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TVL-CARPENTRY
1 st Semester – Module 1B:
PREPARE/STAKE-OUT
BUILDING LINES
TVL-CARPENTRY – Grade 11 & 12
Alternative Delivery Mode
1st Semester – Module 1B: PREPARE/STAKE-OUT BUILDING LINES
First Edition, 2020

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TVL-CARPENTRY
1st Semester – Module 1B:
PREPARE/STAKE-OUT
BUILDING LINES
Introductory Message
For the facilitator:

Welcome to the TVL-CARPENTRY 11/12 Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM)

Module on PREPARE/STAKE-OUT BUILDING LINES!

This module was collaboratively designed, developed and reviewed by

educators both from public and private institutions to assist you, the
teacher or facilitator in helping the learners meet the standards set by the K
to 12 Curriculum while overcoming their personal, social, and economic
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For the learner:

Welcome to the TVL-CARPENTRY 11/12 Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM)

Module on PREPARE/STAKE-OUT BUILDING LINES!

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 What I Need to Know

This unit covers the knowledge, skills, and attitude for preparing stake-out
materials and fixing stakeout building lines.

This module was designed and written with you in mind. It is here to help you
understand Carpentry. The scope of this module permits its to be used in many
different learning situations. The language used recognizes the diverse vocabulary
level of students. The lessons are arranged to follow the standard sequence of the
course.

The module is divided into two elements, namely:

 Lesson 1: Prepare materials for stake-out building lines
 Lesson 2: Set batter boards and Fix stake-out building lines

Performance Standard
The learner independently prepares materials and stakes out building lines in
carpentry based on construction standards.
Unit of Competency
PREPARE/STAKE-OUT BUILDING LINES (CON712317)
Learning Objectives
At the end of the module, you should be able to:
1. Identify tools and materials for staking out building lines;
2. Classify tools and materials for staking out building lines; and
3. Recognize the importance of wearing appropriate PPE when staking out
building lines

What I Know

Write this in your notebook.

A. Direction: TRUE or FALSE. Write the word TRUE if the statement is correct and
write the word FALSE if the statement is wrong. Write your answers in your activity
notebook.
1. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources issues a permit to cut
trees.
2. The person who has the authority to relocate the boundaries of the construction
when there is no existing reference point is the geodetic engineer.
3. Determining the building set back from the road line is not necessary.

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 4. The site of the construction must be securely fenced to protect the construction
activities.
5. Allocating a space for warehousing, workers’ quarter and construction office is
not usually required in the construction.

B. Direction: Answer the following questions. Write your answers in your activity
notebook.
1. What are the PPE used in Carpentry?
2. Show the real carpentry tools and materials used for the job.

Lesson SET BATTER BOARDS AND

2 FIX STAKE-OUT BUILDING
LINES
This learning material contains activities, exercises that will deepen students
understanding and ability in setting and fixing batter boards and stakeout building
lines in carpentry based on construction standards independently.

What’s In

In connection with the previous topic, are you familiar the materials use for
setting stake-out building lines? If yes, lets proceed in setting up the batter boards
and fixing the stake-out building lines. Are you Ready? Let’s start!

What’s New

Are you familiar of the materials below?

Direction: Identify/Name the hand tools below. Use your notebook to write your
answers.

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 What is It

Tools Used in Making Batter Board

1. Claw hammer - is used for driving and pulling out nail.

2. Cross cut saw - is used for cutting lumber across the grain of wood.
3. Water hose level - is used to determine the horizontal levelness of batter boards,
and parts of the building such as beam, floorings and others.
4. Bolo - is used to cut pegs for stake out.
5. Sledge hammer - is used to drive pegs for stake out.
6. Ripping/Wrecking bar - is used pull out long nails. This may be
Straight or gooseneck. It has a nail slot for pulling out spikes and wedging
Apart nailed boards.
7. Try square - looks like the steel square and is used to check the flatness and
squareness of a small piece of stock or lumber.
8. Pull-push rule - is used for laying out measurements. This is a flexible strip of
metal provided with the scale of the English and Metric Systems of measurements. It
is rolled in a case.
9. Pencil - marking tool used to mark a lumber.

Materials used in making batter board:

1. Lumber- sawn Timber

2. Nails- made of metal used for fastening wood

Types of Batter Board

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.

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 1 m away from the pre-determined building lines,
preferably where the grade stake is.

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

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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, levelled with spirit level or level bar from the
stake to the 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
Levelling from the corner stake where the height of the foundation is established.
Recheck the levelness.

7. Mark batter board posts along the line just levelled. 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.

Materials Used in Fixing Building Line

1. Nylon-string used for lay outing building lines.

2. Nails- made of metal used for fastening wood. (#1 ½)

Tools Used in Fixing Building Line

1. Claw hammer- is used for driving and pulling out nail.

2. Try square- looks like the steel square and is used to check the flatness and
squareness of a small piece of stock or lumber.
3. Pull-push rule- is used for laying out measurements. This is a flexible strip of
metal provided with the scale of the English and Metric Systems of measurements.
It is rolled in a case.
4. Pencil- marking tool used to mark a lumber.
5. Steel square is L-shaped with one arm forming a perfect right angle to the other. It
is used to check the squareness of the corner of a particular object.

PPE Used in Fixing Building Lines

1. Eye and face protection Goggles and face protection must be worn to protect
workers from flying particles, liquid chemicals, acids, chemical gases or vapors.
Workers must also be protected from radiation during welding, touching, soldering,
brazing and other operations that emit light.
2. Hand protection Gloves are required to protect workers from cuts, scrapes,
punctures, burns, chemical absorption or extreme temperature.
3. Foot protection Safety shoes with impact protection are required in work
areas where heavy objects or tool could be accidentally dropped on the feet.
4. Respirators: Appropriate respirators must be worn as a last resort if it is not
possible to ventilate the work area properly.

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Procedures or Steps in Fixing Building Lines

1. Base the measurement given Length and width.

2. Mark the measurement of length and width.
3. Fix the nylon or string to the marker.
4. Check the corner with steel bar or a plywood if it is aligned to the nylon or
string.
5. Fix the measurement of length and width both sides.
6. Cross measuring (if ever there is a difference of the cross measurement just
move a string or nylon a little)

What’s More

Direction: Identify the following. Write your answer in the Activity Notebook.

1. It is a marking tool used to mark a lumber.

2. It is used for driving and pulling out nail.
3. It is made of metal used for fastening wood
4. It is used for laying out measurements. This is a flexible strip of metal
provided with the scale of the English and Metric Systems of measurements.
5. It is a string used for lay outing building lines.

What I Have Learned

Skills is not the only thing needed in carpentry, we also need to follow
construction company rules and regulations to avoid problems and unnecessary
expenses. By the following rules and regulations, you protect the company from the
lawsuits. It makes a stable environment where people feel safe to come to work and to
be themselves. The result is less turnover, more teamwork, and higher company
morale.

What I Can Do

Direction: Answer the following questions. Write your answers in your Activity
Notebook.
1. What are the steps/procedure in fixing building line?

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 Assessment

ACTIVITY: (Note: To be performed during face-to-face classroom discussions)

Follow the procedures or steps in setting batter board. It should be one meter bigger
to the measurement of the building. (Group Activity)

Output of the activity for checking

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Assessment Criteria

1. Batter boards are set away from the building line excavation.
2. Batter boards are properly secured with tolerance for dimension at
+ 5mm, and levelness of + 3mm.
3. Unexpected situations are responded to in line with company rules
and regulations.
4. Housekeeping is performed according to safety regulation.

Rubric in Assessing the Performance/Output in setting batter board.

Criteria % 5 4 3 2 1 Average
1.Proper 20%
handling of
tools and
equipment
2. Accuracy of 25%
measurement.
3.Skills and 25%
knowledge on
work
4.Safety 15%
5.Work ethics 15%
Total 100%

LEGEND
Very Satisfactory – 5
Satisfactory – 4
Good – 3
Poor – 2
Very Poor - 1

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Criteria 5 4 3 2 1
Proper All tools are 1-2 tools 3-4 tools Most of the No attempt
handling of properly are are tools are to work or
tools and handled and improperly improperly improperly Incomplete
equipment. used. handled handled handled work
and not and not and not performanc
properly properly properly e
used. used used.
Accuracy of 100% of 75% of 50% of 25% of No attempt
measuremen batter boards batter batter batter to work or
t. are properly boards are boards are boards are Incomplete
set with properly properly properly work
tolerance for set with set with set with performanc
dimension of tolerance tolerance tolerance e
+5mm, and for for for
levelness of + dimension dimension dimension
3mm. of +5mm, of +5mm, of +5mm,
and and and
levelness of levelness of levelness of
+ 3mm. + 3mm. + 3mm.
Skills and Learners Learners Learners Learners Learners
Knowledge perform the perform the perform the will did not
on work. procedure procedure procedure attempt to attempt to
completely completely completely work but do the job.
and with with more they will
independentl minimal help from not finish
y. help from the the job.
the teacher teacher.
Safety Learners will 1 of the 2 of the 3 of the All of the
use complete required required required required
PPE PPE is not PPE are PPE are PPE are
according to used not used not used not used
job during during during during
requirements work. work work. work.
Work ethics Learners Learners Learners Learners Learners
finished the finished finished finished attempted
job the job the job the job to do the
completely completely completely completely job but not
without with 1-3 with 4-6 with 7-9 completely
destruction/ destruction destruction destruction finished.
damage. / damage / damage. / damage.

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 Additional Activities

Direction: Write an essay about Why is it important to set and fix Batter Board in
carpentry? At least 5 sentences. You will be graded using the rubric below. Write
your answer in your notebook.

Features 4 3 2 1

Expert Accomplished Capable Beginner

Quality of Piece was Piece was written Piece had little Piece had no style
Writing written in an in an interesting style or voice or voice
extraordinary style and voice
style and voice Gives some new Gives no new
Somewhat information but information and
Very informative informative and poorly very poorly
and well- organized organized organized
organized
Grammar, Virtually no Few spelling and A number of So many spelling,
Usage & spelling, punctuation spelling, punctuation and
Mechanics punctuation or errors, minor punctuation or grammatical
grammatical grammatical grammatical errors that it
errors errors errors interferes with the
meaning

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What’s In
 Answer may vary from the perspective of the learner
What’s New
1. Pull-push rule
2. Try Square
What I Know
A.
1. True
2. True
3. False
4. True
5. False
B.
1. Goggles, Gloves, Safety shoes, Respirators
2. TOOLS: Claw hammer, Try square, Pull-push rule, Pencil, Steel square
MATERIALS: Nylon, Nails
What’s More
1. Pencil
2. Claw hammer
3. Nail
4. Pull-push rule
5. Nylon
What I Can Do
1.
 Base the measurement given Length and width.
 Mark the measurement of length and width.
 Fix the nylon or string to the marker.
 Check the corner with steel bar or a plywood if it is aligned to the nylon
or string.
 Fix the measurement of length and width both sides.
 Cross measuring (if ever there is a difference of the cross measurement
just move a string or nylon a little)
Additional Activities
 Batter boards are then used to hold layout lines (construction twine) to
indicate the limits (edges and corners) of the foundation.
Answer Key
References
Book Reference:

 Simplified Building Construction by Max Pajardo

Picture Reference:

 Pictures are taken from the Book: Simplified Building Construction by Max
Pajardo
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