For some people carpeted stairs are more dangerous and slippery than hardwood stairs.
Wood stairs too slippery.
Wonderful to look at extremely painful to fall down which i did recently.
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.
If this is the case coatings or other solutions might not be as effective.
Covering your stairs in carpeting can provide a softer and less noisy surface for you to walk up and down on.
You can use the spray on both interior and exterior wooden steps.
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Some hardwood stairs and rails become slippery through constant waxing or wood soaps.
However carpeted stairs can quickly turn slippery and pose a serious safety hazard for all who walk on the staircase.
Your only choices are to apply chemical solvents or roughen up surfaces with sand paper or plain steel wool.
Falling down stairs can lead to serious injury and slippery stairs pose a threat to anyone in your family.
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.
One of the easiest ways to treat slippery wooden steps is to apply a nonslip coating spray.
Hardwood tile concrete and stone can all be very slippery surfaces.
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.