Your church just made a large investment in a multipurpose building, whether for a gym, cafeteria, classroom space, or a worship area. Of course, the space is intended to serve multiple functions, changing from banquet facility to wedding reception room to children's festival or sports venue on a regular basis. You may also want to open your gym doors for special worship services or for community events like voting, special meals, and theater productions. Your church might like to raise money by renting out their facilities to dance, bingo, youth sports events. So, what kind of floor covering accommodates multiple-use space? What are your options for enhancing your multipurpose flooring?

Generally speaking, maple hardwood floors won't do for fundraising dinners. The synthetic gym floors can be too hard to clean after dinner functions. And carpets can receive excessive wear and tear. Don't worry, your best option is to use Covermaster gym floor covers because you want the best value for your dollar, quality that will last and serve well to train and equip your community.

If your church has a hardwood basketball court, you'll be careful to protect it from spills, chairs, high heels, equipment or furniture scratch marks and other hazards. It can easily cost $50,000 to $100,000 to replace the floor.

With an investment of $6,000 or less for the average 8,000-square-foot gym, your church can purchase a reversible, vinyl-surface floor cover in custom or standard colors. Covermaster offers different gym floor covers, each with a core of reinforced polyester: the top-of-the-line, heavy-duty Ultima 5000, which can withstand the rigors of concerts and graduations; the medium-weight Ultima 4000 with anti-slip surface; the premium lighter weight Ultima 3000, which is great for banquets; and the very affordable economical Master series.

To help you install or remove your gym floor covering, Covermaster offers Covermate, an easy-to-use storage system, which allows you to roll out and roll back floor covers just in a few minutes. CoverClean, an optional, adjustable brush assembly, will sweep the cover as you wind it up. PowerMate, an electric power winder, will save you time and labor, and enable any person to operate the system easily.

A few years ago, First Assembly of God in Grant Pass, Oregon, purchased a lightweight gray cover from Covermaster for its 8,125 square-foot gym.

"We love it," says Chuck Bahn, building superintendent. "It is the only thing saving our hardwood floor. We use it at least twice a week and are quite satisfied with it. It works well."

Another church used it to feed 300-plus needy people every Thursday night for the local food program. They cover up the wooden gymnasium floor with eight rolls of Master 2700 and tape it down. After dinner, they wipe it with a damp mop before rolling it back up. Covermaster gym floor covers enable them to organize more outreach events and engage the community without worries about damage to their facilities.