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Sports Floor Recoating

A screen and re-coat renews the wear layer without touching the timber underneath — and you're playing on it the next morning.

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What it involves

A new wear layer, not a new floor

Every timber sports floor wears from the top down. The coating takes the punishment — shoes, ball impact, drag marks, cleaning chemicals — and once it thins out, the timber starts taking it instead. That's when a floor ends up needing a full sand, and a floor can only be sanded a handful of times in its life.

Recoating gets in before that happens. We abrade the existing finish back to a key, clean it down to bare dust-free timber-safe surface, then lay fresh sports-grade coats. The floor comes back with even gloss, correct slip resistance and the ball response players expect.

Turnaround: a single court is typically a two-night job, and most floors are ready for use the next morning. We work nights, weekends and school holidays so nothing comes off your booking sheet.

What's covered

  • Pre-coat moisture and adhesion test
  • Full floor abrasion (screen) of existing finish
  • Dust extraction and tack-off
  • Two coats of sports-grade finish to AS 3610 slip range
  • Line-marking touch-ups where needed
  • Furniture, ring and fitting protection
  • Post-job photo record and care sheet for your cleaners

Included once in a Silver plan and twice in a Gold plan. Compare plans

Fig. 02 · Wear-layer depth budget Floor screening machine abrading a timber court surface
The maths

Why a recoat beats a re-sand

Every court has a fixed depth budget. A recoat only renews the finish on top — do it as often as the schedule calls for and the board never gets any thinner. A full sand cuts into the timber itself, and there's only so much of it before you're into the tongue and groove. Try the model: recoat as many times as you like, then see how fast a floor runs out of safe sands.

  • Current surface — what players are on today
  • Remaining wear layer — still safe to sand
  • Structural minimum — the line we never cross
How it runs

Four steps, two nights

01

Inspect

We test the existing coating, check moisture and confirm the floor is a recoat candidate — not a re-sand.

02

Prep

Court is cleared and protected, the floor is screened back to a key and every trace of dust extracted.

03

Coat

Two sports-grade coats laid overnight, with line-marking touch-ups between coats if they're due.

04

Ready next day

We hand the court back with a photo record, a care sheet and a date pencilled in for the next cycle.

Who we recoat for

Schools Stadiums Gyms Recreation Centres Community Halls
Recoats we've done

Before & after

Full gallery
Before: dull, patchy school court coating
Before
After: even gloss across the same court
After

Kilbryde Grammar, Ringwood — single court recoat over a long weekend.

Before: worn stadium centre-circle traffic lane
Before
After: recoated stadium court under lights
After

Northvale Indoor Sports, Craigieburn — four courts recoated across two nights.

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Preventative MaintenanceStay ahead of the wear → Deep CleaningLift what mopping leaves → Court Line MarkingSet out to code → Floor InspectionsFree written report →

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