Nowadays, most of the water pipes used in households, including heating pipes, are made of white PVC plastic, which is easy to process and beautiful. It would be a pity to throw away the leftover water pipes from home decoration, so many uses have been developed for them.

Here is a step-by-step guide on how to make some small household appliances using water pipes.

1. Straight pipes and tees of different thicknesses. There are special pliers for cutting PVC pipes, which are sold in hardware and plumbing stores that sell pipes. The cheapest ones cost more than 30 yuan, but those pliers are very sharp. If you are not careful, it is as easy to cut your fingers as tofu, so it is not recommended to use them. You can also cut them with a household hacksaw or even just a saw blade, but it takes effort.

2. Assemble the pipes according to your own design. There are also special tools for assembling this kind of water pipes, which is an electric welding machine. The cheapest one is less than 100 yuan, but it is also very dangerous to use. Fortunately, we only use them to make some small things, and we don’t need to consider whether the joints are tight or leaking, so professional welding is not required. Looking at the picture, the author seems to use a hammer, but according to my experience, the joints still need to be baked with fire. After the joints of the water pipes are baked soft, quickly insert the straight pipe into the tee, and it will be solid after cooling.

3. This is going to be a glass coffee table, so a soft plastic suction cup needs to be installed on the surface supporting the glass.

4. Put the glass on it and a coffee table is ready.

5. Another type of coffee table.

6. Shoe rack.

7. Towel rack, the kind that hangs on the bathroom wall.