Thread: Boat dock foam..

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Anyone ever use this stuff? Some of its pretty gnarly looking, but I think with some work i can turn them into some neat things. Most are over 6ft long.



Hoping I can work my magic and make them into something like this...

You may want to be careful. Dock foam is reinforced with fiberglass and can make pretty nasty dust when cut. It may not carve the way you want. Just wear a dust mask when you mess with it so you don't end up irritating your lungs. Good luck and let us know what you do with all that foam.

Hmm. Thanks for the heads up. I'll post pics when we start work.

that looks really cool. good luck. but take care, sounds like a good heads up from deadly

Totally jealous! Foam board just isn't available in my area.

Good thinking with that warning Deadlypeanutboy.

Cool idea! Thats the first thing I thought of when I saw the big foam slabs... I bet you could carve the inside out of two of them and make a faux coffin... Good heads up deadly!

I found a 10 foot x 4 foot piece at the side of the road last year. Ended up using chunks of it to make a stone well for my Donna of the Dead to do a Ring tribute (I think there's a pic in my 2009 album?) Still have a pretty decent section of it but not enough to do a coffin unfortunately!

I love the idea of making a coffin out of them, but just from experience, you'll need something like a chainsaw and dustmask and a space where you don't mind LOTS of particle dust. We used a handsaw and it was messy and took a while!

I used dock foam before and didn't notice any fiberglass so I guess there's different types.

Another source, if you can luck up on it, is a movie theater. They use huge blocks (3 to 4 foot thick) of foam in large sheets to sound proof the building. I lucked up a few years ago and got five loads (the picture below is just one load) of throw away foam.

Always ask the construction foreman before taking anything. He gave me everything I wanted that was in the dumpster. The dumpster was at least 20 feet long and it held a lot of foam . So if you see any construction going on at a theater drive by it and look at whats being used.

Holy crap, madmax! That picture is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen! So much foam!!! I would be beside myself if I could luck out like that. Great find and a great tip!

Originally Posted by madmax

I used dock foam before and didn't notice any fiberglass so I guess there's different types.

Another source, if you can luck up on it, is a movie theater. They use huge blocks (3 to 4 foot thick) of foam in large sheets to sound proof the building. I lucked up a few years ago and got five loads (the picture below is just one load) of throw away foam.

Always ask the construction foreman before taking anything. He gave me everything I wanted that was in the dumpster. The dumpster was at least 20 feet long and it held a lot of foam . So if you see any construction going on at a theater drive by it and look at whats being used.

Damn, MM I wish I had known that. I used to work as a janitor at a local theater. They built a new mega-plex and they outsourced a bunch of us to a cleaning service. Before that a bunch of us, (janitors, ushers, etc, were give the task of disassembling the seats. Didn't know of the sound proofing, though... *sigh*