Wood Stairs Too Slippery

The best way to make your hardwood stairs less slippery is to add traction by installing carpet anti slip adhesive stair treads or applying a coat of anti slip floor finish to the surface of each stair.

Wood stairs too slippery.

I did use shark grip when i painted a set of stairs and it is fabulous easy to use and totally non slippery not sure if it can be added to stain but you d need to sand the stairs first i am thinking but i don t believe that you. I agree that wood stairs are not as slippery as thought at least in my experience with pets and lots of kids in socks and we have pretty steep 1920 s stairs. For some people carpeted stairs are more dangerous and slippery than hardwood stairs. However carpeted stairs can quickly turn slippery and pose a serious safety hazard for all who walk on the staircase.

Falling down stairs can lead to serious injury and slippery stairs pose a threat to anyone in your family. Hardwood tile concrete and stone can all be very slippery surfaces. Some hardwood stairs and rails become slippery through constant waxing or wood soaps. Covering your stairs in carpeting can provide a softer and less noisy surface for you to walk up and down on.

Your only choices are to apply chemical solvents or roughen up surfaces with sand paper or plain steel wool. Wonderful to look at extremely painful to fall down which i did recently. All three of these methods make the surface of each stair rougher add traction and significantly reduce the risk of slipping. The spray is a clear epoxy that provides a textured finish to ensure better traction on the stairs.

Our reader alicia writes we recently redid the ratty carpet covered plywood stairs in our house as a lovely stained varnished solid wood. If this is the case coatings or other solutions might not be as effective. You can use the spray on both interior and exterior wooden steps.