Painted the stairs but the steps are super slippery how do I solve this?

You have completely removed the old carpet and spent days sanding and painting your stairs, the result has become astonishingly beautiful: a painted staircase in a beautiful color white.

What is a bit disappointing is the smoothness of the steps. You hadn't taken this into account enough. The steps should of course not be slippery. You realize that this is going to cause problems, or worse, a fall has already occurred.

Suppose your parents come to visit and stay for a few days. They also have to go up that slippery staircase and you know your parents are more difficult to walk, what a risk this will give! You don't have to think about a fall, right?

Also the safety of children who sometimes fly down the stairs and do not know the brakes. When the carpet was still on the stairs that was no problem, one tripped once, but yes a few bruises and that was it. Or what about your wife who is now 4 months pregnant with the 2nd. If it stumbles, the turnips are completely cooked. It makes you warm!

Now the completed staircase renovation is a great success, everyone thinks your stairs look beautiful, but the steps are much too slippery! Fortunately, there is Google and you decide to look for solutions and tips to prevent falls. It turns out you're not the only one who recognized this problem too late. There are various options and various providers that can solve this mega problem for you to make your stairs more difficult.

-You can use a milling strip, in which case a groove must be milled in each stair step . You press a plastic strip into this groove that provides grip when climbing the stairs. Googling further you will learn that this in milling strip is a perfect and very good solution, but that there are also some problems with it. For example, you must have an upper milling machine, you have to be a bit handy with this, your stairs that you have painted so beautifully are damaged again. If you are not handy, it is better to have this done by a professional. The costs for milling a non-slip groove in the steps can easily be a few hundred euros.

-There are stair buddies in many different price ranges, which is fine in itself, but then you have carpet on the step again and that is something you didn't really want, with growing children a carpet is not practical either, it gets dirty quickly and these buddies also curl up quickly on the sides. There are also moons in plastic, but they are often too big and you have to cut yourself to size, which is not really easy either.

-Then you will read about different tapes and also about self-adhesive anti-slip strips that you can stick and which are also available in 10 different colours. The color with which you painted the stairs, or in a contrasting color such as the photo at the top of this article. This is a perfect solution almost everyone can apply this and you don't have to be super handy! Request a free color card with all 10 colors and convince yourself of the color and quality.

Blog writer: Dennis van de Burg
www.antisliprubbertape.com

edited July 11, 2016