Sports Court Striping
In SW Houston, TX

Sports Court Striping in SW Houston, TX

Court markings are what turn a slab into a place people can actually play. We lay out and paint pickleball, basketball, tennis and multi-sport courts, plus playground game markings, for commercial and institutional properties across Fort Bend, Brazoria, Harris and Galveston counties — schools, churches, apartment and HOA amenity areas, parks, community centers, corporate campuses and private clubs.

We stripe. We are a marking contractor, not a court builder or resurfacer, and the difference matters when you are deciding who to call. A court with a sound surface that has faded, or one that needs a new game added to it, is our work. A court with structural cracking, ponding or a failed coating needs resurfacing first, and lines painted over a failing surface fail with it.

Pickleball Court Striping

Pickleball is the reason most of these calls come in now. It is played on a smaller court than tennis, it is straightforward to overlay onto existing surfaces, and demand across this area has run well ahead of purpose-built facilities.

The dimensions are set by USA Pickleball and they are fixed:

A pickleball court measures 20 feet wide by 44 feet long for singles and doubles. The net is 36 inches high at the sidelines and 34 in the center. Each side has a 7-foot non-volley zone.

The non-volley zone — the kitchen — extends 7 feet from the net on each side and is the line that gets played most closely, so it is the one that has to be laid out precisely and repainted before it gets ambiguous. We mark full dedicated courts, and we overlay pickleball onto existing tennis and basketball surfaces, which is by a wide margin the most common request we get.

Basketball Court Striping

We mark full and half courts, key and free-throw areas, three-point arcs, center circles and sidelines, on outdoor slabs, school and church courts, and apartment amenity courts.

Basketball is the game with the widest legitimate variation in dimensions. A high school court, a college court, a professional court and a residential or amenity court are not the same size, and the three-point line in particular differs between them. We lay out to the standard your facility is actually playing to, which we confirm with you before marking rather than assuming — an amenity court painted to a competition dimension usually will not fit the slab it is on.

Tennis Court Striping

Tennis marking covers baselines, sidelines for singles and doubles, service lines, center service lines and marks, and the net line. Because the doubles and singles courts are nested inside one another, the layout is unforgiving: an error in one line propagates through the rest and is visible from the first game.

Most of our tennis work is refreshing lines on an existing court whose surface is still sound, and increasingly it is adding pickleball lines to a tennis court in a second color so both games can share the surface.

Multi-Sport and Shared-Use Courts

A shared court carries more than one game on one surface, and that is normal on school, church and HOA properties where one slab has to do several jobs.

The technique that makes it work is color separation and hierarchy. The primary game gets the dominant line color; the secondary game gets a clearly distinct one; and line weights and colors are chosen so a player can pick out their own court without hunting. Pickleball over tennis, pickleball over basketball, and basketball with volleyball or four square are the combinations we lay out most often here.

There is a practical limit. Past three games on one surface, the court starts to read as noise no matter how carefully the colors are chosen, and we will say so rather than paint it.

Playground Game Markings

Playground markings are painted directly onto asphalt or concrete play areas at schools, churches, daycares and parks: hopscotch, four square, kickball diamonds, running tracks, number and alphabet grids, map outlines, sorting circles and target games.

They wear differently from court markings — playground surfaces take constant foot traffic on a smaller area, and children’s play concentrates wear at exactly the points the game is played from. Refreshing them on a cycle keeps a play area looking maintained, and a faded hopscotch grid is one of the most visible signs of a tired schoolyard.

Surface, Paint, and Recoat Cycle

Court paint, not traffic paint. Court markings are painted with acrylic court coatings rather than the traffic paint used on a parking lot. Court paint is formulated for the surface texture, the color retention and the abrasion that play produces, and traffic paint on a sport surface is a shortcut that shows within a season.

Surface condition governs everything. Paint bonds to a clean, sound, dry surface; it does not bond to dust, algae, standing dirt or a coating that is already delaminating. Courts under tree cover in this climate grow algae quickly and need washing before marking.

Climate shortens the cycle here. Outdoor markings in this region live a shorter life than in dry climates. Sustained heat, high UV, heavy rainfall and humidity all work against a coating, and courts in constant use fade at the play lines first. Planning a refresh on a cycle costs less than waiting until the lines are being argued over.