Make your own Plumbers

Pipe Bench at Home

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When we talk about home furniture, the options tochoose from are endless. Especially, when it comes tochoosing side tables and desks for the home, there areendless number of options - makes and sizes.

If you are fascinated with plumber’s pipes or recycling ingeneral, you should be willing to try making one ofthese. Let’s go through step by step instruction on howto make a plumbers pipe bench using salvaged gas pipesand a wooden board.

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 x6” inch pipes using the 6 x black iron T that act as thelegs of the bench.

Step 2:

After you have connected the 3” pipes to the 6” pipes oneach side, you have a solid skeletal base for the table.Now connect the 30” pipe to the black iron T in themiddle of the 3” T.

Step 3:

Now, attach another set of the 3” inch pipe to the top of6” pipe with ½” elbow as the connecting link.

Step 4:

Make sure all the connections are securely tight using awrench and if you want extra strength you can applysome 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 caughtin the clothing while walking.

Step 6:

Now you can choose to keep the wooden board on topof the bench legs without securing them permanently ormaking a housing for the table to get hinged onto thelegs.

Step 7:

You can choose to attach wheels to the bench for easyportability or keep it simple by attaching rubber caps.