Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Basketball Gym Floor


This was a fun project to do. As a guy, you pray for the day someone asks you to build one of these. What kid wouldn't want to have a basketball gym in their house? What was really cool was shooting hoops on it when we were done. The flooring was an interesting process. In the NBA and college, maple floors are used most of the time. Unfinished maple to be exact- no stain. Under the floor it gets really interesting. On professional and college courts, there is floor leveler for the concrete, plywood, felt, thruster pads and maple wood. The thruster pads are what give the floor that hollow sound and the spring back that you may have noticed before when you bounce a ball. We didn't get to use them for this court, but we did use everything else. We ordered the wall pads after measuring the dimensions from an online source, and we spray foam insulated the room since it's 18' high ceilings were alot to air condition. We scaled the court to have the lines of a college team and put several coats of polyurethane to protect it. All in all it was a show stopper and another example of how fun construction can be.