Sports Floor Profiles & Accessories

Solutions for sports halls, drama studios, changing rooms, hallways or storage cupboards in Hardwood, Aluminium or uPVC. We’ve got you (and your gaps) covered.

Materials

Machined from the highest grade timber and milled from the toughest Aluminium, the Sports Floor range of profiles are designed to last.

  • SOLID HARDWOOD TIMBER

    Hardwood timber is generally more complex in structure than softwood and often, as the name would suggest, ‘harder’. Hardwoods are especially useful in applications for flooring due to their hard wearing characteristics, strength and aesthetic beauty. All Parallel hardwood profiles are manufactured to exacting standards using the finest timber available.

    Using imported timber from only the most reliable and sustainable sources in North America, Europe and Africa, we can guarantee a constant and environmentally friendly product that is the envy of our competitors.

  • ALUMINIUM

    Aluminium is an element in the Boron group of the periodic table with the atomic number of 13. Only Oxygen and Silicone are more abundant in the Earth’s crust than Aluminium with the soft ductile metal accounting for approximately 8% by weight of the solid surface. Due to its spare spaces in its electron ring, Aluminium is extremely reactive. This means that it is rarely found in its unbound natural state. Instead Al is nearly always found bound to minerals, most commonly occurring in Bauxite (a rock often containing Aluminium, Iron and Titanium individually bound to Hydrogen and Oxygen molecules). Aluminium is unique for its anti-corrosive properties.

Our Timber ~ Origins

Only the best for the best. We work with our import partners to provide the very best hardwood timber available from North America, Europe and Africa. Our strive for perfection sees us continually monitoring sources to ensure continuity of supply and quality like nobody else.

Legal Logging ~ EUTR

All of the timber that makes it to our factory is sustainable, from correctly managed forests and European Union Timber Regulation (EUTR) compliant. Parallel Flooring Accessories Ltd has a strict and clear environmental policy that it adheres to regarding all aspects of business but especially in the sourcing of hardwood timber.

Hardwood Botanical Name Origin
White Oak Quercus alba USA
Red Oak Quercus rubra USA
Maple Acer saccharinum USA & Canada
Cherry Prunus serotina USA
Beech Fagus sylvatica Germany & Italy
Ash Fraxinus americana USA
Sapele Entandrophragma cylindricum Cameroon
Black Walnut Juglans nigra USA

Leisure Contracts

Specifically designed for the leisure contract market, the sports floor range provides solutions for all manner of areas and requirements.

  • SPORTS HALLS, DRAMA STUDIOS & MORE

    As the only profile manufacturer to have a specific set of profiles for the leisure contract industry, Parallel is once again leading the way. With a very individual set of needs, the sports flooring market is one which lends it self to tie in with the skills we posses. Innovative product design, fast turnaround and bespoke profile work allow us to deliver customer requirements on time, all of the time. Designed to work with all of the leading flooring manufacturers’ surfaces, the Parallel range covers all bases.

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For Architects

Parallel has architects at the forefront of its mind. With a concious effort to make specification easier, all of our profile drawings and files are available in a variety of formats including; .ai, .pdf, .dwg & .eps.

RIBA

The Royal Institute of British Architects is an important part of our brand awareness. Information on Parallel products can be found on the RIBA Product Selector website with the long term aim to be part of the NBS Plus system for specification.

Innovation

Leading the way with an uncompromising attitude to product design and customer service, what is run of the mill to us is impossible to others.

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'Cranked' Coverplate Profiles

There are coverplate sections and then there are Parallel Coverplate sections. The difference is discrete but the effect is considerable. One of the issues that is encountered on site is the joining of two floors of ‘equal’ height through doorways or cupboards. Often separate contractors are responsible for certain areas, which can lead to floors meeting at less than perfect levels. By 'cranking' the section (reducing the angle from completely flat, 180° to 176°), fitting across slightly uneven floors is simplified. Whereas with a flat section one side would lift when screwed down, the ‘cranked’ profile pulls downwards tighter to encourage an even better fit. This provides a trip free finish across thresholds.

Fumed Beech

To meet the fashion for darker toned floors, particularly those achieved through fuming, we’ve developed a stain to match the colour without the complicated and time consuming process of fuming Beech.

RAL POWDER COATING

On those special occasions where even our standard colours aren’t what are required, we can offer powder coating of our Aluminium profiles. Achieved by electrically charging the materials to encourage the colour to ‘stick’, powder coating offers a full spectrum of standardised colours to pick from.

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