Cost of Maintaining a Har-tru Court

dropshotlob

New User
i am looking for some insight into the cost of having your own har-tru court. i did search of the forum and can't seem to find any answers. found several threads about constructing your own, clay vs. hard, etc... but none as to the costs of keeping up a har-tru court each year. thanks for any help!
 

Adles

Rookie
It depends (a lot) on where you are. We are up in New England, and the courts need to be redone every spring with removal of old dressing, scarifying the courts, new dressing, rolling, and new lines. To get this done professionally costs our club several thousand dollars each year, for four courts. You can save by reusing line tape, but that means pulling all the nails yourself, and it doesn't last that long anyway. Plus we have a lawn tractor to pull the roller, which costs gas and maintenance. Plus we have a sprinkler system that always seems to have issues ($). Plus some small money for calcium and weedkiller. Plus the usual periodic replacement of nets, brushes, etc.

Down south, you can keep the lines on all year, and line tape can last several years. Then, you only need to roll and add more dressing as needed.
 

mikeler

Moderator
It depends (a lot) on where you are. We are up in New England, and the courts need to be redone every spring with removal of old dressing, scarifying the courts, new dressing, rolling, and new lines. To get this done professionally costs our club several thousand dollars each year, for four courts. You can save by reusing line tape, but that means pulling all the nails yourself, and it doesn't last that long anyway. Plus we have a lawn tractor to pull the roller, which costs gas and maintenance. Plus we have a sprinkler system that always seems to have issues ($). Plus some small money for calcium and weedkiller. Plus the usual periodic replacement of nets, brushes, etc.

Down south, you can keep the lines on all year, and line tape can last several years. Then, you only need to roll and add more dressing as needed.

While the lines can last a few years, our club replaces them annually. They are pretty beat up after a year but we could manage longer if we had to.
 

Adles

Rookie
Good to know, about the lines. Now I don't feel quite as bad getting new ones each year.

There was talk about organizing volunteers to pull all the nails from last year's tape to reuse and save money, but mercifully it didn't go anywhere.
 

dropshotlob

New User
thanks, i am in NJ so i expect the costs to be on the higher end. while i am usually hands-on, DIY, i don't think i'd enjoy nailing the lines down and pulling them up myself...
 
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