Asked on most first calls.

About a week of calendar time for one court in good weather: a day to clean, pressure-wash and repair cracks, a day for the acrylic resurfacer, a day each for two color coats, a day for lines, with drying time between every step. Play can resume one to two days after the lines go on. A bank of courts takes longer; rain adds days, never shortcuts.

Every four to eight years, depending on sun, drainage, use and how well the cracks were kept filled. The surface tells you: when the color is worn through to the black in the high-traffic zones, when the texture is gone and the court plays slick, or when water sits in low spots after rain, it is time. Repainting a worn surface without the resurfacer coat underneath is money spent twice.

Usually we can fix them, and we tell you plainly when we cannot. Hairline and structural cracks up to about an inch are repaired with a fabric-membrane system, which bridges the crack so it does not print through the new surface after the first winter. A court with alligator cracking across the whole slab, heaving or a failed base needs an overlay or a rebuild, and we price both so you can decide.

Yes, and it is most of what we are asked about now. One tennis pad takes four dedicated pickleball courts with their own nets and fencing, or two with generous run-off. Or the tennis lines stay and two or four pickleball courts are added in a second color. The surface has to be sound first; a conversion is a resurfacing with a different layout, not a paint job.

Any pairing from the SportMaster ColorPlus range: the classic greens, the US Open blue inside with green outside, school colors on the playing area with a neutral surround, or two tones of one color. Darker colors run hotter in the sun and show wear sooner; see the color guide for the trade-offs and the combinations we recommend.

Every two to four years, with the cracks filled every year. A new lot gets its first seal about a year after paving, once the asphalt has cured. Sealing a lot that is already failing, with alligator cracks and potholes, is a waste of the sealer; those areas need patching or a new lift first, and we say so.

Typically one day per section, reopened the next morning. We seal in phases on a busy site so there is always parking, stripe as soon as the sealer is dry enough to walk, and mark the fire lanes and accessible stalls before anything else.

We use what the specification and the site call for, and we explain the difference. Refined coal-tar sealers are the traditional product and the longest-wearing; asphalt-emulsion and polymer-modified sealers have lower odor and are required by a growing number of owners and some jurisdictions. Ohio has no state ban on coal tar, but a school district or a municipality may specify emulsion, and we carry both.

Roughly May to mid October. Acrylic court coatings and asphalt sealers need the surface and the air above 50 °F and rising, no rain for a day, and nights that stay above 40 to 45 °F so the coat cures instead of stalling. Around Cleveland that window opens in May, is reliable June through September and closes in October. We book the season from February on; the earlier a job is on the board, the better its week.

Courts, yes: a private tennis, pickleball or basketball court is built and resurfaced the same way a park court is. Driveways, generally not; our sealcoating equipment is sized for lots. If you own a court, call.

From the yard on Cleveland's east side we cover Cuyahoga, Summit, Lake, Lorain, Medina, Geauga, Portage, Stark and Ashtabula counties: Cleveland, Akron and every suburb, township and village between and around them. The service area page lists the towns.

Every court and every lot is different, so we do not publish prices; the number comes after a site walk. The walk is free, the proposal is written, and the price on it is the price unless you change the scope.

Yes. Much of our work is for cities, villages, townships, school districts and colleges across Northeast Ohio: under competitive bids, on quotes below the bidding threshold, and through cooperative purchasing. We are SportMaster's authorized installer under the Equalis Group contract (COG-2138B), which lets a member city or district buy court work at the contract's rates without running its own bid; Parma Heights bought its court rebuild that way. We carry the insurance and bonding public contracts require, our coatings carry a two-year limited warranty and our asphalt a one-year, and we have built courts to ASBA and USTA guidelines for decades. Send bid packages to the yard's email on the contact page.