Banks Blinds

[Dukslayr]

I had 2 Redneck 6x6 crossover blinds on 15’ stands on the farm I just sold. The windows did leak a little if I didnt get them all latched well but I didn’t have them long enough to have any issues with the floor. I never had problems with the door sealing; I hunted them for two years. I liked them well enough that I’ll probabky buy several more. I have looked at the Muddy Bull blinds too and they’re nice but I hear they have leaking issues too. I had a couple home made wood blinds on platforms at the old farm too and they were a maintenance nightmare. If I went the homemade route again I would have as little wood as possible used in the construction.

 

[Booner21]

I have 7 homemade ones up the longest has been up for 4 years with no issues. They are built with just standard osb for walls with a serious coat of paint and no swelling issues yet. There is a little water that gets in the Windows but not much. We did build them with a foot overhang on each side which keeps most of the rain off of them. I wouldn't say they are completely airtight but do a pretty good job for what we have in them. Have about 3 built for the price of 1 redneck.

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[Tree Spud]

Many enclosed blinds have water/moisture problems because the are too tightly sealed and condensate forms during sun-up 7 sun down heating to cooling.

Place small screen vent holes on the floor line & small screened vent holes near the roof ridge, this will allow for some air circulation to move which will reduce condensation build-up.

Whether it is condensate or water leaking in, you need to vent ...

 

[WTNUT]

A buddy of mine just built two. I'm convinced they are better than anything on the market. We made them out of insulated garage door panels. The panels are tongue/groove, and we siliconed every joint. I bought 36x36 double slider windows from Menards, and put black curtains on all the windows. Used treated and deckboards for the floor, covered with a sheet of rubber to deaden the sound and insulate. They are airtight.

I would like to find some garage door panels to do the same with.


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[WTNUT]

One thing you may want to check is the gasket around the door. That is where most of the water was coming in on mine. The gasket appeared to be working since there was resistance when closing it. After checking, the door wasn’t sealing at the top at all. It looks like they mounted the door too low and the bottom was dragging, causing the felt resistance, and the top was not even touching the gasket. I fixed by attaching a piece of garage door seal above the door to act as an overhang to divert the water away from the door. That seems to have done the trick. Could have tried to remove the door and fix, but it would have required me to drill more holes and seal the old up.

The doors and gaskets are a disaster. I will try to rebuild mine next
Year. The doors are a mess. As you say they are installed wrong on most of mine. The gaskets are a joke.

To keep mine, I need to at least:

1. Separate the sections, clean the faces and caulk the crap out of them and then put them together.
2. The water travels along each of the bolts that secure the sections together so that needs caulked.
3. Every window and door needs better weather stripping and bead of caulking on the face.
4. The floors need replaced. The worse and most dangerous thing about the floor is the carpet. There are a number of people that hunt that are not real handy. If you don’t think to look UNDER the carpet someone is likely to fall right through one of those.
5. I am going to use the info commercial sealant (can’t think of the name now) to seal on the outside where the two sections come together and also put roof coat or tar around it.
6. As another poster noted some genius decided to put a bot through the roof of the darn things. When you put a bolt through a roof you need a hole. When yo have a hole, you are likely going to get water tracking that bolt if you don’t know what you are doing. TRUST ME THE MANUFACTURER DID NOT KNOW HOW TO EVEN HANG THE DOORS SO A WATER TIGHT HOLE WAS NEVER AN OPTION.
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[WTNUT]

After checking, the door wasn’t sealing at the top at all. It looks like they mounted the door too low and the bottom was dragging, causing the felt resistance, and the top was not even touching the gasket. I fixed by attaching a piece of garage door seal above the door to act as an overhang to divert the water away from the door.

The bottom of one of my doors was the same and dragged so bad you could not get in it.


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[swat1018]

A buddy of mine just built two. I'm convinced they are better than anything on the market. We made them out of insulated garage door panels. The panels are tongue/groove, and we siliconed every joint. I bought 36x36 double slider windows from Menards, and put black curtains on all the windows. Used treated and deckboards for the floor, covered with a sheet of rubber to deaden the sound and insulate. They are airtight.

I would like to find some garage door panels to do the same with.


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Only wood is the tower and floor. Steel blind will outlast me. We built them so we can move with the forks on the tractor.

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[WTNUT]

A buddy of mine just built two. I'm convinced they are better than anything on the market. We made them out of insulated garage door panels. The panels are tongue/groove, and we siliconed every joint. I bought 36x36 double slider windows from Menards, and put black curtains on all the windows. Used treated and deckboards for the floor, covered with a sheet of rubber to deaden the sound and insulate. They are airtight.

I would like to find some garage door panels to do the same with.


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Only wood is the tower and floor. Steel blind will outlast me. We built them so we can move with the forks on the tractor.

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What did you use for anchors


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[swat1018]

Mobile home anchors and ratchet straps.

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[Big Snow Man]

I had 2 Redneck 6x6 crossover blinds on 15’ stands on the farm I just sold. The windows did leak a little if I didnt get them all latched well but I didn’t have them long enough to have any issues with the floor. I never had problems with the door sealing; I hunted them for two years. I liked them well enough that I’ll probabky buy several more. I have looked at the Muddy Bull blinds too and they’re nice but I hear they have leaking issues too. I had a couple home made wood blinds on platforms at the old farm too and they were a maintenance nightmare. If I went the homemade route again I would have as little wood as possible used in the construction.

I have a couple of old shacks made with T11 siding they were made by my dad and out lasted his lifetime. That being said they do require maintenance and painting and are not bug tight. I am considering a couple of Rednecks and am sort of surprised their are some water issues with them.

 

[Dukslayr]

I have a couple of old shacks made with T11 siding they were made by my dad and out lasted his lifetime. That being said they do require maintenance and painting and are not bug tight. I am considering a couple of Rednecks and am sort of surprised their are some water issues with them.

It’s because of the way the windows seal (or don’t) with only a gasket and also open in. The problem with all the pre fab blinds is that you need very easy to open (and cheap) windows that generally open into the blind. That doesn’t lend itself well to easy waterproofing. This is not unique to redneck and quite frankly redneck does as good a job as anyone in the pre fab market that I have seen so far. I bought them and will likely buy them again because mine didn’t require any real maintenance and I didn’t have bug problems. Gasket maintenance or replacement will likely need to happen every few years.

 

[WTNUT]

A buddy of mine just built two. I'm convinced they are better than anything on the market. We made them out of insulated garage door panels. The panels are tongue/groove, and we siliconed every joint. I bought 36x36 double slider windows from Menards, and put black curtains on all the windows. Used treated and deckboards for the floor, covered with a sheet of rubber to deaden the sound and insulate. They are airtight.

I would like to find some garage door panels to do the same with.


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Only wood is the tower and floor. Steel blind will outlast me. We built them so we can move with the forks on the tractor.

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Just sent you a pm I see the bond but still had questions


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