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Slippery wooden bridge- suggestions?


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Any suggestions for making a wooden bridge less slippery? I've had a couple of ideas but hoped someone on here might come up with another option. It's ok-ish when dry but awful in the wet and ice. It's made of large planks with ridges in them, it is about 2m wide and 4 or 5 metres long. It's about 10 years old and is getting noticeably worse recently, I guess as the ridges wear down. Not a cheap bridge so replacing not an option.

 

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Any suggestions for making a wooden bridge less slippery? I've had a couple of ideas but hoped someone on here might come up with another option. It's ok-ish when dry but awful in the wet and ice. It's made of large planks with ridges in them, it is about 2m wide and 4 or 5 metres long. It's about 10 years old and is getting noticeably worse recently, I guess as the ridges wear down. Not a cheap bridge so replacing not an option.

 

Sorry if 've posted this in the wrong place, wasn't sure where to put it.

 

nail rabbit or chicken fencing onto the floor

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Had thought of chicken wire- does that give a decent amount of grip then?

 

SWB what are grippers and where wpuld I find them? Hadn't though of none slip decking paint, thanks for that!

 

Thanks for the speedy answers everyone!

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Re. pressure washing, could this be done without a tap nearby- the only pressure washer I've used was hooked straight up to a tap (not got one anywhere near the bridge) but I guess there must be pressure washers that work independently?

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grippers=i would just tack on very thin pieces of wood every 18 inches, say half inch x inch. just to let your feet get a grip. if there is wheel chair access then keep them shallow but they make the world of diference, the slippyness is lack of maintenance, simples..or you can paint the bridge and throw sand down, its just like sand paper..

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