High quality wooden gym floors need more than just careful care applied directly to the floor. You need to consider the environment the floor is exposed to as well. Those who install high quality wooden (usually maple) floors recommend that the facilities housing those gyms maintain the relative humidity at 35% to 55%. This maximum […]
No matter what tape you use for temporary gym floor marking, you are going to experience damage on removal if the finish on your floor is not properly cured. We confidently recommend Shurtape 724 for temporary gym floor lines, but only on floors that are in good condition and properly cared for. This means that […]
We sell a lot of other tapes besides paper floor marking tape, and sometimes a customer mistakenly orders the wrong thing. The results can be disastrous for you floor’s finish. This is particularly true for a couple of our products, dance floor tape and aisle marking tape. These tapes have very aggressive adhesive because they […]
Wood, even a sealed wood gym floor, is porous. This natural porosity means that the wood will absorb and release moisture even if it has a hard finish on it. Wood swells and shrinks, based on temperature and humidity and it can hold water for a long period of time and release it slowly. If […]
No gym floor tape is guaranteed to not damage your floor when it is removed, and the worse the condition of your floor finish, the more likely you are to incur damage when tape is removed. If you’re not sure that your floor won’t be damaged, test the tape first on an area of the […]
The toughest part of putting temporary lines down on a gym floor is that the work ususally has to be done on your knees. It gets much worse if this is a task that has to be redone week after week. The LM2 floor applicator from ATP really changes how you’ll approach this job. This […]
A German company has developed a gym floor that doesn’t have any lines. The floor can be lined for any game with just the flip of a switch. ASB Systembau has a floor with embedded LED lighting that can be configured for whatever game you want to play. Just a quick program change can make […]
When cleaning a wooden gym floor, most people focus on visible dirt and dust. Obviously, this has to be cleaned. What a lot of maintenance people overlook is the presence of sweat on the floor. Athletes sweat profusely, and while that sweat is clearly obvious when it is wet, there is little to see once […]
Indoor winter sports are winding down and the days get longer and warmer. There is more time for outside play, but those who maintain indoor playing facilities are discovering winter’s dirty little secret. Those who handle floor maintenance are discovering that gym traffic in the winter months can attract as much as fifteen times as […]
Nothing will destroy a wooden gym floor faster than using it as a weight room. Not only will weights slammed to the floor cause the wood to split and splinter, repeated weight use can also damage the sub floor and even the floor framing. There are expensive and complicated floor coverings that will protect your […]