FORMUFIT PVC Blog

Shhh! FREE Shipping on orders $50 or more!

Shhh! It's a secret! OK. Not really.

To help folks get their summer projects completed before Fall hits us, we're offering free shipping on orders of $50 to more.

Get FREE Domestic (48 Contigious States) Ground shipping is free when the total of all your products in your cart equals $50.00 or more with coupon code 'PVCSHIP50'. Take advantage of this awesome shipping offer, 'cause it ends August 31st!

FORMUFIT PVC Library is Live (Beta Test)

Our FORMUFIT Free PVC Plans library is now live, in Beta.

Check out any of our freely available PVC plans, which have been designed to be simple to build and provide all of the parts and tools necessary for successfully building the project. In addition, each plan includes a Google SketchUp document, which can be used to view the construction or used to modify the design to fit your needs.

We've split the library up into several different areas of interest:

Pets & Dog Agility: PVC Plans for Pet...

PVC Jump Cups Now Available.

After being asked (begged?) to carry them for some time, we now offer 1” and 3/4” PVC Jump Cups for your Dog Agility projects. Both the 1” and 3/4” Jump Cups meet AKC and USDAA requirements for Dog Agility Obstacles.

For those unfamiliar, Jump Cups are snap-on attachments that are used to suspend a ‘jump pole’ between two perpendicular poles on either end for Dog Agility Jumps and other agility equipment.  They are ideal for training as it allows the ‘jump pole’ to fall off easily without tripping your...

Three New SketchUp Tutorials!

We've just uploaded three new tutorials for our FORMUFIT Google SketchUp Components on YouTube (which are also available in our Google SketchUp Downloads section, towards the bottom).   

The tutorials cover how to get our components imported into SketchUp an and how to move them about, how to use our specialized handles layer to connect and position the fittings and pipe, and how to resize our PVC pipe Dynamic Components.

Using SketchUp to plan your project before you place your order with us is an easy and effective way to...

So What is Furniture Grade PVC?

So what exactly qualifies something as ‘Furniture Grade PVC’?

We get this question a lot, and we actually prefer the term High Definition PVC (HD-PVC, you’ll start to see us referring products as that soon), because not everyone is building furniture with our products.

Nonetheless, Furniture Grade is a classification of PVC that meets the following criteria:

• Impact Proof – It should withstand a hard hit, or drop from a negligible height and be able to survive, without cracks or breakage.  It also must be able to withstand significant load (weight) applied to...

FORMUFIT: 100% Made in the USA.

We get asked often if our products are ‘Made in America’.   Unlike many of our online competitors, our answer is always the same: 

Yes. Very much yes.

We take pride in the fact that all of our products are sourced locally from the United States.  We go out of our way to make sure that all of our products that we offer are American made.  In fact, we refuse to import any products from overseas.   It's our policy. Why do we do this?  Allow us to explain:

FORMUFIT Featured online at Make:

FORMUFIT has been featured online at Make:’s website here. This is fantastic exposure, as Make: is the ideal audience of individuals that we strive to cater to. Make: is an online and print magazine dedicated to makers; the backyard inventors and garage scientists, basically the perfect group of individuals and community dedicated to what we started this company for.

We applaud Make: for not only giving us our 15 minutes, but to see that our products are made available to those individuals that need them to solve their home inventor and DIY needs....

New FORMUFIT Google SketchUp Components

We’ve released new sets of our FORMUFIT Google SketchUp components in our Downloads section and also at the Google SketchUp 3D Warehouse. Our latest iteration of SketchUp components now have handles within them to easily guide and connect the ‘virtual’ PVC fittings together with ease. Also, each handle properly gauges the correct insertion distance into each fitting, so you know your pipe sizes are cut correctly.

You can view a quick tutorial on how to enable and use the Handles layer in each of our PVC Components...

Product Spotlight: PVC Table Caps

PVC Table Caps, also known as PVC 'End Caps with Tabs', are a great solution for terminating or connecting your PVC project or application to a flat surface. You can pretty much connect your project to any flat surface that will accept screws, bolts or other types of fasteners.

The table cap, originally designed to connect ends of PVC pipe to the bottom surfaces of tables, can be used for a multitude of uses:

• Vertical post ends.
• Temporary handrail...

Now available: Our FORMUFIT PVC Catalog

We’ve just produced our PVC fittings catalog, available online here at formufit.com. Our catalog shows all of our available PVC fittings, connectors and accessories in all sizes, from ½” to 2”. The catalog shows our prices effective as of April 01, 2010. Download our catalog to keep on hand when thinking about or designing your next PVC project.

Here is the direct link to our FORMUFIT PVC Fittings Catalog. Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view the file.