What Affects How Slippery A Coated Floor Is?

If you’re planning to have your garage floors coated this season, you’ll want to have all bases covered. Aside from design and type of coating, you’ll also need to determine just how slippery your upgraded floor should be. Guardian Garage Floors, the premier garage floor residential company, discusses more in today’s post.

Proper Traction is Important in a Coated Floor 

This ensures that you and your family can safely and easily walk across your garage floors, eliminating the potential of accidents and a trip to the doctor. Traction is determined by the Static Coefficient of Friction (SCOF), which rates the amount of force it takes to overcome resistance to movement between the contact areas of two objects. In this case, that will be your coated garage floor and the sole of your shoe or your car’s tires. 

There are three factors that can affect your garage floor’s slip resistance once the coating is applied:

  1. Texture of the floor coating.
  2. Whether or not the floor surface is wet or dry because of water, grease or oil.
  3. How level the floors are, or the degree of slope the floor surface has.

Increasing Slip Resistance in Coated Floors

Your trusted garage floors company, Guardian Garage Floors uses high-quality polyaspartic floor coating systems to keep your flooring not only durable and beautiful, but safe to traverse, as well. We make this possible through specialized additives, which we apply into the top coat of the polyaspartic. This particular coating system is typically applied in at least two coats. The first serves like a primer, ensuring the strongest possible adhesion between the coat and concrete.

But the polyaspartic itself offers poor traction–and this is where additives come in. They provide a somewhat coarser texture that negates the slippery surface provided by the polyaspartic coating. The result is a safe, but exceptionally lovely and durable floor that can serve as an instant focal point in your garage space.

Guardian Garage Floors is the leading choice for one-day garage floors in the area. When you work with us, expect only a safe and worry-free process–with zero potential for mistakes–in your floor upgrade. We serve Marietta, GA, and the nearby cities. Call us today at (615) 645-3696 or fill out this contact form to schedule your consultation. We’d love to hear from you!