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”
Category: swimming pool decks
Never, ever, EVER use the BOT-3000E and ANSI A326.3 to assess the slip resistance of a pool deck!!
Las Vegas is home to many pool decks, and far too often I have been called out to the “City of Sin” to test a pool deck that has caused slips and led to serious injuries to innocent vacationers. The pendulum dynamic coefficient of friction (DCOF) tester has been in use in over 50 nations … Continue reading “Never, ever, EVER use the BOT-3000E and ANSI A326.3 to assess the slip resistance of a pool deck!!”
Pool Deck Slip Standard would Create Jobs for Lawyers and Emergency Room Doctors
A swimming pool deck slip resistance standard is proposed that if adopted will cause hundreds of millions of dollars of misspent investment; lead to thousands of slip and fall accidents, many with life-changing injuries; cost hundreds of millions in medical bills and other losses; and lead to far too many premature deaths due to injuries … Continue reading “Pool Deck Slip Standard would Create Jobs for Lawyers and Emergency Room Doctors”
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”
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”
Physical Therapist’s Glowing Endorsement of SparkleTuff™
Our clients and their information are confidential. Many parties don’t want it known that they have had slippery floor problems — it tends to bring claimants (legitimate or fraudulent) and their lawyers out of the woodwork. However, one SparkleTuff™ user, a physical therapist, was so pleased she volunteered to let us use her comments. She … Continue reading “Physical Therapist’s Glowing Endorsement of SparkleTuff™”
Slip Resistance Standard NSF 50 for Swimming Pools, Spas, Hot Tubs, Splash Pads, etc.
The National Sanitation Foundation (NSF), together with American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and National Standard of Canada (CAN) established a slip resistance standard for recreational water facilities. Formalized in NSF/ANSI/CAN 50 – 2020, the standard requires a wet Slip Resistance Value, SRV, of 40 or greater, measured using the pendulum slip resistance test method. Though … Continue reading “Slip Resistance Standard NSF 50 for Swimming Pools, Spas, Hot Tubs, Splash Pads, etc.”
Germany’s DIN 51130 Slip Test: What’s it Good For?
In Europe, a slip resistance test for flooring is prescribed by German Institute for Normalization (DIN) standard DIN 51130. A person wearing industrial-type treaded shoes walks, facing down slope, on a variable-angle ramp which has the flooring to be tested on it. The flooring is coated with motor oil. The walker (without holding the handrails) … Continue reading “Germany’s DIN 51130 Slip Test: What’s it Good For?”
SparkleTuff Outdoors on Level Surface and Stairs: 30-second video
The video below shows an outdoor level surface and stairs at a large mall, coated with transparent SparkleTuff™ Anti-Slip. A pedestrian walks down the stairs, which are partially wet from the previous day’s rain. With a material cost of about a dollar a square foot, SparkleTuff™ has excellent wet slip resistance by all respected test … Continue reading “SparkleTuff Outdoors on Level Surface and Stairs: 30-second video”
A Review of Standards for Pedestrian Slip Resistance Testing
There are a number of floor slip test methods established by standards-setting organizations that assess pedestrian slip resistance. Here we’ll review the most widely known and current ones. They are distinguished by the devices used in the testing. Terms such as DCOF rating, coefficient of friction, slip coefficient, slip resistance rating, and friction coefficient all … Continue reading “A Review of Standards for Pedestrian Slip Resistance Testing”