Best way to attach pvc to wood?

ya def screw up from the bottom. Kinda sucks to get started but if you just clamp it down and put a screw every 2-3 feet mine has held up for 2 years, no sign of any breakage.
 
what weve done is drill hole in top (big enough for screw and drill to fit in) and bottom (smaller) and screw down from inside of pvc into the wood
 
If you get more than one pipe, you can screw up diagonally as well as straight up from the bottom of the wood. This keeps it in place and very sturdy. You're gonna need some long screws of course. But mine has held up for years.
 
If you really want it to last, use both.

The trick I figured out for getting the screws in the right place is to figure out the distance from the top of one pipe to the next. So if you are using 1 Inch OD- Outer Diameter PVC, the distance should be 1 inch right? So, get a 1/2 inch thick piece of plywood, draw straight lines 1 inch apart and predrill holes on that line. Then lay the pvc pipe on the line, clamp it down with something or use liquid Nails. Then you just drill through the predrilled holes from the opposite side. Then put in the screws. Once your done with that, just add your legs. Fin!
 
just make sure the pvc is actually the diameter it says. Sometimes it is smaller like wood-a 2x4 is something like 1.75x3.75
 
the best way is to drill holes n the top then screw through, it holds the best and you dont even feel the holes wehen you go over them
 
screwed both ends then use SUPER GOOD glue in the middle. i used plummer glue or somthing and it worked just fine
 
i screw up from the bottom and the only way that the pvc comes off is it the acatual pipe breaks, it is super sturdy
 
If your using more than one PVC pipe then glue them together, then glue them to the wood. Make sure your using PVC glue and make sure you use a cleaning agent before you use the glue.
 
after throwing together my first homemade 10' shotgun rail (2x1.5" sched 40 pvc screwed to a 2x4 with 3 T-braces for legs/feet), i thought i'd share my experience after checkin out a bunch of these threads and coming across the drill from the top or bottom debate a bunch of times...
first and foremost, liquid nails is about as useful as a poopy popsicle (maybe cuz it was 10 degrees last night, not sure if that effect's the tack from setting)
***more importantly, JUST DRILL FROM THE TOP. after a slip up or two on the first two holes ("that's what she said"), we quickly discovered to bore a very small hole in the top of the pvc with a tiny drill bit (or score it with a nail or something), that way your larger drill bit (if you have cheap powertools like us) can grip the top of the pvc and bore a nice smooth larger hole. once the large holes were drilled, we just drilled in 3" weatherized screws down through the bottom of the pvc and into the 2x. since our ghetto drill lacked a long drillbit, we used a screwdriver to fasten them super tight. put 1 screw in each pipe (side by side) in four somewhat evenly spaced intervals down the pvc, and the pipes are locked down like a cuckold husband
didn't even have to sand the holes in the top of the pvc. just took my skis and slid them down the pvc a couple times, put my boots on, threw the newly built rail outside and it slid like a dream
once we got rolling, all in all it took about 30 minutes to build, and with scrap wood cost us nothing but the price of two 10' 1.5" pvc pipes (roughly $6 at home depot)... meaning if you haven't built one yet, just do it. so easy a first grader could make it and a second grader could afford it

 
Screw from the bottom. Last time i screwed from the top it fucked up the PVC and i could get into the wood. Screw from the bottom, and don't glue lol.
 
Put pvc on top of wood.

Drill small hole on top of pvc.

Take drill and put another nail and drill through the bottom of the pvc through the top hole.

repeat on all the spots where you want nails.
 
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