productionmanagerleah
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So we have a deck that gets painted pretty regularly (once a month at least). We use Rosco Tough Prime black paint. We have a recurring problem every so often where the deck is extra 'stiff' for our dancers after we have painted. This typically happens when the weather starts getting warmer. Usually we paint the deck around 10:30pm on a Saturday night. We are then dark for 2 days. Once we come back, we get a Dancer to test out the floor and make sure it's not too stiff to dance on. When it is stiff, we generally mop it several times and that seems to loosen it up. Of course, after one show and it's been danced on for 3 hours, it's no longer stiff. We are continually looking to find ways to eliminate the stiffness altogether. We have tried using a little bit of 'slip no more' in our mop water or a bit of fog juice in our mop water. Using Coke is out of the question (never works for us). If anyone has any other suggestions, I'd love to hear them.