Anti-slip coatings are a safety requirement on Marco Island in a way they aren’t in most inland Florida markets. The island’s combination of waterfront lifestyle, heavy pool and dock use, daily rain from June through October, and salt water tracked from every direction means that outdoor and near-outdoor horizontal surfaces are wet more often than they are dry. A slip on a boat ramp, pool deck, or dock approach is a real injury risk, and generic deck sealers and paint don’t hold their slip rating in this environment because the aggregate wears off the surface rather than being sealed into it.

The anti-slip system Epoxy Guys install uses UV-stable polyaspartic or 100% solids epoxy base chemistry depending on the surface and environment, with aluminum oxide or no-slip aggregate broadcast and fully sealed into the topcoat layer. The sealed-aggregate approach is critical: when aggregate sits on top of a coating without being sealed in, it wears down with foot traffic and loses its slip rating within a season or two. When it’s sealed into the topcoat, the surface maintains its ANSI A137.1 wet DCOF rating for the life of the coating. We document the rating and the product specification on every install.

The one factor that catches most Marco Island property owners off guard is how much of the slip risk comes from what gets tracked in rather than the rain itself. This is a boating and fishing community. People walk off a dock with wet feet, cross a lanai still dripping from the pool, and step onto a garage floor with sand and salt water on the soles of their shoes. Every one of those surfaces is a transition point, and a transition point is where falls happen. A coating that only performs when the surface is bone dry is useless on this island, because the surfaces are almost never bone dry between June and October. We spec for the wet condition first and treat the dry condition as the easy case, which is the reverse of how a lot of coatings get sold.

Where we install anti-slip coatings on Marco Island

Anti-slip coating demand on Marco Island comes from residential, marine, and commercial environments: pool decks and lanais at single-family homes and condominium properties; boat docks and dock approaches at canal-front homes and marina facilities; boat ramps and launch facilities along the Marco River and Goodland Bay; commercial stairways and walkways at retail, hospitality, and marine business properties; and restaurant and kitchen floors requiring documented slip resistance for health department compliance. We provide DCOF documentation for any commercial install. Call (239) 300-0546 or contact us online.