DIY PVC Pipe Privacy Screen _ Part 1

Welcome to mother daughter projects .

I'm Steph .

I'm Vicky .

And today we're gonna show you how we made this outdoor PV C privacy screen .

Come join us prior to assembling all the PV C I sanded everything to give it a little bit of tooth .

And I used this really kind of fun hack .

I used an orbital battery powered sander .

I turned it upside down and clamped it to my workspace .

And that way I was able to use the sander hands free .

Next , we made a PV C frame for the slices to fit into .

We made the height 45 inches by 35 inches wide .

I used the MIT saw to cut the one inch pipe to length .

We use two elbows and two T s to attach it all together .

Next , we moved on to cutting a ton of various sizes of PV C pipe .

We clamped a piece of wood to the left side to act as a stop block .

So all the rounds were the same thickness .

We cut the PV C pipe on our minor saw and we quickly realized that the cut pieces were unpredictable .

Some of them flew away from minor saw some of them stayed in place .

So if you're going to do this , make sure you use all safety precautions .

Don't have anything behind your mind or .

So , we also did some research afterwards and found that a higher tooth count on a blade can work a little bit better .

Ours is only a 60 count so something a little bit higher could have done a better job .

Also , it's probably going to ruin your blade .

So keep that in mind don't use a super expensive blade to cut your P PC .

I wasn't comfortable cutting the shorter pieces on the minor saw .

So I used our portable band saw to get a few more rounds cut from these pieces .

And with a higher tooth count on the blade , it made nice safe cuts .

But there was a little bit more to clean up which we did on the orbital sander .

We placed our first round of cut slices .

We laid the frame on a piece of installation foam so it could be easily moved around .

We realized pretty quickly that we are going to need a lot more PV C rounds .

So we purchased more pipe and made the cuts off camera cutting and sanding PV C is really , really messy .

It's really important to protect your eyes and your nose and it's important to protect the environment .

Don't just swoop that into the environment , use a vacuum to clean it all up with all our slices .

Placed , we opened a tube of construction adhesive , placed it in our battery powered caught gun and started to glue the pieces .

We had all our PV C laid out ready to go and it was time to glue .

So here we are starting the gluing process and the first thing we realized was , it's a slow process .

So it took probably about four hours to get the whole thing done .

Uh We had some music plans so we were doing ok .

But what we , we did is we drew a little line where the , where the pipes connected , then we glued , uh using construction adhesive and we just kept the process going and quickly we realized that it was better if we both did our own thing .

And we uh we were able to complete it a little bit faster .

When we did that , we got our last piece in place in a quick high five for a job .

Well done .

We waited 24 hours and then lifted it up to see if it would hold success here .

You can see we're spray painting PV C white and we're doing that because PV C can yellow over time .

And we're hoping that this will keep it from doing that back in my house .

We removed the old screen and brought in the new one freezing two ft long rebar to secure it to the ground .

It fit nicely , but we had two issues .

One , it was leaning and two , the ground was uneven so it was not level no matter .

We got a 2.5 inch piece of PV C and added it to the left side .

So the structure would be level .

Then we got two more pieces of rhubarb and that added a lot more structural support and allowed it to stand up straight and here it is all finished .

We love the look , it adds to my curb appeal .

And if you look closely , you can find a hidden Mickey .

What we learned when we finished this , I looked at it and I said , you know , this looks like a piece of art .

I really love the look of it .

And we've even talked about putting some air plants in the bigger holes just to add a little bit more , more flavor to it because it looks like art .

I've actually had a couple of ideas of using this design similar to this inside my living room .

So say too we might do that in the future .

You're probably wondering why we didn't use PV C glue .

We knew we were going to have to do a lot of gluing and PV C glue is really very toxic and very smelly and we really didn't want to deal with that .

So that's why we use the outdoor construction adhesive .

And your biggest question might be , how is it going to hold up ?

Because that's our biggest question and we really have no idea .

We wanted to try to make it as strong as possible .

So we'll see if it holds up .

We'll keep you updated on our weekly show workshop Wednesday .

Uh We'll let you know if we have any issues with it .

We do have extreme hot , sometimes cold and rainy temperatures here in Florida .

So it'll be interesting to see the progress of it .

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