Arena - sand depth?

[sheep]

Morning folks

We are in the midst of an arena refurb - basically, bought a house with an arena in place, but the surface was all but dead so we have removed it entirely. Fortunately the base was in great shape, so we have put in new drains, squared off the corners and will be sand-ready in a few weeks.

We are deliberating on what depth of sand to go for. Initially thought 6”, and happy to go with that, but just don’t want to accidentally go too deep.

We will also be mixing in some fibre for a bit of stability.

What’s the thoughts on depth? We are leisure riders so really it’ll be used for a bit of everything. We are very lucky that it is quite large, so want to make sure we get the correct quantity of material! I’m seeing mixed reports, typically 4-6 inches seems to be the norm… thoughts?! Thank you!!

 

[Tiddlypom]

From scratch Charles Britton constructed our arena surface with 5” of sand topped with 2” of rubber crumb .

 

[sheep]

Thank you! That’s really helpful.
I can’t wait for it to be done. It’s so nearly there now

 

[Dam1]

Just had a top up on mine. Arens man said mine was only 4 inch depth but really needed to be 6 inch. Had it topped up with sand/fibre. 100% improvement ridewise (if that's a word lol) x

 

[sheep]

Just had a top up on mine. Arens man said mine was only 4 inch depth but really needed to be 6 inch. Had it topped up with sand/fibre. 100% improvement ridewise (if that's a word lol) x

Brill thank you!
When we took the surface off ours, it was probably more like 2 inches, if even in fairness, it was likely installed in the 80s, so it didn’t owe anyone anything!!