what do you paint your stage with?

[zackw250]

Hey, we are in a new facility and our concrete stage floor has a glossy coat on it. Light reflects off it like a mirror. What do you use on your stages for the floor?

I heard the name "flat black". What is the paint actually called? Do you use it?

Thanks.. ZW

[lights11964]

Flat Black is the name of the paint. and it is exactly what it states. "Flat" non glosssy paint. Thats what ours is painted. except on the apron.

[ccfan213]

ha? painting the stage? my school would kill me. our stage is hardwoood with a glossy finish on it. for the show we are doing now we put down a false deck on top of it and painted that flat black.

[techieman33]

If it's on concrete see if you can get flat black with the paint that you use to paint a garage floor, it would stand up really well. But I don't know if you can get it like that.
otherwise just a flat black, oil based.

Here at my college, the floor it stained, it's really flat though. They like the stain, because you don't have to paint it. The stain won't wear like paint which is nice. You just have to stain it every 3 or 4 years, instead of painting it every year.

[mbenonis]

When we paint our stage, we use Rosco theatrical paint. I'm not sure where we ordered it from, but it works very very well.

[propmonkey]

we just use cheap flat black form walmart

[falcon]

we just use flat black paint that we get from Benjamin Moore for a really, really , really, good deal

(I might have made an understatement there)

[soundman]

cheap black paint + water

[propmonkey]

we also sometimes use massitone.

[avkid]

If we tied to paint the stage at school we would die from the splinters in our hands! The school bought a professional Pine(replace yearly) stage in 1992 and has not replaced it yet!