Dance classes rock again with the help of local company

When a dance floor at a Middlesbrough Council community centre had to be replaced due to building subsidence, dancers weren't left tapping their fingers and toes for long thanks to Tarmac hot-footing it to the rescue with its Toproc Early Dry concrete being used to provide a base for the new floor.

But, as David Parkinson, Tarmac's Northern special products manager, explained, some nifty moves of Tarmac's own were needed.

"Programmes like Strictly Come Dancing mean dance is growing in popularity again. So locals were none too happy when the Southland Centre had to cancel all its dance lessons due to the repairs. That meant the council wanted the new floor built sooner rather than later."

The wooden floor was to be laid on top of a 150mm-thick concrete base. Conventional concrete that thick would take around three months to dry - far too long for Middlesbrough's musical movers. So David suggested to the council engineers that they use Toproc Early Dry, manufactured at Tarmac's Stockton concrete plant, with its capacity to take between three and four weeks to dry - a big time saving. The council liked the idea and gave the go-ahead to contractor Foden Spence Construction who laid 50 cubic metres of the material.

The dance floor was recently back in action, reverberating once again to the sound of Middlesbrough dancers' happy feet.

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21 January2009