Town of East Hampton
Court Maintenance & Seasonal Care in Montauk, NY
Maintaining a court in Montauk costs about $1,800 a year nationally, $2,000 for clay: brushing, watering overnight and at midday, spring rolling and a yearly reconditioning with two tons of new material for Har-Tru, a wash and algae treatment for a hard court. Tell us what the court is in Montauk; one company that maintains courts in Town of East Hampton calls within one business day.
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A court in Montauk needs a spring opening, a weekly routine and someone to notice the crack in October. We put Montauk homeowners in touch with one company that maintains courts in Town of East Hampton on the clubs’ calendar, and we publish what the year costs.
Maintenance in Montauk: what's different here
Six Har-Tru courts at Montauk Downs State Park, the Town’s two on South Emery Street, the Montauk Tennis Club’s Hither Hills site and the Yacht Club’s renovated racquet center, and a hamlet of hillside and oceanfront houses where a private court is the exception and the wind is not.
On the ocean side of Montauk the court dries between waterings in the afternoon wind and the salt works on the fence and the net posts; a beachfront maintenance contract in Montauk is more watering, more brushing and a windscreen check after every blow.
The water table near the harbour and the ponds sits 2–8 feet below grade, with hydrostatic pressure against anything built into it, and the hamlet’s downtown was moved three miles south after the 1938 hurricane flooded it; a court base here is designed for water from below as much as from above. Most of Montauk’s tennis is public or club: Montauk Downs State Park’s six Har-Tru courts (rented at $44 an hour, $24 for members, mid-May to October), the Town’s two courts on South Emery Street, and the Montauk Yacht Club’s racquet center with the fork’s only padel courts; 4,318 people lived here at the 2020 Census with 60% of the housing counted vacant.
Permits in Montauk run through the Town of East Hampton Building Department (with a Natural Resources Special Permit near wetlands and bluffs); the court builder we put you in touch with handles the filing where one is required.
How it works
Tell us about the job once. One licensed, insured court builder who works Montauk and handles maintenance regularly contacts you within 1 business day. Free for homeowners, no spam calls.
FAQ
Maintenance questions
How often does a tennis court need resurfacing?
Nobody publishes an interval, and the base is why. The national guides price a hard-court resurfacing at $8,000–12,000, an acrylic recoat at $4,000–10,000, a maintenance topcoat at $1,000–2,000 and a full asphalt overlay at $20,000–40,000, and give a court a 10-to-25-year life, asphalt 15–20, but none states the years between recoats, because a post-tensioned slab in a dry yard and old asphalt over ground that saturates every winter wear at different rates. Read the cracks instead: hairlines in the colour are wear and a recoat; a crack that runs across the court and returns each spring is the base and needs the drainage fix ($4,000–8,000) first. Clay is not resurfaced; it is reconditioned every year, with about two tons of new Har-Tru per court, at $2,500–3,000.
Har-Tru or a hard court: which should I build in the Hamptons?
Har-Tru if you want the surface the fork plays on and will pay to keep it; a hard court if you want to walk out and play. A clay court costs $60,000–90,000 nationally plus about $2,000 a year, is watered overnight and at midday, brushed, rolled daily in the spring freeze-thaw and reconditioned every year with two tons of new material, and it plays in light rain; the clubs here are almost all Har-Tru: SPORTIME’s 33 courts, the East Hampton Tennis Club’s 15, Montauk Downs’ 6, Mashashimuet’s 8. A post-tensioned concrete or asphalt court costs $45,000–80,000, needs a wash and an algae treatment, a recoat ($4,000–10,000) when the colour wears and 30–120 minutes after rain, and lasts 10–25 years. A junior on the tournament track wants both within reach.
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You tell us about the project once: where the lot is, what you want built, resurfaced, lit, fenced or looked after, the surface if you know it, and when. We put you in touch with one licensed, insured court builder who does that work in your town, and they call you within one business day. From there it is their site visit, their quote, their schedule and their warranty. It is free for homeowners; participating builders pay us a referral fee for the introduction. We are not a builder, a tennis club or a coaching business, and we do not sell your details; the one company we send you to is the only one that gets your number. We cover 9 South Fork towns and 6 kinds of court work.
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