People are only just realising how anti-climb paint works – and it’s not how you think
IT’S been around for decades, but did you ever wonder how the intruder deterrent anti-climb paint works?
Anti-climb security paint is an effective way of deterring unwanted intruders, and is available in a range of colours and sizes.
But it turns out people have spent years wondering how the substance works.
One Twitter user said: “wtf is anti-climb paint and how does it work????”
Another said: “Seen that anti-climb paint sign on McDonald’s drive-thru fence. Don’t know what it is but I stayed sat in the car, so it must work.”
One added: “Maybe I’m being thick here, but what is anti-climb paint? How does that work then?”
One user speculated as to whether it works like glue.
But it does not in fact make the wall so sticky you can’t climb up, instead, the surface remains so slippery it makes the surface almost impossible to climb.
It’s also very hard to remove from clothing so can help property owners and police identify intruders.
This revelation comes as a Youtube video released by parkour group Storror shows them try to scale buildings coated in anti-climb paint.
They can be seen in the video covered in the substance and finding it tricky to cling onto the walls.
So adding a coat of the paint to your property can help deter unwanted visitors, and make it easier to catch them afterwards.
But one Twitter user decided to test it out for himself: “Anti-climb wall paint’?… I couldn’t resist the challenge… now I’m sat at work in my smart clothes covered in the stuff… I won though.”