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Insulation foam board+ velcro carved out to fit your needs?
YardHauntJunkie's link is a good one.
I see you hail from Sweden. My question is what materials are available to you?
I build a "haunted tower" onto the front of my house for Halloween. I built the whole thing out of 2x4 studs and 1/2 inch roof sheathing. The roof sheathing is very inexpensive (about $6 for a 4x8 sheet) and its sturdy stuff. I secure the tower to the house with some braces and 4 inch screws. I painted the whole thing with exterior house paint.
This method has survived three Halloween seasons in all types of weather.
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Wow meltdown, great videos! Did you make that moving ground breaker thing?Here is my suggestion which is easy to install and remove after Halloween. 1) Go to home depot or any hardware store. Pick up the thinnest painters cloth you can find (its just large sheets of thin plastic. Get a staple gun or tacks and place long sheets on each side of windows and doors. NOW, "TEAR" not cut, and RIP the hell out of these sheets of plastic. All different directions....the result looks like a cross between ripped drapes and old house falling apart. You can add some black and green spray paint to make it look older.
This only costs about $5.00 to do and it make a very dramatic effect. Use some green floods to light the house and it looks great. It looks even better when the wind blows it as it looks like slow motion ghosts....look at my video...the first one I didnt add alot, but you get the idea...just makes everything look ....old.
That is some FINE stonework! Really impressive. What was your paint/sealing method?![]()
this is what I did with foam board and 1/4 inch ply...
Yup! I built the tower facade so that I could still open and close the garage door. On Halloween, we leave the garage door up and the front half of the garage is decorated as a witches apothecary. It's a real fun time. Last year, I had a friend dress as a witch and act as the shop keeper. She gives a great cackle for the kiddies.What a cute house...love the green! Is this built over your garage door?
It looks great! Thanks for posting the close-up pics. I'll try your techniques on the mausoleum I'm building out of 1" styro.I did the whole dremmel, then wet then blow torch the thing then multiple washes using a $5 bucket of oops paint from home depot and some reqular acrylic paint thinned with water, brush on wipe off... hot glued some stuff on the surface (moss and such)... between the blow torching and the paint, it sealed fine even through major weather...
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