When we talk about home furniture, the options to choose from are endless. Especially, when it comes to choosing side tables and desks for the home, there are endless number of options – makes and sizes.
Of-course all of them come for a price which depends primarily on the materials used and the time invested by the maker. You can also make your own table or bench by using many techniques and material of choice. One of them is the plumbers pipe bench that can be made using plumbing pipes and can be put in any corner of your house to function as a base for keeping decoration items or other things that come in use frequently.
If you are fascinated with plumber’s pipes or recycling in general, you should be willing to try making one of these. Let’s go through step by step instruction on how to make a plumbers pipe bench using salvaged gas pipes and a wooden board.
Difficulty level:
The project is a beginner’s level job.
Things you’ll need:
In order to get down to make this interesting plumbers pipe bench, you will need 12” pipe, 30” pipe, 3” pipe, 6” pipe, 4 x ½” elbow, black iron T, rubber caps, screws, wrench, pliers and wooden board.
Step 1:
First of all connect the 8 x 3” pipes on each side to the 4 x 6” inch pipes using the 6 x black iron T that act as the legs of the bench.
Step 2:
After you have connected the 3” pipes to the 6” pipes on each side, you have a solid skeletal base for the table. Now connect the 30” pipe to the black iron T in the middle of the 3” T.
Step 3:
Now, attach another set of the 3” inch pipe to the top of 6” pipe with ½” elbow as the connecting link.
Step 4:
Make sure all the connections are securely tight using a wrench and if you want extra strength you can apply some industrial adhesive to secure pipes permanently.
Step 5:
Now take the wooden board and smoothen out its edges, so that there are no sharp corners that might get caught in the clothing while walking. Apply some lacquer on top of the table to make it look shiny and modern.
Step 6:
Now you can choose to keep the wooden board on top of the bench legs without securing them permanently or making a housing for the table to get hinged onto the legs. You can use plastic sockets to make the securing for the bench legs.
Step 7:
You can choose to attach wheels to the bench for easy portability or keep it simple by attaching rubber caps.
There you have it, the plumbers pipe bench is ready in no time with minimum investment. Be rest assured that the table will attract attention of anyone who comes home.
You can make tweaks to this DIY and carve a pipe bench table using your own creativity too. For example you can use steel pipes to make a sturdy table with good structural strength. Or maybe you could use a plastic top base to act as a table and the bottom gas pipes would make the table completely carved from material, that is plastic.
I would recommend making this table from steel pipes and a thick wooden top base for the table since it would waver less and also be able to hold as many things as you want. For example to keep flower vases or aquarium.
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