How to make a floor non slip, solutions for surfaces and steps
When you enter a building, a room or cross a public area, one of the first perceptions that put us about reality is contact with the ground. A non-slip floor or steps guarantee stability and higher safety, fundamental characteristics for internal and external areas with the frequent flow of people. In this article we will discover and compare the ideal solutions to make a non-slip surface. Depending on your functional and aesthetic needs, all of these solutions will ensure greater reliability towards the surrounding environment in order to protect the quality of life.
In this article, we’ll talk about:
- Safety and regulations for non-slip floors
- Regulatory anti-slip flooring classification
- How to make a floor non slip
- Solutions with resins and compounds
The safety of walking on non-slip and non-slip tactile flooringe
Safety is an essential aspect of any environment. To minimize risks, various solutions have been adopted over the years, from the edge protectors to the non-slip adhesive strips, to non-slip floor treatments. Each with different physical and aesthetic characteristics.
When you decide to secure a home area, for example, beveling and protecting sharp corners is the first operation that comes to mind. However before thinking about the corner protection, it is necessary to look from another, lower perspective, facing the floor. Making a non-slip floor increases its friction capacity, even on inclined bases, consequently reducing the risk of falling.
Everyone has, at least once in their life, hit a bump against sharp surfaces or slip and fall on a wet floor. The bevel limits the pain but does not eliminate the problem. Acting at the base, and making the floor non-slip is, therefore, the first solution to reduce the percentage of risk.
Regulatory anti-slip flooring classification
In public places, workplaces and commercial environments, where the passage of people is continuous, there are regulations that establish the degree of adherence and coefficient of friction with the floor subjected to anti-slip treatments. Verification takes place through laboratory tests: the higher the value, the greater the adherence to the surface.
The test is carried out with a wet floor, therefore pushing the anti-slip property of the treated tile to the maximum.
Now you ask yourself, how much does the aesthetic impact change after the treatment? The surface tends to maintain its original appearance, this also depends on the degree of adhesion: the greater the layer of non-slip compound, the higher the opacity effect; the floor will be a few shades lighter. A subjectively pleasant and indispensable result in working areas.
How to make a floor non slip
The treatments to make steps or non-slip floors are numerous and offer various choices from functional and aesthetic performance. Most methods for imparting anti-slip properties involve adhesive tape, which often looks ugly.
Thanks to the properties from Anti-Slip Malta™ , you will be able to make your floor non-slippery without changing its appearance.
The inorganic surface activators and the polymers contained in the product, by chemical conversion reaction, produce permanent microstructures causing an increase in the kinetic coefficient of friction.
How to make a floor non slip? Solutions with resins/compounds
The first solution concerns the treatment of the surfaces with non-slip chemical products composed of micro-technology, which in contact with the shoe e feet guarantee grip and safety even in the presence of water. Keeping the surfaces clean and free of roughness increases the product’s properties. The aesthetic impact it’s almost none, therefore keeping the original colour of the floor.
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