Use Circo Fittings and PVC to cover your wood, equipment, palm trees, and more!

With 2017 in hindsight we are looking forward to a bright 2018 full of new ideas and great new products. Looking back on 2017, we had so...

Using PVC pipe, fittings, Snap Clamps and a few other parts you can make a evap/swamp cooler to cool off on hot summer days.

Learn about the Snap Frame and how it can help you mount your 1/4 inch or 6mm sign, panel, or peg board. Great for signage, greenhouse panel

Thanksgiving is here and so are fun days full of feasting and football! With turkey and naps on the mind, what else can there be to worry...

3 PVC Cover Structures to Protect Your Property Before Winter Watch out EL NINO! Every fall brings the same list: winterize the boat, get the car out of the weather, protect the garden beds, cover the firewood. PVC pipe is the fastest and most affordable way to build functional cover structures for all of these — and because furniture-grade fittings don't glue permanently, you can disassemble them in spring and store them flat. Here are three builds that address the most comm

A geodesic dome looks complicated. The math behind it is complicated. But the structural advantages it provides are significant enough that NASA uses dome structures for polar research stations, EPCOT's Spaceship Earth is a geodesic sphere, and backyard gardeners and homesteaders have been adapting the design for chicken coops, greenhouses, play structures, and event shelters for decades. Here's why the shape works so well — and why PVC makes it more accessible than any other

Attaching sheet like material to wire is no simple task. If the material has grommets or holes to slide the wire or rope through, the job...

If you've called Circo Innovations, you've probably heard someone say: "Snap — like snap your fingers. Clamp — like clamp something down." We've been explaining the name since 1996. After 30 years, the product still raises that question from first-time callers, so here's the full answer. The Simple Explanation A Snap Clamp is a U-shaped plastic clip that snaps over PVC pipe to hold a covering material — poly film, shade cloth, netting, tarp, canvas, or fabric — against the pi

Quilting frames — particularly for hand-quilting large projects — need to be rigid enough to keep fabric taut, adjustable enough to work on different quilt sizes, and practical enough to set up and break down as your workspace demands. Furniture-grade PVC pipe is one of the best materials for the job: it's light, infinitely adjustable by length and height, smooth enough that fabric glides without snagging, and inexpensive enough that you can build a full floor frame for less