How To Make A Dance Floor At Home

This video describes how to make a small dance floor.

How to make a dance floor at home. A proper dance floor system used to be an expensive and complicated project. It fell through five days before the event. While commercial dance floors are generally installed by professionals you can easily build a dance floor for home use. Do it yourself does involve time and effort for which youread more.

Purchase sheets of 3 4 inch thick medium density fiberboard commonly called mdf from a home improvement store. 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. Plywood is a great option for many home dance floors but should be sealed to improve its durability. 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.

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. For use in a carpeted room build a dance floor that can fold up for easy movement and storage. We only built two frames. I took my daughter to home depot with me so she could choose the shade of the laminate.

The plywood will be sufficient for a dance floor. Step 3 hang mirrors along one wall. However i wanted to make sure my daughter got a really good tap sound so we covered the plywood with laminate. Three sheets will create an 8 by 12 foot dance floor.

To create a sprung floor you need to make a lattice that fits between your concrete and your plywood subfloor layers. Instructions for making your own home size tap dancing floor. See the picture above. For a larger group you will probably will want to build six frames.

The most basic home practice floor is simply a piece of plywood. Whether or not to elevate the floor is up to personal dancing preference. She chose the trafficmaster floor in glenwood oak. 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.