PROCESS
STEP 1: DESIGN AND PLANNING
All FiberSprung floor designs are based in Computer Aided Design (CAD). These designs are manufactured from the CAD files to quality tolerances defined by drawings. This ensures consistency for all FiberSprung parts within our floors. Below is a 3D rendering of the FiberSprung Go floor.
To make a formal quotation, the floor is roughly laid out in CAD, from architectural drawings, manual measurements, or digital scans. When an order is made and the deposit is paid, a detailed layout and Bill of Materials is made for our customer's order.
Pre-planned layouts ensure lean efficiency, less waste, and cost savings in time and materials for FiberSprung and our customers. These drawings inform for purchasing the optimal quantities of materials, and also gives a plan to the FiberSprung installation team on site how to build the floor.
STEP 2: PRE-ASSEMBLY AND DELIVERY
After a customer has ordered, the ~6 week lead time begins for FiberSprung to prepare and deliver the floor. This includes meticulous floor design and planning; and building and pre-assembling fiberglass components with FiberSprung fittings.
All FiberSprung floor quotations include installation so travel arrangements are made for FiberSprung's expert installers to be on site at your location. Freight arrangements are made to transport the floor safely and on time.
STEP 3: THE FIBERGLASS SUBFLOOR
The first step to building a FiberSprung floor is the attaching the fiberglass subfloor. This subfloor is the strongest and longest lasting in the industry, for years of use. The fiberglass has been purpose-designed to match the bend characteristics of the classic wooden sprung floor, with much more consistency.
At FiberSprung, we believe in sustainability. The materials within the fiberglass subfloors are specifically chosen to have an over 30 year use life, and the floor is designed to be easily repaired. Sadly, water damage happens in studios sometimes, and it's no one's fault. Our sub-floors are designed to withstand even a flood.
FiberSprung stands by our fiberglass subfloors with a 20 year warranty, and offers services to help our customers relocate or even resell their floors if needed.
Bend Testing:
To back up our math, we bend tested the wood of a wooden sprung floor versus our Pro floor fiberglass, which was designed to exactly mimic its bend characteristics. We tested 10 support beams, from two different suppliers, made of 1x4 pine (a wood which is typically used in these floors). We found a 3ft span to bend between 3mm to 7mm, depending on the grains of the wood. Sometimes, we even found one side of the wood to bend more than the other. Our fiberglass bent 3mm every single time. (with samples from two different suppliers)
STEP 4: THE SUPPORT SURFACE
FiberSprung uses various plywood surface designs based with 3/4" plywood. FiberSprung customer support begins with great design. All of our support surfaces are easily removed for rapid repair, or access if needed.
High load floor surface options are available, with fiberglass joint supports.
STEP 5: THE PERFORMANCE SURFACE
The plywood support surface is typically covered with marley for dance. Other than marley, there are other options such as thin engineered hardwood or vinyl flooring. The finishing touch of our service includes installing the floor surface for our customers.
THE GO FLOOR:
The FiberSprung Go floor is a single layer sprung floor. It uses one layer of fiberglass, fastened to the bottom of 4' x 4' plywood boards, to provide the bend required in the floor. The boards tongue and groove together like the regular floors; but rather than fastening to fiberglass supports. It is assembled using mechanical locks which are activated using one tool: an 8mm hex wrench.
