Slippery Painted Concrete Pool Deck - Help

[jrsarge]

The home I bought has a painted pool deck. Some chips. Very slippery when wet. I want to repaint in with a textured paint. Do I need to try to strip this back to raw concrete...I hope not. Can I scrape the lose stuff, then power wash and then repaint?

Ideas on how to prep and what is the best anti-slip product to apply

 

[jragan]

The home I bought has a painted pool deck. Some chips. Very slippery when wet. I want to repaint in with a textured paint. Do I need to try to strip this back to raw concrete...I hope not. Can I scrape the lose stuff, then power wash and then repaint?

Ideas on how to prep and what is the best anti-slip product to apply

Have you gotten a price for a sun deck or cool deck application? Might be worth looking into.

 

[sktn77a]

Ideally, sandblast the paint off. Failing that, power wash, let it dry and repaint. You can mix sand with the paint before you apply it or get a premixed non-slip finish.

 

[kicksavedave]

Whatever you do, don't paint over any old paint. Definitely pressure wash or sand blast it all away down to bare concrete before applying anything back onto it. Personally I would skip Cool Deck. Its non slip alright, but it barely lasts very long and when it starts to deteriorate, there's not much you can do besides tear up the concrete and re-do it. My old deck had Cool Deck that was badly deteriorated, especially around the pool coping, and leaving crumbs in the pool. Came to understand it was less than 8 years old. Good luck.