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Hey All,So after years of wanting to build a skid house, I finally pulled the trigger. Building an 8x10 with 10” wide skis. I used 1/4” HDPE for the skins. I don’t necessarily plan on using this as a permanent and I’ll probably move it between a few spots on my home lake. I’m hoping the HDPE keeps the bottoms from freezing in. But my question is, is there anything a can coat the outside of the runners with to help prevent them from freezing in? I was thinking of spraying the sides of the skis (2x10’s) with flex seal or this stuff called Winter Wax to help prevent any freeze ups. Anyone have a proven go to? Below are a few pics of where I’m at with the build. Thanks in advanced!
Did you use a plastic sheet for the bottom of your runners?
Forget all this amateur info you get on here. Get your skids out to the adge of your house, otherwise spend a day banking. You need a solid foundation to put a handyman Jack under, usually inside the front or back of the house. Screw the 2x4’s unless it starts freezing in. You can get REAL bad advice from the newbies on this site.
You’re going to hate it, banking will become a very big deal.
B, at the risk of being a pessimist, and I apologize for it. That whole skid system looks like a disaster waiting to happen. The first time you get stuck and frozen in a little bit and try to jerk that house loose you’re going to tear those skids to smithereens. Unless you’re a whole lot more careful then my friends and I ever were with skid houses I’d reconsider that whole bottom. Skid houses take a lot more abuse than you think, even pulling them across the lake is hard on them.