Low lying fog.

[hool10]

This is a shout out for ZT's bro because he's in special effects. I got a fog machine about 2 years ago. My family really doesn't like Halloween but my mom likes it because she thinks the kids are cute. We really don't want to go overboard but this entire setup is perfect. What I did was put it under the new staircase my family built:

Those granite slabs can move to the side. So it was all great including my mom scaring a inquisitive kid by saying there was a dragon living under our stairs. It ended in a kind of mess though because fog gets in every crack it can find. So it seeped under the door and you couldn't see it, but the fog was in the house. Smoke alarms were going off, my dogs barking, and many batteries had to be taken out of alarms. So I thought of a different idea. I want low lying fog to cascade down over the steps leading up to the stairs. Then I can even put a red light I got to make the fog red.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpnRykB1r7g
This website basically tells me how to do it: http://www.gotfog.com/fog_machine_chiller.html
What I'm wondering is if anybody has tried to make that and if so, does it work? Any suggestions? I wanted to do this last year but I delayed it to the last week and it never got done.

 

[VirusType2]

don't use a red light... that's overdone.

Use a flickering orange light, like flames, or even better, a strobe light. Strobe lights are freaky as shit. Diffuse the light with mirrors and opaque glass and make it so it's not obvious where the light source is, That is sure bet you won't have to buy much candy, if you know what I mean.


also I didn't think a fog machine would set off a smoke alarm... what? really? aren't they designed for indoors, and like, are you sure it isn't a smoke machine ... which sounds kinda dangerous?

 

[Krynn72]

Get a disco ball and hang it over the door way. **** yeah!

 

[VirusType2]

is that a body bag over to the right BTW?

 

[hool10]

is that a body bag over to the right BTW?

No, that is to keep the dirt mound we had from eroding from rain, spilling onto the driveway. A fog machine isn't dangerous if you use it correctly hahaha! Also how do you think a fire alarm works? It doesn't sniff the air and go, "I smell smoke! BEEP BEEP!".

 

[VirusType2]

I've known several people that own a fog machine and they crank that shit up inside with no problems. It's not smoke fool. ...fool10.

maybe you 'don't read good'. I said "are you sure it isn't a smoke machine?" == (like, you got ripped off)

Most fog machines create the fog by either vaporizing a water and glycol-based or glycerine-based fluid or a mineral-oil-based fog via atomization.

Like, why in the hell is your smoke detector going off, is what I'm saying.

 

[hool10]

I've known several people that own a fog machine and they crank that shit up inside with no problems. It's not smoke fool. ...fool10.

maybe you 'don't read good'. I said "are you sure it isn't a smoke machine?"

Hey no need to get defensive here. The fog is so dense that it fools the optical sensor inside of a smoke alarm that there is smoke, which there is a fire then. Maybe your friends took out the batteries beforehand?

 

[L3N!N]

Eh, do you think getting a ghillie suit and popping up from kid's lawns will scare people and lead to a lawsuit because I am debating whether I should order this awesome ghillie suit

 

[VirusType2]

No, but you insinuated that I was retarded...

but I didn't realize that smoke detectors were so easily fooled. Yeah, I can see that fog would set off a detector using optical detection...

Most smoke detectors work either by optical detection (photoelectric) or by physical process (ionization), but some of them use both detection methods to increase sensitivity to smoke.

seriously, I thought they were better designed. Like, in my experience, you can't set them off with a cigarette, so I seriously thought they were designed to tell the difference some how? :3

Maybe the ionization type wouldn't be triggered, but anyway

like the kind inside businesses? the overhead sprinklers? I doubt you can set them off with a fog machine.. everything would be ruined

well apologies then.

 

[hool10]

No, but you insinuated that I was retarded...

but I didn't realize that smoke detectors were so easily fooled. Yeah, I can see that fog would set off a detector using optical detection...


seriously, I thought they were better designed. Like, in my experience, you can't set them off with a cigarette, so I seriously thought they were designed to tell the difference some how? :3

Maybe the ionization type wouldn't be triggered, but anyway

like the kind inside businesses? the overhead sprinklers? I doubt you can set them off with a fog machine.. everything would be ruined

well apologies then.

Well I'm sorry then Virus. Btw cigs do set them off and my dad knows this quite well. When the school allowed him to do it, he installed a smoke detector behind a light fixture, overhead, in the shop bathroom. He would catch the kids smoking because all of a sudden the alarm would go off and a kid rushing out all embarrassed. He stopped this though because if a fire alarm goes off in the school, you have to evacuate the place. So all the kids were rejoicing that my dad couldn't get an easy detention off them. You can only set off sprinkler systems by melting the babbit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babbitt_metal or a very easily meltable metal that seals the ports on the sprinkler. That's why you see in some action films the person putting a match to the sprinkler. Yet only that sprinkler goes off because there is a fire in that room to put out just that fire, not all of them to avoid chaos and costly water damage, HINT HINT MOVIE DIRECTORS! Smoke detectors don't need to be complicated, they just need to detect a fire. Pretty easy to fool laser beams the same way as well as shown on Mythbusters.

 

[VirusType2]

Smoke detectors don't need to be complicated, they just need to 'detect a fire'. Pretty easy to fool laser beams the same way as well as shown on Mythbusters.

You mean 'detect smoke' I think.

But yeah, after learning how they work, it's pretty easy to see how fog would block the eye in the same way that smoke would.

 

[Kula Meenur]

Couple times we just threw a few blocks of dry ice into the pool, then when it got too thin some more was added

 

[lefty]

I work at a halloween store, you should come on down and I'll hook you up with some real cool stuff. Yo.

 

[VirusType2]

I work at a halloween store, you should come on down and I'll hook you up with some real cool stuff. Yo.

year round? oO

 

[lefty]

No, until nov. 2nd. And then teardown is after, I think.

 

[VirusType2]

teardown, that's the best part, um ... unless it involves eye ducts.

Damn English.


On the last day, go to work in a pirate costume and plunder all the booty 1st

steal all the treasure

 

[lefty]

****in' love treasure.

Yeah, we get a twenty-five percent discount on everything and about a hundred bucks of free stuff at the end.