Porch floor options

[Groves]

Here's the ugliest member of our family that doesn't have my name...our front porch.

Smallish house, smallish porch. I'm blessed in plenty of other ways.

It's not really protected. When we moved in 4 years ago it had putt-putt type carpet on the porch floor. Time, sun, and the rain did their thing until it became the rattiest tripping hazard in the neighborhood.

Off it came.

I'm now the proud owner of a mastic/adhesive residue covered, slightly sloping *towards* the house, porch and delightfully outdated railing.

What do people do for porch floors these days?

Tile?

Have their been epic strides in indoor-outdoor carpet technology since Clinton's el camino years?

How thin of a thinset cap can one put on to re-slope?

I do realize that many a 15K porch remodels start with "Let's rip off that nasty carpet and go from there."

This won't be one of those escalations. That will come in 8 years.

Here's the visual report. I welcome all of your expertise and smartassery.

[Groves]

Yes a thorough job would have been to swing that steel away before grinding.

Is it easy to incorporate non-slip into the concrete sealer? Think that's the way I'll go.

[Ace Gunner]

Since you are looking for a stop gap till you can redo, paint it with mold resistant paint. You can hit it every other year and it should look good for you in the interim.