BEFORE YOU BUY

Tell us the job. We’ll sort the kit.

Five questions Australian crews actually search. Each one ends in a product, not a paragraph.

• ROTATING LASERS

  Rugby 610 vs 620

  If you pour level house slabs, buy the 610. If you need to match a fall in one direction, buy the 620. Two-way fall is a Rugby 640 (manual dual) or 680 (dial-in dual). The laser is half the kit — get the All-in-One so the receiver, tripod and staff show up in the same carton.

• LASER DISTANCE METERS

  DISTO D2 vs D2G

  D2 if you measure rooms, corridors and variations inside. D2G if the dot has to show up on steel or a bright elevation. Same pocket, same tilt sensor, same Bluetooth. Do not buy both unless two people measure at once.

• PICK THE RIGHT LASER

  Pipe laser vs rotating laser

  Drainage, sewer, stormwater: pipe laser in the invert. Slabs, pads, earthworks: rotating laser on a tripod. A Rugby on the bank is a guess at pipe grade. A Piper on a slab is a waste of an invert tool.

• DRAINAGE

  What you need to install stormwater

  A Piper 100, the remote, a target, and a charged Li-ion. That is the kit. Add a tripod if you are shooting over the trench rather than sitting in it. Add a locator if you do not already know what is in the ground.

• LASER RECEIVERS

  Which receiver works with a Rugby?

  Colour first: red Rugby takes a red Rod Eye. Green takes green. Then pick the display — 120 or 140 for house slabs, 160 Digital if you want millimetres. A 360° machine receiver is a different product for the plant, not the staff.