Welcome to the world of slip resistance, where two acronyms battle for dominance: SCOF and DCOF. At Walkway Management South Florida, we like to keep things interesting, so let's dive into this thrilling duel. SCOF: The Old-School Veteran Static Coefficient of Friction (SCOF) is like your grandpa's favorite vinyl record—classic but outdated. It measures
Whether you maintain a school having to shuffle desks around once or twice a year for a strip and wax, a healthcare facility in need of a safe and easy-to-maintain environment, a car dealership in need of a durable floor coating that holds up to heavy tire traffic, or a restaurant with greasy hard to clean floors, BOOST™ MAX is the perfect floor coating solution.
Tile Council of North America (TCNA) has announced the addition of a five-category “product use classification system” in ANSI A326.3 American National Standard Test Method for Measuring Dynamic Coefficient of Friction of Hard Surface Flooring Materials, published on February 2, 2022.
Most restaurants and businesses have their hired workers clean their floors at the end of the day when everyone is tired and ready to go home. The cleaning usually means that someone takes a dirty mop with some water, that they may or may not have changed out since the previous cleaning, and adds some sort of generic floor cleaner and mops the entire area as fast as they can to finish and go home.
BoostMAX is the world’s first High-Performance Slip Resistant Sealant with Ceramic Nano Particles. Every square foot of BoostMAX contains about 12 million ceramic particles suspended on the surface of this flexible coating system.
This type of treatment does not leave anything on your tile, it does not create any film that can peel over time. This treatment actually creates a series of microscopic mountain peaks and valleys in your tile.
In the United States, there is only one standard that is acceptable for measuring slip resistance. It is the ANSI A326.3 which tests for the DCOF of a surface and requires the DCOF to measure above a 0.42 to be compliant with the standard.
