Risueno Road in Cathedral City is known for its Halloween festivities.

For the past decade, Chris Rodriguez has transformed his three-car garage into a haunted house. Five houses down, Bill Noble has set up an “outdoor haunt.”

But when the trick-or-treaters go home and the sun rises, what took weeks of creative planning and days of labor to build must come down.

Rodriguez was in no hurry Sunday to break down the 80 pieces of lumber, sheets of black plastic, Plexiglass and a dozen props he had installed. He was watching football, instead.

Rodriguez said he will begin to break down the haunted house this weekend, a task that will take about seven days.

“It takes about 10 people to help break it down,” the 38-year-old United Parcel Service driver said.

Each piece of lumber that makes the haunted house's labyrinth is marked with codes that correspond to its position. They are stored in a backyard shed commingled with a prop of Michael Myers, a headless corpse and other ghouls.

The now-quiet but still-eerie haunted house served as a funhouse Sunday morning for Rodriguez's two teenage daughters and their friends, he said. He estimated that hundreds walked through it Saturday night.

“I was scaring until about 11:15 last night and I started at dusk,” he said.

Over the years Rodriguez has spent an estimated $3,000 on the materials for the haunted house, he said.

“Every year it gets bigger and I am like ‘I don't know if I am going to do this again,'” Rodriguez said. “But I do it because my girls love it.”

Down the street, Noble, 42, and his family were hard at work, sweeping the garage and putting coffins and grotesque fiends back in the attic near the Christmas decorations.

Noble estimated that 1,000 people visited his driveway to watch a ghastly scene of a corpse on a chopping block in his garage, while at times being scared by actors portraying zombies and mutants.

“I just love doing this,” said Noble, who still had traces of fake blood on his neck Sunday from portraying a crazed Uncle Fester-like character.

Setting up the scene and breaking it down has become a family affair.

“My hands are still black from painting the coffins,” said Hannah Noble, 13, as she took a break from sweeping.

Bill Noble said the scene took a week to build. The swimming pool manufacturer said he has spent about $2,500 in the four years he has been putting on the event.

He set a hectic pace Saturday morning, getting the scene ready for nighttime visitors. It ended Sunday night with the last of props returned to the attic.

“Now we can focus on getting things back to normal,” he said.