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Flooring Professionals To The Leisure Industry
Courtship Flooring is a commercial sports flooring contractor working in North Yorkshire and across the UK. We cover a very large geography here, from historic buildings in the towns to isolated rural halls.
Founded in 1987 and still run by the same family, we specialise in commercial sports and timber flooring: new installations, full refurbishments, sanding and resealing, court markings, pendulum testing and maintenance contracts. Domestic enquiries are passed to Ryan’s Restorations.
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Older buildings frequently hold floors of a quality that would be prohibitively expensive to replicate, and the first job is establishing whether previous treatment has left anything to work with.
We measure remaining thickness above the tongue, check fixings and sub-floor stability, and take moisture readings before recommending anything. Where the floor has been over-sanded in the past we will say so plainly, because that changes what is possible.
Heritage and older floors are damaged more often by over-enthusiastic sanding than by neglect. Aggressive machining removes character, exposes fixings and spends material that cannot be replaced.
We sand progressively with the correct abrasive sequence, taking only what is necessary to produce an even, serviceable surface. Repairs are matched by species and grade so they blend rather than announce themselves, and the finish is chosen to suit both the building and its use.
A hall at the end of a single-track road is not a candidate for a contractor who works in stages. Everything has to be completed in one visit: survey, repairs, sanding, sealing, marking and testing.
We plan rural work exactly that way, with all materials and machinery brought in at the outset and the full programme priced before we set off. Neighbouring facilities booking together share the mobilisation and reduce the cost for both.
The gymnasium at The Bradfield Club had served generations and its floor wore every year of it. We sanded the original timber back to life, made the repairs it genuinely needed, then resealed and re-marked the space.
Community facilities work to tight budgets and cannot lose their halls for long, so the programme was planned accordingly and finished on the date agreed.
~ 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
Community buildings ask more of a floor than almost anything else, because the same square metres take a toddler group, a badminton club, a parish meeting, a fitness class and a wedding reception in the same week.
The characteristic damage is scoring from chairs and tables going out and back constantly, rather than the concentrated wear a sports hall shows. That is good news, because fine scoring sands out easily and these floors usually have plenty of timber left.
The other characteristic is decades of polish. Many community halls have been polished for thirty years, and that build up has to be removed chemically before sanding or it clogs every abrasive. We allow for it rather than discovering it.
We quote these jobs by element so a committee can see exactly what each part costs and phase it across two years if the funds require. That transparency matters more here than anywhere, and it is why much of this work comes by recommendation from one committee to another.
A school crest or club badge at centre court is one of the few things that genuinely lifts a hall for a modest cost, and it is far cheaper done during a refinish than as a separate visit.
Logos are painted from your own artwork between coats of seal, so they sit under the final lacquer and wear at exactly the same rate as the floor around them. Anything applied over a finished floor will scuff and peel within a season, whatever the supplier claims about it.
We work the artwork up to the correct scale for the circle or the area it is going into, and we show you a layout before anything goes down. Colours are matched to your own brand rather than approximated.
Coloured keys and zoned areas work the same way and have the same effect. A hall with a filled key in a contrasting colour reads instantly and looks designed rather than institutional, and it costs very little on top of work already underway.
Markings are the part of a floor everybody looks at, and the part most often got wrong.
We set out from current governing body dimensions using laser and tape, not by copying what is already on the floor. Courts that have been remarked by tracing the previous set drift over the years, and a surprising number of halls turn out to have netball thirds that are not equal or three point arcs that are not true.
On timber the lines go down between coats of seal so the paint finishes under the final lacquer. That single detail is why our markings last as long as the finish, while lines applied on top of a completed floor start lifting within a season.
We will also ask what is actually played. Most halls carry markings for at least one sport nobody has taught in years, and removing redundant sets does more for clarity than any amount of clever colour choice. Fewer lines, correctly dimensioned, in colours that separate properly under your own lighting.
Every job is carried out by our own directly employed team using our own equipment. Nothing is passed to a chain of subcontractors, and that has practical consequences rather than being a slogan.
It means the people who survey your floor are connected to the people who work on it, so what was agreed is what happens. It means we control the programme rather than waiting on somebody else availability, which is why we can commit to a finish date and hold it. And it means the standard is consistent, because it is the same team on the last day as the first.
It also matters for the specialist work. Granwood restoration, parquet, sprung floor repairs and pendulum testing are not things you can subcontract to a general flooring firm and expect a good result. They are learned over years.
Courtship Flooring has been doing this since 1987, and a good deal of the team has been with the company for a very long time. That continuity is the reason we can look at a floor and know what is under it.
North Yorkshire is a very large county and the work divides between school sports halls, independent school sport, leisure facilities and a substantial rural stock.
School and academy halls are the largest group. We have completed work at Harris Academy in the wider region, and the constraints are consistent: a hall in constant curriculum use, a finish that had gone too long, and a fixed date to be back for the first day of term.
Independent school sport is a significant strand here, with well maintained buildings, high expectations of finish quality and work planned a long way ahead into fixed holiday windows. Much of that is preventative rather than remedial, which is the cheapest way to run a floor.
Village halls, church halls and club buildings make up the rest, and the county has a great many. Those old timber floors usually have plenty of life left.
Given the distances involved within the county, we plan work as continuous blocks and sequence several projects into one visit where we can.
For North Yorkshire the most relevant comparisons are our academy work in the wider region and our community hall projects.
Harris Academy and Hornbury Academy in Wakefield are both good illustrations of the school type: halls in constant curriculum use, finishes that had gone well past their proper cycle, and fixed term dates with no flexibility. In each case the floor was taken back to bare timber, damaged boards were cut out and replaced, and markings were set out fresh from measured governing body dimensions rather than traced from faded originals.
For the county large stock of village halls, St Katherine Hall is the closer parallel: an old timber floor under decades of accumulated polish, chair and table scoring across the whole area, and a restoration that cost a fraction of replacement.
Given the distances involved within the county, sequencing several halls into one visit is well worth doing.
It varies with the state of the floor more than anything else. A hall needing only a clean and reline costs very little; one needing full sanding, repairs and resealing costs more but still far less than replacement. We will tell you honestly which category yours is in.
Yes, along with the surrounding area. Projects are planned as complete visits with everything agreed before we travel, so distance affects our logistics rather than your price or the quality of the finish.
Yes. Every survey produces a written report with moisture readings, board condition, recommended work and firm costs, designed to be usable as budget evidence.
A recoat lightly abrades the existing seal and adds fresh coats without touching the timber. A full sand takes the floor back to clean board. The recoat is far cheaper and is the right answer whenever the seal is worn but intact.
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.
It depends on board thickness and how much has already been removed. A solid strip floor might take six to eight full sands across its life. We measure the remaining wear layer at survey.
Yes, routinely. A great deal of our leisure centre and university work is done overnight so the facility keeps trading. It costs a little more in labour and usually saves a great deal more in lost income.
A well maintained hall wants a light screen and recoat every two to three years and a full sand roughly every ten. Sticking to that keeps the boards alive far longer, because every full sand removes timber permanently.
Yes. We survey, take moisture readings, measure the remaining board depth and look at the structure, then quote a fixed sum broken down by element. There is no charge and no obligation.
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.
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.
Book a free survey of your floor in North 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.