I wouldn't suggest using any Vinyl product
Gam floor,
Marley,
etc. for this type of abuse. Battleship linoleum yes but vinyl ? No. I hat to say it but if your floor is in really that rough of a state and you're bringing in
road shows, you need to replace the floor. Any type of vinyl you
lay is going to crawl under the weight of
road cases, and dimple or puncture under the weight or platforming / leggind
etc. The work involved to
lay a vinyl type floor in tangent with the cost of the material itself would be < I believe> prohibitive. For instance "
Gam floor" is a "peel and stick" solution, to get it to adhear properly to the floor would require
1. sanding floor to remove high points and shap splinters
2. filling all hole with a suitable ccompound that will not expand or crack on the weight of scenery /
road cases.
3. applying an adhesive to the entire
stage surface evenly.
4. laying out the vinyl. matching seams and making sure you leave enough relief around the perimeter of each peice.
5. rolloing out the entire floor with a drum
roller to assure good adhesion to the entire floor surface and optimal "spread" of material.
Then when all is said and done in about a year when it's all torn up from screw heads, droped tools, creases where castors have stuck and rolled over it, you're going to want to replace it and now you have to peel it up and get a reallt gnarly floor buffer to remove all the Mastic and start the whole process over again. At the least go for a
Masonite sloution. However you have to remember that if you do
lay down
Masonite over a badly pitted floor you will have to fill any large pits before you
lay the
masonite. If you don't the first time you
roll across it with a
road case..
snap ! there's a crack in the floor and a broken or warped castor.
Don't want want to seem pessamistic but this is definately one of those time when you have to spend money to make money. Honestly 1/4 "
MDF isn't all that expensive and it holds up real well under all sorts of conditions.
Hope all that rampling helps !