Coated baseboard for sports floor

A floor assembly in combination with a vertical wall, the floor assembly

• comprising:
• a rigid support base;
• a sub-flooring supported above the support base in a spaced-apart relationship to define a floor gap;
• a plurality of strips of material positioned on the sub-flooring and cooperating to form a floor, the floor having a peripheral edge positioned proximate to the wall to provide an expansion gap;
• and
• a substantially L-shaped baseboard formed of a thermoplastic material and having a toe portion and a wall portion, the wall portion adhesively secured to the wall with at least a portion of the toe portion extending over a portion of the floor so the baseboard covers the expansion gap, the toe portion having a front side and a back side, the wall portion having a front side, a back side, an upper end, and a lower end, the back side of the wall portion provided with a plurality of spaced-apart ventilation channels extending entirely across the wall portion from the upper end of the wall portion to the lower end thereof to permit air-flow to and from the floor gap,
• wherein at least the front side of the toe portion and the front side of the wall portion coated with a flexible coating,
• wherein the coating is a flexible, acrylic urethane resin paint, and
• wherein the coating has a thickness in a range of about 1 mm to about 3 mm.