Indoor basketball court with a high-gloss maple floor, painted key and court lines, and padded grey wall protection

What a gym gloss finish is

Home courts, sport courts, and workout floors need a finish that looks sharp and takes a pounding. We lay down a high-gloss gym coating that brings out the wood or court color, stands up to shoes, weights, and equipment, and stays easy to clean between games.

The gloss is not only cosmetic. A sealed, unbroken finish is what keeps sweat, spilled drinks, and mop water from reaching the floor underneath, and it is what lets a room be cleaned quickly between a practice and an assembly. When that seal wears through in the traffic lanes, everything below it starts absorbing what lands on it — which is when a floor stops being a maintenance item and starts being a capital one.

  • Mirror-gloss finish. A deep, even shine that makes the court the centerpiece of the room.
  • Built for play. Handles running, pivoting, and dropped weights without dulling or scuffing.
  • Court lines and color options. Painted lines and accent colors laid in and sealed under the gloss.
  • Wipes clean. Sweat, scuffs, and dust come up with a quick mop.

Used on home basketball courts, sport courts, and workout and training floors.

Who this is for

Two very different rooms, one finish

Schools, districts, and rec centers

Gyms, auxiliary gyms, weight rooms, wrestling rooms, and multipurpose floors that have to be presentable for a home game and clean for a lunch period on the same day. The constraint is almost never the finish — it is the calendar, the cure window, and getting the room back on schedule.

Home courts and sport courts

Basement and outbuilding courts, garage gyms, and dedicated training rooms. Here the finish is the whole point: a mirror gloss that makes the room look like a real court, with lines and accent colors sealed in rather than painted on top and left to scuff away.

Lines, logos, and accent color

Court lines, keys, three-point arcs, and color blocking go in and are sealed under the gloss, so they wear with the floor instead of off it. Tell us what the room has to support — one sport or four — and it goes in the proposal.

Testimonials

What a School District Said

Completed work for the Orrick R-XI School District.

5.0 Google Rating
School district restroom floor finished in grey and tan decorative flake epoxy, sealed wall to wall beneath the urinals and stall partitions

"We needed to work within a limited budget and encapsulate environmental contaminants without a massive, costly demolition. Surface Shield had the perfect solution."

They stripped and coated our VCT tile using the Dr. Schutz system. The finished product looks amazing, and their communication and professionalism made the project flow perfectly.


Orrick R-XI School District School District · Google Review
School gymnasium with a glossy maple court, navy accent border, retracted bleachers, and glass backboards

What a facilities director needs from us

Institutional work lives or dies on the parts that have nothing to do with the finish. Below is what we bring to a district conversation, and what should be in front of you before you put anything out to bid.

  • Licensed and insured, in writing. Certificates provided on request as part of the bid package.
  • A written proposal, not a verbal number. Scope, system, schedule, cure windows, and a workmanship warranty of 1 to 15 years depending on the surface and system specified.
  • Scheduling built around your calendar. Summer windows, breaks, and after-hours sequencing, agreed before we start rather than negotiated on site.
  • One point of contact. You talk to an owner, from the walkthrough through to the final handover.
  • No demolition. Encapsulating and recoating rather than tearing out keeps the disruption and the cost down — which is exactly what Orrick R-XI needed.

We take commercial and institutional projects across Missouri, Kansas, and Arkansas.

Start to finish

How the work runs

  1. Walk the room with an owner

    We look at the floor, what it is made of, what condition the existing finish is in, and when the room can actually be released to us. Free, and no obligation.

  2. Written proposal

    System, scope, line and color work, schedule, cure windows, warranty, and itemized pricing — in a document you can take to a board or a purchasing office.

  3. Prep and repair

    The floor is cleaned and prepared for coating and the existing finish is dealt with properly. This is the step that decides whether the new gloss bonds or lifts.

  4. Lines, color, and gloss

    Court lines and accent colors go in, then the gloss coats seal them under a single continuous finish.

  5. Cure and hand the room back

    We confirm the cure window before the room goes back into use, walk the floor with you, and leave the space clean.

Putting a gym floor out to bid?

Send us the room and the window you have to work in, and we will put a written proposal in front of you within one business day.

Common questions

Gym floor FAQ

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Can you work inside a summer break or a school calendar?

That is how most of this work gets scheduled. We agree the window with you before the proposal is written, and the schedule and cure times go into that document rather than being worked out on site. Because there is no demolition, the sequencing is far more flexible than a tear-out would allow.

Do you paint court lines and logos?

Court lines, keys, arcs, and accent colors are laid in and then sealed under the gloss coats, so they wear with the floor instead of scuffing off the top of it. Tell us how many sports the room has to support when we walk it and it goes into the proposal.

Is there a warranty?

Yes. Every surface we coat carries a workmanship warranty, from 1 to 15 years depending on the surface and the system specified, and the exact term for your floor is spelled out in writing in your proposal. If our workmanship fails, we make it right.

Do you work with school districts and public bodies?

Yes. We completed the flooring work at the Orrick R-XI School District, and we take commercial and institutional projects across Missouri, Kansas, and Arkansas. We are a licensed and insured LLC and can provide certificates as part of a bid package.

How do we get a number to budget against?

Request a proposal or call us. An owner comes out, walks the room, and you get a free, no-obligation written proposal within one business day, with pricing itemized so a purchasing office can read it.

Related

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All services

Every coating and flooring system we install, in one place.

Talk to an owner about your floor

Free, no-obligation proposals from a licensed and insured local company. We respond within one business day.

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