Outdoors, I have some wooden stairs leading up to my front door.
The wooden stairs are covered in high-gloss wood preservative. In winter, snow and ice are deposited onto the stair-steps. The bottoms of my shoes slip and slide on the high gloss varnish.
What can I do to make the stairs less slippery?
do you recommend that I nail down rectangle-shaped pieces of carpet on top of the stairs?
can I glue pieces of sand-paper onto the stairs?
I have seen steel outdoor stair treads. These steel stair-treads had spikes on the top for high-grip in winter.
Would you recommend putting outdoor steel stair treads over top of the wooden stair treads?
Edits
In the comments section people asked me some things.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Where do you live? | the city of Denver, Colorado in the United States |
| Are you concerned more with liquid water (rain) or solid frozen ice? Are your stairs slippery when wet in warm weather? | solidmy stairs are slippery when wet in warm weather. However, I slip more often (relativly speaking) on solid frozen ice in winter than on rain-spattered stairs in summer. |
| Is white compacted snow more of a problem or is clear water ice more of a probem? | both snow and ice make the wooden stairs slippery. TheA thin layer of perfect translucent water ice is more slippery than thecompacted snow, relativly speaking. Both had made my shoes slide on the varnished wood |
