Court Marking

Renovate Contracts Ltd offers an indoor court marking service for the flooring industry. Renovate Contracts can paint court markings on most sports surfaces including all types of wood, Granwood, Gransprung, Junckers, Kahrs, Haro, Boen, Tarkett, Wietzer Parkett, vinyl, Gerfloor, Sport ‘M’ Taraflex, Altro Mondo, Polyflor, Polytred, Flexiflor, Standard, Forbo and many other sports floors. Court marking is not carried out by Renovate Contracts Ltd using tapes, all of our line marking is carried out using specialist paints purpose designed with court markings in mind. The indoor sports lines that Renovate Contracts Ltd paint are badminton, basketball, volleyball, hockey, tennis, 5-a-side, boccia, netball, squash, athletics training lines and demarcation lines or markings. Renovate Contracts Ltd is the recommended line marking contractor for two large flooring manufacturers, Polyflor and Junckers, as well as many different flooring contractors. This is due to the fact that Renovate Contracts Ltd is able to carry out the court marking process under site conditions to fit in with the requirements of the site.

Sports Lines

Our court markings are complemented by our logo service which companies, sports teams, schools, universities and M.O.D sites, use to display their logo on their newly installed or refurbished flooring using our line marking service. Renovate Contracts Ltd is a sports hall line marking company that carries out court markings on a great scale. We are responsible for many newly installed sports floors of all kinds as well as on both wood and Junckers and Granwood floors which are being refurbished by way of machine sanding either by ourselves or by our client. During the court marking process, we liaise with our clients to advise them when they will either be able to put their floor into use for the first time or be able to carry on the application of further coats of floor seal or lacquer in order to complete their job. Many court marking jobs are carried out in accordance with Sport England’s guidelines and therefore sizes are pre-determined. Some buildings, however, do not allow the guidelines to be followed to the letter in terms of court markings. Renovate Contracts Ltd will overcome any such problems by weighing up the problems with the client and suggesting possible ways to overcome the issues without compromising the play experience.

Sports Floor Markings

Sports lines or court markings can be either renewed or touched in during a scrub and reseal on all types of wood floors and Granwood or Gransprung floors. On these types of flooring, the painted sports lines are applied between coats of floor seal or lacquer which is referred to as encapsulation. This process means that the lines are kept away from the ‘footfall’ and will, therefore, last much longer provided the floor is kept clean and the interim or periodic maintenance works are carried out at the appropriate time. Indoor floor marking really is a business which needs to be done correctly the first time and every time. Renovate Contracts Ltd excels at line marking and as a result, we are used again and again by our clients who have come to count on our reliable, fast, friendly and competitively priced court marking service.

The height requirement for badminton is typically the driver of overall clear height in a sports hall. The 7.5m clear height (recently reduced from 7.6m) for club-level play determines the height of most school sports facilities in the UK – and please note this requirement only applies over the courts and not between or behind them. However, we see many instances where buildings are not designed high enough to result in a 7.5m clear height – for example, the depth of services in the roof such as lighting, ventilation and heating can be overlooked as can the depth of stored roof mounted basketball goals and the impact of a lower eaves height on the positioning of cricket netting trackway. Please contact us for advice on the optimum build height to result in your specified clear height.

	Community	Club	Premier	International
Minimum height over court (mm)	6700	7500	9000	9000
Length (mm)	13400	13400	13400	13400
Width (mm)	6100	6100	6100	6100
Wall from baseline - min (mm)	2000	2000	2000	2000
Wall from baseline with a division net at end of the court - min (mm)	1500	1500	1500	2000
Space between parallel courts - min (mm)	1500	1000	1500	2000
Space between parallel courts with a division net at the side of the court - min (mm)	2400	2600	2600	3000

The traditional FIBA basketball court layout changed in 2010 to bring the court more in line with the NBA layout. This has done away with the trapezoidal shooting key and replaced it with a rectangular key. The overall dimensions of the court and the projection of the backboard into the court are unchanged so you are free to re-mark old-style courts with the new markings without changing your basketball goals.

	Community	Club	Premier	International
Minimum height over court (mm)	7000	7000	7000	7000
Length (min-preferred) (mm)	26000-28000	26000-28000	26000-28000	28000
Width (min-preferred) (mm)	14000-15000	14000-15000	14000-15000	15000
Baseline to wall - min (mm)	1050(1)	1050(1)	2000	2000
Sideline to wall - min (mm)	1050(1)	1050(1)	2000	2000
Extra one side for officials and team areas	Optional	1000	2000	2000

1050 is permitted to allow larger size courts to be located in smaller halls. However wherever possible the preferred minimum run-off is 2050mm

Traditionally played using the perimeter of the hall as a rebound wall – the walls are “in-play” so it is normal NOT to mark a perimeter to the court. If the hall is too wide (for example in a 6-court or 8-court hall or larger) then temporary removable “rebound screens” can be used to provide a number of smaller courts. Technically, the FA requires 80mm thick lines for five-a-side, but traditionally standard 50mm thick lines are used.

	Community	Club	Premier	International
Minimum height over court	No prescribed minimum height applies
Length (mm) (min-max)	25000-50000	25000-50000	25000-50000	25000-50000
Width (mm) (min-max)	16500-35000	16500-35000	16500-35000	16500-35000
Out of Bounds Surround	N/A – the game is played up to the walls which are “in-play”. If there are areas where the walls are unsafe or irregular (for example recesses or store doors, consideration should be given to installing rebound screens in those areas to provide a safe rebound area)

Indoor hockey requires suitable skirting down the sides of the court to ensure the ball stays in play. This skirting should be angled downwards to prevent the ball from kicking upwards off the surface. This can be achieved either by permanent specialist skirting down the sides of the walls (if it is accepted not to have the recommended run-off down the sides of the court) or by the use of portable removable hockey sideboards – Continental can supply either of those solutions. A hockey court (even at minimum size) is too large to fit in a standard 4-court hall. However, our experience is that school hockey can be successfully played in such a hall using a smaller court.

	Community	Club	Premier	International
Minimum height over court	No prescribed minimum height applies	No prescribed minimum height applies	No prescribed minimum height applies	No prescribed minimum height applies
Length (min-preferred) (including back lines)	36000-44000	36000-44000	36000-44000	36000-44000
Width (min-preferred) (excluding 100x100mm sideboards)	18000-22000	18000-22000	18000-22000	18000-22000
Run-off behind back lines	3000	3000	3000	3000
Clearance outside sideboards	1000	1000	1000	1000
Extra one side for officials and team areas	N/A	1200	1200	1200

Netball court size has recently been a hot topic in standard sports halls. The governing body had set run-off requirements which resulted in a necessity to shrink the court to fit the run-offs in an "old" 33m x 18m hall. The governing body has now formally confirmed that smaller run-offs than standard can be permitted, subject to risk assessment, to allow a full-size court to be marked.

	Community	Club	Premier	International
Minimum height over court (mm)	7500	7500	7500	8300
Length (mm)	30500	30500	30500	30500
Width (mm)	15250	15250	15250	15250
Baseline to wall - min (mm)	2000	3050	3050	3050
Sidelines to wall - min (mm)	1500	3050	3050	3050
Between parallel courts - min (mm)	3000	4000	4000	4000
Between parallel courts with a division net - min (mm)	3000	6100	6100	6100
Extra one side for officials and team areas (mm)	Optional	Optional	2000	2000

Tennis can be played in a standard 4-court sports hall although normally this is a minority sport in a multi-sports hall so various compromises are necessary to the guidance of the governing body.

	All Levels
Above the net (mm)	9000
Above the baseline (mm)	5750
Above a point 6.4m behind the baseline (mm)	4000
Length (mm)	23770
Width (mm)	10970
Run-off behind baseline (mm) (min-preferred)	5490-6400
Run-off at the sidelines (mm) (min-preferred)	3050-3660

All volleyball posts MUST be secured to the floor when in use either by way of floor anchors or sockets in the floor slab. This results in a number of different layout drawings showing the fixing location of different standards of posts.

	Training	Community	Club	Premier	International
Minimum height over court (mm)	7500	7500	7500	7500	12500
Length (mm)	18000	18000	18000	18000	18000
Width (mm)	9000	9000	9000	9000	9000
Baseline to wall - min (mm)	1000	3000	3000	5000	8000
Sidelines to wall - min (mm)	3000	3000	3000	3000	5000
Extra one side for officials and N/A team areas	N/A	N/A	2000	2000	3000

Court Marking / Sports Hall Projects

Regal & Jordan Court, London

We were commissioned to renovate The Nike Jordan & Regal basketball court in South London. Unlike many courts, we were required to stain the playing area in jet black. We then used white court lines and decals to finish this spectacular basketball court.

Huncote Leisure Centre

This is a Gransprung floor by Granwood. Granwood block floors are a combination of sawdust, cement, and fillers which are heavily compressed into a block shape. The blocks are then totally saturated in linseed oil and then stacked to allow them to mature. This process meant Granwood floors were almost entirely free from expansion and contraction.

Hucknall Academy Sports Hall

This is a concrete floor we chemically cleaned. We then fully abraded the concrete and thoroughly vacuumed the floor surface. We then applied 2 coats of green sports floor paint. Then we had our Court marking team on-site to mark out and paint the courts specified by the client

University of South Wales

We were asked to renovate the wooden floors of the University of South Wales' sports centre & gym during the summer of 2013. We carried out sanding and coating of the gym and sporting hall. We applied two coats of Granguard to both floor surfaces