Ideas for Fencing Floor Material?

[BruceT]

I'm looking for ideas for what is a good, inexpensive flooring material that works well for fencing. The club I belong to here in Austin, Texas may be moving to a new building soon that has a concrete floor - about 10,000 square feet. We plan to have 11 pistes and are considering different floors and their prices. If possible we have quite a bit of enthusiastic, unskilled volunteer labor that could help the labor cost of installing a new floor. Under consideration is 4'x8' glued down birch plywood, Marly floor, linoleum, etc. What flooring has worked for your club and what kind of costs did you incur? Cheers, BruceT @ www.AustinFencersClub.com

[KD5MDK]

Talk to Swordmaster, he installed a custom floor (I think plywood on top of 2x4 on top of rubber) in his club's building. It's really quite nice. Concrete is definitely unacceptable, of course.

[CvilleFencer]

When RFC went to a new space, we built a floating floor over the concrete one. It is really very, very nice. It was around 3000 for all the materials to do about 4000 square feet, IIRC. I am sure someone else from the club probably remembers the numbers better than I do and will post them here if I am to far off.

[little_old_me]

I really like the floor surface in the building where the Temple Open was held this year. Maybe Brad knows something about it. Kind of a rubbery surface but didn't give too much.

[parryDoh]

These two clubs have some of the best flooring i my option of the many clubs i visited. And is also inexpensive. Raised plywood floors. I liked it so much I built a small version at home for practice. Seems good on my knees.

http://www.atlantafencersclub.com/ and http://www.thepointfencingclub.com

[oiuyt]

http://www.usfca.org/usfca/swordmaster/winter2001.pdf (Page 4).

Re: the Temple Open this year. It was held in the Temple Student Pavilion. General purpose Campus Recreation building, normally configured as 4 basketball courts (also used for volleyball, badminton, table tennis, golf, floor hockey, indoor soccer, tennis, etc. at times). Not sure what the flooring substance is. Some form of rubberized sport flooring.

-B