How To Make A Portable Tap Dance Floor

Love that you took the initiative to make your own dance floor.

How to make a portable tap dance floor.

Purchase sheets of 3 4 inch thick medium density fiberboard commonly called mdf from a home. Determine the size of your dance floor. I only paid 15 for my floor. Individual tap dance floor and exercise platform made from reused flooring.

Complete written instructions are below in the comment section there are a few of these kind of vide. 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. How to build your own lightweight tap dance floor. Now another decade a husband and two kids later i am dancing again.

For use in a carpeted room build a dance floor that can fold up for easy movement and storage. The actual assembly only took a few hours. My son is a budding gregory hines or savion glover and we want to foster his artistic pursuits. Since the laminate flooring fits together perfectly this is also a good floor for other types of dance.

Single tap dancers who are simply looking for a temporary place to practice steps at home may only need three square feet while people who are planning a dance party will need an area as large as their space will accommodate. Building a dance floor for a carpeted room. It s musical artistic great exercise and awesome. This is my first ever and very own tutorial on how to make your own tap dance floor.

For a more permanent cushioned floor you ll need to use multiple layers of flooring included some type of impact absorbing subflooring. Method 1 of 2. There aren t any splinters or grooves in the floor that will cause injury. Perhaps you have a passion for tap dancing but like most people don t live in a dance hall or have access to the proper floor.

Fortunately instead of having to go out of your way to find a place to tap dance you can make your own portable tap floor. I found a studio in my town that offers classes for adults and am so happy to be tapping again. However we also wanted to have nice scratch free wood floors in our ho. With a little ingenuity you can transform basic materials from a hardware store into a portable dance floor in less than an afternoon s time.

Fortunately anyone with boogie fever can build his own dance floor on a minimal budget and in limited space. Instructions for making your own home size tap dancing floor. Make precise measurements of the space you have determined. I came up with.

I spent a little under 100 for an 8 x4 floor.