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A school sports hall floor has the hardest brief in the building: safe for five-year-olds in the morning, robust enough for GCSE basketball in the afternoon, and presentable for parents\’ evening by six. Courtship Flooring has installed and refurbished school sports hall flooring across the UK since 1987, for primaries, secondaries, academies and independent schools.
We fit timber, PU, vinyl and epoxy-coated surfaces matched to your hall and your budget, mark every sport on the curriculum to governing body specifications, and schedule the work into half terms and summer holidays as standard. Our Junckers installation at Harris Academy in Wakefield shows the top of the range; our refurbishment service shows how far a sensible budget stretches. Either way, pupils walk into a hall that lifts the whole school.
A large portion of all sports hall floors are made up of Granwood blocks, a popular and durable flooring solution, first introduced in the 1900s. While long-lasting, they can degrade over time, and replacing them can be quite expensive. With our epoxy resin covering, we can improve the longevity of your Granwood floor, giving it years of additional use. Plus, our epoxy surfacing can also be poured in a variety of colours, giving your school sports hall a refreshed and sophisticated look.
We also provide PU, vinyl, hardwood, and lino flooring to suit your school’s specific needs and requirements. These options are each desirable for their suitability for a variety of different sports. PU flooring is a budget-friendly option, that can give additional height to your existing sports floor and restore traction that may have previously been lost. Vinyl is an environmentally-friendly choice that is extremely long-lasting and easy to clean. Feel free to get in touch to talk to one of our expert contractors about the best type of flooring to suit your school’s sports hall.
The school hall is the hardest brief in the building. It hosts PE for five-year-olds and sixth-form basketball, assemblies, lunch service, exams, productions and parents evenings, often all in the same week. Specifying it purely as a sports floor guarantees disappointment, because the damage rarely comes from sport.
Chair legs, table trolleys, stacked staging and exam desks cause most of the wear we repair in school halls. We account for that at specification stage, recommend protective covering for non-sporting use, and choose finishes with the toughness for furniture as well as the grip and shock absorption for PE.
Schools carry a duty of care that a club does not, and a floor is one of the places it gets tested. Shock absorption protects growing joints; slip resistance protects everyone; and both need to be evidenced rather than assumed if an incident is ever investigated.
We install and refurbish to BS EN 14904, carry out pendulum slip testing to BS 7976-2 and provide written reports for the safety file. Where funding is the obstacle, our guides to Condition Improvement Fund bids and Sport England routes are a practical starting point, and we are happy to provide the specification detail a bid needs.
Yes, we can fit your new flooring on the weekends, or overnight to avoid any disruptions.
Absolutely, we understand that school halls often have a variety of uses, so we offer advice and guidance on how to best cater for all of these practicalities.
Depending on the size of your space and the materials and finish you choose, prices can vary. Please contact us today for a more comprehensive run down of different price points.
Half term suits smaller refurbishments and the summer break suits anything substantial. Both fill early, so a term ahead is sensible. We confirm the programme and the reopening date in writing so September is never a gamble.
Protective covering laid over the playing surface takes the punishment from desk and chair legs and comes up quickly afterwards. It costs a fraction of repairing the scuffs and dents, and we can advise on the right type for your floor.
Get in touch to talk to one of our team about refurbishing or replacing your school sports hall flooring.