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A sports hall floor refurbishment gives you back the hall you remember, without the cost or upheaval of replacement. Courtship Flooring has been refurbishing indoor sports floors since 1987: sanding timber back to a clean surface, repairing damaged boards, resealing with hard-wearing lacquers and finishing with crisp new line markings for every sport in the hall.
The same programme covers school gyms, leisure centres, universities and clubs across the UK, and it extends beyond timber: Granwood and composite block floors are restored with our modified epoxy coating systems, and vinyl or PU surfaces get deep cleans, repairs and resealing of their own.
Every refurbishment can finish with a pendulum slip resistance test, so you reopen the hall with written proof it is safe, and our maintenance plans keep the new finish at its best for years afterwards. Family-run, nothing subcontracted, and happy to work overnight or through the holidays.
After many uses and a long period of time, your sports floor can become worn and damaged. This can cause:
Refurbishing your existing sports floor can be a cost-effective alternative to a full installation. Sometimes budgets will not allow for a full installation, so working with what you already have can be the only way forward.
We specialise in a variety of flooring options to meet all specification and budgets. If you are looking to renew a wooden sports hall, or you would like an easier to maintain alternative floor surface, we will have a solution for you.
We will restore your entire floor, reinstating the lines, sporting lacquers and more. If you would like to incorporate a logo, we can add this for you as part of your refurbishment. We will make your floors look like new, maximising their longevity and overall value.
The full sanding, sealing and relining process for an average gymnasium floor of approximately 240 square metres in any of the traditional surfaces is approximately 5 – 6 working days.
The full sanding, sealing and relining of an average size sports hall floor of 4 badminton courts or approximately 550 square metres, again in any traditional surface, i.e. timber, Granwood composite tile, engineered board etc. would be 9 – 10 working days.
The deep clean, abrading and resealing process for sports hall or gymnasium flooring is a two-day process and can be arranged over a weekend at no extra cost if this would be more convenient.
Plus, it is now possible owing to advancements in the drying of water-based high traffic, high traction floor seals to undertake this defensive maintenance process overnight or over a weekend, therefore keeping any disruption to a complete minimum or removing it completely.
The best argument for refurbishment is what it delivers. At Aston University in Birmingham we took a dull, hard-worn university hall back to a like-new finish. At Liskeard Leisure Centre in Cornwall a complete sand, re-line and reseal transformed the centre’s main hall. And at Treguib in South Wales we did the same hundreds of miles from home, on schedule.
Three different buildings, one outcome: floors that look and play like new for a fraction of replacement cost.
This is the question that decides your budget, and plenty of contractors answer it the expensive way by default. We do not, because sanding a floor more often than it needs shortens its life permanently. Every timber floor has a finite amount of board above the tongue, and every full sand spends some of it.
If the lacquer is worn but still intact, a screen and recoat is usually enough: a light abrasion to key the surface, then fresh coats of seal. It costs a fraction of the full job, takes a couple of days, and can buy several years. If the seal has broken through and the timber itself is taking the wear, greying along the traffic lanes is the tell, then a full sand back to clean board is the honest answer.
As a rule of thumb, a well-maintained hall wants a recoat every two to three years and a full sand roughly every eight to twelve. We measure and tell you which one your floor is actually asking for.
Old floors keep secrets. Once the surface comes back we regularly find water damage tracked from a long-forgotten roof leak, boards lifting where a sub-floor has moved, bitumen bleeding up through a 1960s parquet, or previous repairs done in the wrong timber entirely.
None of it is unusual and almost all of it is fixable, but it is the reason we survey properly before quoting rather than pricing from a photograph. Localised water damage can be cut out and replaced with matching boards so the repair disappears into the finish. Movement and squeaking usually trace back to fixings or sub-floor ventilation rather than the boards themselves.
Where something genuinely cannot be saved, we say so and price the alternative honestly. What we will not do is seal over a problem so it becomes yours again in eighteen months.
The hall is usually the hardest-working room in the building, so the programme is built backwards from your calendar rather than ours. Schools are typically done over half term or the summer break; leisure centres get overnight shifts or phased sections so the timetable keeps running; clubs get weekend blocks around fixtures.
Curing matters as much as the work itself. We tell you exactly when the floor can take foot traffic, when equipment and posts can go back, and when full play can resume, so nothing is guessed and nobody walks across a fresh seal. That handover date is agreed in writing before we start, and we hold to it.
Afterwards, our maintenance and aftercare keeps the new finish where it should be, including a cleaning demonstration for your own site team.
Yes! We offer overnight or weekend refurbishments to minimise any disruption.
Yes, we specialise in the full refurbishments of squash courts. This is inclusive of the walls and ceilings and everything else required. Get in touch for more information.
When it comes to our refurbishments, we make sure that everything we do is above board. Our flooring engineers have years of experience and the equipment to ensure a safe working environment. We have also invested heavily in dust extractors, keeping your premises tidy and safe.
Considerably less than replacement, which is the main reason to consider it. Price follows the hall size, the condition of the boards and whether you need a recoat or a full sand and seal. A free survey turns that into a fixed written quotation, and we will always price the cheaper option too where it is genuinely viable.
It depends on how much board remains above the tongue, which is why we measure rather than guess. A floor sanded sparingly may have several cycles left; one machined every few years may have none. Screen and recoat treatments barely touch the timber, which is exactly why we favour them where they will do the job.
Yes, though each needs a different approach. Vinyl and polyurethane cannot be sanded but can be deep cleaned, repaired, welded and resealed. Granwood block floors need a specialist coating system rather than sanding, which would destroy them. We handle all three and will identify your floor free of charge if you are unsure.
Give us a call for professional sports hall floor refurbishments.