Adding spray foam insulation to the walls of my blind. To protect the insulation, I need to cover the interior walls with something. Any recommendations? Carpet? Some type of paneling? I want something fairly easy to work with.

If you have wood studs, carpet is easy to install. It helps silence the blind and adds some insulation. Leftover scraps can be used to make shooting rests.

Get a color that will not make you stand out. You can't paint carpet with good results.

CenTex, what kind of spray insulation are you using and where did you get it?

If you use carpet for a liner, be careful when weather warms up. If wasps can get in your blind, they love to build nests in/behind carpet. One of my worst mornings in a blind was with temperatures in the 40s, and when it warmed up wasps began coming out everywhere! Maybe some of hang-up pest strips would keep'm out, but I don't have any experience with those.

I used the styrofoam wallboard for the inside and camoed it out, double insulation!!!!!

Shag Carpet!

Sorry for being out of pocket. Thanks for the recommendations. The blind has tube steel framing. I guess I could screw the carpet to the framing with self tapping screws. Not exactly sure what the spray foam product is but can find out. I work for a commercial general contractor and have one of my subcontractors who does spray foam doing it for me.

Home Depot sells a trunk lining type of carpet (less than 1/4" thick), 12 feet wide. Glue it straight to the foam with contact cement. If your foam is not too lumpy the carpet will contour to the surface of the foam. (the adhesive actually softens the back of the carpet and helps it stretch over irregular surfaces).
Open all of the windows, contact cement can make you loopy. The water based adhesive isn't as caustic but doesn't work as well.
The spray can adhesives work pretty good but will cost more.
Buy a cheapo brush and plan on throwing it out when you are done.

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I work for a commercial spray foam roofing company and built a blind last year and sprayed it on the outside with roofing foam and our elastomeric coating. I'm about to re do one of my other blinds and I plan on foaming the inside of it and and painting it with dark brown or black paint. The thing with foam is that there are different types commercially available the 2 main kinds are open cell and closed cell. In short closed cell is water proof and dense and open cell is soft you can stick your finger thru it and it acts like a sponge when it gets wet. All of the stuff we spray is 2 component. The stuff available in cans at Home Depot is somewhere in between its more dense than open cell and repels water somewhat but it will still absorb it. Whatever kind of foam you use it is important to paint it or cover it with some kind of material to block the light from getting to it otherwise it will become a burnt orange color from the sun hitting it and become flammable. Also depending on the type of foam you use contact cement or glue can melt it making it difficult to adhere your material to. Sorry if it sounds like I'm rambling just trying to share some of what I know.

Brad is right about adhesives melting foam. The spray adhesives work good when not applied too heavy, I do this often on trailer interiors and it holds really good. I am not sure how the water based contact adhesives will work on all foams.
Brushing a solvent base contact adhesive on some foams can dissolve the foam. I guess it depends on the foam.
The carpet liner makes a great interior surface.
I have seen spray paints dissolve the foam too, spray several light coats if you use this method. Real heavy spots of spray paint or foam puts too much solvent on one place and you will get a melted spot.

Thank you Brad and Simple. The product I am using is open cell so it will be soft. I just do not see carpet adhering to it well. I was thinking I would need to screw the carpet to the tube steel framing with a self tapping screw and a large flat washer to keep the screw head from pulling thru.

I think that would be best in your case. Make sure you seal everything up good otherwise it will get water logged and rot your exterior if its wood.

Ah ha, screw it. I have said that about many projects.

Ussaully when it is a project I don't want to do!

with using the spray foam and carpet all you will have to do is to use a candle to warm it up....LOL

groooovy baby...

Thick rubber stall mats from Tractor Supply works well for the floor.

The carpet I used was indoor/outdoor from Home Depot. I glued it in pieces between & over the studs making sure the edges had a good bead of glue. This helps keep the insects from trying to make a home behind the carpet. Just in case, I keep a bug bomb in the blind in case my first trip out indicates I've had some invaders.

I put it on the floor too, but I like BScheu's idea of a Tractor Supply rubber mat. It would shed coffee spills better than carpet.

I used the blue dow styrofoam on the walls after sealing the stand with caulk, cut the styrofoam to fit and used a spray adhesive so it would stick to the plywood, cut carpet for the floor and wrapped my shooting rest with carpet and stapled it, turned out very nice, stays very warm with the help of my mr buddy heater

styrofoam wallboard is great to use

We used the 3/4 pink foam board insulation from lowes to cover the inside of an all metal blind. It went from being an icebox to a very comfortable blind with just running one side of a big buddy heater.

What did you use to make the foam board adhere to the metal?

another +1 on the foam boards. I have a Texas Hunter blind that was incredibly noisy every-time the kids accidentally hit the sides of the blind with their shoes. I bought some of the pink boards and used screws with large washers to attach the foam to the starboard material. Made the blind warmer and also dead silent.