What Comes In At Your Door
It helps to think about the traffic line rather than the whole room. Everyone arrives at the same point, leaves the same grit in the same three feet, and walks the rest of it down your hallway before anyone notices. On a coated floor that material has nowhere to go. It sits loose on the surface, so a dust mop lifts it in one pass and you are finished, and the wet part dries or wipes away without leaving a tide mark behind it. Nothing is holding water against your floor, which is the part that quietly ruins a soft covering from underneath.
Grip is worth deciding on purpose here rather than accepting whatever the finish gives you. If your entry gets wet through the winter we can broadcast a fine texture into the topcoat over that area, so it stays sure underfoot without becoming something that catches dirt. It is a small choice made before we start and it is worth raising when we walk the house. You want your floor to be safe when you come in through that door with both arms full, and you can have that without making the rest of your rooms feel rough. None of it reaches the concrete, and the reason is the build: here is the coats that sit between your boots and the slab.
