Do-it-Yourself Resurfacing

Repairing and Resurfacing An Asphalt or Concrete Pad Is Not Rocket Science, It's Just Plain Common Sense! Is A Base-Coat Required? The Answer is Simple. Yes. A base-coat Is the most important step of the resurfacing process! THE BASE-COAT promotes proper adhesion fills voids and surface imperfections levels minor depressions provides a uniform textured surface which is not possible with color alone allows fine tuning of repairs (completed prior to applying base-coat) after base-coat is applied

Is This The First Time You Have Resurfaced A Court?
Put your mind at ease. It's not rocket science. It's common sense.

1. Power wash the court using a power washer with 2000psi to 2200psi pressure and a fan style or rotary nozzle.
2. Have a long-handled scraper handy while power washing. Scrape any area that appears to have loose material.
3. Flush out dirt and debris from cracks.
4. After power washing, allow court and cracks to thoroughly dry and then fill cracks.See step-by-step guidelines. See treatment of cracks
5. Depressions to level? After base-coat is dry. Flood court, allow to thoroughly dry and then, using chalk, outline each puddle of depressions you want to fill.
6. Follow step-by step guideline to level depressions. See leveling of depressions.
7. When all fine tuning of repairs and leveling has been completed, you can proceed to applying color. See one-color application or two-color application

"We discovered Tennis Universal on the internet in June 2004 and ordered a complete set of all products needed to refurbish our private court. My wife and I did the job ourselves and found all the paint materials to be excellent, getting the coverage as stated so we had enough to finish the job. The instructions on the internet were accurate and very helpful. Tennis Universal went out of their way to send by 2-day air a replacement squeegee that had been lost in the original shipment. I highly recommend purchasing Tennis Universal's application squeegee and long-handled scraper. Our court turned out beautiful and we are extremely satisfied. We will definitely order from Tennis Universal again!"

David & Fumiko Ojima
Bremerton, WA

New Asphalt Courts
New asphalt surfaces should cure for a minimum of 21 days prior to any coating applications.

Existing Asphalt Courts (never color coated)
An extremely porous or rough asphalt surface occurs when a court (or other sport surface) has been constructed for several years and never coated. Color coating the surface offers protection to the asphalt from harmful weather elements and lengthens the useful life expectancy. Drying and oxidization occur when asphalt is not protected.

Note: An asphalt road is not subjected to the same drying and oxidization as that of a tennis court, due to the movement and weight of vehicular traffic. The continuous vehicular movement and weight causes the oils and binders (used in the asphalt batching process to hold the sands and stones together) to be constantly massaged and worked back up to the surface. An asphalt sport surface, when not protected, does the opposite. The oils sink away from the surface and oxidization occurs.

So... if your court has never been protected by a color system, oxidation is apparent, and you and your partners do not weigh anywhere near the weight of a vehicle… you definitely need a base-coat. See applying a base-coat. Your surface may also require treatment of cracks and/or leveling of depressions.

Existing Concrete Courts Previously Color Coated, or Older Concrete Courts Never Coated
Existing or older courts must be thoroughly power washed (power washer should be 2000 psi. to 2200 psi with a fan style or rotary nozzle) prior to commencing repairs or coating applications. If the surface has been previously color coated, the only difference between refurbishing a concrete court and an asphalt court is; if peeling of the existing coating materials has occurred exposing the concrete surface.

If the concrete surface has been exposed, it is necessary to acid etch the exposed concrete and apply a coat of acrylic adhesion promoter to the exposed concrete prior to commencing leveling of the peeled areas or coating applications. Once leveling (if necessary) has been completed, follow instructions for treating asphalt courts.

Please contact us if you have any questions about the resurfacing process described above and not answered by the above application guidelines. Your input is welcomed and greatly appreciated.

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