Sports & recreation · Court roofs
A pickleball ball weighs about 25 grams. A breeze that would not trouble a tennis ball takes it off line, so a roof over these courts is a wind and glare problem long before it is a rain problem.
01 What the roof has to solve
A doubles court is 13.4 by 6.1 metres — cheap to span, easy to get wrong. The run-off, the gap to the next court, the glare off the roof sheet and the direction the wind crosses the site decide whether the courts actually get used on a Tuesday afternoon.
Competitive layouts want roughly 6.4 m behind the baseline and 3 m to the side lines. A column anywhere in that band is a collision waiting to happen, so the frame is cantilevered or set behind the fence line, and the dimension is shown on the drawing rather than assumed.
White or clear sheets throw a hard glare across the court at midday and the ball disappears against it. A build-up with a matte underside, and light transmission chosen for the site, keeps the ball visible — and so does the colour the frame is coated in.
The ball is light enough that a crosswind changes the game. Open sides are the default; mesh screens go on the prevailing-wind side, and an exposed site gets a partial wall on the windward edge. Screens change the wind load, so they are decided on the drawing, not bolted on later.
Four, six or eight courts in a row is the normal project, not one. The roof runs as a repeated bay with a shared gutter and a structural joint between blocks, and the lighting is set out per court instead of per roof.
02 Configuration
The reference bay covers one doubles court with the run-off inside the frame. Bays repeat along a spine with the gutter between them, and the lighting positions and cable routes are settled while the frame is still on paper.
03 Photographs
Reference installations across this range. Sizes, colours and membranes vary by project — send a photo of your site and we will say which of these is closest.
04 How it works
Every project follows the same four steps. Nothing is cut until the drawing is approved and the deposit is received.
Court count, orientation, fence line and the direction the wind comes from. A marked-up satellite image is enough.
Post positions outside the run-off, roof form, wind load with the screens you want, and the lighting layout per court.
Priced per bay against the drawing, with coating, roof build-up, screens, lighting allowance and packing.
Frames cut, drilled and coated; roof cut to size; cartons labelled by court against the loading plan.
05 Questions
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Often, yes — but the run-off differs and so does the height a lob needs. If the courts are lined for both, say so at layout stage: the bay is set by the larger of the two envelopes, not by the one that is easier to draw.
Not usually. Most projects take a roof and screens on one or two sides only. Full enclosure changes the wind load and the condensation behaviour, and it turns the structure into a building for approval purposes, so it is a different design conversation.
It can be. Mesh screens are quoted as a separate line with their fixing detail, because panel, frame and wind load are priced together. The quotation states the mesh size and the fixing method.
The frame is designed to carry luminaires at the positions agreed on the drawing, with the cable route shown so the electrician is not drilling the frame afterwards. The luminaires themselves are supplied locally unless you ask us to quote them.
No catalogue numbers, no online checkout. Tell us the site, the span and the destination, and the quotation is built against the layout you approve.
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