRemodelWorkshop What carpentry school did you attend?

@birdman17038 A local vocational school in lieu of my junior and senior years of high school.+++Bob

With your mates Thumb!

@Nwitty007 Not sure I understand what you are saying, you make it sound obvious but I am not getting it. Please explain the obvious Thanks+++Bob

I made a how to lay-out basement video you should check out I will put it on a message and drop it on your channel +++Bob

buy a good 8' level! You are wrong about their accuracy, what about the thickness of the string? you can test a level in 2 seconds every time you use it, just by spinning it around. Either device you use, human error is the only error. Stabilla makes a digital level that would win against a plumb bob every time. I guarantee that plumb bobs are NOT as accurate or near as fast as a GOOD carpenter with a GOOD level. With the time/money wasted waiting on BOB to center, you could buy alot of levels