Thread: All This Styrofoam, now what do I do with it?

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I got a sweet Craigslist deal today--a truckful of styrofoam--FREE. Mainly 4'x4'x3" pieces (approx.) but it also included four 4'x8'x5" pieces and two 3'x4'x5" pieces. What should I make out of all of this? I could make a TON of tombstones, but I find the white styrofoam to be the hardest to work with. Or I could make a raft, and float to Canada.

Any ideas out there? Sarcophagus? Walk-in beer cooler? I dunno. I'm at a loss.

Thanks,
IslandCryptKeeper

You can come visit me and bring some with you.

At least, there was this afternoon. The guy is in North Seattle. I don't know where you are in WA.

You could make a cemetery arch out of the tall pieces.

Carve out hunks and make a stone well facade (I'm doing this with a huge piece of styro I found at the side of the road. We cut it into basic squares I sanded off some of the edges, used bamboo skewers to piece it together and I'm going to fill in the mortar gaps with great stuff foam and then hit the whole thing with spray paint to round off the individual stones and then paint it up)

use the hunks to make cemetery fence columns

Im in the state capitol.

Frankie's - I like the column idea, but we have an existing fence, and it wouldn't work out very well. We rent, so I can't really redo the fence in victorian wrought iron, as I would like. Landlord, probably wouldn't dig that.

Not sure I understand the well idea. Is that a well a la The Ring?

Was it from a fiberglass shop?

No, a soap company.

It's actually fine European styrofoam. They sometimes get containers from Germany, and he said they are often "padded" with styrofoam. He speculates that they are just trying to dump it off on Americans because it is so hard and/or expensive to get rid of it over there.

Originally Posted by IslandCryptKeeper

No, a soap company.

It's actually fine European styrofoam. They sometimes get containers from Germany, and he said they are often "padded" with styrofoam. He speculates that they are just trying to dump it off on Americans because it is so hard and/or expensive to get rid of it over there.

And he's probably righrt as EU enviromental rules are much stricter and makes everything more expensive here.

There are so many great projects on this forum that use styrofoam....coffins, tombstones, facades, columns, etc. Guess it would depend on what you want to add to your haunt.

And if all else fails, I hear Canada is very nice this time of year

MsM

I sent an email to the guy last night (to his CraigsList ad) but I haven't heard back from him. Where was he located in North Seattle? Do you think he maybe got rid of all the styrofoam already?