HATFIELD AND MCCOYS

This waterproofing opportunity for this project provided a very unique challenge.  The owners of the Hatfield’s & McCoy’s Dinner Theater had made the decision in 2016 to reconstruct performance area by incorporating an Olympic-sizes, 22’ deep diving well into the middle of the stage.  To make the engineering feat even more challenging, they wanted the stage to be able to transform instantly from a solid stage floor; to an open water ‘swimming hole’ and back again, during the course of the performance each night.

Following the completion of the stage reconstruction project, the dinner theater resumed giving performances … and the idea was a huge success.  The only problem was that the maintenance team had to continually add water to the diving tank, because it was leaking out through the unprotected concrete.  After almost two years of dealing with this problem, the decision was made to drain the diving tank and waterproof the concrete.  The question was … what would be the most efficient and cost-effective way to accomplish this?  Given that the dinner theater had resumed doing performances, they did not want to have to shut the stage area down for any longer than was absolutely necessary!