On 18/10/2012 22:32, John Williamson wrote:
polygonum wrote:
On 18/10/2012 21:58, Nightjar wrote:
On 18/10/2012 20:01, Bill Wright wrote:
Mark BR wrote:

I looked at the non-slip paint, but it is about £28 for enough to
cover some 200 sq m. I only want a cover 2' by 1' protected!

Non slip paints are really meant for indoor use, and they aren't very
good when used outdoors,

I suspect that International Paints would disagree with you. They make
non-slip deck paints for ships working in Arctic conditions.

Colin Bignell

But decks of ships in the Arctic tend not to accumulate algae growing
on retained organic and other material - which is what can happen in
ordinary gardens.

You've never seen a canal boat deck, then. They use the same
International Paints anti-slip products. They're expensive, but good.
They need hosing off fairly regularly, but that's all, and I'd expect to
do the same to manhole covers in a path.

It was exactly that which prompted my post! Saw someone painting afresh
with an ordinary paint, someone else with a newly non-slip painted deck
area and that looked fine, and a few which were very algae-covered and
at least looked slippery. Maybe it was because they were moored under
trees? And no-one had done the hosing off in a while.

--
Rod