Re: Ideas for indoor bleachers needed

[Bob Gramza]

[surftom]

DL,

Some friends of mine in Holland transform their living room into a theater with 4 levels of bleachers that can be stored in a box about 8 feet long by 3 feet wide and 1 foot high! When it's assembled, (takes an hour to put together) it can hold almost 30 people. The perform a dinner theater and a childrens theater on a regular basis then everything gets folded up and put away.

You can see it on their website at:

It's in dutch but the pictures are in english :) click on "Het Theater" on the left - it will open a seperate window - click the camera icon on the top-right of the new window. Pictures 4,5 & 6 give you some idea of the transformation.

There is also contact info and they speak english real goodly :) If you email them for ideas, tell them Tom from Canada sent you.

Best of luck!

[Phil]

This response, while undoubtedly necessary strikes me as caused by a very sad situation where government once again is driving us to the lowest common denominator. If these kids a bright they need to be able to do different things (and god forbid, take chances.)

Phil

David Hall wrote:

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[Frank K.]

Have you checked any schools in the area that may have some band or choir risers that they would donate to you?

[DL]

I was thinking something solid would be safer as those have a very low rise and those gaps which can absorb limbs and things. This would be back against the wall so no one could fall off of the back. The business manager dude does raise an interesting issue.

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DL

> Evidently your buddy Cedeño is a bastard.

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[David Hall]

Phil wrote in message news:...

OK, true story... A community wrestling group used the gym in our Junior High School. The wrestling mats were rolled up after the meets and set along the edge of the wall during the wrestling season. Although the gym classes were told not to fool with the mats, these are Jr. High age kids and of course a couple of boys managed to horseplay on the rolled up mats. Now they were only about 18" above the floor when standing on the mats, but one fell off and busted his head. A couple of surgeries later he appears to be OK with no permanent damage (other than a couple of small surgical scars). In court however, pain and suffering as well "serious cosmetic trauma" resulted in a settlement of approximately $150,000 plus medical costs. This in a state where schools are immune from such lawsuits unless they arise from a "defect in the real property". Of course a judge decided to stretch this definition to encompass rolled up mats as "defects in the care and upkeep of the gymnasium floor". Yeah, I think that 4th graders falling off of homemade bleachers that do not meet all industry safety codes and do not contain all required railings and height restrictions would probably result in substantial costs which may or may not be covered by insurance. (We have to specifically declare ALL bleachers and band risers on our insurance policy and are rated and billed based on numbers and heights. The insurance company sends out an inspector every year to inspect them. All of ours are commercial units.)

Dave Hall

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for railings, walk down