[SML] Mopping Marley

[Stuart Baulch]

For daily cleanings we mop with hot water and vinegar - the vinegar is to
break up the sweaty dance bum marks.
For ballet it's about "glug, glug, glug" of vinegar, for contemporary it's
four or five depending on how much floor work they are doing

When there is actual problem (foreign substance, environmental changes
cause humidity) or psycholoigcal issue (ballet evaluaitons) we add some
slip-no-more/no-skidding

Aside from the occasional scrubbing as mentioned above by Dick, that's all
we use on our floor.

Stuart B

On 14 December 2014 at 18:24, Richard John Archer via Stagecraft <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
>
> No this is not a "thing" unless you had ammonia in the water, which could
> leave a slippery residue.    Almost all "marley"  (small "m") dance floors
> (I'll assume we are talking portable) are PVC.  Marley  (capital
> "M")stopped making dance floors maybe 25 or 30 years ago because of an
> inferior product.   All manufacturers will say to clean with warm (not hot)
> water or a mild neutral Ph cleanser ;  no ammonia---and they will be glad
> to sell you one.   You can clean your floor with a vacuum type floor
> scrubber, oscillating would be nice but circular with a mild (usually
> white) pad will do fine.  Someone would be glad to sell you one of these
> too.
>
> http://www.rosco.com/floors/flooring_facts.cfm
>
> http://www.harlequinfloors.com/us/en/products/cleaning-a-maintenance.html
>
> DickA
> TD, Cornell U  (old enough to have used real "battleship" linoleum,
> original Marley,  and PVC floors by Rosco, Harlequin, and  Gerriets)
>
> On Dec 14, 2014, at 5:31 PM, Randy Storms via Stagecraft wrote:
>
> > *sigh* Nutcracker season again..  One of the (70-odd) dancers took a
> spill last night, and someone from the production blamed it on the Marley
> being too *dry*.  Is this a thing?  If so, it's counter-intuitive.  Anyway,
> they asked us to delay mopping the dance floor until one hour prior to
> performance, so that it would still be "not damp, but not dry, either."
> I've heard of mopping with a coke solution to increase traction (we will
> not be doing this) but I've always believed the pre-show mopping of the
> Marley was to get it clean, not to deliberately moisten it for better
> traction.
> >
> > Just sayin', the other 69 dancers did not seem to have any problems...
> >
> > What sayeth the list?
> >
> > Randy Storms
> > Mount Baker Theatre
> > Bellingham, WA
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