How to Build Patio Tables

In order to reflect your personal tastes and styles, you need customized items when building a patio table. This is easy to accomplish with PVC pipe. Decorate your patio with PVC pipe furniture. PVC pipe patio tables and/or end tables are sturdy and durable, and they weather well. With this simple design, you can make any size table by increasing or reducing the overall size of the table. It's also easy to change the tabletop texture. You'll be able to create multiple tables in various styles and sizes.

2 4-foot-by-1-inch PVC pipes
4 3-foot-by-1-inch PVC pipes
8 2-foot-by-1-inch PVC pipes
4 elbows
8 T connectors
4 end caps
3 3/8-by-3 3/8-by-3/4-inch-thick square of Plexiglas
PVC pipe glue
Pipe cutter

Instructions

Directions
- 1
  
  Attach a T connector into each end of one 4-foot length of PVC pipe. Repeat this step with the second 4-foot length of pipe but set this second one aside for the moment.
- 2
  Attach a 2-foot length of PVC pipe into each end of the T connectors on both ends of the 4-foot pipe. Your base will look like a capital I.
- 3
  
  Attach an elbow into all four ends. This is the base of the table.
- 4
  Attach a 3-foot length of pipe in the top hole of each elbow.
- 5
  Attach a T connector at the top of the 3-foot section of pipe.
- 6
  With the second 4-foot length of pipe you set aside in Step 1, attach the ends of the 2-foot sections into the side holes of the T connectors. This step creates the table base.
- 7
  
  Attach end caps into the top holes of the four T connectors.
- 8
  
  Lay the Plexiglas inside the T connectors. You can either leave it loose for easy movement or glue it to the cross brace underneath the glass.

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