This involves sanding the surface of the lane to make it smooth again and then re-applying a coating, usually urethane, to protect it. This means that there is a limited period of time that a wood lane can be used before it must be replaced. This is not the same as resurfacing, which actually removes more of the wood from the lane to make it flatter. When a wood lane is reaching the end of it's usefulness, it is often covered with a Synthetic Coating, as described below. Lanes with Synthetic Overlay Synthetic Overlay on Wood is also just what it sounds like.
Synthetic overlays come in many forms, but there are two main ones.
The second is a thicker, solid overlay that is screwed onto the old lane surface. We will not go into which is the better here and would ask any person who is interested in putting a new lane surface in their center to contact the manufacturers of lane surfaces directly. The plastic-like overlay mentioned first will generally allow the original lane surface to be seen, but also to be protected by this special overlay. Prior to such an overlay being laid, the lane must be sanded and prepared but the main advantage of such a surface is that it will extend the life of wooden lanes beyond the norm and can be replaced again and again. The reason for more consistency is simply because it completely replaces the original surface with a new one so that any old defects in the lane surface will be covered.