Morpheus said:Does anyone know where I can get a big sheet of roll plastic? I Want to put a skating rink in My backyard for the kids for the winter and need one big sheet. 50'x100' would be ideal....but while searching the net Im unable to find one.....any ideas?
Yeah I can get 25'a100 rolls. the problem is how to connect the two without having leaks... I already built the frame from 2x8".... is 95'x 45'.az_max said:I bought rolls of 3mil and 5mil plastic at ACE for depopcorning my ceiling. Don't have the size off the top of my head, but it was at least 25x25. seam a few together and you have your pond liner.
Morpheus said:Yeah I can get 25'a100 rolls. the problem is how to connect the two without having leaks... I already built the frame from 2x8".... is 95'x 45'.
Morpheus said:Yeah I can get 25'a100 rolls. the problem is how to connect the two without having leaks... I already built the frame from 2x8".... is 95'x 45'.
Morpheus said:I Want to put a skating rink in My backyard for the kids for the winter
well its not entirely for them I play hockey so its "somewhat" for Me too but I am a cool dad!varova87 said:dang, you're a heck of a cool dad, thats for sure!
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What happens to the grass in the yard?MUSKYMAN said:this is a rink in my buddies front yard...being the 10th or so year of having a rink they have gone through different stages of build and once they went to the nice rink liner all the hassles went away.
MUSKYMAN said:....one thing you will want to build is a hand zamboni....
as long as you build it when the grass goes dormant...nothing happens to the grassjim-00-4.6 said:What happens to the grass in the yard?
For halloween next year, we're going with a Pirates of the Carribbean theme; so I'm building a 40-foot pirate ship in the backyard.
My plan is to recreate the scene in the ride with the pirate ship shelling the shore. The guests will walk along the shore-side battlements, with the pirate ship firing cannons toward them. If I fill the backyard with water, then, after a cannon shot, I can do an airburst underwater, spraying water up onto the guests. I figure I only need 4 inches of water, plus appropriate theatrical lighting to somewhat realistically represent a harbor. Between the flash/boom from the cannon, and the "splash" from the "shell", it should be pretty realistic. The other advantage to filling the yard with water is just in case some sparks come out of the cannons, they'll land in the water.
I'm having backdrops painted to hang on the back of the house to make it look like large stone blocks, since brick and siding don't quite mesh with mid-1800s construction.
Obviously, the ship will only be a stage flat, with scaffolding behind for 2 pirates to stand on and fire the cannons at the shore. The rope for the "rigging" is going to cost more than the pyro! 2 masts, some muslin "sails" and the obligatory jolly roger, of course! I'll have 4 cannons that fire flash powder; 3 on the ship, 1 on the shore. I'm planning for about 250 "shots" from the cannons; over the course of 3-4 hours of trick-or-treating, I can run a fairly steady barrage!
Attached is a small pic of halloween '07 front yard.
jim-00-4.6 said:For halloween next year, we're going with a Pirates of the Carribbean theme; so I'm building a 40-foot pirate ship in the backyard.