4'x8' recirculating grow table for less than $150 with pump and res

jcb7774

Member
I wanted to share my table that I built for under $150 and it doesnt leak and you can walk on it. You can get everything at home depot except the pump and bildge drain.

itemes needed
1-8'x4' sheet of 1/2" plywood $15
5-2x4x8' $10
2-25"x96" white corrigated roofing $26
1-stick of white plastic gutter $10
2-endcaps for plastic gutter $4
1-box of 1" dry wall screws $5
1-box of 21/2" dry wall screws $5
1-400gph pump $25======== grow store
15' of 1/2" drip line tubing $10
50" of 3/16" drip line tubing$5
1-25 pack of drip line strait barbed connectors $5
1-25 pack of dripline barbed elbows $5
1-25 gallon rubbermaid resivor
1-1" bildge drain $2========grow store
1-tube of silicon

Tools needed.
drill and phillips screw driver attatchment
tape measure
pencil
circular saw or miter saw

Cut one 2x4 into two pieces 45" long
take 2 96" 2x4s and screw the 45" pieces inbetween them at each end. The overall total should be 96"x48"
Now screw the sheet of plywood to the top of the frame
take another 2x4 and cut
2 @ 21" 1@19" 1@191/2"
these are your legs the point is to have it higer in the back and have a slight slope to the side you have your rez on. so the 2 21" go on the back of the table the 19" and 191/2" go at the front where the rez is going to go and the 19 goes on the corner that the rez is on.
cut the gutter to 50" and attatch it to the front of the table drill the 1" hole for the bildge drain plug over your rez and put in the drain
take the two sheets of corigated roofing and screw them down to the table so the water flows to the gutter. make sure to have an overlap on the roofing and a 1' over hang on the gutter.
silicon all screw heads and run a bead of silcone across the bottom side of the roofing over the gutter so slow running water will not crawl back up the table and run off on the floor
your table is now done I will post pics today when my light turns on
 

jcb7774

Member
as promised heres the pics. I am not a photagrapher but heres and easy way to explain it. go on you back patio and look at the roof over your patio thats how i got the idea
 

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cocobitzz

Well-Known Member
Holy hell man, I have been trying to devise a way to drain my flower room runoff, and you just showed me the light. Thanks a lot man!
 

jcb7774

Member
Holy hell man, I have been trying to devise a way to drain my flower room runoff, and you just showed me the light. Thanks a lot man!
Your welcome. When I was doing alot of reading before I started growing I looked at this site alot. So this DIY project was my way of trying to give back. Thank all of you on here for your helpful posts!!!
P.S. as I come up with them I will post more (I am full of lots of them)
 

weedsLV

Active Member
Really like your ingenuity I use a 4x4 flood table and simply drill a whole in 1 side and put a 5 gal bucket under the whole. Works great but I can't walk on mine...
 

jcb7774

Member
2 things I forgot to add Is you have to get the plastic corigated roofing if you get the fiberglass roofing you cannot walk on it. also there will be one 2x4 left that is to make two more legs for the middle if it starts to sag. I had to do it cuz my plants are so big and it caused nutes to pool up in the middle
 

ladyoutlaw

Member
this is awesome!! I'm about to try and build a few, probably minus the recirculating aspect to begin with. Do you have any problems with water getting under the roofing where it overlaps at all? I'm thinking of making the frame out of 2 x 4's spaced 18 inches apart instead of using a sheet of plywood... any thoughts on whether this would be sturdy enough? I plan to have 16 2-gallon pots with soil on each table (mine will be 44" x 92").
And thanks so much for sharing this!
 
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