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Im sure this is posted but I have been looking and looking and looking and all i keep coming across is Vortex tunnels and garage walk thru.

I am looking for some help to make a Walk Thru /Tunnel Whatever you want to call it. For outside !!! So I would have no ceilings to hold the walls up. I thought maybe PVC or 2x3 but im just not sure how to make it sturdy !!!

Any suggestions of links would be greatly appreciated !!!

NOone has any suggestions at all ?!?! Now I am concern !!!

I thought I saw a post somewhere that a haunter used pallets to form the walls and the roof of a tunnel....As I recall they just bolted or screwed the pallets together and then threw spooky cloth or tarps over the whole setup.....

Whoever built it did post up some pics, but I am not sure where I saw that particular post.....

I saw one made with those cheap wedding arches spaced about 7' apart. They had quite a few lined up and then draped black plastic over the whole thing. The inside was draped in creepy fabrics. You could use what ever gave yours the look your after.

Another that wasn't nearly as well done or sturdy used PVC pipe and cinder blocks. The blocks were lined up on either side of the path with the pipes arched over and tucked in the blocks. I can't remember what they used to keep them in the blocks.... but it swayed a bit.

I did a search for "Pallets" and found the post that had a tunnel built with them:

Walls for haunts?

Check the towards the bottom of the first page for the pics....I think it turned out great....!!!!

You could do a 1/8 pvc pipe archway. That stuff bends really good, and they are only .75 a 10 foot section. Connect 2 with a coupler and you will get the bend you want. Or use 3/4 pvc and heat with a heat gun to get the bend you want. It's harder to store after Halloween but is more of a solid structure overall.

Place your 3/4 PVC pipe in your start area then heat gun down the line until you reach the bend you want. When it cools down the bend will stay. So it's pretty self standing all by itself. 1/8 PVC takes a little more structure building to keep it in place.

We do over 80ft of walls in our backyard maze. We use 1x2's, first one is 4ft in length and we cut basically a spear on one end and pound it into the ground about a foot. Then the second 1x2 is 8ft length and screwed to the other "spear'. Then we staple the black plastic to the 8 footer. Works extremely well, only problem we had was last year when 3 days before Halloween we got 60 mph winds and the wind snapped half the 1x2's. Was a very sad night.

Originally Posted by mic214

I did a search for "Pallets" and found the post that had a tunnel built with them:

Walls for haunts?

Check the towards the bottom of the first page for the pics....I think it turned out great....!!!!

My brother posted that pic from our walk through haunt last year. We were very pleased with the final result. We used a total of 56 pallets in a 750 sq. foot area. Construction was fairly simple and the finished walls were very sturdy. I used the following link as a guide in designing our walls.

http://www.oklahomahistory.net/palletshed.html

We thought about the pallet wall idea, we just don't have the room to store for the next year. Staking it we can hide the 8footers and put the black plastic in a couple of coffins!