[SML] [EXTERNAL] floors again

[Richard Niederberg]

I have found that a few dozen coats of the SAME Black outdoor paint on
good-one-side 3/4” plywood will, over time, make an excellent surface to
work with. 3/4” Birch top laminate plywood also works well for looks, as
long as you frequently stain it. Again, it works best after many periodic
coats over time.

/s/ Richard
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On Mon, Oct 7, 2024 at 3:05 PM Bill Conner <billconnerastc at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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