Thread: What to do with the water heater

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Our water heater is in the garage, I do a walk thru yard/garage/exit thru front door haunt every year. Well I hide the water heater with panels so its not seen. This year I want to not hide it because I can gain usable space for the haunt. I am thinking about painting it to look like a toxic container or ???. I will keep ToTs away from it by making it into part of the scene and only I or a family member will be near it Halloween night, I know how its going to look already and nothing will get near it. Anyone done something similar?

do you have a theme for your walk thru?

Theme would be important because you could do the toxic container, radioactive thing. Run some fake lines from it into a body on a table etc... Kinda think your theme would have to be industrial or a lab

It would look cool in a science lab scene or something similar! Could make it look like a boiler or radioactive tank. Would fit in a frankenstein theme if you painted it copper or something like that too!

Yeah as others have said an radioactive emblem and some temporary extra hoses running to it. Maybe one of those cheap plasma lights sitting on top.

Lab scene is of course an excellent idea. Or you could make it some kind of steampunk look. I wouldn't paint it though.

you could get some tin, like siding trim or something cut it in jagged pieces and stick/glue to it in a circular puncture hole and hang afix a half a skeleton torso or arms and hands in the middle of the punctures like a skeleton is busting out of it. If you wanted to get real technical figure out a way to pump fog out of the holes as well. thats my random idea you could go with a realistic land of zombies type theme and leave most your garage as is for realism effect. do the same with dry wall pieces coming out of the wall

You could make up (by hand or on the computer) labels for warning signs and even gauges that could be cut out and applied to the heater.

In fact I think you could make a cool gauge out of a thin jewelry gift size box for example. Cut the bottom off leaving just the rectangular frame and trim the frame so it fits the gentle curve of the heater. You'll tape it onto the heater. Attach some LED lighting to the inside of the box (you can make a simple light with just an LED and 9 v battery and an appropriate resister? -- someone here can help I'm sure). Then for the box top lid, print out a dial or guage onto paper that is thin enough to be translucent, cut out a window in the box lid and affix the guage to the inside of the lid so that it shows through the cutout of the lid top. Place the lid onto the box frame and when the LED is lit inside, the gauge should have a glow to it.

You could add coiled plastic tubing to the top of the tank. Tape one side of the tubing down to the left top side and curl it and affix the end of the tubing to the right top side. I'd suggest copper tubing that is quite bendable (like refrigerator water filter tubing) but that's getting expensive. I'm thinking the look will be like an old moonshine still. Don't forget dryer vent flexible round ducting as a material that might work too.

If your water heater has space behind it, try placing some colored lighting behind it too.

GREAT IDEAS, I was already kicking around the idea of making it look kind of like this: http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thu...oxic_waste.jpg

My theme is most of the time zombie, monster, horror/gore. Was actually thinking of making it industrial warehouse looking (think Freddy Kruger) with PVC pipes, steam, etc. on and out of the walls.

make a false lid and have something busting out the top covered in green Great Stuff like its a zombie in toxic waste busting out the top of the lid. crack some glow sticks under the lid to light it up green the night of