choosing materials for an arena

Floor Covering

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MODULAR FLOORING

To choose the right floor covering, decide what the players will wear on the arena:

What floor covering you will choose depends on the quality of the floor, the need in renovation or heating. You need a shoe locker or a shoe rack to keep outdoor footwear. It’s recommended to put shoes in a bag there.

High-quality budo mats or modular PVC tiles of different colours. If you use several colours, you won’t have to paint the floor - painting is needed for better fixation of the cameras on the helmet.

We recommend to use them if you need more durable flooring. It is a novelty. This is high-quality flooring.

The second pair of shoes

Socks

Budo mats or modular PVC tiles

Hexagon PVC tiles

LINOLEUM

SYNTHETIC COVERING

ARTIFICIAL GRASS

It’s harder to tile it than budo mats, but this is a good-looking and a long-lasting solution.

Sports linoleum

We recommend you to consider tufting carpets. They are often used in living accommodation and commercial facilities. They are good in terms of thermal- and sound isolation. Needlestitching technique is used for carpet production – it increases carpet durability.

This is a good option if the arena will also be used for sports classic laser tag with mobile obstacles.

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POLYSTYRENE FOAM

We recommend to use soft panels on columns on the arena. It’s you to choose if you use any panels for walls. For our first arena, we put polystyrene foam panels on the columns and wrapped them with banners with prints.

Standard polyurethane foam for furniture ST 1828 (1 x 2 m), 50mm for columns or reinforced polyurethane foam – 50 mm.

50 mm polyurethane foam for columns

50 mm panels for walls

Walls

WALL TVS

We used two 50-inch ambilight TVs (Philips 50PUS8506) for reception area and restroom.

Ambient lighting greatly enhances the atmosphere on the arena. You can find TVs like that at a profitable price on Craigslist and other similar websites.

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CURTAINS

In this case, the weight of the curtains will be big enough, so it’s better to prefer profile curtain rod to string curtain rod.

If ceiling height is 2,6 m, you are recommended to use 2,4 m long curtains.

ACCESSORIES FOR HELMETS