Height of bottles on bottling stand

[Eberzin]

I am setting up a new bottling station. Sitting on a standard height chair, with a bottling tray in front of me, what height should the top of the bottle be? How far down from eye level should the top be? I do mostly flat 500 ml, quart mason, and some 250 ml. jars. Just looking for what others do. I am too tired too stand and do this. Thanks

[maple flats]

I like mine to be at about 6-7" below eye level to see the syrup better as it gets close, on both glass and jugs. I like the bottle or jug to be about 1/4" below the bottler spout.
For that I have one height which is for gallon jugs, all other heights I raise the container by adding shelves and spacers which I made out of white PVC boards. Most are 3/4" thick but I have 2 spacers that are 1/2" thick and 2 that are 1/4" thick. Then there is always a combination to end up with the container at the right distance below the spout. For the 6-7" to see in, that doesn't change, my stool I use puts me that distance above the top of the container.

[Eberzin]

Thank you Maple Flats,
That is good advice about the spacers. I was planning to use boards but PVC is easier to clean. I am going into maple glass specifically the flat bottles 250 -500 ml with plasti seal tamperproof caps, from D+G. I always used mason jars of various sizes. A have a few questions as to how you would bottle these. Do you sterilize the glass or just take them out of the box? Do you heat the glass and how before bottling? Are these plasti seal caps good the way they are or do you sterilize them? If I bottle one of these and go to the top of the handle so I can see a little air space between the cap and the syrup level, should I turn them on their side and for how long. I have read many different ways to go about this but was wondering how you go about it. I do not want to see mold or nitre. I am going from a steam bottom bottler to a water jacket bottler. I appreciate the advice.