[cnickisch]

Hey I saw you posted about building a dance floor over your pool in 2011 or something so this is a long shot but I thought I would reach out to see if you would answer me I have a few questions. We are actually looking at doing this over our pool. Contact me on here or [email protected]

 

[Nealtw]

Hey I saw you posted about building a dance floor over your pool in 2011 or something so this is a long shot but I thought I would reach out to see if you would answer me I have a few questions. We are actually looking at doing this over our pool. Contact me on here or

Instead of posting your email, you could have sent him a Private message.

 

[jlhaslip]

Last time I was involved on building a dance hall floor, the Residential Code book and their Span tables got tossed out the window.

Ended up using one size bigger material and one half of the spacing for a residential floor load. Essentially, you need to build the dance floor to Commercial code, ie: a Public building.

The dynamics of the load is different when you are flinging a guy or gal around randomly.

 

[Nik333]

Instead of posting your email, you could have sent him a Private message.

I think someone told me that you can receive a PM, as a newcomer, but can't PM back until you have a few posts.

 

[cnickisch]

Instead of posting your email, you could have sent him a Private message.

It wouldn't let me send them a private message so I gave him my junk email. Thanks for the concern though!

 

[ZackRight]

yes, I WAS GOING TO SAY THE same, you can rent floors to go over almost any type of pool...

 

[cnickisch]

There doesn't seem to be any rental companies that do this in my area.

 

[Cantwell]

It worked great! And we actually ended up using the materials twice. My brother got married the year after and we built the floor on parallel docks over the lake.

I'll see if I can find some pictures and then give you more info on the construction.

It's been almost 10 years since the original post, yet it is still very relevant. I too am now looking to build a dance floor for a wedding in May of this year. Looking to see if you could provide any guidance on materials and/or layout. Thank you!

 

[Nikki_07112021]

It's been almost 10 years since the original post, yet it is still very relevant. I too am now looking to build a dance floor for a wedding in May of this year. Looking to see if you could provide any guidance on materials and/or layout. Thank you!

As the title suggests, I would like to build a dance floor over my in-ground pool for our wedding at the end of this month. Since I want this to be as safe as possible, I figured I'd better ask for some suggestions. Here is the situation:

The pool is 12' wide by 40' long. Ideally I would like the dance floor to cover 30' of the pool length, leaving the last 10' open for a fountain.

My initial idea was to use 2x10's on 16" centers that are 16' long. This means that each one would hang over the edge of the pool by 2 feet. I would also use 2x10's along the outside, with joist hangers for each beam going across the pool.

Or should I buy I-beams to span the pool and do 20 or so of them on 16" centers?

I would like to avoid supporting beams in the pool, since I don't think they would do much good. The pool has a sand bottom with a liner over it (If you take your heel and stomp really hard multiple times you can dent the bottom of the pool).

For safety's sake we'll assume that the dance floor could be full of people. We're expecting around 200 people at our wedding, so we'll assume very high and say 100 people on this dance floor at the same time.

Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!👍

Would LOVEEEEEE to see how this turned out as well, as well as materials and such. I am getting married at our home, in July. I live in Upstate New York and the closest rental company for this I could find was near NYC, and they quoted me $28,000 for rental to cover my pool...yes, TWENTY EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS!!! So any information would be helpful, and much appreciated.

 

[JMSB]

It worked great! And we actually ended up using the materials twice. My brother got married the year after and we built the floor on parallel docks over the lake.

I'll see if I can find some pictures and then give you more info on the construction.

Old post but great idea... do you have pictures and details? Thanks