Anti slip

[martinriches]

Got up this morning and fell down the stairs. Not a good start. I know people put stuff in paint to use on deck. We have fine sawdust at work. How about that?

Martin

 

[Twister_Ken]

Might abrade a bit quickly, and hold moisture. Fine sand or micro balloons are the usual suspects

 

[VicS]

Time to move the bed downstairs!

 

[Tranona]

Time to move the bed downstairs!

Or get measured up for a Stannah!

 

[prv]

Fine sand or micro balloons are the usual suspects

I've also heard a suggestion of painting as normal, scattering sugar on it while wet, then hosing the sugar off again once it's dry. Supposedly the holes the sugar crystals leave as they dissolve away make a grippy but not skin-abrading surface.

Never tried it myself.

Pete

 

[ccscott49]

Kiln dried sand from a builders merchant. Sprinkle in the wet paint, with a sieve.
Or buy stick on non slip tape, industrial type, available in a few colours, look on E bay for tape geek, good product, use it aboard.

 

[alahol2]

Sandtex masonry paint.

 

[Quandary]

My son spent weeks stripping and varnishing his pitch pine stairs, he used a matt varnish thinking it would be ok for grip. With winders at the top, when he had finished they were too smooth to be safe for anyone in socks. So he put that self adhesive clear plastic carborundum tape strip you use on the deck of yachts around the mast, across the nose of each tread. He thought 50 mm. was too wide for neatness so he split the width to two strips of 25mm. separated by a 25mm clear gap on the front of each tread. He rounded off all the corners to prevent them lifting. It works well, fells very grippy even on the tapered treads and after 6 or 7 years is still almost invisible.
They are comfortable to walk on even in bare feet and used inside in the dry the strip has proved very durable.

 

[Fantasie 19]

Kiln dried sand from a builders merchant. Sprinkle in the wet paint, with a sieve.

...or if you have any handy - kiddies playpit sand is good...

 

[concentrik]

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