Club Dancefloor - tiles going to be up to the job?

[Craig]

Hello everyone first time Iv posted but regularly use this when in need of some advice.

I mostly do domestic tiling. kitchens bathrooms, house floors. I have recently picked up a commercial job tiling a dance floor in a club. I'm slightly worried about how it will hold up with 200+ people dancing on it each night and constant vibrations. It there any extra precautions I should take to avoid cracking tiles/grout since it's a Dancefloor?

They want to use slate tiles 330x330 the area is about 20m x 18m. It's an old courtyard, tiling over paving slabs that have been down 20+ Years. (But will likely still have some movement) I'm using bal rapid set flexible and expansion joint @10m intervals and around edges.

Open to any suggestions/ advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance from your friend Craig.

 

[Concrete guy]

Without knowing what is under the paving slabs and how they are fitted you have no idea how stable the job will be.

 

[Flintstone]

Slate? I'm sure they couldn't have picked anything worse for the job

 

[Craig]

I was originally just tiling all the toilets in porcelain. My disclaimer alarm started going off when I found out about the dance floor.

 

[Andy Allen]

Is it uncalibrated?....they will be tripping all over the place when they do there ' hi ho silver lining ' dance at the end.

 

[Craig]

Is it uncalibrated?....they will be tripping all over the place when they do there ' hi ho silver lining ' dance at the end.

Haha! They are calabraited. So it should only be the bar staff to blame for excessive tripping

 

[Time's Ran Out]

If the slate are solid fixed you should be ok. However to tile direct to old paviours is the Unknown , sounds as though it's being done on the cheap. Only you by inspection can tell how solid the substrate is but your comments about 'some movement & disclaimer' gives the impression it's not an acceptable base.

 

[Craig]

If the slate are solid fixed you should be ok. However to tile direct to old paviours is the Unknown , sounds as though it's being done on the cheap. Only you by inspection can tell how solid the substrate is but your comments about 'some movement & disclaimer' gives the impression it's not an acceptable base.

The substraite seem solid and none of slabs move. Was more just thinking of slight moments in the long term due to heavy foot traffic and sound vibrations. Just don't trust them 100%. I would always rather explain the risks to the client upfront before commencing any work.

 

[Time's Ran Out]

As I said if your not 100% on the substrate you shouldn't do it!

 

[J Sid]

if it's poor quality slate, delamination may be a problem long term