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 has excellent UV resistance, chemical and abrasion resistance, and it’s very slip resistant. It’ll stick to absolutely anything without any special preparation to the floor. Just make sure it’s clean and dry. This includes polyurea, epoxy, polyaspartic, glass, tile, stone, wood, slippery tubs, and literally ANYTHING else you can name. Here’s where you can purchase SparkleTuff™ Anti-Slip Floor Coating.
However, getting rid of SparkleTuff™ Anti-Slip Floor and Tub Coating is not as easy as applying it. You can have light foot traffic on SparkleTuff after 6-8 hours of curing time at 70 degrees and 50% humidity, but once it has had the 48-72 hours necessary for this anti-slip floor coating to become rock hard, then you won’t be able to dissolve it with any chemical you can find at a hardware store or anywhere else.
Here are a couple ways of getting rid of it:
1. Grind it off with a heavy-duty floor polishing pad or diamond pad.
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2. Soften and scrape: you can soften the coating by using heat, letting acetone soften it, but here you need to be very careful as acetone is flammable. You will need to ventilate the area well when working with this very flammable chemical. You can also try a strong paint remover like Goof Off FG653 Professional Strength Remover to soften it up a bit so you can try scraping it off.
If you still haven’t had success, it’s likely because your solvent (acetone or Goof Off FG653) is evaporating before it has a chance to really do it’s work in softening up this very durable coating. Try applying a heavy amount of the solvent, cover the area with tin foil, and then tape up the edges with duct tape or something similar so the solvent isn’t able to evaporate. Then leave the solvent under the tinfoil for a couple hours, remove the tape and tinfoil, and that will likely have softened it up enough to scrape it off.
Spills
If you’ve spilled a bit and it hasn’t hardened and cured yet, you might find Toluene can help clean up small spills, but we recommend you follow the application instructions carefully, do the job right the first time, and be careful to tape off areas and not spill this non-slip floor coating while applying it.
Once properly applied, your slip problems will be solved for many, many years to come!
Here’s some advice on cleaning anti-slip floors.