Fine additive in the topcoat
The lightest option. A subtle tooth for entrances and decorative floors that occasionally get wet, with almost no change to appearance and no change to how you clean the floor.
Slip-Resistant Broadcast System
Anti-Slip Epoxy Flooring
Slip resistance is built into the floor, not sprayed on afterwards. Graded aggregate is broadcast into the wet resin and locked in with a sealing coat, leaving a controlled surface profile that a shoe sole or a bare foot can key against even when the floor is wet. The whole specification question is how much texture, and where.
What anti-slip epoxy flooring is
An anti-slip resin floor is a normal resin floor with a deliberate surface profile built into it. While the body coat is still wet, graded aggregate — kiln-dried quartz sand is the usual choice, with harder grades used where abrasion is severe — is broadcast across the surface by hand or by machine. The aggregate settles into the resin and is held there. Once the body has cured, the loose excess is swept and vacuumed off and one or more sealing coats go on to lock the remaining grains in place.
What you end up with is thousands of fine peaks standing just proud of the resin. Water, soap, oil or grease on a smooth floor forms a continuous film that a sole can slide on; a profiled surface breaks that film up and gives the sole something to bite into. That is the entire mechanism, and it is why a broadcast system behaves so differently from a smooth floor with an additive stirred into the topcoat.
Two variables set the result. The grade of the aggregate decides how coarse each peak is. The broadcast rate decides how densely those peaks sit — a full broadcast to refusal gives a dense, open profile, while a controlled partial broadcast gives a subtle tooth. A third variable is often overlooked: the sealing coats. Flood the profile with too much sealer and you bury the texture you just paid for; put on too little and aggregate sheds under traffic. Getting that balance right is craft, not a data sheet.
Matching the texture level to the area
The question we ask on site is never how much grip we can create. It is how much grip this particular area needs, who is walking on it and what will be on the floor when they do. Getting that wrong in either direction is a failure: too little texture and the floor is a hazard, too much and it becomes impossible to keep clean.
| Texture level | How it is built | Typical areas |
|---|---|---|
| Fine additive | A very fine additive stirred or broadcast into the topcoat only. Barely visible, minimal effect on appearance. | Showroom entrances, reception thresholds, decorative floors that occasionally get wet. |
| Light broadcast | Fine graded quartz at a controlled rate, sealed back. A soft tooth you can feel but not catch on. | Retail circulation, corridors, clinic and washroom floors, poolside walkways. |
| Medium broadcast | Medium quartz broadcast more densely, sealed with one or two coats depending on the profile wanted. | Commercial kitchen dry sides, bottling and processing areas, stair treads, loading docks. |
| Full coarse broadcast | Coarse aggregate broadcast to refusal, giving an open, aggressive profile that stays effective under standing water. | Wet kitchen lines, wash bays, vehicle ramps, external inclines, wet processing floors. |
| Barefoot profile | A rounded, closely spaced texture chosen for skin contact rather than for boot soles. | Bathrooms, changing rooms, shower areas, poolside decks. |
Barefoot and booted areas are not the same job
This is the detail most specifications miss. A coarse, angular profile that works perfectly under a rubber work boot is uncomfortable under a bare foot and can abrade skin — and people respond to an uncomfortable floor by walking carefully around it, which defeats the point. A barefoot wet area needs a rounded, closely spaced texture instead: less aggressive per peak, more peaks. So when a building has a kitchen and a changing room, it needs two specifications, not one, even though both are wet. We ask what footwear is actually worn in each area before we choose anything.
Who anti-slip flooring is for
This system is specified where a fall has real consequences, or where water and grease are simply part of how the space is used. It is a good fit when:
- Water, oil, soap, grease or slurry gets onto the floor in normal daily use
- The surface slopes — ramps, basement inclines, loading bays, external approaches
- The area gets washed down as part of the cleaning routine
- People use it barefoot and wet — bathrooms, changing rooms, poolside decks
- Stairs, landings and walkways where a slip would not be a minor event
- You already have a resin floor that turned out too slippery — a broadcast topcoat can often be applied over it once it has been mechanically prepared
It is the wrong system when:
- You want a mirror-gloss floor as the feature of the room — a metallic floor with a fine additive is the compromise there
- The area is dry and needs maximum flatness for trolleys and racking — specify self-levelling instead
- Your cleaning regime cannot support a textured floor, and nobody is willing to change it
- There is severe thermal shock or steam washdown involved, where a polyurethane-cement system is usually the better chemistry — we will say so if that is what your process needs
Where it matters most
These are the areas where we are asked for slip resistance again and again, and where the texture level is worth arguing about:
- Commercial kitchens — grease plus water plus people moving quickly with hot pans. Usually the most aggressive profile in the building, laid to fall towards the drains.
- Wash bays and vehicle washdown areas — standing water, detergent and tyre traffic together, often on a slope.
- Bathrooms, changing rooms and shower areas — barefoot and wet, so a rounded profile rather than a coarse one.
- Ramps and inclines — gradient removes the margin a flat floor gives you, both for people and for wheels.
- Walkways and circulation routes — marked pedestrian lanes in a working building, frequently in a different colour from the surrounding floor.
- Wet processing areas — dairy, beverage, bottling and preparation floors that are washed down between shifts.
- Poolside and wet decks — continuously wet and used barefoot, coved into the pool surround.
- Stair treads and landings — a textured tread band with a defined nosing edge, which is slow hand work and worth doing properly.
We have offices in all major cities and provide service all over Pakistan. If you are fitting out a kitchen or a wash area, bring us in before the drainage and the falls are finalised — it is much easier to lay a floor to an existing fall than to fix a floor that drains the wrong way.
Appearance
What A Textured Floor Actually Looks Like
Illustrative references for the texture and sheen levels we build. Texture scatters light, so a broadcast floor reads satin or matt rather than glossy. Tap any image to view it larger.
Advantages
Why Clients Specify A Broadcast System
The difference between a broadcast floor and a smooth floor with something stirred into the topcoat is that one has structure and the other has a film. Structure lasts.
- The texture is in the build-up, not on it. Aggregate is held in the resin body, so it does not wear away like a surface treatment applied after the fact.
- Texture level is chosen area by area. One building can carry a fine entrance, a medium walkway and a coarse kitchen line, all in the same resin family.
- Still seamless. No grout lines, no tile joints and no edges for water to get under.
- It can be re-broadcast. When the walking lanes polish down, the profile can be restored without replacing the floor.
- The aggregate adds strength. A broadcast layer carries impact and abrasion better than a plain coating of the same thickness.
- Often applied over a sound existing resin floor once it has been mechanically abraded, which fixes a slippery floor without stripping it out.
- Coving, drain and nosing detailing so the texture continues into the places water actually goes.
Honest Limitations
The Trade-Off Nobody Can Engineer Away
Slip resistance and cleanability pull against each other. Every decision on this page sits somewhere on that line, and pretending otherwise is how kitchens end up with floors nobody can clean.
- The rougher the profile, the harder the floor is to clean. An open coarse texture holds grease and fine soil in between the peaks, and a flat mop simply rides over the top of it. Over-specify the texture and you have created a hygiene problem that costs money every single day the building is open — and in a kitchen, a dirty over-textured floor can end up more slippery than a correctly specified one. This is the most common mistake we are asked to fix.
- Texture wears down in traffic lanes. Walking lines, wheel tracks and the pivot point where everybody turns will polish before the rest of the floor does, and slip resistance in those spots reduces over time. That is a planned maintenance item rather than a failure: the lane can be abraded and re-broadcast. We will tell you what to look for so you notice it before somebody slips.
- Slip performance depends on more than the floor. It depends on the finish specified, on what is actually on the surface, on footwear and on how well the floor is cleaned. We specify to your real use — and we will not claim that any floor can never be slippery. Put enough oil, soap or slurry on any surface and it will be. What a broadcast system does is give you a far larger margin, and keep that margin when the floor is wet.
- Barefoot comfort and boot grip are different specifications. You cannot use one texture for a changing room and a wet kitchen line and have both be right. Two areas, two specifications.
- It is not a mirror finish. Texture scatters light, so a broadcast floor reads satin or matt. If a high-gloss reflection is the thing you want most, this is not the system — and a gloss floor in a wet area is not the answer either.
- Your cleaning equipment has to match the profile. A textured floor needs a stiff deck brush or a rotary scrubber with the right pad, a degreaser matched to the soil, and a proper rinse. If that is not going to happen, we would rather specify a lighter texture and tell you why.
Walk on it before you commit. We make sample panels in the texture levels we are recommending so you can walk on them wet, in the footwear your staff actually wear, before anything is ordered. That single step settles more arguments about texture than any amount of discussion, and it is how we avoid specifying a floor that looks right on paper and feels wrong underfoot.
Installation
How An Anti-Slip Floor Is Actually Built
Preparation decides whether the floor lasts. The broadcast and the sealing coats decide whether it grips. Both happen in this order, every time.
Site inspection and use survey
We look at what gets on the floor, who walks on it and in what footwear, how it is cleaned, where the falls and drains are, and whether the slab has rising moisture. Where moisture is present we specify a moisture-tolerant primer or barrier system so the floor performs long term.
Texture selection and sample panels
Panels are made in the recommended texture levels and walked on wet before anything is ordered. The choice is agreed in writing, area by area.
Mechanical preparation
Diamond grinding or shot blasting opens the slab and removes laitance, coatings and contamination. Existing resin floors are abraded rather than coated over blind.
Crack and joint repair
Cracks are cut out, filled and consolidated, joints are treated according to whether they need to stay live, and falls to drains are checked and corrected where needed.
Primer
A penetrating primer seals the slab and creates the bond the rest of the system depends on.
Body coat
The pigmented body coat goes down, bringing the colour and the bulk of the material. Working time here governs the broadcast that follows.
Aggregate broadcast
Graded aggregate is broadcast into the wet resin at the specified rate — to refusal for an aggressive profile, or controlled for a lighter one. It has to go in evenly and inside the working window, which is why it is done by teams who have done it before.
Sweep, vacuum and seal
Once cured, loose aggregate is swept and vacuumed off, then one or more sealing coats lock the profile in. The number of sealer coats is what decides how much texture survives, so it is a specification decision, not a site decision.
Detailing
Coving, drain surrounds, stair nosings, ramp edges and the transitions between texture levels are finished by hand.
Cure, inspect, hand over
The floor cures to a return-to-service time we confirm for your specific system. We walk it with you, set out the cleaning regime in writing and hand over the written warranty.
Budget
What Moves The Price Of An Anti-Slip Floor
Texture is not the expensive part — preparation, detailing and the number of coats are. These are the factors that actually change the number on your quotation.
| Cost factor | Why it moves the price | What we do about it |
|---|---|---|
| Texture level specified | A full coarse broadcast uses more aggregate and more sealer than a fine additive in the topcoat, and needs an extra coat to lock it in. | Chosen area by area at sample stage, so you are not paying for grip where you do not need it. |
| Slab condition | Cracks, unevenness, old coatings, oil or grease contamination all add preparation hours before any resin goes down. | Assessed at the free inspection and priced as a separate line so you can see it. |
| Falls and drainage | Wet areas have to drain. Forming or correcting a fall to a drain or channel is real screeding work. | Checked with water on site, not assumed from a drawing. |
| Number of texture zones | Every change of texture is an edge to mask, set out and finish by hand, and each zone is a separate operation. | Zoned sensibly, with transitions landing at doorways or changes of level. |
| Coving, drains and nosings | Coved skirtings, drain surrounds, ramp edges and stair nosings are slow, hand-worked details — and they are exactly where water goes. | Counted and listed, so nothing appears as an extra later. |
| Chemical and thermal exposure | Hot washdown, aggressive cleaning chemicals or food acids may need a different resin chemistry rather than a different texture. | We match the chemistry to your process, including saying when epoxy is not the right family. |
| Access and working hours | Live kitchens, operating wash bays and night-only working all add time, and the broadcast stage cannot be paused halfway. | Programmed with you so the area is out of use for the shortest possible period. |
| Area and layout | Rate per sqft falls as area grows. Small, obstructed rooms with equipment bases cost more per sqft than one open floor. | We measure on site rather than working from a drawing. |
| Location | Where a site needs a crew to travel, mobilisation is included in the quotation. | Scheduled as a single continuous mobilisation wherever possible. |
Indicative only. Our resin flooring starts from Rs. 570 per sqft for a straightforward solid-colour or self-levelling floor. An anti-slip system sits above that entry rate because of the extra aggregate, the additional sealing coat and the hand detailing around drains and coving. The figure that matters comes in writing after a free site inspection. You can also try the budget calculator for a planning range.
Programme
How Long It Takes On Site
For a single area such as a kitchen or a wash bay, plan on roughly four to six working days on site, plus a few days beforehand for sample panels and sign-off. A broadcast system has one more stage than a smooth floor: after the body coat and broadcast have cured, the loose aggregate has to be swept and vacuumed off before the sealing coats can go on. That step cannot be rushed, because sealer over loose grit is a floor that sheds.
Larger floors are phased so parts of your site stay usable, and commercial kitchens are almost always programmed around service — often as a full shutdown of one line at a time, with the transitions between zones agreed in advance. Falls to drains have to be dealt with before the resin stages begin, so if the drainage needs correcting, add that to the front of the programme.
Return-to-service time is system-specific. Light foot traffic usually comes back well before wheeled loads, hot washdown or cleaning chemicals are allowed on the floor, and warm weather cures faster than cold. We do not quote one universal number: the exact foot-traffic and full-service times for your build-up are confirmed in your quotation and repeated at handover.
Do not wash it early. The most common avoidable problem on a new anti-slip floor is an enthusiastic first clean before the sealer has fully cured. We set out in writing when the floor can be washed down and with what, and it is worth telling the cleaning team rather than the manager.
Maintenance
The Cleaning Regime Is Part Of The Specification
A textured floor does not clean itself, and a flat mop will not clean it either. The regime matters as much as the system — a well-specified floor cleaned badly performs worse than a lighter texture cleaned properly, and that is the whole reason we ask about cleaning before we choose the aggregate.
- Use a stiff deck brush or a rotary scrubber with a pad suited to the profile, not a flat mop
- Match the cleaner to the soil — a degreaser for kitchen grease, a pH-neutral cleaner for general dirt
- Let the cleaner dwell, then agitate, then rinse and squeegee to the drain; do not let dirty water dry in the profile
- Clean daily in grease areas — build-up is what destroys slip performance
- Inspect the main walking lanes and pivot points a couple of times a year for polishing
- Keep walk-off matting at the entrances to textured areas so grit is not carried in
- No mop-and-shine products or floor polishes — they fill the profile and undo the grip
- No strong solvents, and no steam cleaning unless the system was specified for it
When a lane does polish down, the answer is not a new floor. The area is abraded, re-broadcast and resealed, which restores the profile at a fraction of the cost of replacement. We will tell you honestly when a floor needs it — and when it is still performing and does not.
Specification
Texture And Finish Options
Colour is a solid uniform tone — safety greens, greys, reds, blues and buffs are the usual choices, and a contrasting colour is often used to mark a walkway. What you choose alongside it is how the surface behaves.
Light to medium broadcast
Graded quartz at a controlled rate, sealed back to a satin surface. The everyday answer for corridors, washrooms, stair treads and the drier parts of a kitchen.
Full coarse broadcast
Coarse aggregate to refusal for wet kitchen lines, wash bays and ramps. Maximum grip under standing water, and the option that demands a proper scrubbing regime in return.
Barefoot profile
A rounded, closely spaced texture for bathrooms, changing rooms and poolside decks, chosen for comfort under skin rather than for boot soles.
Coved edges
Drain and channel detailing
Stair nosings and tread bands
Contrast walkway marking
Zoned texture levels
Wet-walk sample panels
Why 3D Master Epoxy
Fourteen Years Of Specifying Texture, Not Guessing It
We have been installing resin floors since 2012 and have completed more than 1,200 floors, with offices in all major cities and service all over Pakistan. A good part of that work has been correcting floors that were specified without anyone asking what gets spilled on them or how they get cleaned, so we ask those questions first and our experienced installation teams broadcast and seal to the specification that comes out of the answers.
Every project starts with a free site inspection: we measure, assess the slab, check the falls and the drainage, check for rising moisture and recommend a texture level per area. Then you get a fixed written quotation with the system, the profile, the cleaning regime and the return-to-service times set out in it.
Lifetime warranty on workmanship & materials. We stand behind our floors for life. Our lifetime warranty covers workmanship and material defects — if the floor fails because of our installation or the materials we used, we repair it free of charge, with no time limit. Damage from misuse, chemical exposure outside the specified system, structural movement, or moisture rising through the slab is assessed separately. Full warranty terms are provided in writing with every project.
Get the texture specified for your area
Tell us the city, roughly how big the area is, what gets onto the floor and how it is cleaned. We will inspect it free of charge, make panels you can walk on wet and come back with a fixed written quotation.