Tennis · basketball · pickleball courts in hot mix · Quarry Fields · Sunker Park · Vintners Row · since 2007
Flat to a sixteenth. Drained to a percent. Yours by August.
Full Court Asphalt builds sport courts the ball can trust: three inches of hot mix in two lifts over six inches of laser-graded stone falling exactly one percent, net-post sockets set in concrete before the mat closes around them, five acrylic coats and playing lines snapped to an eighth of an inch. One court with its run-offs is 7,200 square feet — 131 tons at three inches. We order 133.
The card
Two boards, one standard
Build on the left, refinish on the right — the same arithmetic underneath both, printed in the open because a court that costs a surprise is a court nobody plays on.
Build — the stone and the mat
New court, full build$6.75–8.20 / sq ft
6-in laser-graded stone at a 1% fall, 3-in mat in two lifts, forms struck and edges floated
Basketball half-padfrom $12,900
1,800 sq ft, same section, hoops set on our footings or yours
Net-post sockets$240 / socket
Cored, set in concrete, capped, and closed into the mat — never bolted on after
Club & multi-court runsfrom $6.10 / sq ft
Phased so play never stops; shared trenches, shared mobilization, per-court price down
Refinish — the coats and the lines
Full colorcoat$4,900 / court
Five acrylic coats, two colours, filled cracks and birdbaths levelled first
Crack routing & fill$2.90 / lin ft
Chased to a half inch, blown, sealed recessed — the acrylic goes over a cured seal, never a live one
Playing lines, repainted$610 / court
2-in acrylic, two coats, snapped to laser and checked to an eighth of an inch
Annual court check$0
Walk, crack count, drain check — free on any court we built or last coated
The arithmetic is public
One court is 131 tons
Sixty by a hundred and twenty feet with the run-offs is 7,200 square feet. At three inches of compacted mix that is 1,800 cubic feet — 131 tons at 145 pounds a cubic foot, and the plant ticket reads 133 because two tons belong to the screed and the joints. The takeoff page shows every multiplication, and the same page prices the stone, the coats and the lines. A court quote you cannot check is a coin flip with a net on it.
Stake the fall
Laser on the tripod, high point at the net line, one percent to both sides — a court drains in a sheet or it pools in a scandal, and the stakes decide which before a stone arrives.
Stone to a tenth
Six inches of aggregate, laser-graded and compacted to within a tenth of plane. Nobody sees this layer; everybody plays on it.
Posts before mat
Sockets cored and set in concrete, capped, and the mat closed around them. A post bolted through a finished mat is a leak wearing a flag.
Two fine lifts
An inch and a half twice, each rolled to plane — the mat is screeded as a surface, not just laid as a driveway with lines coming.
Coats and lines
Five acrylic coats after cure, then the lines: snapped to laser, brushed in two coats, and checked with a straightedge before we call the club.
The build sequence
From dirt to first serve, one season
Stone in spring while the ground is moist, mat in the first hot stretch the plant will fine-blend for, coats once the mat has cured and the nights stay above fifty. A court rushed into October acrylic is a court that bubbles by June — the calendar is part of the spec, and we build to it rather than around it.
Why five coats
The colorcoat is the sunscreen
Bare asphalt oxidizes in the sun like anything else; the acrylic system is what stands between your mat and ultraviolet, and it is also where the game lives — pace, grip, and a two-colour court that reads at dusk. Five coats, squeegeed, each one cured before the next, with cracks routed and sealed underneath so the coat bridges nothing it will have to confess to later.
The line guarantee
Every playing line is snapped to laser and checked with a straightedge at handback — within an eighth of an inch over its length, or it is repainted on us. Nineteen seasons, two repaints, both times because we said so first.
2025 — 2026
Courts we built
Reviewed
The club manager’s copy
Our old courts held water at the baselines and every league knew it. Full Court quoted a laser-graded rebuild with the one-percent fall drawn on the takeoff page, and the number never moved. Two summers, six courts, and the season we reopened we hosted the regional finals — on surfaces the referees measured before the first coin toss, because that is what the game deserves.
The four regulars
Questions before the coin toss
If yours is not here, the yard line runs seven to five and the person on it has screeded a court in your township — probably the one your league plays on.
Our yard slopes. Can a court still drain one percent?
Almost always, because one percent is a plane, not a flat — we cut the high corner and fill the low one inside the stone section, and the takeoff page shows exactly how much of each. Beyond roughly four feet of fall across the court the stone gets expensive enough that a partial retaining cut prices better, and we will say so at the walk rather than discover it with a skid steer on site.
How long until we can play on it?
The mat cures two to four weeks depending on nights, the five coats go on after that, and lines follow the last coat by days. Build in the first heat of summer and the first serve lands before the school year; a court pushed into late coats risks October humidity under the acrylic, which is where bubbles come from.
Can you convert our tennis court to pickleball?
Yes, and it is mostly a lines-and-coats job when the mat is sound: colorcoat, then the pickleball lines snapped inside the tennis geometry so both games share the surface. If the audit walk finds the mat tired instead, the conversion is the cheapest moment to refinish the whole court — half the coats are already paid for.
Do the nets and fences come with it?
Net posts are ours — cored, concreted and closed into the mat. Fencing and lighting we coordinate with the crews we have shared sites with for nineteen seasons, on your contract or theirs, but the trench, the sleeves and the timing are sequenced into our build either way. A fence contractor who meets a finished court with an auger is how courts die.
Put your court in the book
Address, the game you want to play, and the slope of the yard if you know it. The walk is free, the takeoff page is the quote, and the first-serve date goes on paper before the stone is ordered. courts@fullcourtasphalt.example
Court walks run Saturday mornings through spring — the demo half-pad stays up at the yard, and the kids are welcome on it while we talk stone grades. courts@fullcourtasphalt.example