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Flooring Professionals To The Leisure Industry
Courtship Flooring is a commercial sports flooring contractor working in Mid Wales and across the UK. A sparsely populated region where efficient programming and durable specification matter more than anywhere.
Our clients are schools, academy trusts, universities, leisure operators, councils and clubs, and have been since 1987. We cover the full lifecycle of a floor with our own team rather than a chain of subcontractors. Private homes are outside our scope and are served by Ryan’s Restorations.
Overnight/Weekend Installations
Professional Cleaning Demonstrations
Squash Court Maintenance
Recommended Cleaning Products
Professional Pendulum Slip Testing
Deep Clean & Reseal Service
Where a contractor cannot easily attend twice a year, specification should favour durability and low maintenance over marginal performance gains. A slightly harder-wearing finish that tolerates a longer interval is worth more than a superior one needing constant attention.
We take that into account when specifying for remote facilities, and set realistic maintenance intervals rather than ideal ones nobody will meet.
The further a facility is from its contractor, the more the daily routine matters. Most floor problems we attend in rural areas were caused by cleaning method rather than use.
We demonstrate the correct routine to whoever maintains the building, recommend products suited to the finish and the local water supply, and leave written guidance. It costs nothing and it protects everything.
When we travel to a remote facility, it makes sense to complete everything worth doing rather than the minimum. Inspection, deep clean, repairs, relining and testing can all be carried out alongside the main work at marginal additional cost.
Where neighbouring facilities coordinate, the mobilisation is shared between them and every organisation pays materially less.
The sports hall at St George’s had a Granwood block floor that decades of use had left dull and tired. Granwood cannot be sanded like timber, so we restored it correctly: careful preparation, a modified epoxy coating system and crisp new markings.
The school kept a serviceable floor out of a skip and spent a fraction of what replacement would have cost.
~ 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.
Basketball wears a floor in two rectangles. The keys take every rebound, post move and landing, and the finish there can be through to bare timber while the rest of the court still looks respectable.
We mark to current FIBA dimensions: a 28 by 15 metre court with the three point line at 6.75 metres from the centre of the basket, reducing to 6.6 metres in the corners. The restricted area is a rectangle with a no charge semi circle, not the trapezoid still found in many older halls, which is usually the giveaway that a court has not been set out properly in decades.
Sole marking is the other characteristic problem. Basketball shoes grip, and that grip transfers rubber across the whole surface. On a well sealed floor it cleans off. Where the seal has gone thin it works into open grain and stops coming out.
A coloured key or a crest at centre court is applied between coats so it wears with the floor rather than scuffing off, and it costs least while the floor is already open.
The question we are asked most often, and the answer comes down to three measurements rather than an opinion.
The first is the remaining wear layer. Every full sand takes timber off, and a floor that has been through many cycles may be close to its fixings. Once a sander reaches the tongue the board is finished, and nothing changes that.
The second is the structure. Isolated failed pads and battens are routine repairs. A system that has failed widely, or one that never suited the hall, is a different proposition.
The third is moisture. A slab with an active problem will destroy any floor laid on it, new or refurbished, until the cause is dealt with.
If the wear layer is adequate, the structure is largely sound and the slab is dry, refurbishment is almost always better value and will give many more years. Where those things are not true we say so plainly, because a refurbishment on a failing floor is money spent twice.
Not every sports floor is timber, and the synthetic surfaces have a genuine place rather than being a cheap alternative.
Point elastic vinyl systems deflect where they are loaded rather than across an area, which makes them forgiving underfoot and well suited to halls with a very mixed timetable. They need no refinishing, they clean easily, and they come in a range of colours that lets a hall be designed rather than simply floored. They have a finite life and are replaced rather than restored when it ends.
Linoleum is the older relation, still found in a great many school halls, and it can often be deep cleaned and resealed rather than replaced.
Polyurethane and modified epoxy systems are seamless, poured or applied as coatings, and are particularly useful over Granwood and cementitious substrates. They can be fully recoated in a new colour with fresh markings, which turns a tired hall into a refurbished one without touching what is underneath.
We work across all of them, and we will tell you honestly when your existing surface is worth keeping.
Mid Wales work reaches us mainly from school sports halls, community leisure centres and a very large number of village and church halls.
Journeys across the region take considerably longer than the map suggests, so we plan this work as continuous blocks and bring everything with us: machinery, abrasives, coatings and spares. Nothing can be collected in the afternoon, which means the whole job has to be worked out before we set off. That makes these projects more tightly planned than a job close to base, not less.
School halls are the largest group, and in many communities the school hall is the principal indoor sports space for the surrounding area, so it takes curriculum sport, club training and community lettings on the same floor.
Village and church halls are the second group and there are a great many. Those timber floors are usually far better than they look under decades of polish, with plenty of board depth left.
Where several facilities are considering work, sequencing them into one trip makes a real difference to cost.
The enquiries that reach us from Mid Wales are shaped by halls that serve wide areas and get attention infrequently.
The most common is a school hall doubling as the community sports facility, taking curriculum use, club training and evening lettings on the same floor. That volume wears a finish considerably faster than the timetable suggests, and those halls often arrive well overdue.
The second is village and church halls where decades of polish sit over a sound timber floor. Removing that build up chemically before sanding is essential and is the step most often omitted from cheaper quotations.
The third is moisture in older buildings that are unheated for long periods and then used intensively. We take readings as a genuine diagnostic step, because a finish over a damp floor fails regardless of how well it is applied.
Sequencing several halls into one visit makes the work considerably more affordable for everyone involved.
We quote fixed prices after a free survey rather than estimates over the phone. The main variables are the size of the floor, how much preparation it needs and whether repairs or sub-floor work are required. All of it is itemised in writing.
Comprehensively. We have delivered projects from Cornwall to the north of Scotland, and the approach does not change: survey, agree, price, then complete the work in a single visit.
Usually cleaning residue rather than a worn seal. Over-strength product or the wrong pH leaves a film that reduces grip. A deep clean normally restores it, and a slip test confirms it objectively.
Yes. Boards are matched by species and grade so repairs blend into the finish rather than announcing themselves. It is one of the reasons we do repairs in-house.
A failed resilient layer or a batten that has lost contact beneath that area. It is a structural problem, so resurfacing will not fix it. We locate and repair the build-up underneath.
Yes, and it is a genuine specialism. Granwood is a composite block in a bitumen bed, not timber, and it needs appropriate preparation and a modified epoxy coating system rather than standard sanding and lacquering.
Yes, in advance and specific to the job rather than a generic template. We also supply COSHH sheets for every product, insurance certificates and DBS details for staff on school sites.
Yes, and it is routine. Split, damaged and water damaged boards are cut out and replaced with matching timber laid to the same grain direction, so the repair disappears once the floor is sanded.
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.
No. We are a commercial contractor working on schools, leisure centres, universities, clubs and public buildings. The machinery, finishes and insurance are different from domestic work.
Because we survey properly we usually know what is coming and allow for it in the quotation as expected work rather than presenting it later as an extra. Genuinely unforeseeable finds are rare.
Book a free survey of your floor in Mid Wales 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.