Dave Hoff was at the Marshall Home Show on Saturday with a deer stand he built from recycled SIPs (structural insulated panels). Hoff said his new charitable venture, EZ-Build, would repurpose leftover SIPs into new structures.

MARSHALL — It started out as a recycling question, Dave Hoff said. While driving in Cottonwood, he would see waste pieces of SIPs – structural insulated panels – at a local business.

“I kept thinking, ‘What can I do with these?'” Hoff said.

Now, Hoff is repurposing those pieces of panel to build structures like deer hunting stands or ice fishing houses.

“We don’t know of anyone else that’s doing it,” he said.

Hoff’s new venture, EZ-Build, was one of the vendors at the 2025 Marshall Home show.

Over the weekend, hundreds of people came out to the Red Baron Arena and Expo to check out ideas for home and outdoor projects. There were more than 70 vendors listed at the 2025 Marshall Home Show, covering everything from home exteriors to custom cabinetry, furniture, and vehicles like golf carts and boats.

Home show organizers said Saturday’s rainy weather and the wide variety of vendors seemed to be good for attendance. In the first four hours of the show, about 1,100 people had come in the door.

Hoff was at the show with a structure made of repurposed SIPs. SIPs are made from a layer of foam in between two layers of composite board, Hoff said. The display structure was elevated to show the panels could be made into a deer stand, but it also had a hole in the floor, like a fish house.

EZ-Build got started in the spring of 2024, Hoff said. “What we do is basically the idea of taking waste and repurposing it,” he said.

Hoff said the SIPs “come to us in random sizes and shapes.” But they could be used as materials for a variety of projects. He said EZ-Build didn’t have a set model for what it builds. Brochures Hoff prepared said EZ-Build could sell supplies for do-it-yourself projects with SIPs, work together with customers, or custom-build projects.

Besides reusing waste building materials, Hoff said he also plans to to good in other ways with EZ-Build. Part of the proceeds from the venture will go to charity.

“A good part of the proceeds go to the expenses of building,” Hoff said. He estimated about 25% would go to charity.