Advice required on Mobile Field Shelters/Stables

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I am thinking of putting a mobile field shelter or stable or possibly a static one and would like to know what flooring goes down? I can't spend a bomb on this so was thinking of putting a mobile shelter with conversion kit to make it into a stable as my horse needs to be stabled at night (otherwise he would eat and eat and blow up!). So therefore what flooring can one put down on grass? I know you can put railway sleepers down and make it a good floor but it's costly. Can you put rubber matting down? Or when you convert a shelter into a stable do you just let them lie down on the grass inside and that's it? Sorry for my ignorance.

Any ideas please?

Thanks
 
you can leave the floor as grass but if the shelter is well used it will quickly turn to mud.TBH most people concrete them as they would a stable floor and then use rubber matting or bedding on top of that.
 
Ideally you want concret but what about hardcore, chalk and rubber matting. I used to have stables that had been put up and the ground had just dried out. The groud was pretty sandy at how and it was only when need proper stabling that sand and paving was put down.

I'm just about to order a mobile field shelter, I'm getting it from here http://www.horsestabling.com/stables.html I will get an open front with a stable front installing pack so that it is more virsital. That sounds like your best bet too.
 
i put rubber matting in mine, but there's no real need as long as the rain can't get in and get the earth floor saturated, and as long as your fields are well-drained so the earth floor won't hold the wet. if you put rubber matting down, then bedding, you can treat it like a normal stable floor. if you put bedding straight on the earth floor, it might get a bit damp, coming upwards, kind of thing.
 
I have one that is converted to a stable and approaching my 4th winter with it. It has been fab and I just put good thick rubber mats down in mine and rubber strip all along the bottom inside edge to keep the draughts out and shavings bed in! My horse uses his every day. The mats sometimes ride up a bit as the bedding gets stuck underneath but I just scrape out what I can and my horse does not seem to mind a few lumps and bumps! LOL!
 
Unfortuantely, if you go the route of concrete flooring, then you are also entering the realms of Planning Permission, so I would be careful, maybe check with your local council
 
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