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Flooring Professionals To The Leisure Industry
Courtship Flooring is a commercial sports flooring contractor working in the East Riding of Yorkshire and across the UK. We cover the area for schools, community buildings and leisure facilities, planning work as complete visits.
A family business established in 1987, working exclusively on commercial indoor sports and timber floors. We survey, install, restore, mark, test and maintain, keeping every stage in our own hands so one warranty covers the whole system. Domestic work is handled separately by Ryan’s Restorations.
Overnight/Weekend Installations
Professional Cleaning Demonstrations
Squash Court Maintenance
Recommended Cleaning Products
Professional Pendulum Slip Testing
Deep Clean & Reseal Service
Facilities managers frequently inherit buildings with no records: nobody knows what the floor is, when it was laid, or what has been done to it since. That is a normal starting point rather than an obstacle.
We establish the surface type, measure what remains, take moisture readings and look for evidence of previous treatment. Within an hour you have a written picture of what you actually own and what it needs.
Where several areas need attention, the instinct is to start with whatever looks worst. That is frequently wrong: appearance and deterioration are not the same thing, and a shabby floor may be structurally fine while a presentable one is quietly failing.
We rank by condition rather than appearance, so money goes first to what is genuinely deteriorating and cosmetic work waits for a year it can be afforded.
Where funds are limited the honest question is what delivers the most benefit for the money available. Frequently that is a deep clean and reline rather than a refurbishment, or a recoat rather than a full sand.
We will price the cheapest option that genuinely works and explain what it does and does not achieve, rather than offering a single expensive recommendation and waiting to be negotiated down.
At Medina Leisure Centre we refurbished the main sports hall floor completely: sanding, repairs, resealing and a full set of new markings, with the logistics planned down to the last detail so the centre lost as little bookable time as possible.
The after photographs show a hall transformed, and the programme finished on the date agreed at the outset.
~ Matthew Evans
An outstanding company to deal with and they couldn’t have been better to work with. St George’s Ascot now has a stunning new sports hall floor and we are delighted. From quote, support, delivery and after sales, the Team has been brilliant. Thank you. 
~ James Anderson
Commercial and public buildings need documentation, and providing it in advance rather than on request is part of what distinguishes a specialist contractor.
Before the work you receive method statements and risk assessments specific to the job rather than a generic template, COSHH data sheets for every product we will bring on site, and copies of our public liability and employers liability insurance.
For school sites we provide DBS details for the staff attending, and we work to whatever additional safeguarding arrangements the school or trust requires. Our teams are used to signing in, wearing identification and staying within agreed areas.
On main contractor sites we work to site rules, attend inductions and provide progress reporting in whatever format the contract requires.
At handover you get the product data sheets, the cure times in writing, aftercare guidance and, where requested, the pendulum slip resistance certificate. It goes into the facilities file as a complete record rather than a folder of assurances.
Most sports floors are replaced later and more expensively than they needed to be, because nobody was watching them.
An inspection is a short, structured visit that produces a written report on the state of the floor: the finish, the markings, the boards, the structure beneath, moisture readings, the remaining wear layer and anything that needs attention now rather than later. It comes with photographs and a rough cost against each recommendation.
That document does two useful things. It tells a business manager or an operations lead what is coming, so a floor appears in a budget rather than as an emergency. And it creates a record over time, so you can see whether a problem is stable or getting worse.
For organisations with several floors it is the single most valuable thing we do, because it converts an unpredictable estate risk into a plannable one. Discovering in July that a hall cannot open in September is the situation everybody wants to avoid, and it is entirely avoidable.
Slip resistance is the one performance characteristic of a sports floor that can be measured objectively, and it is worth having the number rather than an assurance.
The pendulum test is the recognised method in the United Kingdom. A weighted arm with a rubber slider swings across the surface and the resistance is recorded, giving a pendulum test value. Sports surfaces are expected to sit within a defined range: too low and players slip, too high and the shoe binds, which brings its own injury risk.
We carry out testing on floors we have worked on and on floors we have not, and we provide the certificate. It is worth having in three situations in particular. After a refinish, so you can demonstrate the floor was handed over correctly. Where a floor has been reported as slippery, so you know whether it genuinely is. And where an insurer, a governing body or a facilities audit has asked for evidence.
Where a test comes back low, the cause is usually polish build up or a worn seal, and both are fixable.
We have been trading since 1987, and the reason a firm lasts that long in this trade is that people call it back rather than calling somebody else.
Our work is guaranteed, and if something is not right we come back and put it right. That sounds like the least anybody should offer, and in this industry it is not as universal as it should be.
What we will not do is guarantee against things outside our control. A floor sealed over a slab we advised was too wet, a hall where the cleaning regime uses polish despite the guidance, or damage from a leak in the building are not workmanship issues, and we will explain the distinction at the time rather than in the small print.
Equally, we will tell you before we start when we think a job carries risk. If a floor is marginal, if a repair may not match perfectly, or if a stain may not fully come out, you will hear it at survey. Managing expectations honestly is a large part of why this works.
The East Riding brings us a mix of academy trust estates, leisure facilities and a large rural stock of village and church halls.
Trust work is the pattern we see most often. Where one organisation holds a dozen or more sports halls, the sensible approach is a condition survey across the whole estate followed by a phased programme, rather than dealing with each hall as it becomes urgent. It spreads the spend across budget years and avoids the situation where several floors need work in the same summer.
Individual school halls come to us for the familiar reasons: a worn finish, markings that cannot be read, or a floor that has become slippery and is now an insurance question.
The rural stock is the third group and often the most transformed by the work. Old timber floors under decades of polish, scored by chairs and tables, with plenty of board depth left underneath. Restoration is dramatically cheaper than replacement and gives a better floor.
Moisture readings matter in older buildings with solid floors, and we take them as a matter of course rather than a formality.
For East Riding enquiries the most relevant comparisons are our academy projects in the wider region.
Harris Academy and Hornbury Academy in Wakefield are both good illustrations. Halls in constant curriculum use, finishes that had gone well past their proper cycle, and fixed term dates with no flexibility at the end. In each case the floor was sanded back to bare timber, damaged boards were cut out and replaced, and the hall was resealed with markings set out fresh from measured governing body dimensions rather than traced from the faded originals.
Both also carried markings for sports no longer taught, which came off while the floor was open at no extra cost and made each hall considerably clearer to use.
For community buildings the closer comparison is St Katherine Hall: an old timber floor under decades of polish, restored rather than replaced, and now good for another few decades.
Cost is driven by area, condition and specification. Because we do not subcontract, there is no margin stacked on top of another contractor’s price, which is one reason our quotations tend to compare well. Everything is itemised so you can see exactly what you are paying for.
Yes, and we regularly work considerably further afield. Our quotations include travel and mobilisation openly rather than adding them later, so the figure you see is the figure you pay.
Yes, when the right system is specified. Sports vinyl and polyurethane are made to meet BS EN 14904 for shock absorption, ball bounce and friction, and are widely used in leisure centres and schools.
Machine cleaning with appropriate solutions to lift embedded residue and grime that normal mopping leaves behind, restoring appearance and grip. It starts from four pounds fifty per square metre.
Yes, using the pendulum method to BS 7976-2 with a written report recording values across multiple positions. It either reassures you or gives you documented evidence that the floor needs attention.
Yes. Scheduled deep cleaning, screen and recoat visits, minor repairs, remarking and an annual written condition inspection. It is considerably cheaper than reacting when a floor has already failed.
Yes. We work as the specialist flooring element within refurbishment schemes and are used to main contractor site rules, inductions, permits and progress reporting.
Yes, and we recommend doing both together. Stages are usually in worse condition than the hall floor, and one visit costs considerably less than two while giving a consistent finish.
Light foot traffic is normally possible around twenty four hours after the final coat, and full use with equipment back at seventy two hours. We confirm exact times for the system used, because they vary.
Regularly. We tender for frameworks, price on schedules of rates, and provide the full procurement documentation set including insurances, quality procedures and safeguarding arrangements.
Yes, and for multi site clients it usually should be. We build rolling programmes that spread the spend and take each hall out of use at the quietest point in its own calendar.
Book a free survey of your floor in East Riding of Yorkshire and we will tell you honestly what it needs, what it will cost and how quickly it can happen. Call 01823 674562 or send us a message.