Dropped $400 on a laser level and returned it the next day

Bought a fancy green beam rotary laser for a bathroom tile job and it kept losing calibration. Regular old bubble level and string line got the job done faster. Anyone else find high tech tools just create more headaches?

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william_craig71d ago

Bought a fancy laser once and spent more time recalibrating it than actually working. My Grandpa's old chalk line has been dead on for forty years with zero batteries needed. Technology is GREAT until it reminds you that string and gravity still work just fine.

ray_burns23h ago

And @william_craig7 kinda nailed it but here's the thing nobody talks about - those lasers need perfectly stable floors and clean sight lines. Bathrooms are small, cramped, full of dust and crap. A string line just works because it doesn't care about any of that. lol

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dakota_miller9323h ago

Ngl, I had to read that twice because I literally thought you were joking about the dust thing. @william_craig7 probably has a chalk line from like 1982 that still hits dead nuts every time. But I had no idea lasers could get tripped up by a little drywall dust floating around. That's wild. I always figured those $400 green beam things were idiot proof. Guess string and gravity really do win in the end.