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Flooring Professionals To The Leisure Industry
Courtship Flooring is a commercial sports flooring contractor working in North Wales and across the UK. A largely rural region where complete single-visit programmes and honest advice matter most.
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 spread across a wide rural area suffer most from contractors who work in stages, because every return trip carries its own mobilisation cost.
We plan work here as a single complete programme: survey, repairs, sanding, sealing, marking and testing, with all machinery and materials arriving at the outset and the full cost fixed before we travel.
Where wet weather is routine and users arrive in outdoor footwear, the first few metres inside the door take more punishment than the rest of the hall combined. It is also where slip incidents actually happen.
Effective matting, properly sized barrier zones and a cleaning routine that removes grit rather than redistributing it will comfortably extend the life of a finish. We advise on all three and concentrate slip testing where the real risk sits.
Rural facilities frequently operate on tight funding and are sometimes sold work they do not need. We would rather give the inexpensive answer and be trusted with the larger job later.
Where a deep clean or a recoat will genuinely do, that is what we will quote. The survey report sets out every realistic option with firm costs so a committee can decide on evidence rather than pressure.
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
Dance floors have requirements that pull against those of a sports hall, and specifying one as though it were the other produces a room nobody is happy with.
Grip is the first difference. Dancers need a surface that allows controlled slide, particularly for turns, while still being safe to land on. A finish specified purely for basketball grip will be too grabby, and injuries follow from a foot that stops when the body does not.
Resilience is the second. Dance involves repeated jumping and landing, often in the same spot, and a sprung floor is not a luxury in a studio used seriously. Where a studio sits above other rooms, that same resilience needs to work acoustically as well.
Surface choice varies with the discipline. Ballet and contemporary generally want a vinyl performance surface over a sprung base. Tap and musical theatre want timber. Multi purpose studios need a compromise, and it is worth being honest about which discipline gets priority rather than pretending one floor suits everything equally.
Gym floors fail differently from every other floor in a building, because the damage is point loading rather than even wear.
Dropped dumbbells, plate loaded machines dragged rather than lifted, benches shuffled across boards and racks bolted down and later moved all leave dents and gouges. Sanding removes a surface but a deep dent stays a dent, and part of our survey is telling you which marks will come out and which will not.
Chalk and sweat are the other half. Both soak into timber wherever the seal has worn through, and chalk in open grain can leave a permanent grey cast in the lifting area.
Rubber matting laid straight onto a sealed floor and left down for years traps moisture and can bond to the lacquer, so lifting it takes the finish with it. It is one of the main reasons gym floors arrive in worse condition than the sports hall next door.
The answer is usually a harder finish, an extra coat in the free weight zone, and a proper lifting platform where the weights actually land.
Granwood is a composite block of wood flour and cement, laid in a bitumen bed, installed in thousands of British schools and halls from the nineteen thirties onwards. A great many are still down and still serviceable, which says a good deal about how well they were made.
It is not timber and it must not be treated as timber. There is no grain and no wear layer in the usual sense, and aggressive sanding takes block that cannot be put back. Bitumen softens with heat, so a machine held too long in one place draws adhesive up through the joints. Some older bitumen beds contain asbestos, and we treat every one as suspect until testing says otherwise.
Restoration means rebedding loose blocks, replacing those that have broken up, preparing the surface with appropriate abrasives, and coating with a modified epoxy system designed for composite substrates with the markings applied within the system.
Most Granwood floors described as beyond saving are not. We will tell you honestly which situation yours is in.
Underfloor heating and timber sports floors can work together, but the combination has to be designed rather than assumed, and we see the consequences when it is not.
Timber moves with moisture content, and heating from below drives moisture out of the boards. If the system is run too hot, or brought up too quickly at the start of a season, boards shrink, gaps open and in extreme cases the floor cups or splits. None of that is repairable by refinishing.
The requirements are straightforward. Surface temperature has to be limited and controlled, the system needs commissioning and gradual warming rather than being switched on in October at full output, and the timber needs to be specified as suitable for use over heating.
Where we are installing over an existing system we will ask for the commissioning records and the operating parameters. Where we are refinishing a floor that has suffered from a badly run system, we will tell you that the finish is the symptom rather than the problem.
North Wales work reaches us from school sports halls, community leisure centres, university and college sport, and a large number of village and church halls.
The region covers a lot of ground and journeys take longer than the map suggests, so we programme this work as continuous blocks and bring everything we need with us rather than expecting to collect materials locally. In practice that makes these projects more thoroughly planned than a job an hour from base.
School halls are the largest group. In many communities the school hall serves as the principal indoor sports facility for the surrounding area, which means a great deal more traffic than curriculum use alone would produce.
Leisure centres follow, where keeping the building trading usually means overnight working.
Village and church halls make up the rest, and those old timber floors are almost always in far better condition than they look. Restoration transforms them for a modest sum, and much of that work reaches us by recommendation from one hall committee to the next.
North Wales enquiries usually resemble one of two projects.
For school halls that double as the community sports facility, De Wint School is the closest comparison. Curriculum sport, club training and evening lettings all on one floor, a finish worn through where the traffic runs, and a fixed term date. The floor went back to bare timber, damaged boards were replaced, and the markings were set out fresh from measured dimensions with redundant sports removed while the floor was open.
For village and church halls, St Katherine Hall is the better parallel. An old timber floor under decades of polish, scored by chairs and tables, with plenty of board depth left underneath. The polish came off chemically before sanding, and the hall is now set for another few decades of everything it is asked to do.
Both illustrate that remote projects are planned more thoroughly rather than less, because everything is resolved before we set off.
Almost every hall we survey carries markings for at least one sport nobody has played in years, and a good many carry three or four.
Short tennis lines from a scheme that ended a decade ago. Five a side markings for a layout the school no longer uses. A junior court for a year group that is no longer taught. Every one of them adds visual noise and makes the sports you do play harder to read, particularly for a referee.
So relining starts with a conversation about what is actually used rather than what is currently painted. Taking two redundant sets off does more for clarity than any amount of clever colour selection, and it makes the job cheaper rather than dearer because there is less to put back.
On timber the reliable way to remove old line marking is to sand the floor, which takes it off completely. Where a full sand is not warranted we can often over seal instead. Either way, halls look considerably larger and considerably smarter once the clutter has gone.
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, 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.
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.
Dust mop daily to lift grit, damp mop with a neutral cleaner made for sealed sports timber, and never use polish, wax or anything promising shine. We hand over written guidance with every job.
Usually because the expansion gaps at the perimeter have closed or been blocked, or because moisture is coming up through the slab. Both need diagnosing before refinishing, or the cause simply repeats.
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, 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.
Book a free survey of your floor in North 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.