Padel courts

The court is 20 by 10 metres, about 66 by 33 feet, plus room to work around the enclosure. Height is the constraint people miss: the structure is tall, so overhead clearance under trees or beside buildings rules out sites that look fine on a plan.

Sometimes, and the slab decides it. The existing surface has to meet the padel system's flatness and drainage requirements, which are tighter than a recreational court is usually built to, and many older courts do not. Where the slab is sound a conversion saves real money on groundwork; where it is not, the honest answer is a new pour.

No. The slab work is familiar to most court contractors, but specifying a system, setting glass to tolerance and sourcing panels is a different job. CourtQuote tracks padel capability separately for this reason, and lists a contractor as padel qualified only after they have told us directly or we have reviewed evidence ourselves.

Because the enclosure is the court rather than a fence around it. Play uses the glass, so the frame, panels and fixings are engineered as one system and bought as a package reported at $20,000 to $30,000 before any groundwork starts. On a pickleball or tennis build the surface is most of the cost; on a padel build a large line item is settled before the site is touched, and it usually arrives by freight.

Yes, and indoor courts are reported at $70,000 to $100,000 per court before the cost of the building that houses them. That second figure is a construction project of a different order, so an indoor plan is better costed as a building with courts in it than as a court that happens to be inside.