Arena Advice

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Danindigo

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Work is about to start on my arena at home. It is going to be 40 x 30 (slightly unusual i know!) & im having silica sand with a rubber topping. This is where i cant decide which is best, i have two options for the rubber both are made from shredded tyres that are clean & 99.9% wire-free. I can eith go for a 20mm crumb or a small 8mm granule. My concern is that i want the rubber to stay on top of the sand & not mix in. They are pretty much much the same price even though the larger size is all the way from Northampton & the snaller stuff is nearby cheshire.

Does anyone have any advice/experience of this?

Also after much thought, to enable me to have a larger arena rather than the standard 40x20 i have replace the limestaone with a 100% cleaned/screened hardcore. Am i doing the right thing?
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I have the 20mm crumb which is working quite well, it stays on top of the sand and is easy to level.

I would worry that a smaller granule would be more likely to get blown away where we are (although we did have pvc granules prior to the rubber). The only thing that might be in its favour is that rain might level a 8mm granule, whereas it doesn't impact the 20mm crumb.

That wasn't much help was it??

Hardcore is that right thing to do, we are on limestone brash, but you still need to dig out and replace with hardcore to get the drainage from using angular stone. Our arena has never flooded or got any deep areas.
 
that is a help! If people who have used these surfaces can help then thats great!!!

Anyone else.....

Plus does anyone know of anywhere near the staffordshire area that supplies rubber quite cheaply?
 
I think I've got 20mm! It's quite old, and I can't remember how it was described when we got it. Originally we had silica sand on top of basalt, which was horrible, so the sand was scraped off, the basalt removed, sand put back down with rubber on top. It's brilliant. During dry (?!!!!) spells it mixes up, but when it rains the sand is all washed to the bottom again. Can't fault it.
 
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