How to build a Halloween maze or Haunted Walk through on a budget

How to build a Halloween walk through, haunted house, or maze on a budget. Built out of 1x2 ft strips, 2x2 supports, landscape fabric, and lots of nails, staples and screws. Total was around $250. (The good thing is that you can re-use this again, and again.)

[@kurtbrayford6491]

Im an tradesman and have my own scaffolding so I can do top scarers ,but love to see people doing this, good work mate

[@davidboichyn3596]

Wowww..that sounds awesome if you can pull it off safely! Happy Haunting

[@kurtbrayford6491]

@@davidboichyn3596 I work as an scare actor so I never get time off to do things like this, good on ya mate.

[@Kiyana963]

Thank you for the ideas

[@baileysmith5182]

Hi I loved the video I got some inspiration to do it this Halloween thanks a lot and keep up the good work

[@davidboichyn3596]

Thank you

[@kristinaharper7496]

This is very helpful thank you! You did a fantastic job!

[@davidboichyn3596]

Thank you!

[@NickAtNightBCB]

Gave me alot of ideas! Thank you!

[@davidboichyn3596]

Welcome

[@armandogomez4025]

Love it!!!!!!

[@nana_untamed]

I've always wanted to do this maybe this year❤

[@davidboichyn3596]

Yea. It's a blast and the neighborhood looks forward to it every year

[@TashaUonthetube]

This what I needed to see 😊 so much

[@davidboichyn3596]

Welcome! Glad I could help

[@TheLottoCaliGirls]

Wow 🤩

[@armandogomez4025]

Love it! 340

[@susanowen1709]

I like the concept, and it looks like a fairly sturdy set-up. I'm curious if you had any issues with trick-or-treaters tripping on the grass, or getting their costumes caught in the (relatively) narrow aisles? If so, how did you mitigate that?

[@davidboichyn3596]

It's very sturdy once the supports for walls and corners are in place. As for the grass, or costumes getting caught, we have been fortunate not to have had any incidents like that. We do also have a sign at the entrance that states 'Enter at your own risk, strobe lights and fog in use, uneven ground, things like that. Hope this answers your questions

[@XenaWarrior95]

I live in upstate Ny, it’s windy that time of year, how did you put these in the ground? We have to stake everything down.

[@davidboichyn3596]

For the outside walls, I make 6' steaks out of 1x2s, pound them into the ground and screw them to every other pannel. Then, once the inside walls and the cross beam supports are in place (again, using 1x2x8 wood strips). It can withstand a lot of wind

[@zombae083]

How do you get it to stand up straight and not fall over??

[@davidboichyn3596]

Usually, I will make 5' 1x2 steaks, drive them into the ground, and screw them to the frame walls.

[@davidboichyn3596]

Also, I use 1x2 cross bracing strips on the top to hold it all together

[@Ranga14]

The only down side is landscape fabric is expensive.

[@davidboichyn3596]

Yes, but compared to buying OSB and painting it black, and the back breaking work of setting it up, the light weight fabric is the way to go

[@Ranga14]

@@davidboichyn3596 I've used a combo of pallets and tarp I cut out and put in stratgeic areas. I know it is more difficult to store but it looks cooler IMO. Plus it helps having a half acre of land to store it on.

[@Ranga14]

@@davidboichyn3596 great build btw. You did a nice job overall.

[@davidboichyn3596]

@@Ranga14 thank you

[@ashleytarango9797]

How much to make that?

[@davidboichyn3596]

Initial cost to buy when I started like 5 years ago was $400 to $500, but every year I add on more panels

[@zzzdomzzzify]

unfortunately it only takes one moron to fall against the side and the whole thing collapses

[@davidboichyn3596]

In the 5 years that I have been doing this, we have been moron-free lol