Bed risers
#13
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Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Pearland, TX
Posts: 406
Back in the days of my high school theatre costuming "career," I used to use an eight-foot-long classroom table for cutting fabrics. My back really hurt after bending over to the standard table height. I got four cinder blocks and put one under each leg: perfect height. They worked so well that I got "fancy" and covered them with fabric so the janitors wouldn't complain about scratches on the floor. When I was finished with cutting, they stacked neatly out of the way in a corner, just waiting until the next time I needed them. These served the same function as bed risers, but that was back in the days before bed risers became so popular.
#15
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Sonoma County, CA
Posts: 4,299
Yup, I use them too! Under my cutting table and now under my new-soon-to-be ironing table. Very solid, very stable.
My only gripe is that I get the plastic kind and they slope outward a LOT, so instead of a 1-1/2 inch round foot now I have this honkin' 5 inch round foot at the end of each table leg. Gets in the way of cramming more storage under there, and keeps my cutting table from butting against the wall which is annoying. I need to find a better type and not these cheap plastic ones but I don't know where to find such a thing!
Terri - it sounds like you may have what I want! Can you tell me where you got yours, and how big the "footprint" of the ones you have are?
I saw on a blog somewhere that some people screw wooden finials onto their table legs as risers. I like this idea but couldn't find anything that would work at the local home supply store.
My only gripe is that I get the plastic kind and they slope outward a LOT, so instead of a 1-1/2 inch round foot now I have this honkin' 5 inch round foot at the end of each table leg. Gets in the way of cramming more storage under there, and keeps my cutting table from butting against the wall which is annoying. I need to find a better type and not these cheap plastic ones but I don't know where to find such a thing!
I saw on a blog somewhere that some people screw wooden finials onto their table legs as risers. I like this idea but couldn't find anything that would work at the local home supply store.
#16
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: About middle Tennessee
Posts: 787
I have and am using bed risers that I got from Walmart and they are plenty sturdy. I have some of my fabric pieces in plastic containers with rollers on them under the bed. They are great, I think.
Dodee
Dodee
#18
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Posts: 894
I am 5'2". I have a 6' banquet table that holds my pressing mat and cutting mat. My husband used PVC pipe on the ends of each leg to raise the table. He put PVC end caps at the end of each piece. I added felt pads to protect my wood floors. I have used this table for many years. I spent about $40 for this setup.
#20
At our quilt Guild in Yuma AZ we use pieces of PVC pipe which we put on our legs of the folding banquet tables. They work excellently and you can have them any length. There is a cap on the ends of the pipe pieces. If your table does not have curved legs I have seen people put a long screw through their table legs to stop the PVC. These are lite weight and gives you what ever height you need and they are relatively cheap.
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