Thread: All Wood Maze. And other Things

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I want to really go pro this year and do and all wood haunted house. As in all wooden walls. Possibly do a 3-d effect which i think I have figured out how to do without doing chroma depth. Ask me if you want to know more about that. But anyway back to the maze. I would like to use a cheaper type of wood its called osb and I'm sure most of you guys have used it. I'm also thinking of making the haunt so its in my garage and a small portion of my driveway. If that doesn't work I want to make a big giant box type thing out of wood and plastic sheeting (because it will be outside) and have an opening for the sidewalk and then when the people are walking on the sidewalk in order to walk past our house they have to go through this hallway type things. I would like to get some pro foggers and fill the whole area out in front of my house will fog.

Tell me what you think.

Sounds good to me. Just make sure that you build it very secure!!! don't want walls falling, blowing or being knocked down on unsuspecting TOTS.

Now on to you saying you figured out how to do 3-D with out the chroma depth tell Creepy more..... muahhhhh!!!!

I think I'm Not a hundred percent sure. You have to use color blast lights which are not cheap and if you can see in the background of this video at :55 I think that is how you have to paint the walls much like the chroma depth. I don't know if this is how you do it just guessing. I'll research it more and then tell everyone.

I'm not sure where you are located, but rain and snow present a huge problem here. Just be thinking where the water will run. It will definitely pool up and rip through a plastic or tarp roof. Believe me I've done it!

I've seen several people here on HF use pallets for the structure of the walls. They are free, strong and stackable. Then you could use a thin surface or even a fabric such as Terra's landscape fabric.

Are you talking about filling the "hallway" with fog? Anything that affects ToTs vision requires a correlating improvement in fortifying the structure as it's more likely it will be bumped in to.

If your just going to frame up the hallway and throw plastic over it, I recommend putting an A-Frame roof over it so the water doesn't pool, as was mentioned above.

I use OSB, and it likes soaking up water and paint.

On foggers, I am very happy with the V-950 superfoggers. Invest in good juice too if you're upgrading your fogger

Saw it with a circular saw and those big unpredictable flakes rip at your face!
Want to paint it? Be ready to keep painting it maybe 12 times to finally make it not look like OSB!
IT is VERY THirsty!
If you buy better wood like normal plywood it will retain it's overall value much better meaning if/when you need it to build something else or you want to sell it, it will still be worth something. OSB flakes break corners off real easy and water makes the stuff swell up maybe 3 times it's normal thickness, then try to build with it!
Just today in a flyer I see Menards sells OSB that has aluminum foil glued to one side for insulating value. This should also make it tougher, but I have not seen any of it yet or tried to work with it either.
If you want to build a "Space Ship or UFO" room this aluminum/ wood might be the stuff to use.
If you want a 1/4" thick wood-sheet try Luan. This saws cleanly, doesn't break when nailed or screwed as easilly as OSB and doesn't even cost that much either.
I bought 4 by 8 1/4" really mice-looking plywod a few days ago for $12.49 a sheet. Very Pretty.
Behaves itself when handled too.
Pallets around here are usually oak and must be drilled first so a nail or screw has a chance.
Splintering and aggressive knot holes can hurt people in the dark when they slide along a wall built from rough sufaced boards.
If you are worried about the toughness of mere 1/4 wood, put more braces on the backside (2 by 2s) in the areas where most people's feet would be kicking it or their fists would be punching it. I had no problems doing it like this, but then certain crowds and different parts of the country see vastly different types of people and some of them "see" Halloween as their vandalism time of the entire year.

Thanks you guys. I think I'm going to just buy 1/8 inch plywood and paint that with a first coat of black then put florescent paints on that. Can anyone help me with ideas for wall panel with florescent paints. I think I'm going to do like a carnival or a tourist trap murder ride like in house of 1000 corpses. Or a fallout shelter. Looking to make this years haunt highly detailed.

I have my own non-profit haunted maze & have been doing it for over 10 years in Southern, MN. When building a haunt... you really have to try to keep costs down. Osb plywood is great vs regular plywood but, it's expensive & heavy. You want to have walls that will hold up to punishment of your patrons. Another alternative to think about is Hardboard. Same material that Pegboard is made out of without the holes. Make panels out of a uniform size... 4x8 or 6x6 panels framed with 2x2x8 furring strips for strength. Panels should be painted with Exterior paint if they will be exposed outside. Painting them a neutral base coat is a good idea. Oops paint from home improvement stores is a good choice. Walls should be braced & tied in together much a lattice work for over all strength. Also serves a dual purpose of places to mount over head lighting, & support for tarped ceiling.

at the right time, I was.
Picked out 43 steel entrance doors from two dumpsters!= my outdoor maze.
I laid small concrete bricks down for the edges of the doors to rest upon , to keep them from rusting so quickly and to allow any hard rains to run under and away!
I sheet metal screwed them together with metal scraps cut and rounded edged to eliminate cutting anyone.
I ran some 2 by 4's across the tops here & there for strength.
When your maze is made from doors you shouldn't have any trouble hiding your personal entrance "door"!
I put silly lettering on most of the doors which really slows down the customers, reading most of the doors, which often provides me with more time to get ahead of them to set up their scare!
I beat some steel pieces into the ground at the outside edges of the doors, screwed the doors to these with more sheet metal scraps and screws.
This maze is very solid!
These doors were replaced even though most of them were in very god condition, and these doors have a "history"! They were on the low-income apartments. Think of the emotional, angry clate-night conversations these doors might have witnessed?
"Lemme in there!"
"Go away! I'm caling the cops if you don't!"
"$%%&*$%^#!"
"Go away, you are drunk again!"
"Mommy, is that DAddy?"
"It just sounds sort of like him, it's really a Werewolf!"