Prepared by:

LAURENCE C. FABIALA
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CARPENTRY 9
Module

10 CONCEPTS OF SETTING BATTER

BOARDS

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CONTENT STANDARD

• The learner demonstrates an understanding in staking out building lines.

PERFORMANCE STANDARD

• The learner independently prepares materials and stakes out building

lines in carpentry based on construction standards.
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LEARNING COMPETENCIES

LO 1. Prepare tools, equipment and materials for staking out building lines
1.1 Identify tools and materials for staking out building lines
1.2 Prepare tools and materials for staking out building lines
1.3 Select appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

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Lesson

1 Procedure in setting batter board

This lesson will tell you about board foot computation. After going through this lesson,
you are expected to:
✓ Stake out and set batter boards.

What Do You Already Know?

Let us determine how much you already know take this test.

Direction: Read and analyze the following question, choose the letter of the correct
answer and write it in your notebook.

1. A horizontal boards that placed when laying out a building.

A. Batter board
B. Facia board
C. Phenolic board
D. Panel board
2. What is the distance between the stakes in laying out a building?
A. 2 feet
B. 3 feet
C. 4 feet
D. 5 feet
3. When constructing a different height of foundation, how do you set the height of the
batter board?
A. regarding the height of shortest foundation
B. regarding the average height of the foundation.
C. regarding the height of the tallest foundation.
D. both A and C
4. What do you call to mark stake for the batter board?
A. center stake
B. corner stake
C. level stake
D. grade stake
5. Where do you start leveling for the batter boards?
A. Above the corner stake
B. Beside the center stake
C. below the corner and center stake
D. Between the corner and center stake

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What you need to know?

Read comprehensively and study carefully lesson 1 then find out how much you
can remember and how much you learned by doing the activities below.

Batter boards are the horizontal boards placed at the corner and at the sides of the
projected building when final layout takes place. The reference for the foundation is
marked on these boards.
Two Types of Batter Boards
1. Batter boards for foundation posts may be either joined by continuous pieces
surrounding the site of foundation or by individual piece for each foundation.

2. Batter boards for the foundation walls are either single or double batter boards
which are placed at corner.

The batter boards should be set as high as the desired height of the foundation.
In constructing with different heights of foundation, the tallest foundation is set as the
height of batter boards.
Location of Batter Boards

The figure below shows how to locate batter boards. Right-angle batter boards
are erected 3 or 4 feet outside of each corner stake. Straight batter boards are erected 3
or 4 feet outside of the line stakes.
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PROCEDURE IN SETTING BATTER BOARD

1. Determine the height of the foundation at any of the four corners of the proposed
building. Set the stakes at 0.75 to 1m away from the pre-determined building lines,
preferably where the grade stake is.

Fig.1 Determining the height of the foundation

2. In this corner, drive a stake as high as the desired height of the foundation.

Fig.2 Putting up the stake for foundation

3. Drive in set of posts for the batter boards 3 feet away from the corners and along the
sides. Drive in the posts firmly. Align these posts with a string.

Fig.3 Set of post for the batter boards and the distance of the string on it.

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4. Move the height of the foundation from the stakes to the corner post of the batter
board. This is done by stretching a string, leveled with spirit level or level bar from the
stake to the post.

Fig.4 Transferring the height of the foundation from the stake to the corner post.

5. From the mark of this post, stretch out a string going around the corners of the
building and passing at the side of the batter board posts.

6. Level this string with a spirit level or level bar. Stretch the string tight. Start leveling
from the corner stake where the height of the foundation is established. Recheck the
levelness.

Fig.5-6 Transferring the height of the foundation from the corner post to all batter board
post around the building layout.

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7. Mark batter board posts along the line just leveled. These marks are places for the
top of the batter boards.
8. Nail the batter boards in place, the straight side up and at the marks of the posts.

Figure 7. Batter board

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How Much Have You Learned?

Fill in the blanks. Direction: Supply the blanks with the correct word or group of
words to complete the sentence.

PROCEDURE IN SETTING BATTER BOARD

A. Determine the _____________ at any of the four corners of the proposed building, Set
the stakes at 0.75 to 1m away from the pre-determined building lines, preferably where
the grade stake is.

B. In this corner, drive a _____________ as a high as the desired height of the foundation.

C. Drive in set of posts for the _____________ 3 feet away from the corners and along the
sides. Drive in the posts firmly. Align these posts with a _____________.

D. Move the height of the foundation from the stakes to the _____________ of the batter
board. This is done by stretching a string, leveled with spirit level or level bar from the
stake to the post.

E. From the mark of this post, _____________ a string going around the corners of the
building and passing at the side of the batter board posts.

F. Level this string with a _____________. Stretch the string tight. Start _____________
from the corner stake where the height of the foundation is established. Re-check the
levelness.

G. _____________ batter board posts along the line just leveled. These marks are places
for the top of the batter boards.

H._____________ the batter boards in place, the straight side up and at the marks of the
posts.

Congratulations for completing this

module

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References:
Learning Module in Industrial Arts-Carpentry 9

https://www.constructionknowledge.net/public_domain_documents/Div_6_Woods_Pla
stics/Partial%20Carpentry%20pdfs/Layout_&_Foundations_Army_FM5-426.pdf

https://angono.gov.ph/?p=1

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