[SML] Dance floor for summer camp

[Dale Farmer]

On 6/16/2015 9:52 PM, christopher pike via Stagecraft wrote:
>> flooring was purchased. Counselors installed it directly over the carpet.
>> This is the stuff that snaps together for your house and looks like a
>> hardwood floor.
>
> I would have thought that this snap-together stuff requires a solid
> flat subfloor, as opposed to carpet.  It seems to me that with a
> carpet subfloor you will have bending forces at the joints between
> panels, and these forces will eventually ruin the snapping mechanism.
> ??
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The snap together flooring is sometimes installed over a thin layer of 
foam to provide some spring to the floor, but thin meaning less than a 
quarter of an inch, usually closer to an eighth.   Depending on the 
thickness and squishyness of the carpeting, and the weight of the 
dancers over the season, this probably will work okay for the summer. 
The wood flooring will probably need to be scrapped in the fall.

    --Dale