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Pole Pads and Wall Padding in Connecticut
Custom Pole Pads runs its own install crews in Connecticut. We cover Fairfield County, New Haven, Hartford and the shoreline towns, measuring on site and mounting padding on gym walls, gooseneck posts and outdoor light poles.
- Shipping
- All 48 contiguous states.
- Installation by our own crews
- New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, eastern Pennsylvania, plus the Austin and Houston markets in Texas. Coverage detail
Outside our installation markets we ship the product for installation by you or your contractor. Coverage states are New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, eastern Pennsylvania, the Austin and Houston metros in Texas.
Where our crews work in Connecticut
Our crews reach Connecticut from our Closter, New Jersey shop, so Fairfield County is a short run over the state line. Greenwich, Stamford, Norwalk, Westport and Danbury are routine days. We also work the I-91 corridor through New Haven, Meriden and Hartford, Route 8 up to Waterbury and Torrington, and the shoreline east toward New London.
Most gym work in Connecticut happens in a narrow window. Districts want padding up between the end of the spring season and the first fall practice, and parks departments want outdoor posts wrapped before summer camps start. Tell us your date early and we will schedule the measure visit and the install around it.
Travel time is worth planning around too. A Fairfield County site visit can happen in a morning, while Windham and New London County jobs are easier for everyone if we combine them with another stop in the same week. If your district has more than one building on the list, put them all in the same request and we will sequence them into one trip.
- Fairfield County: Greenwich, Stamford, Norwalk, Westport, Fairfield, Bridgeport, Danbury and the Route 7 corridor.
- New Haven County: New Haven, Milford, Hamden, Waterbury, Cheshire and Wallingford.
- Hartford County: Hartford, West Hartford, Manchester, Bristol, New Britain and Enfield.
- Shoreline towns: Branford, Guilford, Madison, Old Saybrook, Clinton, and east to Groton and Mystic.
- Northwest hills and the east: Torrington, Litchfield, Willimantic, Norwich and Putnam.
What Connecticut weather does to outdoor padding
Connecticut asks two different jobs of the same product. On the shoreline, salt air and constant damp work at seams and stitching, and a pad that sits tight against a post all winter never fully dries. Inland and up in the northwest hills, freeze and thaw is the problem: water gets behind a pad, freezes, and pushes the cover away from the foam. Posts near a plowed parking lot or a sanded walkway take road salt spray on top of that.
For exposed Connecticut sites, shoreline tennis courts, softball backstops, marina-adjacent parks, we specify the heaviest vinyl rather than the indoor baseline, and the vinyl weights and foam specs are laid out on our materials page. Our own habit is to spec heavier for anything within sight of the water.
The practical fix is seasonal, not structural. Crews and custodians who open the hook and loop closure a couple of times a year, let the post breathe, and hose the grime off the cover get years more out of a pad than facilities that wrap a post in April and never touch it again.
- Full-length hook and loop closure lets a custodian open a pad and let the post dry out.
- Darker stock colors hide shoreline grime. Navy Blue, Forest Green and Black are common outdoors.
- Walk outdoor posts each spring, after the freeze and thaw season, to catch open seams early.
- Pads pulled for the winter and stored flat indoors come back out looking almost new.
- Tell us if a post sits inside the salt spray line from a plowed lot so we can spec accordingly.
The facilities we pad across the state
Connecticut has a lot of small districts and a lot of old buildings. Regional high school gyms with brick or block end walls, town rec centers, church fellowship halls that double as courts, condo and HOA tennis and pickleball courts, and independent school field houses. Most of these have gooseneck backstop posts, structural columns near the sideline, or a wall closer to the baseline than anyone would design today.
The NFHS basketball guidance asks for at least 3 feet, preferably 10 feet, of unobstructed space outside the boundaries. Portable backstop bases have to be padded to 7 feet on the court-side surface, and a 9 foot backboard support needs padding 2 feet back from the backboard face. In older Connecticut gyms, that clearance problem is usually what drives the order.
Two things show up constantly in New England buildings of this vintage: radiator enclosures and stage aprons that sit inside the run-out, and doorways or panic bars that a standard 2 ft x 6 ft pad would cover. Both are solvable with cut sizes and cutouts, but we need to see them, which is why the measure visit matters more here than in a newer building.
- FT75 pole pads fit 4 in and 5 in square posts and start at $254.
- FT78 covers 6x6 posts at $307. The 6x6 pad and gusset set is $402.
- Wall pads come 2 ft x 6 ft and 2 ft x 8 ft, foam-only from $152, plywood-backed from $172.
- Custom printed pole pads carrying a school mark start at $373.99.
- All padding is a 2 in foam core under heavy-duty coated vinyl, in 16 stock colors.
Getting a Connecticut order quoted and scheduled
Most Connecticut buyers are an athletic director, a facilities director or a town parks supervisor, and most need a written quote before anything moves. Tell us up front whether the paperwork goes through a school business office, a town purchasing agent or an HOA board, because that usually sets the real timeline more than production does. We will put building names, quantities and per-item pricing on the quote so it can be attached to a requisition without a rewrite.
Send measurements with the request if you have them. Every square post gets all four sides measured on its own, and our measuring guide walks through round posts and the in-between sizes that older backstops love to produce. If nobody on staff can get to it, we will take the measurements at the site visit instead.
Building access is the other Connecticut constant. Summer is when floors get refinished, camps run in the gym, and custodial coverage is thin. Stock colors and stock sizes generally ship in 2 to 3 business days, so the install date is usually limited by your calendar, not ours. Custom printed pads take longer because the artwork and proof process has to finish before anything is cut, so start that as soon as the logo is settled. Padding carries a 1-Year Limited Warranty.
- Call 917-546-4625 or 877-466-7101, or email sales@mybackyardsports.com to start a Connecticut quote.
- Send building names and quantities together so multi-site districts get one sequenced trip.
- Give us the hard date, first home game, camp opening, floor refinish, and we schedule backward from it.
- Ask for the quote in the format your business office or purchasing agent needs.
- Custom printed work needs approved artwork before production, so allow extra calendar time.
Keep reading
Do you actually install in Connecticut, or just ship there?
Both. Connecticut is a full install state for us, so our own crew measures on site and mounts the pads rather than handing your staff a box. Facilities that would rather mount padding in house can still order the same pads and put them up with the hook and loop closure, which is how many smaller Connecticut jobs go, and we will take the measurements over the phone.
Do you have a location or showroom in Connecticut?
No. Our shop and offices are at 570 Piermont Rd, Ste 125, Closter, NJ 07624, and our crews travel into Connecticut from there. Fairfield County is a short trip, and we work the I-91 and I-84 corridors regularly. Site visits are scheduled, so give us a window that fits your building calendar.
Does your padding meet ASTM F2440?
We do not claim certification for our products. If a Connecticut district spec sheet references the standard, our [materials page explains what ASTM F2440 actually measures](/materials) so you can ask any vendor the right question, and we will tell you plainly what we can and cannot document.
How soon can a Connecticut school get pads before the season?
Stock colors and stock sizes generally ship in 2 to 3 business days, and we schedule the install around that. The tighter constraint is usually building access, since summer brings floor refinishing, camps and reduced custodial coverage. Custom printed pads take longer because artwork has to be proofed and approved first. If you have a hard date, such as a first home game, say so when you call.
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Tell us the post size or the wall run, the colors you need, and whether it lives indoors or out. You will get a written quote back with a real lead time on it.
- A written lead time on every quote
- Purchase orders and W9 on request
- A proof before anything is cut