This link to thedancesocks.com will not fix the problem, but can help with it. Perhaps flyers can be placed on the tables at halls with known problems.
http://www.thedancesocks.com Rich Sbardella Stafford Springs, CT On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 7:29 PM, James Saxe via Callers < [email protected]> wrote: > A couple people have mentioned wax as a possible remediation > for sticky floors. There are several potential problems with > wax: > > 1. As with any floor additive, you could get on the wrong > side of the hall owners if you use it without permission. > Note also that wax, unlike, say, corn meal, will not easily be > removed by sweeping at the end of the evening. > > 2. If you have a finished floor, and there are areas where > the finish has worn down to the bare wood, then wax can get > worked into the grain of the wood, making it difficult for > future coats of finish to adhere properly. See > > > http://www.waterlox.com/faqs/woodworking/apply-wood-finish-over-previously-finished-surfaces > > 3. When you sprinkle wax by hand, it's practically impossible > to apply it evenly to the entire floor. Having (relatively) > slippery spots next to (relatively) sticky spots can be > particularly hazardous. If dancers apply wax to their own > shoes, it can rub off onto the floor, creating local slippery > spots. (My experience with corn meal, btw, is that it tends > to get more evenly spread around floor by dancers feet than > dance wax does, though it's still hardly perfect in this > regard.) > > > I have occasionally danced on floors that were waxed and > machine buffed with good results, but note the following > contrasts with the situations described above: > > * The machine buffing spread the wax uniformly, avoiding > local slippery or sticky spots. > > * Either the floors in question were never intended to > be given given some other finish (e.g. urethane) or > the wax was applied over a coat of finish that was > never allowed to wear down to the wood. > > * The waxing was done with permission of the floor owner. > > Also, the people doing the waxing had researched brands of > floor wax that would give an appropriate level of slipperiness > for dancing without being too slippery. (Note, however, that > a puddle of spilled water on any waxed floor can be extremely > slippery.) > > --Jim > > > _______________________________________________ > Callers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sharedweight.net/listinfo.cgi/callers-sharedweight.net >
