DIY Livery yard - tack room??

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How important is a secure tack room to you as part of a DIY livery package? If you had the option of moving to a small, quiet, secluded DIY livery yard with nice stabling, good paddocks with trees and hedgerows, individual hay/straw stores, feed rooms, use of a well-maintained oversize sand school and direct access onto quiet hacking..... but it didn't have a tack room (or anywhere hugely secure to lock valuables) and the car park wasn't located near the stables, would it put you off that you had to store your tack at home and lug it back and forth every time you wanted to ride? I have three, although one is still too young to be backed.
 
Personally it would be bothersome for me. I go straight to ride from work and wouldn't feel comfortable with the idea of leaving my tack in a car all day. Also even lugging it back and forth would be painful.

If there was room for a tack locker to be left somewhere secure then I'd be happy enough - if the facilities and price were amazing.
 
No such thing as a secure tack room ! Wouldn't bother me at all, your set-up sounds fine. I'd rather have tack at home, however "secure" it's supposed to be.
 
It would put me off - I don't have anywhere to keep tack at home, and I prefer to cycle to the yard to save money (and burn calories), so the yard would have to be phenomenal to make up for it.
 
Not very.

If I had a private storage room then I would set up a locker for tack and take my chances.

My liveries had a communal tackroom with a combination lock, that I double locked at night-time, it was up to them whether they left tack or not.
 
I moved to a yard like that a few years ago. The stables were lovely and big, so I bought myself a tack locker from Animate. Was quite pricey, but considering the value of my tack, was well worth it. It was bolted to the wall. I know the locks are not massively secure, but as most thefts are opportunist, it was a deterrent. I liked having my tack in the stable too - for some reason, it made me more likely to ride on those days where you weren't really sure you could be bothered.
 
Under the T&C of my insurance my tack isn't covered anyway at the yard as we don't have the correct locks or alarms. Therefore my saddle is taken home.
So it wouldn't bother me.
I have a large lockable tub too, don't require it at my current yard but at my old yard our tack room was tiny.
It's bulky, it's locked so deters burglars but kept everything locked away. This could be an option for you?
 
Toby_Zaphod said:
Yes there is, you'd need explosives to get into out tack room & you'd be on camera from the time you got onto the yard as well & you'd have triggered the alarm system as well.
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I did hear of a case where the thieves broke into a locked, alarmed, CCTVd tackroom during a winter gale - they took the roof off!
 
It certainly is not unknown for thieves to go through the roof.

It wouldn't bother me if everything else was suitable but then I would drive to the yard. Most insurance policies seem to exclude tack if there are more than five horses on the yard.
 
It wouldn't put me off provided liveries were allowed to put storage in - e.g. one of the metal Animate bins that would look like a feed bin but could hold tack and be padlocked. This is what my old yard did and to be honest, I liked knowing I was the only person who could get to my tack and rugs!

If that wasn't an option then it probably would be enough of a problem for me to decide not to move there
 
Our tack room is like high prison security. Locks, dead locks, alarm etc - they went in through the roof last year! Wouldn't bother me, my tack stays at home now and sits in the office whilst I'm at work so can ride straight after. Get used to carting it around!
 
My yard has a secure tackroom. Some liveries keep everything but their kitchen sink in there, others just grooming kit etc and keep tack at home. Personal preference, I guess..
 
Wouldn't put me off, my yard has a very secure tack room - alarm, cameras, locked thick iron door behind locked roller shutter, but I still take my tack home!
 
We have a lockable tack room, I still take my stuff home as no one ever locks it and goes off hacking! I keep some bits and pieces in a locked feed bin as a deterrent. I don't mind lugging it around if i know it's safe.
 
My tack is always at home. Old yard tack room wasnt that secure even though 5 rotties roamed around. New yard has alarmed room etc but still take it home. Doesnt bother me. Yard more important
 
If you were really bothered about the tack room I would invest in a lockable tack locker I've seen some nice ones recently and tempted to purchase one myself as buying a new saddle and although our stables are secure they are not at all clean haha! Wouldn't want the mice getting at my saddle.
 
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