Building own sand or all weather arena/turn out arena

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Hello

I am wondering has anyone built the following by themselves, or without a specialist company at least.

The arena would be for my own personal horses, max 2, and for turn out and the odd bit of riding.

Things we have already: planning permission, space, ability to construct fence and gate ourselves.

After that we run into confusion with membranes/drainage/surface required.

10-20k is just too much for our quite basic purposes.
 
You can see mine in my profile, cost about £7k for a 20x40 with cushion ride as surface. I hired drainage company to level ground, dig drains put in terram, pipe, stone more terram then spread topping. They also put in posts for me but we didn't have rails instead used very thick strong electrical tape as horses use it as turnout and will chew wood. I used cheap stone which kept cost down by 2k but I would use better next time as it took more topping as stone not totally even and stone is always in danger of coming through.

My 3 are on it at night in winter (it joins yard and field shelters) and they sleep on it so no need for bedding. I allso school on it but prob I only once a week.

Friend recently did same but with correct stone and it was 10k if you do it correctly with drainage, terram etc I don't think you would keep it under 10k. Since I did mine the topping has increased in price substantially. Mine has been in 7 years.

Just to add the amount of materials you need are staggering for a 20x40, can't remember quantities of stone but it was ALOT
 
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Which area of the country are you in OP?

My main advice would be do not cut corners on the quality of the materials i.e. don't buy cheap quarry sand. The amount of materials you need are pretty huge. Haulage distance from the quarry can make quite a difference to the overall cost.
 
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