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Flooring Professionals To The Leisure Industry
Courtship Flooring is a commercial sports flooring contractor working in Perth and across the UK. Our work here covers school, community and leisure facilities across a mixed urban and rural area.
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
Floor deterioration is gradual and easy to miss when you see a hall every day. An annual inspection provides an outside assessment: seal condition, board depth remaining, sub-floor indicators, moisture readings, marking accuracy and entrance-zone wear.
The written record supports budget planning, evidences duty of care, and means decisions are based on trend rather than a single snapshot taken when something has already gone wrong.
Almost every expensive floor failure was inexpensive at an earlier stage. A seal about to break through costs a recoat today and a full sand in two years. A minor leak caught early is a board repair; ignored it becomes a section replacement.
Inspection exists to find those moments. It is the cheapest insurance available on an asset worth tens of thousands of pounds.
Rather than reacting when a floor becomes unacceptable, most facilities are better served by a plan: deep clean annually, recoat at a defined interval, budget for a full sand at a projected point, and replace when refinishing cycles are genuinely exhausted.
We set that timeline out based on your floor and its actual usage, so capital planning is informed rather than reactive.
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 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.
If a sports floor fails early, moisture is usually the reason, and it is the thing we test for before anything else.
Water reaches a timber floor from three directions. From below, through a slab with no effective damp proof membrane or one that has been compromised. From above, through roof leaks, radiator failures and over wet cleaning. And from the air, where a building swings between damp and dry and the timber moves with it.
The symptoms differ. Boards that cup, with edges lifting higher than centres, generally mean moisture from below or a spill. Boards that dome or lift in the middle of the hall usually mean the floor has expanded with nowhere to go, often because perimeter gaps have closed. Gaps that open every winter are a humidity swing rather than a fault.
Sealing over a wet floor guarantees failure, which is why we take readings rather than assume. Where a slab is giving off moisture we install a mitigation membrane before laying, and where the cause is a leak we will tell you to fix the building first.
Netball is played on hard stops. The footwork rule means players land, plant and pivot rather than running through the ball, which puts a specific demand on the surface.
Grip has to be predictable. A player receiving in the goal circle needs to stop dead and trust the floor, and a surface polished smooth through the centre third is a genuine injury risk rather than an inconvenience.
A full court is 30.5 by 15.25 metres in three equal thirds, with a 0.9 metre centre circle and goal circles of 4.9 metre radius. Lines are 50 millimetres wide, and because the lines count as part of the area they enclose, marking them thin genuinely changes the game.
England Netball asks for 3.05 metres of run off for competitive play, which few school halls achieve. Where a hall cannot take a full court we mark a proportionally reduced court or lay out for a junior format, rather than marking something tight to the walls that is unsafe to play on.
Nobody in this trade completes several hundred floors without occasionally having to go back, and how a contractor behaves at that point matters more than anything on a brochure.
Our position is straightforward. If the workmanship is not right, we return and put it right, and we do not argue about it. That is the least anybody should offer and it is not as universal in this industry as it ought to be.
What we will be clear about, at the time rather than in small print, is the boundary. A floor sealed over a slab we advised was too wet, a hall where the cleaning regime uses polish despite the written guidance we handed over, or damage from a roof leak are not workmanship failures. We will explain that distinction before the work rather than after.
Equally, where we think a job carries risk we say so at survey. If a stain may not fully lift or a repair may not match perfectly, you hear it before you commit, not afterwards.
Perth and the surrounding area bring us council leisure facilities, secondary school sports halls, independent school sport and a good number of club and community buildings.
Leisure centre halls are usually the busiest floors in the area 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.
School halls follow the fixed term calendar, and independent school sport features here more than in many parts of Scotland, with well maintained buildings, high expectations of finish quality and work planned well ahead into holiday windows.
Community and village halls make up the rest, and those old timber floors are usually in far better shape than they look.
Because we travel to reach the area, projects here are planned as continuous blocks with everything brought with us. Sequencing two or three jobs into one trip brings the cost down for all of them, so it is worth mentioning if you know of another facility considering work.
Enquiries from Perth and the surrounding area tend to fall into three groups.
Independent school halls generally come to us before there is a problem, wanting the screen and recoat booked while the finish is still sound. That is the cheapest way to run a floor and the reason those halls last decades without a full sand.
Council leisure halls more often arrive with a specific complaint, most commonly that the floor has become slippery. The cause is nearly always polish build up from the wrong cleaning product or a seal worn smooth in the busiest routes, and both are correctable once identified.
Community and village halls arrive with fine scoring from chairs and tables under decades of accumulated polish. That build up has to be removed chemically before sanding, and underneath there is usually a very good floor with plenty of depth left.
Court relining is one of the cheapest interventions available to a facility and often the one that makes the most visible difference for the money.
Price is driven by the number of courts, whether the line marking is going down inside a reseal or as a standalone visit, and how much redundant marking has to be dealt with first. Removing three sets of lines nobody uses makes the job cheaper, not dearer.
On timing, a standalone reline of a multi sport hall is typically two to three days including cure time. A full recolour of a synthetic floor takes four to six days depending on coats and drying conditions.
The hall has to be empty throughout and stay empty while coatings cure. Foot traffic is normally possible around twenty four hours after the final coat and full use at seventy two. Walking on a floor too early is the single most common cause of a marking job needing touching up, and it is entirely avoidable.
We work holidays, weekends and overnight as a matter of routine.
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.
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.
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.
A failed pad, cracked batten or tired cradle beneath the boards. It is a structural problem, and sanding the surface will not change how the floor feels. We lift the boards locally and replace the failed components.
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.
The blocks and boards themselves are not the concern, but bitumen adhesive beds used before the mid nineteen eighties can contain it. We treat every bitumen bedded floor as suspect until testing confirms otherwise.
Yes. We carry out pendulum slip resistance testing and provide the certificate, which is worth having on file for insurers, governing bodies and facilities audits.
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, 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.
Book a free survey of your floor in Perth 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.