All-Star Roll Out 'spring Floor'

Hodiestoe said:

apologies for taking this a little OT but we had a similar problem, our solution was for the kids to keep their trainers in the gym in lockers and for them NEVER to be worn outside. Even all the gym coaches have 'gym shoes' that they keep and wear inside the gym only.

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We've had a similar problem with a few places (and none of those were special like @Anna-grace's venue is!), but never has gym owner allowed shoes. Even when we've explained that all these shoes have ever seen is a gymnastics floor and the inside of a box, and shown them how white they are, it's just a flat out no. I guess I can see where they're coming from- it's very easy to say no shoes at all, and if you do allow cheer shoes, then maybe there might be one person who steps off the mat in shoes and happens to walk on some mud that someone wearing normal shoes (because they're not on the mat) walked in, then that mud/anything else which might be found on the floor, could get tracked back onto the carpet.

That was a ridiculously long sentence and I'm not sure it makes sense, but hopefully you get the idea! I wish they'd let us, but I understand how expensive these floors are so get where they're coming from!

I'm not seeing a solution yet that deploys in <5 mins for a full-size floor. Pulling whatever setup out of storage (the cheer team is not going to get premium storage space, especially not for this amount of equipment) would likely take longer than that. The closest setup would be the edge mounted expandables that would likely need a special storage area behind an edge wall, but that would still need 42 ft rolls of mats pulled from storage.

Ren ah I see where you're coming from. Our kids have a special squad room where they keep everything. By the time they've walked there all mud and other nasties are off the shoes and then it's a hop, skip and a jump to the floor. I guess we're just extremely lucky in our set up

Meant to add but ran out of time:
Just to keep the thread on topic, anything being suggested here would be perfect for us! We've looked at purchasing a proper sprung floor, but there's quite a few issues we have:
1)They're really expensive, especially when:
2) We'd need to put it out and away minimum twice a week = more wear on the floor and less practice time;
3) We don't really have enough space to store panels that long

Ideally it would assemble relatively quickly (with 30 people helping), not be prohibitively expensive, and be portable (or at the very least stack to a size that would fit in a large cupboard). If someone can work all that out, you've probably appealed to almost all European (and probably and number of American) cheer teams!

It's just a shame that portable + easy to put up = high price, because there would be so much demand

Ok so full encapsulated sections that contains a mat top, spring middle, and rubber bottom. It has wheels when folded up like a school lunch table. It would be 6 feet wide like floor currently and 3 sections per 42 length, so 7 feet per side. It could lock into itself side by side and roll up for easy storage.

King said:

What is the height of a spring floor with mat on it?


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6-1/2 to 7 inches, approx

King said:

Why can't there be feet underneath the springs? Covering an entire floor for just the footprint of the spring I don't think would be necessary.


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The springs are currently covered with a rubber or plastic cap, however that does still scuff a gym floor.

MissBee said:

The springs are currently covered with a rubber or plastic cap, however that does still scuff a gym floor.

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If it was enclosed in somewhat a way a mattress is with a rubber bottom footing i think that would take care of it.

The problem with a "quick set up" as being mentioned here is that to be safe you need a double layer of plywood, with the top layer being off-set from the bottom layer. This ensures that there aren't any weak points in the floor. If you just used one layer of plywood the panels would separate or someone would blow right through that weak point.

MissBee said:

The problem with a "quick set up" as being mentioned here is that to be safe you need a double layer of plywood, with the top layer being off-set from the bottom layer. This ensures that there aren't any weak points in the floor. If you just used one layer of plywood the panels would separate or someone would blow right through that weak point.

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unless there areas that it locked at linking them

24 sections, 14in x 6ft footprint when folded minimum, the school would have to devote at least 168 sq ft to storage of these alone that is gym accessible. With 7.5 ft doorways in between. Sounds plausible for some schools, anyone else want to weigh in?

King said:

If it was enclosed in somewhat a way a mattress is with a rubber bottom footing i think that would take care of it.

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It doesn't. Ive seen EPs put down a vinyl floor protector under the spring panels to prevent it.

King said:

unless there areas that it locked at linking them

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Even with straps holding them tight, the power from a tumbler can blow right through them.

MissBee said:

It doesn't. Ive seen EPs put down a vinyl floor protector under the spring panels to prevent it.

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Are you saying no matter what is underneath there will be damage? That is the part I am missing. Like why cnt there be enough put under the foot to prevent damange? What is causing the damage?

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Even with straps holding them tight, the power from a tumbler can blow right through them.

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Not straps, interlocking wood.