Normally resurfacing is required after around 7-10 years or when the surface is showing signs of ageing.  There are many factors which will speed up or slow down the necessity for resurfacing.  Regular maintenance, amount of usage, location of the court in relation to trees for instance.  If in doubt always call us inspect the court to offer our professional advice and provide you with the right solution to meet your requirements. 

TruBounce Macadam Resurface

If you have a macadam type court either painted or unpainted and it is beginning to break up and fret, but is still basically sound then we should be able to simply resurface the court by laying a new layer of our TruBounce porous macadam directly over the existing old surface. The standard preparation procedure would be to clean and weed/moss kill the existing old surface, pierce holes in a grid all over the surface to allow drainage through the surface and cut a chase against the existing edging, and then apply a tack coat of bitumen emulsion to allow the new surface to bond to the old surface. The new TruBounce surface could be laid and bevelled down around the perimeter to the existing edging. An optional colourspray can be applied normally in two tone green or red and green.

Please note that in the 7-10 time span the court will normally have been cleaned and coloured once.

Additional items that can often be necessary include a new brick or concrete edging to retain the new surface, and new tennis post sockets, posts and tennis net.

ProLawn Synthetic Grass Resurface

Should you wish to upgrade your macadam court to our ProLawn synthetic grass surface and your court is fairly level and in a sound condition it may be possible to directly overlay the existing macadam surface with the new ProLawn synthetic grass.

If you have an existing synthetic grass court that has become compacted and lost porosity over time and it needs replacing then again if levels are good and the base suitable you can cut up and remove the old synthetic grass and lay the new ProLawn surface straight down.

Should the base have areas of subsidence and movement then it may be necessary to repair localised areas or lay a new levelling layer or macadam to the complete court area, before laying the ProLawn surface.


* Please note that if your court is structurally poor and there is evidence of undulations and the surface is completely breaking up then you would most probably have to have the court completely reconstructed. This would normally involve adding a levelling layer of stone base before carrying out the works as outlined for resurfacing.