Court Resurfacing Update

Most of us refer to courts 1 - 8 as "Omnicourts", but that's actually a long forgotten brandname. The correct term for this type of court is Synthetic Turf. As previously mentioned, after much research and debate, the club has awarded the contract for resurfacing Courts 1 -4 to Tennis Court Builders, using Grassman Topflight 19 Synthetic Turf. The contract commenced on 28 July, 2008 and will be completed by 20 October. (12 weeks)

The new court carpets were manufactured to our specifications at the end of July and are currently being shipped from Australia to Malaysia. They are expected to arrive in the next week or two, so the current schedule has them shutting down courts 1 & 2 on 25 August to demolish the existing carpets and begin reconditioning the concrete base. Courts 3 & 4 will shut down shortly thereafter and it is expected that reconditioning (patching and filling the concrete) will be complete by 8 September.

It will then take a couple of weeks to lay the new carpets and in-fill them with sand. The contract schedule has a bit of slack in it at this point to allow for any bad weather , and thus the carpets are scheduled to finish laying on 06 October and sand in-filling is scheduled to complete by 20 October.

Its quite possible that if weather is good, they may finish well before this schedule, bearing in mind that the contract has significant penalties for the vendor if construction drags on beyond 06 October. Thus, the schedule provided by the vendor is pretty conservative.

It should be noted that these courts will be two tone, with a dark green interior and a light green exterior (it was felt that green fits in to the club surroundings better than blue)... and these courts will have "integrated" base lines (meaning the base lines are woven into the carpets) and the lines will be white, to improve contrast vs the yellow ball.

The Grassman TopFlight 19 is a "3rd generation" of synthetic turf. The materials used in the carpet represent the "state of the art" in synthetic court surfaces, and we expect them to provide a very suitable and long lasting surface to play on.

Also as Tennis Court Builders has previously successfully resurfaced the PSC courts several times before, we are very confident that they will once again do an excellent job of providing us a nice set of courts to play on for many years to come.