Thread: Cemetary Fence Storage

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Hello everyone,

Being new to haunting, I'm still building a lot of the basic props... one of them being the PVC and wood cemetary fences. I've built a couple sections, and plan on having roughly 13 8-foot sections total for this Halloween. I used the method where the wood furring strips have holes drilled in them, and the PVC pipes are slipped through and then screwed in to hold in place.

My question is... has anyone found an innovative way to store these during the off-season? I recently went through and organized our garage with a ton of storage shelves just so we can get our vehicles parked in the garage again. Now I'm building these fences, and have no idea how I'm going to store them. Do you take them apart and build again each year? I also thought about hanging them from the ceiling in the garage... or hanging a shelf up there for them. But I'm not sure if that will accomodate all 13. Any suggestions? THANKS!

Garbage can.

Unscrew the pipes, Ziplock bag the screws, and stuff an old garbage can with the pipes and boards. Big garbage bag over the top, duck tape closed, keeps bugs and dust off them, store up in the attic space of the garage.

Thanks! So you've confirmed what I suspected... that assembly and dissassembly of fences will become a part of my annual Halloween tradition. LOL

6 pack of beer, a friend, a good album, and maybe 1-1/2 to 2 hours of screwing.


I mean....




...yeah, I mean screwing. Heh heh.

I store mine all assembled Using bungie cords from the rafters in my shed. I have 16- 8' sections. I use 4 bungies 1 on each corner to hold them as tight as i can to the rafters. They are the 1st thing I put away every year. Then I fill the shed with the rest of the halloween stuff. I need a bigger shed now. My 8x10 is just stuffed full.

Mine are all built from salvaged seasoned treated wood, and are leaned outside. The pvc should hold up to weather well enough you might consider treating the wood with a water sealer.

PVC left exposed to UV is not a good idea. Unless it is painted and or UV treated. I know this from experience. The PVC gets brittle as anything. I had to rebuild by Santa and Reindeer mount for my roof, because of exposure during Xmas.

I would think taking them apart and reassembling them each year would be a lot of unecessary work! I'd find a way to suspend them from hooks/brackets or elevate them on a shelf. I simply stack mine against the back wall of the garage each year. Can't imagine putting them together each year.

I hang mine on the wall using bicycle hooks. One set of hooks hold 6 or 7 sections of fence. The hooks allow me to store two sections of fence, one above the other, in the same amount of wall space. That way, 100' of 4' tall fence takes up 10' wide by less than a foot deep and 8' tall of wall space. I use a hook every 2' in order to prevent the fence sections hanging on the wall from warping in storage.

If I didn't have wall space, I'd rachet strap the fence sections to the ceiling rafters in the garage, so they laid flush with the ceiling. Or I would store them under the garage roof overhang outside. My fence is made of plastic conduit, which is UV stabilized. I've also painted it, so I don't really worry about them deteriorating except from contact with rain or snow.

Personally, I think it's a huge waste of time to disassemble and re-assemble a fence every year.

Craig

I put most of my fence sections in the attic. They sit nicely between some of the house framing where it makes a large "V" shape.
For two larger sections of fence I use the large yellow bicycle hooks screwed into the ceiling to hold them up.