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Storey pole used in masonry

A storey pole (or story pole, storey rod,

framing, timber framing, siding, brickwork, and setting tiles. The pole is marked for the heights from (usually) the floor platform of a building for dimensions such as window sill heights, window top heights (or headers), exterior door heights (or headers), interior door heights, wall gas jet heights (for gas lamps
) and the level of the next storey joists. It makes for quick, repeatable measurements without the need of otherwise calibrated measuring devices or workers skilled in using them.

Craftsmen use them to mark clapboard and brick courses so that, for example, a course ends neatly below a window sill or at a door's architrave. They are used in remodelling so that, for example, the new coursing of exterior siding on a wing will match the existing.[7]

There is evidence of 'boning-rods' being used in building Egypt's Great Pyramid as counterparts of modern storey poles.[8]

References

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  4. ^ "scantling". Oxford English Dictionary. Dec 2016.
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  6. ^ "Apprentices' Column". The Builder and Wood-Worker. Vol. 20. New York: Fred A. Hodgson. Aug 1884. p. 157. Archived from the original on 2023-01-02. Retrieved 2016-12-11.
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  8. JSTOR 40000899
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