{"id":4356,"date":"2013-08-08T22:04:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T22:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hunterwimmer.com\/redneckmodern\/2013\/08\/08\/on-the-level\/"},"modified":"2013-08-08T22:04:54","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T22:04:54","slug":"on-the-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunterwimmer.com\/redneckmodern\/2013\/08\/08\/on-the-level\/","title":{"rendered":"On The Level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Casie&#039;s father is here this weekend to visit the new baby&#8230; and to help with the deck. One of the things that has been the most vexing in the build was to get the level of the deck even with the level of the pool. Fortunately, he&#039;s an engineer.<\/p>\n<p>He figured that the water in the pool was the most consistently level part of the yard and found a way to use that to our advantage \u2014 using a water level. By attaching a hose to a clear tube, we could view the level of the water over a distance by using hydrostatic pressure&#8230; the level of water in the tube equals the level of water in the tube. We knew we wated the top of the deck 5in from the water level, so we marked the tube and measured eack of the four corners and adjusted accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>It worked amazingly well.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"LEVEL-1\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8345166b769e201901eb3386c970b\" src=\"\/redneckmodern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/6a00d8345166b769e201901eb3386c970b-400wi.jpg\" style=\"width: 364px\" title=\"LEVEL-1\" \/><br \/>\n<a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"\/redneckmodern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/6a00d8345166b769e201901eb3388e970b-popup\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"LEVEL-1\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8345166b769e201901eb3388e970b\" src=\"\/redneckmodern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/6a00d8345166b769e201901eb3388e970b-400wi.jpg\" style=\"width: 364px\" title=\"LEVEL-1\" \/><br \/>\n<a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"\/redneckmodern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/6a00d8345166b769e2019104a91a7c970c-popup\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"LEVEL-1\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8345166b769e2019104a91a7c970c\" src=\"\/redneckmodern\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/6a00d8345166b769e2019104a91a7c970c-400wi.jpg\" style=\"width: 364px\" title=\"LEVEL-1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Casie&#039;s father is here this weekend to visit the new baby&#8230; and to help with the deck. 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