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Hi there I am new here and wondered if anyone had experience of the above.

I have recently purchased my own small yard. The stables are housed at the back of an open fronted barn. They have been built from breeze blocks laid flat so seem very strong and have had large horses in for years.


I am planning on adding an additional stable on the end and have been offered a good deal by a local builder. Rather than the full size breeze blocks he is planning on using 6" blocks.

I am not very scientific I'm afraid , but will the fact they are smaller affect the strength. I know people have said using breeze blocks on their side giving a 4" depth is not very safe.

The builder is assuring me they are fine , but then he would wouldn't he
 
Just imagine a cob scratching its bum on this wall....got the picture....would it take the strain ?
I have just bought some land with an open fronted barn and if the dreadded planning office won't give permission to extend I shall be working out how to fit stables in the back.
 
Breeze blocks or full blocks are fine as long as everything is tied in. Ours has been made using 6 inch breeze blocks and the floor is tied in to the external walls, which are tied into the internal half walls. Door frames all tied in with huge posts.

I have Irish draughts, our 5 year old is 17.2 and weighs three quarters of a ton. She has mild sweet itch and believe me, our walls have stood up to some serious backside scratching.
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I would much rather have substantial block walls than flimsy wooden ones for our beasties.

The external walls have been rendered and painted with exterior paint and they do not leak in wet or anything else nasty. if you don't trust your builder, get a second opinion from another one.
 
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I have Irish draughts, our 5 year old is 17.2 and weighs three quarters of a ton. She has mild sweet itch and believe me, our walls have stood up to some serious backside scratching.
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I would much rather have substantial block walls than flimsy wooden ones for our beasties.


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Having Irish Draughts too, I would agree - BUT - if I was building block stables again I'd use hollow blocks, laid on the flat, with the hollows filled in with steel rods and concrete!! Scratching is ok - but if you have a ratbag that kicks the walls, the mortar chips away and you end up with blocks being shifted or the whole wall breaking. (My RID stallion - 17 hh and built like a tank - managed to cast himself and knocked his block wall over in the process of getting himself up - that was solid blocks, on the flat - perhaps nbot tied in as well as they should have been!)
 
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