building arena

[dippydora]

We have just bought a property that has a dutch barn with a concrete base with drains.Do we have to dig it out,or can we put a surface on top for an arena? Cant afford to get big boys in!!

 

[Nollaig Shona]

I think you can get away with not digging it up (trying to remember something from 30odd years ago!) a riding school I used to go to used an abandoned something or other large building as an indoor and it originally had a smooth concrete floor ... I heard years later that the place had been taken over and the indoor arena now had a proper riding surface in place.

But maybe they did dig the concrete out, I don't really know!

You could possibly hire a machine for smashing up the concrete yourself

 

[Cedars]

Id get the big boys out to quote... Tell you what theyd do! Xx

 

[Miss L Toe]

Might be easier to move the barn to a prepared site. and put stabling or haysheds etc on the concrete.

 

[Naryafluffy]

Do you compete, could you ask wherever you compete what they have under their arenas?
We're competing on Sunday if I remember I'll ask and post again (not convinced I'll remember though)

 

[bounce]

I'd talk to the supplier of your surface and see what they recommend. I know from experience of one arena that had a surface down on concrete that it never held very well and resulted in horses slipping and falling as the surface moved.