whats better prefomance egineering or ice castle

[wheelerboy920]

I've talked to people about both and I'm not getting the best reports about Ice Castle fish houses whats your opion.

[harvey lee]

I really don't know much about the Ice Castles. Now, I know Tom Ische who owns and builds the Performance Eng houses and they seem very well built.

[Christopher Quast]

My buddy use to work for Tom and yes he builds a nice house, but the only thing that I dont like about his houses is the fact that he uses PL400 glue on the back of his interior sheeting to prevent warping, but if you ever need to get at wiring or just remodel it you are going to have a blast getting that stuff off. Just an FYI and like I said he does build a very nice house.

[Ice-King]

Some of the ice castles have angle iron frames a tube framed house would be stronger. Ice castle seems to push the forced air furnaces for a heater in my opinion these are pointless because they require a battery to run and if that ever dies you have no heat. I have also witnessed the facing on the paneling peel off around the floor because of moisture.

[fishhuntwork]

I've fished numberous times in my buddies performance engineering house and I believe its one of the best houses on the market right now. You can pretty much customize them how you want it and he is willing to work with you. They aren't mass produced like the ice castle and the frames are better. My next wheel house will be a performance engineering.

[Tyler23]

we have a ice castle 18ft. never had any problems with it, if u have a good battery in it the heater will run for quite awhile but thats why you have a generator with the trickle charger? ours was pretty basic when we got it we just built it to what we wanted in it. the frame is a angle iron design and is plenty strong! this isnt a semi trailer guys, it doesnt flex or anything and we have pulled it over some very rough terrian. i dont think you would want the extra weight of a complete tube frame? theres really no need its not a trailer....all in all i love the house, we put bunks, cabinets and all sorts of other goodies in it and i would never fish outa a portable once fishing outa this one... my personal opinion for the best fish house buy and empty shell and build what YOU want in it and how it looks. then u cant complain about someone elses handy work.

[walleyesforever]

Last year my friend liked my 16' Ice castle so much he insisted...I should sell it to him...I did and put a few thousand profit towards a new 6.5 x19' Ice Castle with a force heater...now add a 36'ceiling Fan and 2 good battery's and I now have close to even heat from the top to the floor (2-3 degree).

Now the holes stay opener ALL winter, I only had to drill 1 time.

No water mesh ever and the wall's look brand new.

I had a direct vent on the 1st one,it had no blower and with a hard wind the pilot light was out( they have electonic pilot light now)it also never warmed up the house well...it need's the blower.

The Ice Castle is a good Fish house and there are some better ones...but everybody at my Lake want's to fish out of my House.

It is for the money a good fish house and All I have to do is walk out 100 yard's and start fishing cause it is already 70% and the coffee is hot. Just my 2 cents but it's like living on the Lake.

[bassislife]

Stick with performance!! All fish houses should have the paneling glued, because it helps keep the structure solid. I know guys with ice castles with 1/2 the paneling falling off already!

You want years of use go with performance! They were building fish houses 10 years before ice castle built there first one!