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Mike Blakesley
Film God

Posts: 12767
From: Forsyth, Montana
Registered: Jun 99

posted 10-27-2004 01:34 PM

Our building is almost 75 years old, and the auditorium floor as well as the balcony are all constructed of wood. We have zero problems with creaks, even after all this time. I don't really know why except that good old construction from 1930 must be more solid than today's woodwork.

However, I totally agree that if you build a stadium out of wood, you're going to be driven crazy by people pounding up and down the stairs. The stairway to our balcony runs up behind the boxoffice and you wouldn't believe the noise people make going up and down.

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William Hooper
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1879
From: Mobile, AL USA
Registered: Jun 99

posted 10-28-2004 01:13 AM

quote: Mike Blakesley
Our building is almost 75 years old, and the auditorium floor as well as the balcony are all constructed of wood. We have zero problems with creaks, even after all this time. I don't really know why except that good old construction from 1930 must be more solid than today's woodwork.

Aliphatic resin glue (a.k.a. wood glue) & dense, tight, inflexible, close-grained, slow growth old wood! With lots of support members made of the same stuff. Wood these days is from fast-growing varieties: softer, very-wide grained, etc.

Don't use wood glue when re-leathering your theatre organ, or there'll be a mob of organbuilders at your door with pitchforks ready to throw you into a steaming pot of hide glue. Hide glue is what you use for organ re-leathering, also for assembly & repairs on musical instruments (guitars, violins, etc.)

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Edward Jurich
Master Film Handler

Posts: 305
From: Las Vegas USA
Registered: Jul 2003

posted 10-28-2004 10:20 AM

quote: William Hooper
Hide glue is what you use

If the glue is hidden, how do you find it in the first place? [Roll Eyes]

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Jennifer Fieber
Film Handler

Posts: 26
From: Brooklyn, NY
Registered: Sep 2003

posted 10-28-2004 03:28 PM

Thanks everyone for your helpful suggestions. I think I'm leaning against the stadium route now.Gotta figure out that sightline thing though...

quote: Edward Jurich
I believe there is a lightweight concrete that you can use on top of wood floors. I know that this type of concrete was used to pour over the studio floors of a radio station studio. But I have no idea what it's called.
As a note however, people who come to the theater here (1949 vintage art deco) have commented that they "HATE" the stadium seating at AMC and love our sloped floor. More legroom between seats and no stairs to trip over.
If you have room for risers then you have room to slope.

Was the sloping floor done retroactively? Do people have climb up something in order to adjust for the highest to lowest rage of the slope?

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Edward Jurich
Master Film Handler

Posts: 305
From: Las Vegas USA
Registered: Jul 2003

posted 10-29-2004 09:17 AM

quote: Jennifer Fieber
Was the sloping floor done retroactively? Do people have climb up something in order to adjust for the highest to lowest rage of the slope?

The landscape is such that the back of the property is lower than the front so it's flat from the lobby to the auditorium entrance. The auditorium floor then slopes down.

I recently did some work for a theater that bought an old shoe store next door and added 3 more screen. They had to elevate the floor and use stairs along with a ramp.

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