Warminster Township
Warminster’s school district has made both calls on its tennis courts. In 2013 it removed the courts beside Log College Middle School; in 2025 it sought bids to wash, repair cracks, recolor and restripe all six at William Tennent.
Local courts
For a court you own, the call turns on what lies under the color. Asphalt shrinks and turns brittle with age, so the American Sports Builders Association (ASBA) calls cracking in asphalt courts inevitable. Its guidance also says every repair method adds life, some of them many years, though cracks eventually come back. While the base holds, filling, leveling, new color and lines keep a court in play. For an owner who wants a long-term solution, the ASBA’s answer is reconstruction. Short of that, the work runs from the first crack filled to the last line painted.
Warminster Township, about 10.2 square miles along the Montgomery County line, has villages such as Johnsville, Davisville and Warminster Heights inside it. Hartsville and Breadysville straddle the line with Warwick Township, so a court there may sit in either; we work in both. Ace Court Surfacing is based in Bucks County, and Bill Ferguson answers the phone. Whether a Warminster court needs repairs, a full resurface or a harder look at the base comes down to its cracks and low spots, so map those first.
Local conditions
By Warminster’s 1981–2010 averages, nights dip below freezing and afternoons climb above it in every month from December through March, with January running from 23.0°F to 39.5°F. Water sitting in an open crack can freeze and thaw all through that stretch, and ice is about 9 percent less dense than water, so it crowds the crack as it forms. Go into December with your cracks sealed.
July is Warminster’s wettest month, averaging 5.14 of its 47.83 inches a year, right in the middle of coating season. The ASBA says not to start a coat if rain is imminent or it can’t dry the same day, so summer work moves with the forecast. A storm doubles as one coating maker’s test: an hour after the rain, chalk around any puddle that covers a nickel.
A court in full sun can run far hotter than the air. In one coating maker’s test, air at 29.8°C, about Warminster’s 85.6°F July average high, left a standard court surface at 52°C, roughly 126°F. Darker colors run hotter, especially those with black pigment, so weigh that when you pick yours. Another maker says to apply in the morning, while the surface is cooler.
Start here
Before your court goes the way of the Log College courts, look at repairs: open cracks filled, birdbaths leveled, peeling color scraped back and recoated, gray lines repainted. On a sound base, that may be all it needs.
Untreated hairline cracks develop into more serious ones, the ASBA warns, and Warminster’s average lows sit below freezing from December through March. Before the cold sets in, cracks should be cleaned out, left to dry and filled with acrylic crack filler.
If a new pickleball pad is going in beside your Warminster tennis court, settle the layout before any paint: courts at 20 by 44 feet, net post spots marked, 2-inch lines.
Walk it an hour after a hard rain. Several puddles still deep enough to cover a nickel, or dips 1/2 inch or deeper, may point to more serious problems, the ASBA warns. Settlement cracks are another warning: the ASBA traces them to paving over a poorly compacted or poorly drained subbase. Hairline cracks, faded color and worn lines are surface wear that repairs and new color handle. If the base has failed, rebuilding the pavement comes before any new color.
Yes. USTA guidance says one tennis court can take up to two blended pickleball courts, one on each side of the net, in textured line paint a shade lighter than the court. The tennis lines stay. The tennis net generally stays up too, with portable nets for pickleball. If you’d rather give pickleball a pad of its own, the paving comes first and the layout and lines follow, each court 20 by 44 feet with the kitchen (non-volley zone) 7 feet from the net.
The same four steps the school district’s 2025 bid listed for its William Tennent courts: wash, crack repair, color, lines. Typically the court is washed free of dirt and loose coating, and each crack is cleaned out, left to dry and filled with an acrylic filler rather than an asphalt-based one. Low spots get leveled. Then textured acrylic color and freshly measured lines go down, each coat at 50°F and rising with no rain coming. Call Bill at 215-251-2984 to talk yours through.