Spookily Creative
Spray Foam Magazine – Fall Issue 2021 – The Spray Foam Magazine team loves discovering unique and creative projects where spray foam was applied. Here are just a few of our recent Halloween and fall inspired favorites.
ENTERING THE CRYPT
TJ and Taylor are huge Halloween enthusiasts who bring Fright Night to life every Halloween in their neighborhood. This year their theme is all about a killer clown who takes over Fright Night’s manor; hatching an evil plan to make jack-o-lanterns minions take over Fright Night’s graveyard and plan to be the rulers of Halloween once and for all! The pair will be transforming the entire front of their house into Fright Night Manor. The haunted house will be in their driveway where people will walk through a spray foamed entrance embedded with skulls. The objective is to provide the visitors with a feeling of walking into a crypt.
TJ and Taylor first thought of using hot glue to get the skulls to stick to the particle board, but soon realized hot glue wouldn’t give the look of walking through a crypt, so they thought spray foam would work, “We knew that when the spray foam would expand upon drying it would make the skulls look like they were pressed into the wall of the crypt. We used Great Stuff gaps and cracks insulating foam, and it worked just the way we wanted it to. It was a great choice for adhering paint as well,” said TJ and Taylor.
LEAF MAN CABIN
Owner of Bauer Spray Foam Insulation Inc, Roger Bauer, has sprayed many things in his career but this tiny cabin really is a head turner and something extra special. This may be due to a large carved wooden head on the front of the cabin.
Bauer started his company in July 2014 in Cedar Rapids, IA and in the fall of 2017, he relocated with his wife to Saint Germain, Wisconsin. Bauer said, “I have not regretted moving as within a year my business soared. I have been doing 160 sets of foam and this number keeps going up every year with just me and one employee, Joe Goodrum, who has been with me for four years.”
Ken Schels is the builder of the Leaf Man Cabin and the owner of KMS Limited & Groovy Wood Products. Schels is a custom wood and metal artist welding and carving metal and or wood to make a balanced combination of man and nature. Making everything from furniture to metal sculptures, Schels also builds custom cabins and tiny homes.
These magical looking abodes really do look like something from a fairytale. Schels is currently working on adding tables and chairs and sleeping arrangements to these little homes too. Think function, sculpture, and imagination with materials like spray foam helping with energy efficiency and the comfort side of things.
ASTEROID INCOMING
Sean Connolly lives in Islip Terrace, NY. Sean has been a spray foam technician for 12 years and said, “This particular project was definitely one of the most interesting I have ever done. The set designers at the Gateway Playhouse in Belport, NY found it to be the best way for them to achieve the asteroid look.” Sean used a closed-cell foam applying between an inch and a half to two inches to achieve the desired results. Following the foam application Sean fed in a fog machine and lights to achieve a creepy look and feel perfect for Halloween.
