Thread: Problems With Walls!

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I have started to put up some of the walls for my haunt, and all seemed well--until it rained and got very windy!

This year the walls are made up of some 7' long lumber from Lowe's pounded into the ground with black landscaping fabric stapled to the wood. I thought they would work out pretty well, but after one round of strong winds and rain, most of the fabric is drooping and the wind was so strong that the wood has begun to bend--one or two even snapped in half in weak spots.

I am thinking of starting from scratch. I will probably cut some holes in the walls so the air can get through more easily. Other than that, I'm stumped.

Anyone have any thoughts on how to get these landscape fabric/wood walls to survive the next 20 days?! Any advice will help!

Nothing but wood walls will really hold up to wind. If you're gonna invest the time to make walls for outdoors, you may as well make the time worth it. Short of wood walls WELL braced for the elements, you might be best off keeping them down as long as you can- even till the day of. Wind will continue to be your worst enemy. Good luck.

Last year was my first year really starting into a haunt, it was nothing spectacular a 20' x 20' visqueen tunnel supported with PVC. The build was simple 2 10' x 20' visqueen sheets were tapped together using black duct tape. Then I took 6 10' sticks of 1" PVC and connected them with a coupler, making 3 20' sticks. I then laid my PVC across the visqueen where I wanted them to be and folded the visqueen over the top of them, then I tapped the fold down to make a pocket. Then I took 1/4" diameter steel round stock and bend them into rings. I layered 4 layers of duct tape, passed it through the ring then tapped it to itself, this gave me about an 8" duct tape tab I repeated on the opposite side of the ring to get another 8" tab. I then used generous duct tape on the visqueen (which by the way sticks really well to duct tape) I used the rings to tie the tunnel down I had 4 of them, 2 at each end of the tunnel. Then I used wood stakes to secure each end of the PVC. My whole point in all this is last year was particularly nasty weather wise. VERY high winds, and it rained pretty much every day all day long. I thought for sure when I first put it up I would be out there all the time repairing my duct tape wonder (I am not a huge fan of duct tape) but it held up perfectly, in fact it held up so well it is back up this year in perfect shape! The whole cost was around $30 for a super cool black creep tunnel!!! Just a thought for ya.