That one Tuesday where every dimension I called out was wrong

So last month I had a day where nothing lined up. I was drafting a small addition for a house in Bloomington, just a 12x16 bump out for a laundry room. I pulled the existing plans and started laying out the foundation. Every single measurement I took from the scanned PDF ended up being off by 3/8 of an inch. Not huge, but enough to mess up the slab and the wall framing. By noon I had redrawn the whole thing three times. Turns out the original scan had some perspective distortion I didn't catch. Has anyone else had a day where your whole draft just fights you like that?

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parkerh3826d ago

Man that scan thing is brutal. PDFs always seem to mess with measurements somehow.

zara_hill4626d ago

Ugh, had that happen with a scanned site plan once. Drove me nuts all afternoon.

jade73826d ago

Ugh, "every dimension I called out was wrong" hits close to home. My buddy was laying out a simple deck and spent half a day fighting his tape measure before realizing he'd been reading the wrong side of it the whole time.