Horner Sports Flooring

Since 1891 - The Oldest Name in Sports Flooring

Knowledge Base

What is Performance Standard Certified Flooring?

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Performance Standard Certified Flooring

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Performance certified flooring has undergone rigorous testing by one or more third-party labs. Often architects will require these certifications in their specifications for flooring. This ensures a base level of performance for the floor. Flooring that is not certified, is not defective or substandard, it simply means it has not been tested. All Horner Sports Flooring provides a high level of performance. If it didn’t, we wouldn’t continue to manufacture and offer it to our customers.

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What is Uniform Performance Flooring?

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Uniform Performance Characteristics Flooring

Uniform performance characteristics refers to a floor’s measurable performance criteria. These include, but are not limited to, ball bounce, floor deflection, coefficient of friction (surface), vibration dampening, etc. A floor with this designation excels in providing very uniform statistics in these areas, across its entire surface. The “feel” of this floor will be the same everywhere. To many, the difference, if any, will never be noticed, however, to a professional or collegiate athlete, any variation may be noticed and impact their performance.

Horner Sports Flooring take uniformity in its floors very seriously. We continually test, measure and improve all our floors in this critical area.

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What is a Variable Performance Floor?

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Variable Performance Flooring

Variable performance flooring is a flooring system that can be tuned to a specific use or preference. By using a different underlayment or resilient pads, specific characteristics of a floor can be changed. For instance, a competition floor may be tuned to return the maximum amount of energy to the athlete while a practice floor made be tuned to reduce injury and fatigue. The laws of physics dictate that not every desirable characteristic of a floor can be met simultaneously, however we can meet most of the ones important to the customer and their needs.

A variable performance floor system is designed to allow changes to specific specifications as dictated by the customer.

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How to Fundraise for your New Horner Floor

a stack of coins with a blurred out clock in the backgroundHow to Fundraise

Is your school looking to purchase and install a new gym floor? Are you lacking the funds to pull it off? Let us help you with fundraising for a new athletic floor.

First, form a fundraising committee specifically for this project. Sharing the financial responsibility with a group of people will add accountability and reduce stress for those working hard to make the dream a reality.

Second, remember there is no irrelevant fundraising effort. Every little bit helps and every contributor can feel pride in the new gym floor – regardless of how much they were able to donate. Here are a few tried-and-true suggestions for fundraising…

Floor Advertising

Horner is here to help you raise money for your new athletic floor in any way we can. One of the common ways we are able to raise money for you is by displaying logos of local businesses on your new hardwood floor.

This is a practice we’ve done for Boys & Girls Clubs around the country, for faith-based organizations, and even for the NBA!

To see what your options are, contact us.

How to Fundraise With A Penny Jar

How to Fundraise Image - looking down into a jar of coins with coins laying on the table next to the jarConsider putting penny jars in your classrooms.

  • The new gym floor will be for the children – why not invite them to help make it a reality so they can feel involved?
  • Kids generally like to help, especially when an incentive is in place (such as an ice cream party for the classroom that raises the most money per month).

You might also consider a virtual penny jar by setting up an online contribution page on a service like Give-Send-Go, or other like services

A Book Fair

Consider having a used book fair at your school, where all of the proceeds go toward the new project. What better way to raise money than encourage students to read new-to-them books for a low price?

Ask families and community members to donate books that may be sitting on a shelf collecting dust.

How to Fundraise Using Walk-A-Thon

kids have fun running on a gravel path through a fieldRather than running a 5K, consider hosting a community Walk-A-Thon to raise funds for your new court! Participants can collect pledge money from sponsors and celebrate the grand total on the big day. These events are a great way to grow support for a project. They open up plenty of additional opportunities for business donations in exchange for advertising.

Business Donations

Consider writing to local companies, restaurants, or businesses asking for donations.

Offer to have a sponsor plaque that will hang in your gym above the new floor with donor names or donor banners. Or, as mentioned previously, offer to advertise the business on the back of a t-shirt during other fundraising events.

Remember, this doesn’t have to be a monetary donation – perhaps they can donate snacks or drinks to fundraising events.

How to Rundraise With Restaurant Fundraisers

Ask businesses or restaurants to create their own fundraising efforts for your cause:

  • 10% of every order on Friday will go toward the fundraising efforts

  • 5% of the daily revenue, etc.

This will help to

  • Promote the business’s reputation within the community

  • Potentially increase their own sales

  • Increase your fundraising total

For their donation to the fundraising effort, consider hanging a plaque for them or their banner/logo in the gym.

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What is a Low Profile Option Floor?

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Low Profile Flooring

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When spaces are designed and it is known ahead of time that a wood floor will be installed, a depression is made in the sub-floor to accommodate the new wood flooring. So, for new builds, the floor must be specified so the design can take the thickness of the floor into consideration. For renovation, it is much easier to specify a floor that fits into the existing sub-floor depression.

Low profile flooring is designed to provide all or most of the performance of a standard system but do so in minimal slab depressions. In other words, the floor is not “tall”.

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