Day 109

Construction of the sliding door. This opens 'on cue' at the end of the entrance hall. We use 4 x 8 hardboard sheet cut to the appropriate height and reinforced by 2x2's. The '2x2' as it is called is the workhorse framing material for the haunt. Extremely lightweight and cheap. Only a couple dollars for a ten foot piece! We will have an actor pull the door open and closed using a 2x2 extension piece bolted onto the central beam of the door.The door has 3 wheels screwed onto the bottom that ride inside a metal track bolted onto the frame. Then on the top we add a piece of wood to the outside of the frame to catch the top part of the door as it slides closed. That way it can't fall out. There is a wooden stop on the frame at the back end, so when the door is pulled open in the dark it will not slide off the track! We gauge exactly how far we want the door to open so we know exactly where to put the stop. Now again, as I mentioned this central frame was left by our builders and was the key to this whole thing as I could simply build off of that to create all the spaces I needed!

Here is a picture of the vortex tunnel hoop components. 3 packages of 16 1/2 inch plywood segments. These will be bolted together to produce the 10 foot hoops!