To equip an outdoor seating area, you can make a coffee table from concrete and glass bottles. It will look good on a covered terrace, gazebo or workshop. A concrete table is not afraid of precipitation, and most importantly, it does not look like the usual metal or wooden one furniture.
To equip an outdoor seating area, you can make a coffee table from concrete and glass bottles. It will look good on a covered terrace, gazebo or workshop. A table made of concrete is not afraid of precipitation, and most importantly, it does not look like the usual metal or wooden furniture.
Materials:
- bicycle tire;
- scooter tire;
- glass bottles of the same size;
- fittings;
- cement;
- sand;
- wood chips or fiberglass;
- water;
- sewer pipe 110 mm;
- light bulb with socket;
- two-core wire with plug.
Table manufacturing process
To make a tabletop, you need to lay the bicycle tire on a flat base covered with film.
Bottles with alternating colors are laid out inside the tire's circumference.
Reinforcement is laid between them.The edges of the reinforcement should fit inside the tire beads.
Next, you need to insert spacers into the tire to widen the sides for pouring concrete. You can insert pieces of twigs, pieces of wooden slats, profiles, etc.
Then liquid flowing concrete is prepared. Cement, sand and wood chips or fiber are mixed.
Concrete is poured into tire formwork between bottles. Before doing this, the bottles themselves must be sealed to prevent the solution from getting inside. A weight is placed on top of the bottles to prevent them from floating on the concrete.
To make a table leg, a tire from a scooter or motorcycle is used. It should be smaller in diameter than a bicycle tire. The tire is also laid on a surface covered with film and reinforced with reinforcement.
Closed bottles filled with water are placed between the rods.
Next, concrete is poured into the formwork.
You need to lift each bottle so that the solution flows into the tire. After leveling the concrete, a section of sewer pipe is inserted between the bottles.
If you need to make the countertop white, you can initially mix concrete based on white cement, sand and titanium dioxide. When placing the table in a room where it will not be exposed to precipitation, the front side of the table top can be covered with plaster with the addition of PVA.
After the concrete has set, it is necessary to drain the water from the bottles in the stand and wipe them from concrete smears. Bottles on the countertop are also wiped off. Next, the tabletop is placed on the table stand. A concreted sewer pipe can be used as a lampshade for lighting.
When the light is turned on, the rays will pass through the bottles, so the table will also act as a night light.
