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Flooring Professionals To The Leisure Industry
Courtship Flooring is a commercial sports flooring contractor working in Wrexham and across the UK. We cover north Wales and the border counties for schools, community facilities and clubs.
This is all we do, and we have been doing it since 1987. Installation, restoration, sanding, sealing, line marking, slip testing and maintenance for commercial and institutional buildings, delivered without subcontractors. Residential projects go to our sister company, Ryan’s Restorations.
Overnight/Weekend Installations
Professional Cleaning Demonstrations
Squash Court Maintenance
Recommended Cleaning Products
Professional Pendulum Slip Testing
Deep Clean & Reseal Service
Many halls in the area were built decades ago, frequently over structures nobody documented. Assuming what lies beneath is how contractors end up back on site within the year.
We investigate instead: moisture readings, level checks and, where necessary, opening a small area to establish the actual build-up before quoting. It occasionally produces unwelcome findings, but before you have committed rather than afterwards.
Older buildings rarely provide a level substrate, and laying a sports floor over an uneven one produces dead spots, uneven wear and premature failure.
Levelling compounds, packing and structural correction are included where the survey shows they are required, itemised in the quotation rather than appearing later as a variation once work is under way.
Installing into an existing building differs fundamentally from a new build. Access, available height, thresholds, existing services and the need to keep the rest of the building running all constrain what can be done.
We survey those constraints first and specify a system that works within them, including low-profile sprung construction where height is limited, so the result performs properly rather than being a compromise discovered on day one.
Our installation at Hornbury Academy shows the full process from bare sub-floor through to a finished, fully line-marked hall, delivered to a fixed programme while the school carried on around us.
For anyone weighing a new floor against another patch-up, it is a useful illustration of what the complete journey involves and what it produces.
~ 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 great many floors we are asked to refinish do not actually need it. They need cleaning properly, and the difference in cost is substantial.
Over years of use, dirt, rubber and cleaning product residue build up on the surface of a seal rather than in the timber. The floor looks grey and tired, grip feels inconsistent, and the assumption is that the finish has worn out. Often it has not. A machine deep clean using the correct equipment and a product matched to the seal lifts that layer and reveals a finish underneath that is still sound.
We will tell you honestly at survey which situation you are in, because there is no sense selling a refinish to a floor that needs a clean. The test is simple: if the seal is intact and the problem is appearance and grip, cleaning is worth trying first.
Deep cleaning also extends the interval between screen and recoat visits, which over the life of a floor saves real money and preserves board depth.
Most sports floors are replaced later and more expensively than they needed to be, because nobody was watching them.
An inspection is a short, structured visit that produces a written report on the state of the floor: the finish, the markings, the boards, the structure beneath, moisture readings, the remaining wear layer and anything that needs attention now rather than later. It comes with photographs and a rough cost against each recommendation.
That document does two useful things. It tells a business manager or an operations lead what is coming, so a floor appears in a budget rather than as an emergency. And it creates a record over time, so you can see whether a problem is stable or getting worse.
For organisations with several floors it is the single most valuable thing we do, because it converts an unpredictable estate risk into a plannable one. Discovering in July that a hall cannot open in September is the situation everybody wants to avoid, and it is entirely avoidable.
Most halls are asked to accommodate five or six sports on one floor, and the difference between a hall that works and one that confuses everybody is hierarchy rather than cleverness.
We start by asking what is actually played, and in what proportion. The sport used most gets the dominant colour and the clearest line. Secondary sports step back. Anything genuinely redundant comes off, which is almost always the single biggest improvement available.
The conflicts are predictable. Netball goal circles land on the basketball key. Badminton tramlines cross both. Five a side markings run through everything. We resolve them by colour weight and by removing clutter, not by adding more variation into an already crowded floor.
Colour choice is made under your own hall lighting rather than on a paint chart, because LED refits have changed how colours read in a great many halls. Two shades that look distinct on paper can merge completely on the floor.
Clubs are a distinct kind of customer, because the money is usually the members money and the decision is made by a committee rather than a manager.
That changes how we quote. Every item is priced separately so a committee can see exactly what each part costs, weigh it, and defer anything that is not urgent. It also means we are happy to attend a meeting or provide a written specification for a funding application, because these decisions rarely rest with one person.
The work itself tends to follow a pattern. Club floors are heavily used but often better maintained than school halls, because somebody on the committee cares about them. The common issues are grip that has gone in the busiest areas, markings that have faded, and the accumulated damage from social use as well as sport.
Where a club runs squash courts alongside a hall, we can phase the work court by court so the facility never closes entirely.
Wrexham work comes to us from school sports halls, council leisure facilities, college sport and a number of club and community buildings.
School and academy halls are the largest group, and the recurring issue is halls that have gone a decade or more without a proper refinish. Once the seal has worn through in the traffic lanes, dirt sits in open timber and the staining eventually goes beyond what sanding will lift.
Leisure centre halls are usually the busiest floors in the area and the ones that benefit most from being kept on a sensible maintenance cycle. A screen and recoat before the seal fails costs a fraction of a full refinish.
Community and church halls follow, and those old timber floors are usually in far better condition than they look under the polish.
Because we travel to reach North Wales, projects here are planned as continuous blocks with everything brought with us. Sequencing several jobs into one trip brings the cost down for everybody involved, so it is worth mentioning if you know of another facility considering work.
Wrexham enquiries tend to arrive in three forms.
The most common is a school hall where the seal has worn through in the traffic lanes and dirt has worked into open timber. Caught reasonably early those floors restore completely; left too long the staining goes deeper than sanding will reach.
The second is leisure centre halls that need putting on a maintenance cycle rather than rescuing. A screen and recoat every two to three years keeps a busy floor off the replacement list entirely and costs a fraction of a full refinish.
The third is community and church halls where decades of polish sit over a sound timber floor. That build up has to be removed chemically before sanding, because it clogs abrasives, and it is the item most often missed in quotations from contractors who do not do this work regularly.
Colour is the part of a relining scheme most often decided badly, because it gets chosen from a chart in an office rather than on the floor under the hall lights.
Most halls have been refitted with LED lighting in the last decade, and LEDs render colour very differently from the fluorescent tubes they replaced. Two shades that look clearly distinct on a sample card can merge almost completely under the actual lighting, which is how halls end up with court markings nobody can follow.
So we bring samples and look at them in the room with the lights on before anything is ordered. It takes ten minutes and it prevents the most common complaint we hear about other contractors work.
The floor itself matters too. A pale maple floor takes different colours from a mid tone vinyl or a dark polyurethane, and a scheme designed for one will not necessarily read on the other. Where a hall is being recoloured as well as relined, the two decisions have to be made together rather than in sequence.
Considerably less than most people expect, because restoration rather than replacement is usually the answer. A full sand and seal typically costs a small fraction of a new floor. The survey is free, the quotation is fixed, and nothing is added later without your agreement.
The full area and the counties around it. Where a facility is some way from us, we bring all machinery and materials at the outset and complete everything within one agreed window.
None of it. The team that surveys the hall carries out every stage through to the final coat and returns for maintenance, which means one warranty covering the whole system.
Usually, provided the source is fixed first. Damaged boards are cut out and replaced with matching timber before the floor is sanded and sealed as one surface, so the repair disappears into the finish.
Protective covering laid over the playing surface takes the punishment from desk and chair legs and lifts quickly afterwards. It costs far less than repairing the damage.
Yes, and it is a genuine specialism. Granwood is a composite block in a bitumen bed, not timber, and it needs appropriate preparation and a modified epoxy coating system rather than standard sanding and lacquering.
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.
Almost always polish or the wrong cleaning product building up, or a seal worn smooth in the traffic lanes. Both are fixable, and both should be dealt with before somebody is injured.
Yes. Logos are painted from your own artwork between coats of seal so they wear with the floor rather than scuffing off. It costs least while the floor is already open for a refinish.
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.
Usually a two pack polyurethane in a satin sheen. It holds slip resistance and appearance under heavy use, and satin hides scuffing and avoids glare under the LED lighting most halls now have.
Book a free survey of your floor in Wrexham 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.