Walkway coatings serve highly practical purposes. These coatings protect the underlying cement from the elements, chemicals, and foot and vehicle traffic. They also afford an opportunity to give your home major curb appeal. Some walkway coatings, especially those applied in wet areas offer additional slip resistance.
Walkway Coatings Offer Waterproof Protection
Concrete offers durable, strong walking surfaces. But it comes with a downside. Concrete is a porous material. This means moisture permeates the material. When water permeates concrete two things happen: first, concrete erodes and degrades, second concrete gets ugly. And we mean really ugly.
Now, ugly concrete presents an aesthetic problem, but degraded concrete presents a structural problem. Cracking and crumbling are warning signs your concrete walkway presents the threat of structural failure.
Replacing concrete walkways requires removing the concrete, pouring new concrete, and waiting out the curing period. Talk about an expensive and time-consuming endeavor!
Walkway coatings stop water penetration to prevent moisture damage to your walkway. Spend a little money on a waterproof coating for your walkways or a lot of money on replacing concrete. Your choice.
Boosting Curb Appeal with Walkway Coatings
Concrete provides a highly industrial look. That’s how polite people say it. Speaking plainly, plain concrete offers a ho-hum look to the front of your home.
But when walkway coatings perform their magic, boring sidewalks, driveways, and entryways get a dose of wow factor.
Simple waterproof walkway coatings add color. But other waterproof coating systems make your walking surfaces appear to be other surfaces. You get the look of a brick or flagstone walkway without ripping out the concrete and laying a new surface.
Crank Waterproofing applies Desert Crete products, so your walkway never stays down long. Enjoy foot traffic access every day, even when under construction.
Reducing the Co-Efficient of Friction
Popular waterproof coatings for walkways also appear around pools, spas, and wet areas. That’s because simple additives allow the coating to offer a slip-proof surface. While all finished surfaces are slippery when wet, a slip-proof walkway coating reduces the coefficient of friction, which is a fancy way of saying it’s less likely to cause a slip or fall.
For commercial common areas, walkways, and stairs, waterproof walk coatings with slip-proof additives make surfaces safer when wet.
Which Coating Do You Use?
Talk to the experts at Crank Waterproofing and explore your coating options. Crank Waterproofing helps you identify the proper coating for your unique instance.
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