Anyone got permanent stables on slabs?

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We are hopefully moving house very soon to a house with 3 stables, we have 5 horses so it's either having 2 stables in 24/7 use which I have done for the last 2 years which is a bit of a killer and have a concrete base and 2 more stables done in the spring, or if possible put them on slabs as guess we could do this ourselves and don't need to worry about the weather as with concrete?

Anyone got a good or bad slab related tales to tell me?

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A yard I was on did this, the issue was that the cement gradually wore away and then you ended up with the slabs becoming unstable and a drainage issue.
 
Not quite but I do have a little field shelter on slabs (was like it before I took the field on) and it's worked perfectly for our little pony. They are big tough slabs though.
My stables are on a dirt floor which with hard work we managed to slope ever so slightly to the rear then added a thick layer of level scalpings and well fitting rubber mats.
No one believes we have dirt floors as they are so flat and they never ever smell.
I'd actually rather flooring like I have than concrete which gets smelly under the mats.
 
Yes :)

The 1979 pair of boxes are on big council slabs, now has partition removed and also doors, still standing and used as a shelter all yr round. Flooring is tarmac scalpings with wood chip on top. No holes in floor and it's still sturdy :)

The 3 block of 86 vintage is on concrete and the 96 2 block with hay barn are also on slabs, but had infill of concrete.
 
The concrete or cement you lay them on (unless you're going straight to sand) can have an additive to make it resistant to animal urine. Might be worth a look. Likewise there's a fibre for frost but this isn't likely to be an issue.
 
Thanks chaps. It's all still swimming round in my head..... The other option was mobile stables with rubber mats on sand or road planings, however the mobile stables and mats together will be near as d*mn it the same price as concrete and permanent stables.....

Think by time have cemented slabs in then would be not much difference in price and the frost etc coming up would probably mean that it' ouldn't be possible till next spring anyway :(
 
My Mum's stables originally went in on top of a wooden frame of railway sleepers.

We gradually then cemented in the middle of each one as we had the money.

They have been there for 25 years now with no problem.
 
Mine are all concrete blocks on gravel, topped off with rubber mats, been down 18 years with no problems & great drainage :-) yard is concrete blocks too
 
Our 5 stables are wooden poles for structure and road plannings for floor with rubber matting on top . So far so good . We bought a couple of lorry loads of plannings nd dug out the floor ourselves so didnt cost much
 
We have three out of four of our stables on earth floors and one on concret, the original intention was to concrete them all, but twenty years on the earth floors are much better, drier and less smelly than the concrete one.
 
On my yard in England all of the stables behind the house were on concrete but across the lane I had a block of 5 stables on dirt floors which we eventually limed to provide a fall and then laid down rubber matting. One of the other yards which had 3 stables in had old cobbled floors in them which, again we laid rubber matting on top. They all worked well. I don't think I'd use stables with slabs put down if they didn't have rubber matting on top though as they could be lethal once wet.
 
ESW, if you're going to attach the stables to brick, surely the brick would have to be on a good solid surface (concrete?) anyway?

I'd be tempted to put temporary stables on a good layer of road planings (which drain well) and put rubber mats on top to make sweeping easier. Mobile stables ought to be able to be moved onto a proper base and secured if you needed to in the future. We have two portable stables on our windswept Pennine yard that we always thought we'd secure, but in five years they've never moved, so we never bothered.
 
Honey08 originally I planned to get temp stables then move onto a base when had some cash for the base but they will be being put in quite a tight space as so they would need to be taken down moved and rebuilt and bolted onto concrete I think.

Would road planings be a good 'base' to then pour concrete on to?
 
I think it's now illegal to put concrete on top of road planings, as health and safety say it reacts in a way that can be toxic (so we were told). Otherwise it would be a fab base!

In your situation I would still do the temp stables on road planings, then in the future when you dig out to do the base for the stables use the removed planings for an all weather area on the edge of the yard.

When we built our stables we made a base from rough hardcore with MOT on top, then put the concrete on top of that. A couple of years later we made the all weather turnout area out of rough hardcore with road planings on top, which drains superbly.
 
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