[SML] Mopping Marley

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We used to have an annual visit from a dance school. The stage floor
was always covered in hardboard, rough side up and painted with
emulsion paint as needed, usually black. In the wings, there were
trays of rosin, so that the dancers took their own 'stiction' with
them. The joints were 'paper stripped' stuck down with emulsion glaze.
Never any trouble.

On 15 December 2014 at 15:10, Stuart Baulch via Stagecraft
<stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
> 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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