[SML] Floors again

[Jon Ares]

All you Plyron folk out there - must be nice to have money, or
something. In my spaces (19 years and counting) - we have 1/4"
tempered hardboard over 3/4 or 4/4 plywood (on sleepers, neoprene,
etc).... This sacrificial top layer has been replaced twice in 19
years, and is hopefully going to be replaced a third time in the next
couple of years.  Overall, our stage floors still look great. They get
one coat of Breakthrough a year, and we do screw into them, as needed.

Eons ago, I was working on a soundstage with a Plyron floor, and
screws were snapping right and left.  Was not a fan. And didn't envy
the people in charge of that studio.

 - Jon

On Sat, Oct 5, 2024 at 9:23 AM Bill Conner via Stagecraft
<stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
>
> Well, fwiw, my stage floor top down is 3/4" plyron, 1 1/8" ply  2x4 sleepers 24" on center, and 3/4" neoprene. I switched from 1/2" plyron years ago when I started putting stage edge warning lights in, which are a 1/2" deep.  Needed 3/4" top to route 1/2" deep.
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 5, 2024, 11:29 AM Duncan Mahoney via Stagecraft <stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
>>
>> 3 of our theaters have sprung plywood floors with a top layer of MDF.  I prefer a top layer thicker than 1/4" if the thickness can be accommodated.  Performance has been good, we have only had to replace floors after floods.
>>
>> I would not want a plywood floor without a top layer of something that would not splinter.
>>
>> Duncan Mahoney
>> Technical Director
>> Professor of Theater Practice in Production
>> USC School of Dramatic Arts
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