Arena top ups?

[ElleSkywalkingintheair]

Hi all,

My arena is sand and PVC granules, built in 1999. It's actually ok condition but possibly a bit thin in places and could do with a top up. I have one company coming out to look, they have suggested maybe adding sand with carpet type fibre and mixing together with existing surface using a stone buryer.

Has anyone done this, or have any suggestions of what surface would be ok to mix in with the old? I'd rather not take it all up as the granules I believe are now quite hard to dispose of.

 

[Dasher66]

You’ll need to look at options for eventual disposal of the surface. I don’t know the ins and outs but others here will.
I think carpet is very difficult/expensive to dispose of legally.

 

[The Xmas Furry]

Have you spoken to a couple of the big companies? A friend had Charles Britton out 3 yrs ago in mid summer (lockdown yr) to top up the arena that they had put in for them in 85, it was still ok for light exercise but not jumping. Its v lovely to ride on now.
I know she swerved any carpet as the adjacent yard loses some whenever its windy in dry weather!

 

[ElleSkywalkingintheair]

You’ll need to look at options for eventual disposal of the surface. I don’t know the ins and outs but others here will.
I think carpet is very difficult/expensive to dispose of legally.

The PVC stuff is the same hence adding to what's there rather than removing and putting a new one down. It's not actual carpet fibre, think thats banned already, it's similar non banned stuff the chap was talking about

 

[ElleSkywalkingintheair]

Have you spoken to a couple of the big companies? A friend had Charles Britton out 3 yrs ago in mid summer (lockdown yr) to top up the arena that they had put in for them in 85, it was still ok for light exercise but not jumping. Its v lovely to ride on now.
I know she swerved any carpet as the adjacent yard loses some whenever its windy in dry weather!

I've seen carpet type stuff very badly mixed in too, which is why the chap was on about using a stone buryer to mix it in. I've spoken to the big guys before but think they would be prohibitively expensive and I expect they would want me to remove surface that's there as they wouldn't want anything that could compromise how their surface works. AC certainly made old neighbour take everything out before they would put a new surface down (the new surface had some sort of carpet type fibre in and TBH I wasn't overly impressed for the cost which was something like 20k in 2019 )

I don't actually know who made the arena in first place as that would be useful to track back if they still exist and see what they suggest

 

[Dasher66]

Look at your on-line council planning history. If you put in your postcode and dates you can bring up old planning applications which may have details of the surface and/or company name.

 

[Irish-Only]

We topped a deep sand and rubber surface with Martin Collins Klopf, it turned it into the most amazing surface like riding on old turf, and very low maintenance as it just didn't move. Rotovated it in initially.

 

[Tiddlypom]

Parkway Pasada were the ones who used to do sand and pvc surfaces - and it was very upmarket at the time. Not sure if they are still around?

 

[ElleSkywalkingintheair]

We topped a deep sand and rubber surface with Martin Collins Klopf, it turned it into the most amazing surface like riding on old turf, and very low maintenance as it just didn't move. Rotovated it in initially.

Oh that sounds interesting, I'll have a look into it as expected the big boys to not be keen on mixing

 

[ElleSkywalkingintheair]

Parkway Pasada were the ones who used to do sand and pvc surfaces - and it was very upmarket at the time. Not sure if they are still around?

TBH like carpet fibre there are different types. Some pvc is fine as it's clean stuff waste from making cables etc, the stuff that's a problem is the recycled stuff as can contain all sorts and bits of wire etc. I'm not sure which mine is, although I have to say it looks very clean and not recycled I shall investigate the planning application if I can find it