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Hey guys, I am in need of a little help. I have been asked to help with a haunted house and have only a week to set up. I need to have some ideas on walls as it is a big room that I need to partition off for the people or "victims" to walk thru. I will probably use black plastic but need something behind it to hold it up or ? Any ideas would be great. Pictures would probably be great to. Thanks in advance, Hacksaw.

Cheap and quick - Landscape fabric & wooden firring strips for the frame. (think 1/2" x 2" strips) Build a rectangle with diagonal strip in the center for stability. Staple fabric to wood.
If it's a 'professional' setup (ie, in a building or mall, or paying patrons), you *may* have to go with a flame resistant material though - same philosophy, more $$$

Thats a good idea. I can probably get that done in time.

My first walk thru I used black plastic (sorry no pictures) and picture hanging wire. You can get it at Lowes in rolls of 100 ft. and it was fairly cheap back then around $3.00.

If you can put a few screws into the walls you can use the wire and plastic to make walls. Picture a clothes line criss crossing. Take the plastic and drape it over the line and overlap it a couple inches at the top. Take your hot glue gun and made a seem and this will make a pocket that the wire is running through. Make sure you have someone helping you because that person will need a have a ice cube ready to rub on the hot glue seem as you made it. This cools it down without burning through the plastic. You can also seem the corners of the plastic where it comes together with another wall. Worked great for me and I did it in my front yard with 30 mph winds. It held up to the winds and over 500 ToTs.

I did findsome picture with the wires (no plastic yet) and I had to drive PVC pipe into the ground because I didn't have inside walls to connect to. Any ways I put up the plastic and seems (12 rolls) in a maybe three hours with the help of my son. So it's a fairly fast set up....taking down is even easier. Cut the wire and pull it out of the pocket you made in the plastic.