Protect your sports hall floor...
You have probably invested or are considering investing in a very expensive sports hall floor. If looked after, top quality sports hall floors should last a long time - especially the 22mm thick solid timber Junckers sprung floors installed by Continental.

But you may have to use your sports hall for non-sporting events such as exams, assemblies, conferences or even social events such as fund raising discos or parent teacher evenings. You can help reduce the wear to the floor from these events (and the dreaded stiletto heels!) by making a relatively small investment in a floor protection product.

A small amount spent now to protect your floor could save a lot more in the future on remedial work to damaged floors, and at the same time, our jumbo carpet tiles provide a very attractive floor covering to make a social event feel less like a party in a sports hall and more like a true occasion.

We offer two solutions:
   
 

Jumbo carpet tiles

The ultimate solution to protect sports hall floors to enable them to be used safely for conferences, social events, meetings etc.

The flooring can also help improve the acoustics and deadens footsteps in the hall which is useful for plays, concerts and similar events.

Two people can convert your sports hall into what appears to be a fully carpeted room within an hour.

Our standard colour is Pacific Blue - seen right. The tiles are available in twenty colours - please refer to the colour chart below, but orders of below 500 tiles in any colour other than Pacific Blue attract a small colour batch surcharge - see details below.

If you cannot choose a colour from our standard range or have a specific school colour you wish to colour-match, please contact us as we may be able to specially dye a batch for your facility (subject to an order for at least 500 tiles).

Each carpet tile is 2m x 1m x 7mm thick. The carpet tiles are made from ultra-hard wearing ribbed polypropylene carpet bonded to a non-marking extra-heavy duty backing layer.

The tiles MUST be stored horizontally, so to achieve this, and to make it easy to set out the tiles and to take them up after use, we manufacture special heavy duty 2m x 1m horizontal trolleys and recommend that they are purchased with the tiles. We recommend a maximum of aproximately 100 tiles are stored on each trolley.

What do we provide? - Assuming a standard 33m x 18m sports hall:

• 297 jumbo (2m x 1m) carpet tiles are required for a standard sports hall, so we recommend purchasing 305 tiles which includes 8 spare tiles (see below)

• Spare tiles. We recommend that a small quantity of spare tiles are purchased at the time of ordering, to allow for damaged, spoiled or lost tiles in the future (this guarantees you have matching tiles, and the price is discounted for quantity whereas replacing one or two tiles may prove to be costly in the future). Allow for 2.5% to 3% of the area for spare tiles.

• Storage trolleys. The carpet tiles must be stored horizontally and to enable horizontal storage and to facilitate laying out and removal of the tiles, for a standard hall we would supply three horizontal trolleys each 2m x 1m.

Depending on the exact dimensions of your room, it is likely that you will need to trim the tiles on either one or two sides of the room to fit. This is a one-time-only operation that is easily done using a stanley knife (but please do not cut the tiles in-situ as you would risk damage to the floor). Those cut down tiles should then be set aside for use in the relevant locations each time the tiles are used.

Price for budget purposes only
     
  • For 125+ tiles in Pacific Blue colour: £14.18 per square metre
  • For 500+ tiles in any colour: £14.18 per square metre
  • For 125 to 500 tiles in a colour other than Pacific Blue: £3.15 per square metre small batch colour surcharge
  • For each jumbo tile horizontal storage trolley - £408 (allow up to c.70 tiles per trolley)

Please call for a bespoke written quotation which will take into account our recommendation for spare tiles, number of trolleys required, overall size of your floor etc.


Carriage is charged at £19.00 on all orders below £400. Prices exclude VAT and are valid until 31 March 2010. All orders are accepted subject to our Terms & Conditions of Sale which are available here.

Please email or telephone +44 1484 542051 for more details
 

The above picture shows a sports hall floor covered with jumbo carpet tiles

 

The above picture shows the ribbed carpet surface with a mixture of fibres giving a mottled appearance which provides excellent dirt resistance

Minimum order quantity & colour surcharge:

Please note that we have a minimum order quantity of 125 tiles per colour. Therefore if your hall is less than 250 square metres, you can either purchase 125 tiles in the colour of your choice and have additional replacement / spare tiles, or we can let you know what other customer orders are being processed at the time of your order and we can combine the production of your tiles with their's. If you choose to combine your order, the colour will be limited to whatever the other orders are that we are processing at that time, and the lead time may be longer than usual.

The above tile is in our standard Pacific Blue colour. For smaller orders (125 to 500 tiles) we apply a small colour batch surcharge for other colours. For batches over 500 tiles our standard pricing applies for any colour.
 

 

Standard colour chart for Jumbo Carpet Tiles

 
 
 

Acorn

Anthracite

Blueberry

Bluemoon

Claret
 
 
 

Cobalt

Emerald

Gun Metal

Indigo

Juniper
 
 
 

Lavender

Magenta

Nutmeg

Onyx

Pacific Blue
 
 
 

Pale Olive

Pebble

Slate Grey
  

Steel Grey
  
Teal

Please note that all colours (standard and specially mixed batches) contain mixed coloured fibres including black fibres. This gives an attractive mottled appearance and ensures the tiles are as dirt resistant as possible.

The above images are simulations of the actual colours. They are close approximations but please request a sample if the exact shade is important. We cannot be responsible if the actual shade does not match exactly the colour shown on your screen above.
 

 

Canvas druggets

The traditional sports hall floor protection method.

We only use the hardest wearing material for our druggets specially developed for floor coverings - natural flax canvas. This material is significantly harder wearing than the alternative of cotton canvas. The material is also durably fire retardant - this means the fabric is not treated or impregnated with fire retardant chemicals which can wash or wear out, but that the flax is inherently fire retardant in its natural state.

One standard colour is available - a neutral "Oatmeal" colour with a dirt resistant speckled appearance from the natural colour of the flax.

These druggets are ideal for protecting your sports hall floor during examinations or for assemblies.

Supplied in sections with selvedged edges and velcro edges to attach to the next section.

Each section is supplied in its own protective bag to enable easy storage.

For a standard 33m x 18m hall we can provide 6 pieces each 5.5m x 18m which weigh approximately 54kg each. We can manufacture the druggets in other dimensions to suit your specific requirements. Please call to discuss the optimal layout for your facility.

For other shapes and sizes we can accommodate most requests. We recommend each piece should weigh between 50kg-65kg to be manageable by two people and we will recommend the best dimensions for each piece, taking account of the shape of your room and the above weight guidelines. Please contact us and we can advise on the optimal layout of your druggets. We ensure that the pieces are sufficiently manageable so that they are easily rolled into place by one person (although carrying the heavy pieces may best be done by two people).

When ordering, please let us know if you have any special requirements (e.g. maximum width of each piece, maximum weight of each piece, or if you want to be able to cover say exactly half the hall as well as the full hall etc.). There may be an additional charge if you require a significantly larger number of pieces than we would recommend.

     
Price for budget purposes only.
  £11 per square metre
Please call for a bespoke quotation which will take into account the number of pieces required, overall size of the hall, whether you have any recesses that require druggets as opposed to a simple rectangular room etc.  

 


Carriage is charged at £19.00 on all orders below £400. Prices exclude VAT and are valid until 31 March 2010. All orders are accepted subject to our Terms & Conditions of Sale which are available here.

Please email or telephone +44 1484 542051 for more details

 

  

The image above shows a sample size drugget highlighting the selvedged edges with heavy duty hard wearing stitching and continuous velcro join.

 

The image above shows a section of drugget joined with velcro to the very edge of the drugget so as to reduce the likelihood of any trip hazard.

The above image shows a close up of the 100% natural, ultra hard wearing flax canvas which we use for Continental Sports druggets. The material we use is beige / neutral / green in colour which can best be described as "Oatmeal" with the expected variations and mottling which occur in such a natural material.