Day 74- Haunted doors 101

Just a little more on this whole doors thing, only because it is THE critical feature in the basic design of the haunt. Doors will regulate your traffic. If you have no doors, no one will be stopping to look at anything. They just blow right past your elaborate props and sets that you spent a thousand hours creating! REGULATE your traffic, Ghouls, and direct your guests to stop and enjoy your handiwork! So as I mentioned several times already, I got this idea of suspended rolling doors from James Beach's 'Garage of Terror' website. This is the first year trying it and I must say it blows away the doors-on-wheels-in-a-track design. It is much smoother and virtually impossible to malfunction. No derailing which is what happened last year! These can be easily pulley operated at a distance! So the 'map room' entry door and the elevator doors I plan to operate from the control area. You can see in this video the door opening and closing. This is from inside the map room. The basic diagram of the set-up is shown. The hardboard is pretty light weight and flexible. I found by adding a 2x4 at the bottom and a 2x2 at the top, the board was adequately weighted down so it does not sway when it rolls and the added 2x2 at the top flattens the board so it isn't bowing.