Thread: tilting floor

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Hi all,

I'm not going to do this but, wanted to know some opinions. I was thinking of the floors that tilt and go up and down on the air bags. Such like Fright Props. They are really expensive. What I was thinking was what if you used box springs or a mattress. You could make a corridor with walls and then put them on the floor. Make a small stepway up to them so it would be flush. Then cover the mattress in black plastic or dark plexi so you couldn't tell it was a mattress. Then the kids/adults would get that unstable effect at a low cost budget. I see people dumping mattress's on free cycle all the time. Just a thought.

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The thing is, once people step on the soft surface, they might figure out that it's a mattress.

If you could find some type of hard surface to top it all off, it could work.

That is why I was thinking black plexiglass. If you used like a twin mattress so it wasn't too wide then you will get the tilting effect. I think a much wider mattress with plexi would distribute weight too much and you wouldn't get the effect except maybe a little sinking.

I think its a lawsuit waiting to happen i think the last thing you would want to do is have people stumble and possibly fall I understand why you want that feeling but its just not worth the possibility of someone getting hurt . If you want that feeling maybe an air matress not inflated fully, you would have to put padding everywhere and the possibility for an injury is still there not somthing you want to deal with

Originally Posted by ihauntu

I think its a lawsuit waiting to happen i think the last thing you would want to do is have people stumble and possibly fall I understand why you want that feeling but its just not worth the possibility of someone getting hurt . If you want that feeling maybe an air matress not inflated fully, you would have to put padding everywhere and the possibility for an injury is still there not somthing you want to deal with

Agreed. Best bet is to have the floor stationary with raised sections slightly angled. In that way anyone stumbling can still regain their footing. Maybe laminate the top with apholstery foam with a heavy canvas on top of that for a little give over the foam, and to cushion a fall. The soft feeling and uneven surface may still give the illusion of movement.

In a dark hall these subtle things are greatly exagerated by the imagination.

Twist an ankle? Did it take much to do that? Sometimes not.
People are delecate, especially some people, sometimes some people that don't look or seem that way.
If a floor is to be moving at all I would suggest a very small, slight movement no more than some fraction of an inch, this will have an effect on people.
If seperate "plates" are moving watch out for the possible pinch zones between them and on the sides against the walls as they move.
This could get to be a very close tolerenced piece of work to build.
After it's built, how long will it last? How heavy of traffic can it handle? How heavy of a step can it survive?
Then consider how it will act under the minimum weight of a small child.
"One size doesnot usually fit all", very well.

For the old school version of the tilting floor (carpeted 2Xs tilting on a center pivot) check out JB Corn's books here, hosted by Nightmare Tony.
These books cover a wide range of haunt construction, and are free for download thanks to the generosity of JB's family.

I can see a bunch of teeny bopper kids having a WWE match on it now! hope you have good insurance!

You could go to lowes and buy the 2ft square underlayment boards used for basements and carpet each one to put on the mattress, also I would suggest that you use plastic plumber strapping to tie them together. That way the will move independently but not seperate and trap someones ankle

at my local haunted trail they have a bridge with a dropping mechanizm. It works like a motorized miab it has a cam that spins and when it gets to the right notch it falls.