Baseline Court Floors · Colter Falls & the fieldhouse circuit
A gym floor is equipment. We keep it in season.
Baseline lays, lines and re-surfaces maple courts across the fieldhouse circuit — competition strip to 2 1/4 inches, game lines laid out to the rulebook and painted between the seal coats, resiliency proven with a basketball instead of a brochure. Most re-surfaces run from Friday’s final buzzer to Monday’s first bell.
Services & rates
The court card
The card every athletic director on the circuit gets the same. Line sets are quoted whole because that is how they are laid out — with tape and a rulebook, then painted, then sealed so the paint is in the floor rather than on it. Summer work books from March; a single re-surface between seasons takes one weekend.
Competition maple, supplied & laid$13.80 / sq ft
2 1/4 in. strip, 9.5 mm wear layer, metered slab
Re-surface & full re-line$3.85 / sq ft
Containment, screen, seal, painted lines, two topcoats
Game lines, painted$1,450 / full set
Layout to rulebook, taped, sealed over
Centre logo or key artfrom $680
Scaled from your artwork, painted by hand
Board & panel repairfrom $34 / board
Impact damage cut out, matched strip woven flat
Practice screen & recoat$1.45 / sq ft
The one-coat service between seasons
How the weekend goes
The Friday-to-Monday re-surface
The whole job fits between the final buzzer and the first bell, because a school cannot give up its gym and will not pretend otherwise. Four crews have run this sequence two hundred times; the clock below is the honest one.
Friday night — the walk & tape-out
The floor is measured and the game lines laid out in tape to the rulebook, centre circle to baseline. The athletic director signs the tape before a drop of paint exists.
Saturday — contain & screen
Gym sealed into zones, machines on HEPA extraction, the old finish screened back. Impact damage is cut out and matched strip woven in while the floor is bare.
Saturday night — seal & paint
The seal coat goes down, then the lines and the logo are painted onto it — so the colour sits inside the finish system, not on top of it.
Sunday — topcoats & the bounce test
Two topcoats, then a basketball bounced on every line and a letter to the athletic director with the readings, the paint batches and the dates.
What we do
Three surfaces, one crew
The competition court
Strip maple at 2 1/4 inches with a 9.5-millimetre wear layer — enough timber for four full re-surfaces across a floor’s sixty-year life. The slab beneath is metered for weeks before a board ships; a court cups in July if the concrete was read in April and trusted since.
The practice house
Not every gym needs competition strip. For the practice house and the multipurpose room we lay engineered maple over the slab — four millimetres of wear layer, glued and rolled — which shrugs at the volleyball standards, the folding chairs and the January humidity alike.
The community hall
The old halls have the best floors and the worst maintenance histories. We weave board repairs from matched strip, mend the bleacher aprons and the nosings every boot in the parish has rounded, and re-line the faded half-court nobody can prove is regulation anyway.
The circuit, 2025 — 2026
Courts in season
Six floors from the last two seasons, photographed at the first practice on the Monday after. The paint was sealed in on the Saturday night before.
Our floor was grey, the three-point line was a rumour, and the booster club had quotes for a plastic court from out of state. Baseline re-surfaced the maple, repainted the lines to the rulebook and rebuilt the logo from a photograph in a 1972 yearbook — between Friday’s buzzer and Monday’s assembly. The booster club paid for new bleachers with what it saved.
Two seasons on the lines
Painted lines and logos are warrantied for two full seasons against peel, lift and fade — because they live inside the finish system, sealed under two topcoats rather than painted on top of the floor. A line that fails inside two seasons is repainted at our cost, mid-season, overnight.
Why the lines hold
The paint is in the floor, not on it
Any crew can paint a straight line. The difference is sequence: we screen the old finish, seal the timber, and paint the lines onto the seal coat, then bury the colour under two topcoats of the same system. The line becomes a layer of the floor — which is why it wears at the speed of the floor and not the speed of the paint.
Before you book
Asked by every athletic director
The five that decide the booking. Anything rarer, the circuit has heard it — the shop line runs weekdays and the crew chief answers it himself.
Can the gym stay in use during the work?
That is the design of the schedule. The floor is sealed into work zones under negative air with HEPA extraction, finished one half at a time, and the booking calendar keeps the clean half for practice. Weekend re-surfaces close the gym for exactly the weekend.
Maple strip or engineered for a multipurpose room?
If the room hosts assemblies, exams and voting days as well as basketball: engineered with a four-millimetre wear layer, glued to the slab. It carries two re-surfaces, tolerates the chairs and standards, and costs a third less to lay. Competition strip earns its price on the competition court.
What about moisture under the slab?
Metered, logged and waited out. A slab younger than ninety days does not get a floor; a slab reading high gets a vapour barrier in the quote; a slab that reads clean gets a log the school keeps with the boiler paperwork. The meter decides, never the calendar.
A forklift dropped a pallet on our furlines. Repairable?
Almost always. The crushed boards are cut out on a multitool, matched strip is woven in and pinned, and the local area is screened and recoated to disappear. On a strip floor the repair should be invisible from the bleachers and honest only from your knees.
Can you repaint our old logo, or only new ones?
We repaint old ones more often than we paint new. Bring the yearbook photograph, the faded centre circle, or the coach’s memory; the artwork is scaled, taped out for approval, and painted by the same hand that paints the game lines.
Summer court work books from March · (555) 031-7742 · courts@baselinefloors.example
Book the walk-through
Tell us the building and the season. The walk-through is free, the tape-out happens before you sign, and the schedule is built backwards from your first practice. courts@baselinefloors.example