Reusing building materials, but to what?

[Riechan (Valerie)]

Hi everyone,
We are building a house and doing the different techniques (elektricity, water, ventilation and plumbing) ourselves. I’ve salvaged some tubes we used for water supply because they looked like I could do something with them. (You throw away so much small things when building, I hate for it to go all to waste)
All I can think of is cutting them all to the same length, binding them together to make something where I can put a plant or something on.
But I’m hoping you might have a different something I can do.
(If someone has the English word for it, that might help me too!)

These are the outer protection tubes and the inner ones. I have some of both. The maximum length is like 50 cm.

The inside is a white tube.

Thanks in advance!

[thanate (Ann needs more tea)]

Those look like either hoses (for water) or conduit pipe (for stringing wires thru.)

If you have a bunch of sections, maybe you could do something like the coiled baskets with them?

[Riechan (Valerie)]

It’s for water! Thanks! I do have a piece of conduit pipe but it’s really small.
Do you mean with sections, like different diameters? I only have like 2 different ones.
How would you see this as a coiled basket, like use the hose as the skeleton of the basket?

[endymion (Pam 🇺🇸 (she/her))]

The red and blue ones look like robot arms to me…

[Raury (Paula)]

We are also building a house and would love some ideas. So far I have only found uses for wood pieces.

[thanate (Ann needs more tea)]

I just meant are there enough pieces, sorry if it was confusing. I was thinking of something like this, only with sturdier sides. (also you might need to make the bottom from something else, depending on how tightly you can coil it)

Rag-base crocheted catbasket

I used hemp cord to crochet over rag yarn I’d made from a bedsheet. It’s the same idea as the baskets made by crocheting around clothesline, but the cording ends up being stiffer than the base with this version. [image] [image] The sides go up higher than I’d expected (I didn’t want to waste any of the materials so I just kept going until I ran out), so folding over the top makes it more sturdy and cat-friendly: [P_202005…

[Riechan (Valerie)]

They threw away a piece of our drainpipe. I got it out of the container and plan on using it to make a plantstand or something.

[chameleonhound (Robin)]

You could coil the inner layer into a rug, or weave it if it squishes flat enough. You might also reuse it for irrigation for garden plants!

[Jeanne (Jeanne (JS))]

If cut-able, the red and blue sections would make a colorful windchime or other hanging decoration.

[Riechan (Valerie)]

They are cut-able! That’s quite the idea! Thanks!

@chameleonhound: that irregation is an interesting thing, but the longest ones I have are like 60 cm. I would have to buy connector things to make them longer.