For a short period of time, we sold a water-based anti-slip floor coating from a shady company in Florida that filed bankruptcy several times (unbeknownst to us), that has now changed its name and moved to New Mexico, claiming to specialize in “protective coatings”. Selling a water-based floor safety coating turned out to be a … Continue reading “Water-Based Anti-Slip Floor Coatings – a bad idea”
Category: Anti-Slip Coatings — Do-It-Yourself
Removing SparkleTuff Anti-Slip Floor Coating from your Floor
SparkleTuff™ Anti-Slip Floor Coating is a polysiloxane with aluminum oxide grit. This means that it is very likely the toughest and most durable floor coating you’re able to purchase these days. It’ll last for years and years and years, even with heavy foot traffic, forklift traffic, airplane traffic, and anything else you can imagine. It … Continue reading “Removing SparkleTuff Anti-Slip Floor Coating from your Floor”
Making Stairs Safe Utilizing Anti-Slip Grip Tapes and Anti-Slip Coatings
Stairs can be a major safety concern if they are not designed or maintained properly. The potential for falls and slips on stairs can be reduced by using anti-slip tape near the noses of the stairs, or using an anti-slip coating to cover stairs made with slippery materials, such as polished stone. In this blog … Continue reading “Making Stairs Safe Utilizing Anti-Slip Grip Tapes and Anti-Slip Coatings”
Can a Floor be Too Slip Resistant?
As floor slip resistance testing experts with decades of experience, we’re sometimes asked if a floor can be too slip resistant, usually by someone who is trying to sell a flooring that is likely too slippery for a particular application. The answer, put simply, is no. There is no such thing as a floor that’s … Continue reading “Can a Floor be Too Slip Resistant?”
Cleaning Anti-Slip Floors
After installing a tile or other type of flooring that has great slip resistance, or after applying an anti-slip floor coating with great slip resistance on top of a slippery floor (like SparkleTuff™ Anti-Slip Floor Coating), you’ll find that dragging a dirty mop across the floor may no longer be sufficient to get the floor … Continue reading “Cleaning Anti-Slip Floors”
Slippery Epoxy Garage Floors – SparkleTuff™ Anti-Slip Floor Coating to the Rescue
Our transparent abrasive anti-slip floor coating, SparkleTuff™, has been applied to hundreds of different kinds of floors, and we have yet to find a surface to which it won’t adhere. However, based on the number of frantic phone calls we get, home garage floors that have been newly coated with epoxy (or polyurea or polyaspartic … Continue reading “Slippery Epoxy Garage Floors – SparkleTuff™ Anti-Slip Floor Coating to the Rescue”
Your Questions About SparkleTuff™ Transparent Anti-Slip Floor Coating
Since Safety Direct America introduced its popular transparent anti-slip floor coating, SparkleTuff™, in September of 2016, we’ve fielded questions from thousands of prospective customers. Here are the most popular ones. 1. Will it adhere to my flooring (epoxy, vinyl, wood, tile, marble, granite, glass, etc.)? Yes. We have yet to find a flooring type that … Continue reading “Your Questions About SparkleTuff™ Transparent Anti-Slip Floor Coating”
Use Anti-Slip Floor Tape Strips Wisely
Anti-slip abrasive or non-abrasive floor tape strips have a place in a slip reduction plan, but they must be used judiciously. Figure 1 shows a long ramp to restrooms in a popular (and pricey) restaurant. The floor material is the same for the whole ramp, but inexplicably the anti-slip floor tape strips are only at … Continue reading “Use Anti-Slip Floor Tape Strips Wisely”
Outdoor Test Shows Cleanability of SparkleTuff™ Transparent Anti-Slip Floor Coating
In order to demonstrate the cleanability of transparent SparkleTuff™ (“Sparkle-tough”) Anti-Slip floor coating, we placed seven contaminants on the surface of a porcelain tile coated with SparkleTuff™, as shown in Fig. 1. They are, clockwise from top left, black coffee (a long patch): cabernet sauvignon red wine; yellow mustard; mud from amended adobe (clay) soil; … Continue reading “Outdoor Test Shows Cleanability of SparkleTuff™ Transparent Anti-Slip Floor Coating”
SparkleTuff™ Anti-Slip Floor Coating Preserves Rich Color of Stamped Concrete
An earlier entry in this blog showed Safety Direct America’s exclusive SparkleTuff™ transparent anti-slip floor and tub coating on a simulated terra cotta tile deck that was made of stamped concrete with two coats of color wax. The SparkleTuff™ makes the surface slip-resistant and preserves the color wax for years, instead of it being washed … Continue reading “SparkleTuff™ Anti-Slip Floor Coating Preserves Rich Color of Stamped Concrete”