Home Sports & Fitness Courts
by
Gary S.
4 Materials
$1500
4 Days
Medium
Being a huge ice hockey fan and having played for many years while living up north, I wanted to create a sizable outside area for my son, who also plays hockey, his friends (and me once in awhile), that he can use to practice. The challenge was, - we lived in Florida, so an outside pond hockey rink was not an option. Also, purchasing synthetic ice to cover that much area was out of the price range. So we decided to build something affordable that would resemble an ice rink but function strictly as a shooting and puck handling rink.
Driveway Expansion Complete
Initially, we decided to widen and extend our driveway so that our daughter could park her newly acquired car and not block the entrance into the garage. With driveway expansion/extension completed, we realized that we now had plenty of parking area for our daughter's car as well as an extra 15' x 35' area that could be used for anything else. That's when the idea for the rink came up.
In this picture and one below the white reflective flooring is actually 8' x 4' x .125" thick HDPE sheets that we originally installed to use for the slick flooring. Unfortunately, they only held up for about a year until the sun made them too brittle and we had to remove them and replace with the 12" x 12" blue slick tiles shown in the completed court picture below.
Plastic Shelving Boards being ganged together
The flags in the picture were set in locations where rebar was to be installed to support the plastic shelving boards.
Finished Rink & One Happy Kid
After court was completed we decided to give the flooring a bit more gliding action and coated it with specialty silicone spray that dries dry and clear. It worked really well and my son actually uses real rubber hockey pucks and his sticks to practice. Our next venture is to put a shade sail over the whole area so he can practice in the summer and not worry about a sunburn. May be this summer.
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such a cool idea
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Your son must be happy and lucky to have a cool Dad like You..Good job!
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