Make Your Garage Floor Slip-Proof
It’s winter and slippery when wet signs bear more impact than any other time of the year. I wouldn’t be surprised if you told me that you’ve slipped more than once in your garage, although what you would be doing in your garage at this time of the year, I cannot imagine. As you might realize, I would rather be bundled up inside, warm and toasty.
Anyhow, if you have a slippery garage floor, here is what you can do to make it safer for everyone.
The basic idea is to add friction. Every engineer will tell you that friction is the solution for slippery surfaces, and a smooth concrete garage floor with some slush (probably from your car) cannot be any more slippery.
One thing that you can do is to get lots of non-slip tape from the hardware store. 3M is a tried and tested brand – get Safety-Walk. They have various degrees of coarseness, depending on what you need. For maximum grip, get the coarsest kind. The good thing about this tape is that you can put it practically anywhere. If your floor is not concrete (read: the porous kind), then you should buy primer first before applying the tape.
Of course, just because you have this tape does not mean that you should not clean up the surface of your garage floor. One major reason people slip is not only because of a friction-less surface – it’s because there are a lot of other things in the way. Your best bet is to make sure that your work area is clean and free of clutter!
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