lets see em people!

[KidWalleye]

one of my favorite things about the ice fishing forum are all the fish house pics.(Kylersks step by step building) I've read alot of post where people have purchased new houses. We should start a new one this year. I am building one next year and all the ideas I can get on here are awesome. You guys come up with some of the coolest things I haven't thought of. Just an idea, and a way to past the time before the ice. Kidwalleye

[arcticcat400]

heres my new one

http://s115.photobucket.com/albums/n312/chevyracing_2006/th_fishhouse002.jpg

http://s115.photobucket.com/albums/n312/chevyracing_2006/th_fishhouse003.jpg

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http://s115.photobucket.com/albums/n312/chevyracing_2006/th_fishhouse006.jpg

http://s115.photobucket.com/albums/n312/chevyracing_2006/th_fishhouse007.jpg

[Boar]

I dont have a camera but my new sleeper is a 21' camper, wont have it ready this year, so its just sitting there beckoning me to convert. so I have to pass the time with puching one more hole in my 17' instead an any other neat thing i can think of todo, I just put in one more light, some new rod holders built at work, an gonna fix my rattle reels to fish with rod an reel by tying on a snapclip to the rattle reel the run my rod line throughso the bobber pulls the rattle an I can reel the line through the snap clip, the conveinence of rattle reel an rod an reel at the same time. No more hand over hand an fish flopping up big tangles. Boar

[KidWalleye]

arcticcat yours is laid out just like my blue prints. How fo you like it? I'm also putting a 3rd bunk on the wall across from the door. This gets me ready for the ice, I wish I hadn't told my wife I would wait til next year.

Kidwalleye

[broman]

Here's some new pics of mine. I have finished the roof, added temporary table and bench and finished most of the metal except for the fender wells.

Hopefully be able to spray foam the walls before Halloween.

[Mike L]

Before you put in your insulation and interior paneling, think about what you're going to have to do to replace one of those stud-mounted tail lights when it gets busted.

[broman]

Glad you mentioned it. I forgot about that. I might take the lights off and build or buy a small enclosure outside the house where the wires, wire nuts, and nuts for the lights can be accessed by removing a plate off of a box or something.

[Mike L]

Do the box-out with the access on the inside. Then you can access the stud nuts and the wire nuts easily.

[hawkeye43]

A small tip for others that are going to spray foam a house. Its better if you finish the inside of the house first, run all the wires where you want and spray from the outside. Then put on the outside. It keeps the inside alot cleaner and you don't have to tape off as much that you don't want the spray foam to get on to. I know it seems backwards, its a cleaner job.

[broman]

I agree with you that it's cleaner to spray from the outside and in most cases is the best way to go. I debated this for a long time. In my case I wanted to have the foam stick to the metal to get a better seal, fill up voids and to give me the ability to remove the paneling easily without the foam attached to it in case I decided to add wires, braces, or if I wanted to simply replace rotted paneling in the future. If I sprayed from the outside I could have used poly between the paneling and the stud walls to prevent the foam from sticking to the paneling, but I still wanted it to stick to something to make it more rigid. So, in the end, I chose to

spray from the inside, I hope the cleanup and cutting down for the paneling won't be too much of a mess.

This will be my first time spray foaming anything, if anyone has any suggestions on how to best keep it from becoming a mess and how to keep it flat for my paneling, I'm all ears.

[norm]

My buddy did spray foam on his house a few years ago so here are my thoughts.

You will almost certainly get some of the foam on the studs and in between the studs it will expand too far and stick out past the studs. It will probably take you and a couple of your buddies a few hours and a case of beer to clean off all the excess foam before you will be ready to panel the inside. It is very messy and it's a real pain when you get to the ceiling where you're working above your head. We tried a lot of methods for this from fillet knives to hacksaw blades and everything in between. We found the best way is to get a putty knife and just scrape it off.

That being said, the spray foam is awesome not only for its insulating value but it will also make your shack a lot more rigid than if you were using any other type of insulation.

I don't know if you had plans for insulating the floor but what my buddy did was he pulled his house up on those car ramps like you would use to change your oil and had the underside of his house foamed too. He was a little worried about the foam under his house absorbing water or having chunks of it freeze to the ice but after 3 years of use it has held up great.

[broman]

norm,

Thanks for the info. I was thinking about just using fiberglass insulation for the ceiling since it costs less and there won't be any issues with water up there. However, if I find that I have some extra in the tank, then some or all of the ceiling will definetely get sprayed. It's the cutting and trimming that I am not looking forward to. I have heard that some people use angle grinders to remove some of the excess. Man, I am anxious about how the spraying is going to turn out.

[Farley]

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It will probably take you and a couple of your buddies a few hours and a case of beer to clean off all the excess foam before you will be ready to panel the inside. It is very messy and it's a real pain when you get to the ceiling where you're working above your head. We tried a lot of methods for this from fillet knives to hacksaw blades and everything in between. We found the best way is to get a putty knife and just scrape it off.

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Try using a small diameter wire maybee wrap both ends around a couple of short pieces of wood. Pull taught and slide down the wall along the edge of your studs. This is what we did when I worked construction putting up commercial freezers and coolers. Works great and you only have one large piece to clean up, besides the normal dust.

[broman]

I've seen them do the wire thing on TV. That is definitely something I am going to try.