Grip paint for northshore

flinny01

Whats the best (and cheapest) stuff to cover northshore style wooden obstacles. I've heard of grip paint, paint with sand and grit in it and the classic chicken wire.

Whats the best?

Cheers

Adam

The Spiderman

Not enough of a northshore expert to say whats best but I know a little about floor paints.If you want a hardwearing paint to add sand too,you really want something like a 2k epoxy based floor paint.For sand you need something ilke quartz,0.4 - 0.7mm or 0.7 - 1.2mm aggregate size.

Polyutethnae based garage flooor paint would probably do,but would wear out quicker and need to be reapplied every so often.

redvee

The coloured tarmac, ASLs & bike lanes, you see on the roads is just coloured grit added to wet tar.

ride_whenever

not quite, it has a cool self assembling copper porphrin compound as a colourant too!!!!

The Northern Monkey

Chicken wire

Hercule Q

Nails :twisted:

or chicken wire

how much traffic will it get?

dave_hill

The Spiderman wrote:

you really want something like a 2k epoxy based floor paint.

Which is violently expensive and twice as nasty to work with...

Jon8a

2 pack epoxy is expensive. You can't just add sand to any paint, well you can but it won't work very well as paints are formulated to work as sold, not for people to add bits into. It will probably be too fragile (Pigment volume concentration too high). Also epoxy paint doesn't weather very well so you'd need something designed for outdoor use so it didn't break down quickly. All that an most is designed to be applied to steel or concrete, not wood.

Chicken wire is probably best.

Sarnian

We used to paint the deck of are landing crafts with a paint that hand grit In, It worked very well. I am afraid I can't remember for the life of me what It was, but It might be worth speaking to a boat builder or ship chandler.

77ric

Sarnian wrote:

We used to paint the deck of are landing crafts with a paint that hand grit In, It worked very well. I am afraid I can't remember for the life of me what It was, but It might be worth speaking to a boat builder or ship chandler.

good idea that man, have one of these on me

Sarnian

Cheers

flamedude

I've never seen any paint on the north shore woodwork before..... Chicken wire is popular though as well as just scoring lattices into the wood on steep skinnies and things like that.

The Spiderman

2k epoxy will chalk,if left outside,but this won`t affect its performance or ability to hold aggregate.Yes,nasty stuff to work with unless you go for the solvent free or water based variety.Best option would be epoxy/grit topped with pu,but that will be very pricey.
To think,a few years ago,I could have got you some free samples for nothing,too.....

Epoxy will bond to wood no problem.

77ric

this perhaps?

Anonymous

flamedude wrote:

I've never seen any paint on the north shore woodwork before..... Chicken wire is popular though as well as just scoring lattices into the wood on steep skinnies and things like that.

They seem to be painting all the timber features at Glentress with something at the moment.