CASE STUDY: Saturnia (Marble) on Hotel Pool Deck
PROBLEM: Very Slippery Surface + Fading
SOLUTION: Application of coating + anti slip media
Can you believe the architect on this project actually proposed a Saturnia Marble on a pool deck. At first this was a condo, which the tenants may have dealt with the slippery pool deck. Due to the economy at the time, this was converted to a condo-hotel, and that created new challenges to the many flooring surfaces.
In addition to the obvious slippery conditions, the engineers were faced with the exterior stone fading in the Florida conditions.
In this case perhaps a penetrating sealer could have been used to protect the stone from becoming discolored with pool chemicals, body oils etc However, since the sealer penetrated, the surface was still slippery, and still exposed to the elements. The dilemma was; any other sealer that would be topical versus penetrating would create more of a slip hazard.
The solution was coating the surface, not sealing. Another issue with using sealer was, any sealer would only be a temporary solution, lasting 1-1.5 yrs. By application of the coating process, this would be a permanent sealer to protect from fading and chemicals. With the addition of the our anti slip aggregate process, the slip issue was also solved.