Basketball courts · Line striping
Basketball court lines: keys, arcs and circles.
Keys, free-throw circles, the three-point arc of your choice and the center circle, laid out by hand and painted to last.
What is included
The job, in order.
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Rulebook
High school, college or NBA: the arc radius, the key width and the free-throw circle set accordingly. One arc, chosen on purpose.
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Layout
From the backboard plane and the center line, with a tape and a trammel for the arcs: arcs are the hardest lines on a court and the easiest to get wrong, so they are swung from a fixed center and checked at three points.
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Paint
Two coats of textured acrylic line paint, 2 inches wide, taped and sealed. Keys filled in a contrasting color if wanted.
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Blended lines
Pickleball or four-square lines in another color where the court does more than one job.
When you need it
The signs.
- Lines faded past seeing from the far end
- An arc painted by eye that is not an arc
- A court moving to a different rulebook
- A park adding pickleball
What it costs
Lines alone are a small job, priced per court; included in a resurfacing.
Questions
About line striping.
Also under basketball courts:
- Construction · Full courts and half courts for parks, schools and homes: the pad, the base, the color system, the lines, the goals.
- Resurfacing · A park court worn to the black under the rims brought back: repaired, leveled, coated in a fresh color scheme, relined to the rulebook.
- Repair & leveling · Cracks bridged, the hollows under the rims leveled, lifted edges cut out, leaning goals reset.
Can you paint the key a different color?
Yes; a filled key in a third color is the usual look on a park court and helps the free-throw line read. It is done as part of the color coats, before the lines.
Reading
From the articles.
Blended lines: two sports on one court without confusing anyone
A second sport in a second color, two shades apart. The combinations that play well and the ones that do not.
Read onLine-marking robots: what they change, and what they do not
GPS line-marking robots are arriving on fields and marketed for courts. What they get right, what a tape still does, and when we will use one.
Read onFree estimates
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4000 East 86th Street, Cleveland, OH 44105
Off Broadway Avenue, south of downtown, ten minutes from I-77 and I-490.
Serving Cuyahoga, Summit, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Geauga, Portage, Stark and Ashtabula counties. Municipal, school, club, HOA and commercial work; residential courts by the job.