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Tennis & Pickleball Court Coating Removal, El Cajon, CA

Tennis & Pickleball Court Coating Removal in El Cajon, CA

Removing old acrylic court coatings back to the slab — the work this company started on in 1976. Installed by our own crew across El Cajon.

Tennis & Pickleball Court Coating Removal installed in El Cajon, CA by David Paul Foster Co.
Why David Paul Foster Co. in El Cajon

Tennis & Pickleball Court Coating Removal in El Cajon, done right.

Removing old acrylic court coatings back to the slab — the work this company started on in 1976. We work El Cajon from the older downtown streets out into the surrounding valley and foothills, with our own crew on every job — no subcontractors, no surprise charges, and one number to call from the first estimate to the finished concrete coating.

We apply tennis & pickleball court coating removal across El Cajon and the surrounding area, including San Diego, Chula Vista, Mira Mesa, Escondido.

What's included

  • Old acrylic court surfacing stripped back to the slab
  • Tennis, pickleball, basketball and multi-use courts
  • The work this company started on in 1976
  • Thousands of courts resurfaced and stripped over fifty years
  • Schools, clubs, HOAs, municipal facilities and private courts
  • Removal for resurfacing contractors as well as for owners
Tennis & Pickleball Court Coating Removal in El Cajon

Built for El Cajon homes.

El Cajon sits in a valley ringed by hills east of San Diego, and that bowl traps heat — it is reliably one of the warmer places in the county. Combined with a lot of mid-century housing, that means older concrete that has taken decades of real sun.

That combination — older slabs and genuine heat — puts a lot of El Cajon work in the removal-then-resurface category. Mid-century concrete here has usually been sealed, painted or coated at some point, and that history needs dealing with before anything new goes down.

The good news is that the slabs themselves are typically sound. Concrete from this era around El Cajon rarely needs replacing; it needs the accumulated surface history taken off and a properly specified finish put back on.

Recent work

Tennis & Pickleball Court Coating Removal jobs near El Cajon

  • Worker in a respirator running a walk-behind grinder across a green tennis court
  • Crew grinding the blue surface off a pickleball court in bright sun
  • Grinding machines working across a green court beside a tall hedge
  • Grinder stripping the blue coating from a court, bare concrete showing behind
  • Worker grinding the red surface off a tennis court in front of apartments
  • Worker guiding a red walk-behind grinder across a court surface
  • Court part-stripped, with grinding dust across the exposed concrete
  • Grinder cutting a pale stripe through the blue coating on a sports court
  • Walk-behind grinder and hose on a court stripped back to gray concrete

Colors for tennis & pickleball court coating removal in El Cajon

Pick a color the honest way in El Cajon: we lay the samples on your slab before anything is ordered.

See all 16 court colors →
  • Sport court color chart showing sixteen acrylic court colors including greens, blues, reds, purple and gray
  • Light Green
  • Forest Green
  • Blue
  • Beige
  • Red
  • Light Blue
  • Sandstone
  • Tournament Purple
  • +8 more →
El Cajon FAQs

Tennis & Pickleball Court Coating Removal in El Cajon, questions

There are layers of old paint and sealer on our patio. What now?

It comes off. Coating over a failing coating simply repeats the failure in a new color. Removal is a service in its own right for us, so stripping decades of accumulated history back to sound concrete is routine rather than an obstacle.

Can you work around a school or club schedule?

Yes, and we usually have to. Courts belong to somebody's season. Summer breaks, off-season windows and phased work across a multi-court facility are all normal for us. Tell us the dates you actually have and we will tell you honestly whether the work fits in them.

What condition will the slab be in afterwards?

Back to bare, sound concrete with a profile suitable for a new surfacing system. Cracks in the slab itself become visible once the build-up is off, which is often the first time an owner sees the real condition of their court — and it is far better to see it then than through a brand new color coat.

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