Hi all,
We have a horse farm mainly for our daughters(16 & 22)who own 4 horses. The horses are an extremely positive thing in their lives and several years ago we built a barn. Wasn’t the best idea but we put 1-1/2″ t & g white pine flooring down.
Now my girls are renovating and want to install 1″ rubber mats throughout the barn.
The 1-1/2″ pine is what it is…in fair shape but I want to put ply on top so my plan is:
6 mil poly up the walls 4″
1/2″ spruce ply on top of the poly
rubber mats on top of the fir ply
The barn is open below and ventilation underneath is good. If someone has a better idea I’d like to hear it. I am concerned about horse urine but the plastic should take care of that…I’ve been rolling this around in my mind for a while and sure would appreciate some feedback.
Thanks for your thoughts.
Attached is picture of Galaron born on the farm last year.
hi ho silver
Edited 6/11/2007 5:06 pm ET by silver
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silver,
Might check out the material used for spray applied truck bed liners.
Water proof, acid proof, damn near indestructible.
Been being used in wineries here for waterproofing concrete and wood, holds up to fork lift traffic , offers traction when wet.
think ion terms of brute force impact.. (horse kicking)
we use all ruff sawn 2 by for the walls abd bedliner on the floors..
remember a horse will chew most anything and ply or OSB are not such good ideas..
that last thing you want are found horses...
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Got me by a few minutes on that one.
I posted my reply and when the screen came back up you had said everything already.
I just did a horse barn repair on my momma's place a few weekends ago.
Them hayburners were eating every piece of lumber they could get to. OSB, dimensional lumber, and the exterior wood siding.
They had ate almost everything except some rough sawn lumber they got at a local saw mill.
To get to the point skip the fir plywood, try something cheaper like the rough sawn lumber they luckily found.
Maybe they will leave plywood alone, that wasn't a material in their controlled study. :)
ply doesn't stand a chance...
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WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Forget all that layering. It will just rap the urine. Put down the rubber mats and then clean the bedding daily. Occasionally you may want to take a few mats out in the sun to purify
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rubber mats in a barn generate a lot of work...
at least weekly ya gotta take them up and clean both sides of them and the floor...
put it all back together and next week do the same.... and next week... and the weak after...
use the bedliner... then it becomes standard stall cleaning...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
I'll agree, but this guys wife and daughters have made up their minds already. I don't do battle with the female mind. That is a lot of work for a loosing proposition. Just let them do the work...The black from those mats rubbs off on you too
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and heavy not to mention nasty after being under a horse for any length of time...Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->
WOW!!! What a Ride!Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!
Horses and chickens have one thing in common...both have brains about the size of small walnuts. Horses will run into, or stay inside, a burning barn while chickens will run out. What does that tell you?On the other hand, horse do have some mysterious mesmerizing power over women. If your a guy and in a position to take advantage of the above factoid, the beasts are fantastic for getting to know the opposite sex.The Japanese and French love horse meat.
Checking in after a busy week...thanks for the replies.The rest of the story is that once the mats are in they stay put.
Wood shavings-some from our shop-are put on top and cleaned daily with a shavings fork that takes the poop and leaves the shavings.The girls are particular-the idea of the bed liner appeals to them. I was fishing for ideas and they liked that one. We have 3 stalls (walls) done from last year with 1/2 ply over 1" roughsawn and they have it painted in 2 colors-what can I say. Ruff sawn isn't their style.Could put 2" ruffsawn on the floor but rubber mats or not it's gonna
get soaked with horse pee(my wife claims this is what beer is made of).That's why I thought of ply and sealing it somehow...
thanks again,
silver