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Flooring Professionals To The Leisure Industry
Courtship Flooring is a commercial sports flooring contractor working in Inverness and across the UK. We plan Highland work as concentrated visits with everything agreed and priced before travelling.
This is all we do, and we have been doing it since 1987. Installation, restoration, sanding, sealing, line marking, slip testing and maintenance for commercial and institutional buildings, delivered without subcontractors. Residential projects go to our sister company, Ryan’s Restorations.
Overnight/Weekend Installations
Professional Cleaning Demonstrations
Squash Court Maintenance
Recommended Cleaning Products
Professional Pendulum Slip Testing
Deep Clean & Reseal Service
Remote facilities are frequently quoted a premium that reflects inconvenience rather than genuine cost, or told the work is not viable at all. We take a different view: distance is a logistics problem with a logistics solution.
Work is quoted as a complete programme with travel and mobilisation stated openly. Everything needed arrives at the outset, and the job finishes in one visit.
In smaller and more isolated communities a single hall carries an unusual amount: sport, social events, meetings, performances and sometimes emergency use. Its floor absorbs all of it.
We specify for that reality rather than for sport alone, and give honest advice about what a single surface can and cannot do well. Where budgets are constrained we price the option that delivers most benefit rather than the largest scope.
Where a contractor is on site anyway, it makes sense to complete everything worth doing. A deep clean, condition inspection, minor repairs, relining and a slip test can all be carried out alongside the main work at marginal additional cost.
We will suggest that combination openly, because the alternative is paying mobilisation twice for work that could have been done together.
Our installation at Hornbury Academy shows the full process from bare sub-floor through to a finished, fully line-marked hall, delivered to a fixed programme while the school carried on around us.
For anyone weighing a new floor against another patch-up, it is a useful illustration of what the complete journey involves and what it produces.
~ 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
A new finish is only as good as the regime that follows it, and the fastest way to waste the money is to put the wrong mop on it in week one.
The guidance we hand over is deliberately short. Dust mop daily with a treated cloth to lift grit before it acts as an abrasive underfoot. Damp mop with a neutral cleaner made for sealed sports timber. Deal with spills quickly. Keep a decent mat run at the entrances, because most of the grit that wears a floor walks in on trainers.
What to avoid is equally short. No polish, no wax, nothing that promises shine. These build up, reduce slip resistance and eventually have to be stripped chemically at real cost. They are the most common cause of the slippery floors we are called out to.
Scrubber driers are fine if they are set up correctly and the water is picked up rather than left standing. We are happy to look at your machine settings while we are on site.
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.
Sanding makes dust. The question is whether it stays in the room or ends up through the building, and that is a matter of equipment and preparation rather than luck.
Our machines run on sealed vacuum extraction rather than bag systems, which captures the great majority of it at source. We screen the working area, and we agree with your site team which doors, vents and air handling routes need isolating before we start. In buildings with shared ventilation, particularly leisure centres with a pool hall, that conversation matters.
Edges and corners are the point at which dust escapes on a badly run job, because hand machines are harder to extract from. We use extracted edge equipment for the same reason we use it everywhere else.
The room we are working in will be dusty. The rest of the building should not be, and if it is then something has been done wrong. We would rather set the expectation clearly than have you discover it.
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.
Inverness work comes to us from council leisure facilities, secondary school sports halls, college sport and a number of club buildings.
Leisure centre halls are usually the busiest floors and the ones that benefit most from a proper maintenance cycle. Catching a floor with a screen and recoat before the seal wears through to bare timber is what keeps it off the replacement list, and it costs a fraction of a full refinish.
School halls follow the fixed term calendar, and in this part of the country the school hall is frequently the main indoor sports facility for the surrounding area as well, which means it takes a great deal more traffic than the timetable alone suggests.
Because we travel to reach the Highlands, projects here are planned as continuous blocks with everything brought with us rather than collected locally. That makes the programme tighter and the dates more reliable.
It also means sequencing is worth doing. Two or three jobs booked into one trip brings the cost down for all of them, so it is worth mentioning if you know of another facility considering work.
The enquiries that reach us from Inverness tend to fall into three groups.
Leisure centre halls are usually the busiest floors in the area and the ones most in need of a maintenance cycle rather than a rescue. A screen and recoat every two to three years costs a fraction of a full refinish and keeps a floor off the replacement list.
School halls more often arrive overdue, and because the school hall frequently doubles as the main indoor sports space for the surrounding area it takes considerably more traffic than curriculum use alone. Those floors wear faster than the timetable would suggest, and they benefit most from being put on a proper cycle afterwards.
The third group is markings. Courts remarked by copying the previous set drift over the years, and we set out from measured governing body dimensions instead, which frequently corrects errors that have been quietly affecting play for a long time.
Considerably less than most people expect, because restoration rather than replacement is usually the answer. A full sand and seal typically costs a small fraction of a new floor. The survey is free, the quotation is fixed, and nothing is added later without your agreement.
The full area and the counties around it. Where a facility is some way from us, we bring all machinery and materials at the outset and complete everything within one agreed window.
Yes, and it usually costs less. We survey the estate together, apply one specification and schedule the sites into a single programme with one point of contact.
Usually straightforward on a sound floor. Removing old lines completely requires sanding, so we will plan the new layout to work with what is already there and explain the options.
A well-installed and properly maintained timber floor can serve for decades because it can be renewed repeatedly. Synthetic surfaces typically run fifteen to twenty years before replacement.
Satin or matt in almost every case. Gloss looks impressive at handover and shows every scuff within weeks, as well as producing noticeable glare under modern lighting.
Yes, provided it is set up correctly and picks the water up rather than leaving it standing. We are happy to check your machine settings while we are on site.
Yes, and for organisations with several floors it is where we usually start. You get a written report per site with photographs, moisture readings, remaining wear layer and a costed priority order.
Yes. We survey the slab for level and moisture first, install mitigation where readings require it, and specify the system to the actual timetable of the hall rather than to a standard answer.
Surface marks and worn lacquer come out easily. Deep water staining and anything soaked into open timber may remain faintly visible, and we will tell you honestly at survey what to expect.
A typical hall takes one to two weeks from first machine to final coat, depending on size, how much board repair is needed and how many coats the seal requires. You get a day by day programme before we start.
Book a free survey of your floor in Inverness 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.