It's no fun sliding around the deck! Whether your pool pours water onto your deck in the summer, or you live in an area where it rains a lot, you're always dealing with snow and ice anyway, and when you have a composite deck it doesn't bother you anymore, it doesn't feel like shiny plastic underfoot. If you have a family, not having to worry about safety while the kids and loved ones are on deck is priceless.
Many of the decks I install now are made of composite materials and now use a unique covering material for the deck that provides a more grippy surface than most other composite materials, creating a composite deck that withstands the weather and keeps the feet firmly in place. Low maintenance and excellent traction -- sounds good, right?

Anti Slip Composite Decking

Like most materials, composites have gone through an evolution, getting better and better over time. In the process, it gained a reputation for being slippery, which is fair, as early synthetic materials could have been quite smooth.
The following is the development history of composite materials:
First Generation Composite Deck: The reputation of a composite deck is largely due to first-generation materials. These products absorb moisture very easily, so they will often inevitably become wet, directly leading to easy slipping. Hygroscopic also causes many problems with mold and moss, raising the slippery factor several notches.
Hard Plastic Capping Second generation Composite: Adding a hard, impermeable capping material to the outer surface of composite decks prevents excess moisture from seeping into the decks for a long time, making them less slippery. However, many floor surfaces were and in some cases are still made of shiny hard plastic materials that were lacking previously.
Cheap second-generation compound blocks: When traction becomes an issue, not all blocks are created equal. Some cover plates are not well connected to the plate core, resulting in material falling off. When scraping and gouging occurs, the gaps in the cap can open up, allowing moisture to enter, creating wet and slippery parts of the deck.
Composite decoration to meet the needs of anti-skid!
Ultimately, a better lid is one of the main requirements for composite decks to achieve a new level of skid resistance. In the last decade or so, a resin seal has been developed from technology in the automotive industry. This type of lid with an anti-slip composite decking is now my first choice.

Here are its features:

Wood Grain Anti-skid Deck Surface Texture

Unlike plastic, which has a smooth surface, laminate flooring has a wood grain surface that allows your feet to stand even when the floor is wet. If the surface is smooth, it becomes slippery. But this true three-dimensional textured surface keeps the composite deck from getting too slippery.

Anti Slip Composite Decking With Groove Surface

This anti-slip composite decking has grooves on its surface to provide traction support as you walk on the deck. The way it walks is the way car tire manufacturers design tire surfaces. The road surface was uneven and grooved. This makes it easy to hold onto the road when your car is on it. The same applies to composite materials. The texture of the non-slip surface has grooves that hold your foot or shoe in place as you move over it. It doesn't make a smooth surface, because a smooth surface can make you slip when it's wet.

Mildew antibacterial

Another reason composite decks are a non-slip alternative to wood is that algae cannot easily grow on them. Wood flooring is a great place for algae to grow, but composite or plastic wood decks can resist algae because they are made of synthetic materials. The materials are wood fiber and plastic.

How do you ensure that your composite deck retains its anti-slip surface texture? The surface of this anti-slip composite decking is indeed non-slip, but to ensure that the laminate is still a non-slip alternative, you must clean it regularly. It's also worth mentioning that it's easy to clean, you just need to use a wet sponge.