I have 5 archways on my drive way. But I have a chain link fence on either side. So I use the fence poles to hold my PVC pipes, and I used 4, 1 1/4. It spans 20ft, about 14ft high. I also use digital LED's. My neighbor came over and looked at it, then he put one up. Great job on yours.

Beautiful lights, thanks for sharing. Merry Christmas 🎄

I will definitely try this and do 3 arches and build one per month starting in September to see how they hold up with the wind with solar lights. Also, Home Depot will cut the rebar if you don't have the tools and they probably will drill a hole in the PVC for the screws if you ask. Thanks for the video!!

Thank you for the idea. I was searching for a way to build an arch for our Halloween hay wagon . I think I may be able to make this work with holes cut into blocks of wood instead of rebar. Since this will be attached to the sides of an old grain wagon.

What a great husband and dad. I'm definitely gonna try this. Tfs

Another thing that works nice is 1" pex and put the lights inside the pipe. Use 1" CPVC couplers. Awesome video!

Awesomeness 👌

Looks really good 👍

Black gorrilla tape around the couplings instead of glue and screws makes for an easy tear down and set up.

So awsome thanks for the video

Use bolts and cotter pins to assemble and disassemble quicker. You don't really have to worry about losing the nuts or the bolts. Just pull the pin out real quick, slide the PVC pipe out and repin it. That way your hardware just stays in place.

Great video. Thanks.

Lots of tips for the rebar: 1) Invest in a chop saw. A small one (i.e., 6" wheel) is

I'm going to use this concept to build a greenhouse. 🙂

Thank you! I've struggled with the size of the arch. Also, if you get a t-post driver it will help greatly with the driving of the rebar. Beware of the rebound tho. lol

Im doing this today! Very nice and pretty easy!

Thank you!!! I def going to tell my husband build this arch for my driveway lol

If you drill a bunch of holes in them you can have them run with 2 bulbs at the bottom.

Thank you for this video! I know it was from last year but it’s still super helpful! Do you have any new videos or a new channel? And whereabouts in Indiana are y’all from???? I’m in Chicago but want to move to IN, WI or MI!!! & we’re neighbors 😂 kinda. 🙏

Thanks for the video! Any issues with the lateral stability, particularly at the top of the arch, by the end of the season?

If you have an SDS Max hammer drill, I ground rod driver attachment would sink those rebars in seconds.

Would you consider using pex pipe instead of pvc? Not certain if the exact width, maybe 3/4 inch that we looked at, but was told by depot associate that the pex might work better & cheaper than the pvc. Any thoughts and or suggestions for the switch?

Great video! How did you get the PVC to fit into the couplings as dry fitting? I’m trying and they are not going fully in. Thanks!

Do you store them with the lights on or do you take the lights off at the end of the season and reapply. I made arches and store with lights in my attic but it was an absolute pain to get them back out. Just curious how you store them.

My driveway is 16 ft wide. Would 4 sticks still work or would I need more support somewhere

LOL! "And waste a lot of time doing it! Love the truth

Thanks for the video. Going to make these for Halloween. Any idea how wide your driveway is and how tall the arches were? Thanks!

Probably could wrap the sections with the lights before mounting them on the rebar.

What about delivery trucks going in and out of your driveway, doesn't look like their high enought for them?

Hi there. I'm wanting to make arches for our Christmas display, what if you don't have dirt/grass either side of your path, my driveway is concrete and there's so grass/dirt either side I cant bang in bars.. what do you recommended

have you considered running lights from arch to arch?

Hi, thanks for the video, how many extension chords did you use for this?

How far did u knock down rebar 1 foot with 4 feet for pvc to go over?

how wide is your driveway?? Trying to gauge if I need to go shorter or wider than what you did. Looks awesome. Thanks!

I know PVC is not flexible unless heated. I didn't see if you used a PVC heater to bend them? I may have missed something. Not sure if you did anything to get the pipe to bend?

When breaking apart to store, does it come apart easily with the liquid cement?

How long were the light strands that you used? I’ve already made the arches it worked perfectly.

quick way for 4 arches 8 ,1 metre poles insert onto rebars x 4 tent poles insert into 1metre poles perfect archs,wrapped with red and white plastic barrier tape for candy cane effect,solar powered lights,merry xmas.

What PVC is this? The ones I see don’t bend. Do you have links? Would really appreciate it. Thanks!

You sais "2 strands" per arch. but how many lights per strand? did you get 25 a strand? or 50 a strand? let me know, thanks man?

doing the Bernie .... LOL

I’m still confused about the bolt. Can you further explain?

Looks great. Did you consider wiring the lights before mounting the arches. Less ladder work.

How many lights on each arch to make them look good?

Did you have any issues with the cup links cracking in the cold?

Did you have any issues with the drilled holes cracking the plastic couplings over time?

Instead of buying a grinder to cut the rebar, would 4 foot lengths of rebar work instead - to support 3 lengths of 10 foot poles?

How tall are the arches at the center?

So how many 10ft pvcs did you buy???

The real question is can a UPS or FEDEX truck fit under neath?

Question how did you hook up each arch of lights.

What about delivery trucks?

You mentioned 2strands of lights per arch, but I didn't catch how many lights per strand. 50? 100? Per strand

Ok so in the parts list you show only 1 extension cord. I’d like more info please on how you connected everything with power. Maybe I’m missing something 🤷🏼‍♂️

What’s the width between each rebar?

3/4 PVC in my area is 18.50 per 10 foot. Another 20 bucks per 6 feet of rebar. Sadly that makes the DIY version a lot more expensive than buying it at the store.

Or red tape around it for a candy cane effect.

Mines keep bending with the sun any tips on them not to bend?

Glad to see OHSAA showed up before Santa Clause did…

Before you drive things into the ground, make sure you know where your utilities are buried

A year later that Project Source paint is $3 a can for black/white (10oz). Spray paint has gotten crazy in price. Even the cheap Walmart brand is not cheap anymore.

How tall are the arches?

EXCELLENT VIDEO... Fantastic NOTE: Your background noise/music was a little too loud making it hard to hear your voice at times. We do NOT need background noise/music... We just want to HEAR YOU TALK. Thank you for sharing this great video.

That's cool until FedEx doesn't see it and drags it back to your house.

Please don’t climb on a ladder over top of rebar. Set the pole on and then climb up. Guys shishkbob themselves all the time

I did this for my Christmas set up this year…didn’t take into account the UPS, Fed Ex, and propane deliveries….they can’t get under them 😮

This dude cleaned the pipe before gluing it 🤣 you only need to clean it if you're running potable water through it

Zip ties, instead of all that wrapping of the lights. When the holiday is over, snip the zip ties off and done

Know before you dig call 811 ✌🤪

$5.98 per strand of lights, 2 per arch. $12. X 5 arches = more than $55 just for lights.

This video must've beeb made during colonial days, we can't make these for $55

There is nothing sadder than a one eyed Christmas decorator. Maybe some safety glasses would help.

You think a wind will blow PVC under tension off of a single rebar stake??? Really?🤣

I'd suggest to put the lights on first, space appropriately and zip tie. Also cringeworthy watching work on the ladder, slip and possible serious injury falling onto that rebar. I recommend installing a cement base instead of pounding stakes into the ground, unless you've had the ground scanned for utilities.

Why are you using primer??? It's for pressurized systems and inspection identification. The cement/solvent is all you need. Have you never built a plastic model in your life? It's waste of time and resources to use PVC primer on non-plumbing projects using PVC pipe. Heck, for DECADES primer wasn't ever used and the joints are just fine.

No way that you spend only $55, metal rots are like $10 a piece, plus pvc pipes about the same price in total you are looking to spend $50-$130

I have 8 arches over the footpath/sidewalk as driveway isn't long enough to bother. I used 1 rebar on each side, 1500mm long on concrete side and, eventually, zip tied to the fence, other side 1800mm, as drove that side about 300mm into dirt of the naturestrip! Threaded a 3.5m piece of 13mm black garden tube over some garden arches that we had stretched out as far as possible without losing the curve, as driven in rebars are 1500mm from the fence. Arches are also 1500mm apart as well as that was just conveniently how far apart the fence posts are! We then threaded pool noodles in a variety of colours onto each black tube then, with help, I threaded the pool noodle covered tubing with the garden arches inside about centred over the driven in rebar then pushed the other rebar up inside the other end and zip tied the whole thing to the fence posts! Pictures on my Facebook group at facebook.com/groups/284453128865939 Last year I strung led solar strings around each arch and people said they needed more lights, this year I went to the expense of getting in net lights, never worked properly from the start and have been pulled apart, probably by kids walking through the archway! So think I'm going to take them off and go back to the string lights! This year we added pool noodle covered electrical conduit, slightly stronger than the garden tubing, width restrictions as need to fit inside the pool noodles, which provide a colourful display during the daytime! And made a lengthwise joiner along each side at the top of the rebar and down the middle of the top, mostly to support the net lights! I may be able to make a photo montage video on my channel but hard to take pics or videos whilst you are putting things up without an extra pair of hands!