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Benefits of Garage Floor Coating
For decades, the garage has also been a favorite hub for family activities. From the kids learning how to ride a bike or fix a car to weekends filled with basketball and grilling out, the garage is the central gathering place for the entire family.
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Benefits of Garage Floor Coating
At the heart of family activities, your garage floor takes quite a bit of abuse. Remember that oil leak the family car had last fall? Or the paint spilled from the kids’ arts and crafts project last weekend? And what about that dent in the floor from the toolbox your teenager dropped last summer?
As one of the most popular, high-performance materials for garage floors, the benefits of epoxy garage floor coatings simply can’t be beaten. Here’s what you should know about what makes this garage floor coating so great and why it may be the right choice for you.
How to Clean Non-Skid Flooring
The texture of non-skid flooring provides the traction you need for safety, but it also means you need to take a different approach to cleaning. Non-skid floors should be cleaned by frequent sweeping with a push broom.
When you need to use disinfectant, be gentle and avoid any soaps that will leave behind a residue. Mopping with a vinegar and water solution works best for most anti-skid floor coatings.
Sweeping Non-Skid Flooring
Just like you need to floss every day so that germs don't turn into plaque on your teeth, you need to sweep your non-skid flooring to remove debris before it gets hardened or grimy.
In commercial settings, make it a morning or nightly routine to sweep the non-skid areas of your floors. Sweep away debris and disinfect with vinegar.
If you have non-skid flooring at home, such as in a bathroom or on a pool deck coating, try to sweep at least once a week. More often may be necessary in outdoor areas when there's dirt or leafy debris sitting around. Some plant matter might leave a sticky grime as it rots.
How to Fix a Slippery Pool Deck
You can tell the kids not to run around the swimming pool, but accidents will still happen if you don't maintain a proper slip-resistant surface. Concrete, stone, tile, wood, and composite materials will all have some level of slipperiness when used as a pool deck. The best way to fix a slippery pool deck is to add some kind of permanent texture.
A pool deck floor coating can be applied to concrete and many other surfaces to add slip-resistance and make the surface easier to keep clean.
Refinish a Slippery Pool Deck
Anti-slip coatings can be applied to concrete and other kinds of pool decks. There are DIY products out there, but these tend to get eaten away by the chlorine and chemicals in pool water. This creates the risk that someone will slip and fall toward the end of the summer, and you'll have to reapply annually just to keep the coating working at all.
The better solution is to refinish your pool deck with a coating that includes an anti-slip finish. There's more work upfront—a professional will need to sand or grind the surface and repair cracks—but the quality of your pool deck coating will be much stronger and longer-lasting.