A pedestrian deck coating has one job that never changes: keep water out of the structure while keeping people safely on their feet. Everything else — colour, finish, texture — comes after that. Walkways, balconies, terraces, plaza decks, footbridges and rooftop amenity areas all take foot traffic, standing water, thermal movement and UV year after year, and the coating is the only thing standing between that and the concrete below.
MPM has been formulating protective and waterproofing chemistry in Milan for over 70 years. Our Starflex and Duroglass pedestrian traffic coating systems are liquid-applied, seamless and cold-cured — no torch, no joints, no demolition — and they are engineered to be laid on the substrates you actually find on site, including damp ones.
What a pedestrian traffic coating has to deliver
Whatever the setting, a walkable surface has to be all of these things at once. A system that delivers only some of them will fail early:
- Slip-resistant, wet and dry
- Fully waterproof and seamless, including at upstands, corners and penetrations
- Resistant to abrasion, wear and point loads
- Resistant to oils, fuels and de-icing salts
- UV-stable, with no yellowing or chalking
- Elastic enough to bridge cracks that keep moving
- Stable from −30 °C to +90 °C
- Attractive — and still attractive in ten years
Where MPM systems differ from most liquid membranes on the market is the last point combined with the first: aliphatic finishes hold their colour under prolonged sun exposure, so a slip-resistant surface does not have to look like an industrial afterthought.
Have a deck to specify? Send us the substrate, the exposure and the square metres — our technical team will come back with a system.
