[SML] [EXTERNAL] floors again

[Richard Niederberg]

Has anybody the actual calculations of the OVERALL cost, including labor
and material, as well as gained or lost Donations of having a Sacrificial
Floor, or not?

/s/ Richard
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On Mon, Oct 7, 2024 at 11:10 AM Dave Vick via Stagecraft <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

> True Story: When the Giant Pulsating Wallets were specifying how the
> Wharton Center should/would be built, back when dinosaurs ruled the
> earth, people who actually, y'know, *work* onstage begged and cried
> for a quasi-sacrificial, easily replaceable hardboard surface over
> plywood substrate for the Great Hall stage, because they/we knew in
> our bones, even in the early 1980s, that the stuff rolling off the
> trucks and into the big door wasn't going to get any lighter. The
> opposing camp had their hearts set on a hardwood stage, because "it
> looks better with the symphony."
>
> Oy...
>
> We wound up with a sort-of-compromise, a surface of edge-grain western
> yellow pine, stained to look like something un-pine-like - maybe
> mahogany or teak if you squint enough - but easy enough to repair when
> (not "if") it splintered - and repair we did, believe me - and no one
> got all hot & bothered when we lagged into it. No one was truly happy
> with it, which I suppose is about the best compromise you can hope
> for...
>
> Over the years, I've toured through a ton of places with hardwood
> stages; the best example was taking a show into a concert hall in
> Springfield MA with a solid cherry deck, I kid you not. Absolutely
> beautiful to look at, and one of the worst load-ins I've ever endured
> because at the time we were lagging eight torm towers and two BIG
> sound towers into the deck, and you can bloody well forget about a
> local presenter holding still while you drill thirty-two 5/16" holes
> into a solid cherry stage floor, thank you very much.
>
> Get the Plyron. The accountants and the Swells in the front office
> might hate you, but everyone tasked with actually mounting a show or
> maintaining the stage floor will love you.
>
> -DV
>
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