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Is my floor actually safe?
A fair question — and one you can’t really answer by looking. Here’s the honest, jargon-free version.
Why your eyes can’t tell you
Two floors can look identical and behave completely differently once there’s a bit of water on them. Polish, wear, the type of tile, even the cleaning product all change how much grip there is — and none of that shows up to the naked eye. So “it looks fine” isn’t really an answer.
How we actually check
We use the pendulum test — the method the safety people rely on. It swings a rubber slider across the floor to copy the moment a heel would slip, and measures how much the floor holds it back. We test wet as well as dry, because wet is when slips really happen.
Reading the result
Each area gets a single number, the Pendulum Test Value. 36 or more means a low slip risk — about a one-in-a-million chance of going over. Below 25 and it really needs sorting.
A good rule of thumb
If your floor gets wet in normal use, the public walk on it, or you’ve had even one slip or near-miss — it’s worth testing. Better to know now than after someone’s hurt.
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