Need to design a Dance Floor

[BHD]

I think I would look into the Basketball courts, they take them up and put them down all the time in multi use arena,

in school on school had a field house they would put the floor in over a dirt area, and I know many of the pros use hockey rings for there courts with floors over the ice,

I would think on the dirt or lawn, one would have to lay out some type of "foundation" 2x something, with blocks and so on until it was level and then put the floor sextons over the top of that,

IF this was going to be used a lot, one maybe could put some concrete "pods" like stepping stones that could be set one spacer up on and then build the floor over that,

Portable dance floor

Multi-panel activity floor with fixed hinge connections - Hamar, Douglas J.

I tried to find some more info on BB floors, besides some video and static pictures, I found little of the way there attached to gether,
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Timelapse: 2010 NCAA Sweet Sixteen Court Changeover in Salt Lake City - YouTube
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IT appears they hing on the one corner and then my guess Tongue and groove in or pins, and then one fastener of some type to lock the section into place, and that is repeated time and time again, the middle on the last one looks like it must fasten end to end, the video before it starts out on one edge and builds across, the floor,

but some ideas,
It looks like some use a double floor system and some only use a single floor system, I would think the trick is to make it simple but locking together solid,

I think I would consider some type of patio area, that would work and not need to be up uo and down,

 

[Reg]

I think you will find that MOST plywood has voids, "void free" becomes quite expensive.
Plywood is also typically soft, so will be "drilled into" by dancers doing their spins.
{I know, I know, they should be on the balls of their feet, but if there is any chance of them being "alcohol fueled" they will be on their heels}

Once torn up - trip hazard.

I wouldn't attempt a dance floor if I couldn't do it in hardwood.

 

[Canada_CT230]

Well, when we rented a dance floor for our outdoor wedding the rental people had a snap together laminate tile (home reno product) and it was sufficient. We only do 1 or 2 weddings a year but at $240 per rental it doesn't take much to recoup the costs. I can't get into hardwood and complicated foundations, etc, etc.

What I am thinking will be 100 times better than what we had and with the limited use it will last a long time. I am not worried about rough spots, those can be repaired or replaced. I doubt that that twice a year will spawn a ton of maintenance issues.

Stained and sealed plywood will be better looking than what we had and what we had was more than acceptable. People have different expectations with an outdoor wedding,

I just want to make some kind of joiner.

I may just go with the metal flat bar on the under side.

 

[edlegault]

If it were my outdoor property/business I would probably pour a concrete patio slab and then install wood or vinyl laminate on top of it as needed. Snap together, snap apart. Part of the concrete slab could be for band or dj to set up on. They would really appreciate not being in the grass or mud. My reasoning is that lawns are very difficult to keep flat and usually have sprinklers sticking up out of them. Good luck. Let us know how it turns out.

 

[Canada_CT230]

If it were my outdoor property/business I would probably pour a concrete patio slab and then install wood or vinyl laminate on top of it as needed. Snap together, snap apart. Part of the concrete slab could be for band or dj to set up on. They would really appreciate not being in the grass or mud. My reasoning is that lawns are very difficult to keep flat and usually have sprinklers sticking up out of them. Good luck. Let us know how it turns out.

1) Are you gonna give me the $50,000 to pour concrete there? Too expensive. Our wedding we had a 30 x 75 ft tent. That is a pretty big piece of concrete.

2) We can get different sized weddings therefore different sized tents. You can't drive a stake thru concrete if you get a smaller tent.

3) Different weddings, different configurations...may not be where they want the DJ/dance floor. We also have several areas for tents depending on the size of wedding.

4) No mud there. Just thick grass. Not a problem...it is level.

5) No sprinklers in the lawn.

I can't concrete my lawn...defeats having a lawn.

 

[2manyrocks]

For purposes of getting a level floor and holding it down, looks like you'd want to put down 2x4x16s and screw into them.

The problem with plywood is ground moisture will make it bow unless you have it screwed to some kind of stiffener.

 

[Baby Grand]

Best dance floor I ever used:
Friends rented a house in the early 80's and always had great parties. To protect the living room floor & carpet they always put down a surface made of cubicle wall partitions (Herman Miller, I think) with the fabric removed. One of the guys worked for a moving company and took some home when an office space customer pitched them. Very nice bounciness.

 

[BHD]

I need to make a dance floor for renting out at our bed & breakfast for when people book us for weddings.

I want to make a 16x16 dance floor .
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1) Are you gonna give me the $50,000 to pour concrete there? Too expensive. Our wedding we had a 30 x 75 ft tent. That is a pretty big piece of concrete.

2) We can get different sized weddings therefore different sized tents. You can't drive a stake thru concrete if you get a smaller tent.

3) Different weddings, different configurations...may not be where they want the DJ/dance floor. We also have several areas for tents depending on the size of wedding.

I can't concrete my lawn...defeats having a lawn

what are you wanting a 16 by 16 foot floor or a 30 x 75 foot floor, I think one can put a 30X75 foot tent over a 16 x16 foot concrete slab,

If I did my figures correctly 16 x16 = 256 x .33 (4") =84.48 square cubic feet, / by 27 (one cubic yard), = 3.12 yards (6" = 4.74)
around here concrete is about $100 a yard or was last year, so a 16 x16 foot slab DIY would be about $400 bill if hired maybe $600, for going price I have dealt with around here,

now if one just does not want Concrete, that is fine, but I guess I do not see how a small 16 x16 slab if planed out could be that objectionable and could be used for other things than a dance floor, (cook outs) etc,

but you went from a 16 x16 foot floor to a 30 x 75 floor, and if you figured out what a 30 by 75 foot floor ply wood take apart floor would cost you will need a loan as well,

 

[Canada_CT230]

The dance floor is 16x16 but the tent may be 10x10, 20x20, 20x40, 40x40, 40x60, 40x90, 30x40, 30x60, 30x70, 30x90, 60x60. The tent could also be octagonal, octagonal with wings.

One bridezilla may want the dance floor centered, the next might want it at the end of the tent, another may want it in the middle but off to one side, another may want it outside of the tent, another may not want one at all.

Concrete is OUT of the question cause you can't move it and defeats the purpose of a removable dance floor. I can't pickup the concrete slab and move it.

I have figured a solution...will post pics when finished.

 

[BHD]

hope it works out for you, and the floor works to your desired expectations,