Outdoor tabletop

spend

I agree. If that's a heavy piece of plate glass suitable for the application. $125 seems fair.

Epoxy seals plywood, but the sun eats the epxoy. Poly resin is much harder to get to stick to the pkywood, and is not as waterproof. By the time you do all that $125 seems cheap.

A 4 x 8 aluminum sheet would cost as much or more,. and would rub off on the hands of your guests.

PVC foam board with a UV inhibitor maybe? Lloyd? You reading this. Does such an animal exist? Would it be worth it? How bad would it sag?

Keep the chairs and pitch the table?

Put a giant potted plant in the middle?

Craigslist. Habitate for Humanity store. Maybe get three bids from glass shops.

Dan

Ask on Freecycle. There is likely a local online garage sale or freebie group on Facebook, as well.

Tape the broken glass back together with duct tape, Tawm. Noone'll notice.

Plywood won't be as pretty, but it will work. House paint lasts a decade+. Prime it, paint it, and keep up the paint for a long lifetime, should you choose to go the redneck way.

In the 1980's I rebuilt my utility trailer with unpainted outdoor plywood from HD, probably pressure-treated. The bed is rough from hauling firewood and rocks but the toolbox is in fine condition, it's merely turned grey.

--jsw

No problem at all. A plywood circle, sealed with epoxy resin - several coats. A coat or two of Epoxy High Build Primer, sand smooth and at least two coats of a two part poly paint. Probably list your lifetime. Shouldn't cost more than $500 - $700 :-)

Most of these glass tabletops are tempered glass. If you so much as chip an edge, they generally explode into thousands of granules. That would take a LOT of duct tape to put back together.

Jon

If Tom were close enough, I would give him a complete table. It's never been outside. My dad bought it when he was staying here, and he left it behind when his new home was finished.

Yeah, but Corian that size would cost him $450.

How much does it cost to have a shitty table?

Thanks for the thought! It looks like pressure-treated ply is the best/cheapest.

I think Jon missed the fact that my facetiousity factor was set to

Maybe he'll spend $500 to come pick it up to save the $125.

I thought of you when I saw this yesterday:

Gazillions in Social Media/PC Points. $12 in cash. You choose.

Give it an exotic paint job and the fact that it's a cheapass piece of ply will fade into the background. Or buy a sheet of Baltic Birch and clearcoat it with epoxy for a beautiful wooden tabletop. BB ply is more stable and better made than most. Ditto veneer core veneer ply. I just bought a sheet of shop-grade MDF-core veneer ply for a cabinet door I'm making for a client and wouldn't _ever_ use it outside.

Are you sure? It read just over 107%, down here in the Deep South. ;-)

Sigh, No one wants it. Only two people from the group have ever stopped by, Karl Townsend and his wife, while they were on vacation a few years ago.

That sounds interesting, but how will it work on a deep ulcer?

Y'all always did exaggerate thangs.

Who wants to go to Flowda? All ya got there are retired Gnu Yawkuhs. Oh, and (illegal in Daytona) thong bikinis. Hmm...

If you can't brush it on, suck it up into a pressure washer and...

$28 per square foot? Holy crap Bat Man! Need to look at the pile of scraps my stepson left in the woods ~20 years ago. Most of it was a competitor brand but some of it was actual Corian. Nothing 4' x 4' but do remember some at least half that size.

Halves would work perfectly, William. It ain't light.