BUILDINGS, MAINTENANCE & REFURBISHMENT
Can your school’s sports hall be a thriving community hub?
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owadays, it is not uncommon for school sports halls to double as facilities for the local community. Sports clubs and community groups are frequent users outside of school hours, providing a vital role in promoting physical, mental and social wellbeing. Local spaces form a big part of local authorities’ plans to create more “20-minute neighbourhoods” where essential facilities that enhance lives are brought closer to the areas where people live. Where new schools are planned and built, integrating community benefit and wellbeing form part of this strategy.
From a school’s perspective, a state-of- the-art sports hall equipped with a high- quality sports flooring system suitable for a wide range of sports and activities can be an invaluable source of supplementary income. Providing an asset in terms of a safe and high-performing facility can dramatically increase participation levels, and demonstrating a high level of social value will have a strong impact on securing funding. To provide the best possible facilities, how do you choose a flooring surface that will stand up to the expected level of use?
Solid wood sports floors have always been regarded as a high-quality choice.
November 2024
A Junckers floor provides a safe, high- performing floor with unbeatable lifecycle costs that fulfil criteria set out by the Department for Education and Sport England. A hard-wearing and long-lasting choice, a Junckers floor is an investment that will outlast any other sports flooring surfaces. It can be sanded and re-finished eight to ten times during its life and with 12-year intervals between sandings, a typical lifespan of 60 years will comfortably be exceeded. Schools can take advantage of Junckers’ Approved Contractors maintenance scheme and 25-year warranty to have periodic inspections of the floor and a regular maintenance programme to keep the floor in optimum condition throughout its life.
A solid wood floor from Junckers is also durable enough to accommodate retractable seating, a facility that can significantly increase the potential income for schools. Junckers’ floors can be strengthened in a simple way to cope with very high seating loads whilst leaving the sprung quality of the floor unaffected.
A solid hardwood floor has a lot more to offer than simply being a technically advanced sports surface, and the lifespan will often be many times longer than say, a synthetic or engineered wood floor. Solid
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wood floors are no more or less prone to damage than other floor types, but unusual in that they have a surface treatment that will routinely be reapplied and therefore the effects of wear and tear can, to a great extent, be reversed. In the longer-term, wooden floors can be fully sanded and retreated, something many floor types cannot offer, and it is these properties that give solid hardwood floors such a long life.
While a solid hardwood sports flooring system is a feat of engineering, there is no need to treat it with kid gloves. Put it to work for your school and community. It will take some hard treatment - it is designed to, and when the battle scars appear you can refurbish it… time and time again.
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