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Floors intended for dancing should have a degree of resilience and for this reason ballroom floors and dance areas in restaurants are often fully sprung. Where dancing is only an occasional useage (as, for example, in assembly halls or gymnasiums), the floor may be semi-sprung on resilient pads of fibre, rubber or nylon, a type of construction which also gives the floor useful sound insulation characteristics.
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© 1972 Gordon Hale
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Hale, G. (1972). Special floors. In: Floors. Essence Books on Building. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01502-3_9
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