Tools

Three machines,
one for each fixing.

The entire wood-flooring work processing is carried out using pneumatic nailing machines — not part of it, all of it. And not one machine doing everything: the pads, the framework and the boards each get the tool made for them.

Fixes layer

Shock Pads

Shock Pad Nailer

Fixes the button-type shock pad rubber to the pine.

Straight magazine, air-driven
Every pad fixed by the same method
The absorbing layer is fastened, not just laid

Pneumatic straight-magazine nailer, air line coupled, used to fix the shock pad rubber to the pine

Fixes layer

Interlocked Pine Framework

Framework Coil Nailer

Fixes the interlocked pine framework — every half lap, at every crossing.

Coil magazine, air-driven
Both directions of the grid fixed the same way
Every connection in the framework made by the same method

Pneumatic coil nailer with its coil magazine on the side, used to fix the interlocked pine framework

Fixes layer

Playing Surface

Flooring Cleat Nailer

Blind-nails the playing surface — African teak, or maple on a squash court — through the tongue.

Angled shoe registers on the board's tongue
Stand-up frame, worked from standing height
Nothing shows on the finished face

Stand-up hardwood flooring cleat nailer, its angled shoe set to register on a board tongue

And then the sanding

Nailed flat, then sanded true.

Fixing the boards is not the last word on how flat a court is. Industrial sanding and finish takes the laid floor to a true plane before anything is sealed over it, and the surface goes under a water-based polyurethane court finish.