I was walking my dog in the neighborhood and saw some mats on the walkways at this house
I’m thinking the nice marble or granite they used on the walkways is just a little too slippery
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To make some stone look real nice it gets polished. With nowhere the water can go, it gets slippery. Coarse stone has highs and lows, decent traction as the water has somewhere to settle.
Walking in Europe on stone “sidewalks” didn’t seem bad. Thousands of years and still not polished. Worn down yes, but slick? Nope.
The steps intrigued me. Dished out from gazillions of feet, not slick at all.
Steps down in Venice canals? So slick a young boy slipped right down into the water. I found out later that in addition to carrying gondolas, it also was their sewer system.
Here, treated wood becomes slick after years of an algae type scum collecting. Sandstone walks can be slick, again from the green scum.
Common sense sometimes rears it ugly head.