Project description
We run a small dance school and are opening a second hall in a rented ground-floor space. The room is 96 square metres, 12 by 8 metres, ceiling height 3.4 metres. Two window openings sit on the long outer wall; the opposite wall is load-bearing brick and that is where the mirrors and the barre go. At the moment there is a levelled screed, old plaster and nothing else. We need the whole room turned into a working hall in one contract, because bringing in three separate crews one after another is exactly how a season gets lost.
The mirror wall runs the full twelve metres, from 200 mm above the floor up to 2.4 metres. We want low-distortion glass with safety film bonded to the back, so a cracked panel holds together instead of dropping shards onto a barefoot class. Panels must come from one batch so the tint matches along the wall, and the reflection must stay flat: a dancer correcting a line cannot work with a wave in the image. Joints should be as few and as tight as the panel size allows, and fixing must be mechanical, not adhesive alone. Please tell us in your bid how you plan to hold the glass and how you will handle the socket and switch boxes we have on that wall.
The barre is the second piece. We want it in two rows, roughly 1.05 and 0.75 metres from the finished floor, running about nine metres. Wooden rail, 45 to 50 mm in diameter, comfortable under the hand, no varnish that turns sticky. Brackets go into the load-bearing wall with proper anchors and a gap that leaves room for the hand behind the rail. The barre has to take a grown adult leaning their full weight on it without a millimetre of movement.
The floor is the part we care about most. Under the top surface we need a sprung base with elastic pads or a batten system that gives real shock absorption, so landings do not go straight into knees and shins. The finished surface has to be even, non-slip when dry and fixed at the perimeter so nothing lifts at the edges. Finally, the hall has no mechanical ventilation and the mirrors will fog with twenty people breathing in it, so we expect a proposal for extraction and air supply as part of the job.
What we expect from you:
— a measured survey of the room before any quote;
— a written spec for mirrors, barre and floor build-up, with the safety film named;
— protection of the screed and windows while you work;
— roughly twelve working days, evenings and weekends allowed, the building is residential above;
— photos of the hidden layers before the floor is closed up.
The mirror wall runs the full twelve metres, from 200 mm above the floor up to 2.4 metres. We want low-distortion glass with safety film bonded to the back, so a cracked panel holds together instead of dropping shards onto a barefoot class. Panels must come from one batch so the tint matches along the wall, and the reflection must stay flat: a dancer correcting a line cannot work with a wave in the image. Joints should be as few and as tight as the panel size allows, and fixing must be mechanical, not adhesive alone. Please tell us in your bid how you plan to hold the glass and how you will handle the socket and switch boxes we have on that wall.
The barre is the second piece. We want it in two rows, roughly 1.05 and 0.75 metres from the finished floor, running about nine metres. Wooden rail, 45 to 50 mm in diameter, comfortable under the hand, no varnish that turns sticky. Brackets go into the load-bearing wall with proper anchors and a gap that leaves room for the hand behind the rail. The barre has to take a grown adult leaning their full weight on it without a millimetre of movement.
The floor is the part we care about most. Under the top surface we need a sprung base with elastic pads or a batten system that gives real shock absorption, so landings do not go straight into knees and shins. The finished surface has to be even, non-slip when dry and fixed at the perimeter so nothing lifts at the edges. Finally, the hall has no mechanical ventilation and the mirrors will fog with twenty people breathing in it, so we expect a proposal for extraction and air supply as part of the job.
What we expect from you:
— a measured survey of the room before any quote;
— a written spec for mirrors, barre and floor build-up, with the safety film named;
— protection of the screed and windows while you work;
— roughly twelve working days, evenings and weekends allowed, the building is residential above;
— photos of the hidden layers before the floor is closed up.
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