How To Make A Dance Floor At Home

While commercial dance floors are generally installed by professionals you can easily build a dance floor for home use.

How to make a dance floor at home.

Depending on your dance style you may want to top your wood floor with a marley covering which you can purchase from dance flooring websites. We only built two frames. A proper dance floor system used to be an expensive and complicated project. For a larger group you will probably will want to build six frames.

To make a somewhat long 5 month long story short i had a dance floor and then i didn t have a dance floor i had a dance floor and then i didn t. However i wanted to make sure my daughter got a really good tap sound so we covered the plywood with laminate. Keep in mind that a sprung dance floor probably won t match up with the rest of the floor levels in your home. Plywood is a great option for many home dance floors but should be sealed to improve its durability.

Have the sheets cut smaller if you require a smaller dance floor. She chose the trafficmaster floor in glenwood oak. For use in a carpeted room build a dance floor that can fold up for easy movement and storage. In fact i thought i had a dance floor until the sunday before the wedding carnival.

Purchase sheets of 3 4 inch thick medium density fiberboard commonly called mdf from a home improvement store. Three sheets will create an 8 by 12 foot dance floor. It fell through five days before the event. Instructions for making your own home size tap dancing floor.

To create a sprung floor you need to make a lattice that fits between your concrete and your plywood subfloor layers. Enhancements can include attaching material to the top of the board for durability or a better tapping surface and attaching cushioning material to the bottom of the board to make tap dancing easier on your bones and joints. I took my daughter to home depot with me so she could choose the shade of the laminate. See the picture above.

We are talking about a real professional floating wood sub floor and marley floor surface with a taping or adhesive system for as little as 3 50 4 00 per square foot. Do it yourself does involve time and effort for which youread more. The plywood will be sufficient for a dance floor. This video describes how to make a small dance floor.