[SML] [EXTERNAL] floors again

[Bill Conner]

It would still be painted black.

On Mon, Oct 7, 2024, 2:35 PM Richard Niederberg via Stagecraft <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

> 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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