Re: Anti-Slip Treatments Baird Standish 08 Oct 2010 13:12 EDT

I would be very interested. Thanks Fred.

On Friday, October 8, 2010, Fred Hueston <fhueston@gmail.com> wrote:
> The terrazzo should not be slippery...however,  you have to remember that anything spilled on the floor might cause it to be slippery..I have designed a slip fall program if your interested.it includes a written program
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> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Baird Standish <bairdstandish@gmail.com> wrote:
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> John,the surface is terrazzo.  the floor was poured about 6 years ago.  They then coated it with a thick layer of something that the contractor said would last 6 years.  They didn't like the results and put 4 coats of acrylic on it which just made it worse. We are proposing a polished finish. In our test we we first stripped off the coating (fairly easily).   What was left was a smooth finish of probably 100 grit.  We honed at 200, 400 and 800 and then polished with 5x.  At 800 we could get both the aggregate and cement to a suitable clarity and gloss.  400 only got the aggregate glossy.  We touched it off with some chrystallizer. See picture below.
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> The owners are concerned about slipperiness.  I don't believe that the tested floor is particularly slippery but they are looking for any recommendations just the same.  They are also looking for fewer maintenance headaches than they had with the coating.
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> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 4:51 PM, John Freitag <jfreitag@thestoneandtileschool.com> wrote:
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> What are you trying to apply the anti slip to?  Marble, granite,
> ceramic tile there are different anti slip materials out there it depends upon
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> From: Baird Standish
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> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2010 2:39 PM
> To: Restoration and Maintenance
> Subject: [sccpartners] Anti-Slip Treatments
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> Was wondering if anyone out there has come across an
> effective anti-slip treatment for polished floors. A friend of mine told me
> about a treatment that employs some sort of micro-etching or something along
> these lines that does not require a coating.  I often get asked about this
> sort of thing and I can typically only recommend a--
> Frederick M. Hueston PhD
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