Customer Reviews

Carpenter's PAL 21519 Pitch Angle and Level Finder Multi-Tool for Construction

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I saw this being used by a siding crew to lay out angle cuts for siding at roof pitch line. Asked about it and the crew leader showed me the features, and I bought one. I love this tool. I've used it for measuring corner angles for coping of crown mouldings, laying out staircase stringers, as a level, a ruler, straightedge. It's handy (fits easily into toolbox) and tough. Would suggest purchasing accessory guidebar (see [...]) if you're laying out stair stringers. Took me every bit of 45 seconds to layout a 13-step stringer! Highly recommend.

I bought this awhile ago and didn't use it untill just recently. I had to extend an addition that someone else had built, and looking at the roof I could tell it was a 4 pitch. When I cut my first rafter and put it on the ridge board the angle was off. I took the pal up on the roof and found the pitch on that side of the roof to be 4 1/4 pitch, so out of curiousty I checked the other side and it was a 4 1/2 pitch. Glad I didn't cut all my rafters beforehand. I also used the pal to mark my rafters for cutting.
I hate building after wanna be carpenters!

I work with a habitat crew. As an amateur in construction, this tool is a big help in various ways when building habitat homes.

Works but not as well as they would like you to believe. You have to be very careful to not reverse the angles and there's no lip on it to use it like a square. I didn't use it for building stairs so it didn't work for the project I purchased it to do.