flexi-ride or fibre sand

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Cassy

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I am building an arena and can't decide on the final surface. Does anyone have experience of either of the above on their arenas? If I use flexi-ride I intend to put sand down first. Can't use rubber due to run off problems. Also help with quantities please the arena will be a standard 40 x 20m.
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The supplying company will advise you on the depth/quantity required - usually 6-8" (compacted) surface. The final price is 40mx20mxdepth - to give quantity needed in cubic metres. Then it's a cubic metres per metric tonne calculation to give tonnes required - x £ per tonne.
 
Cassy said:
I am building an arena and can't decide on the final surface. Does anyone have experience of either of the above on their arenas? If I use flexi-ride I intend to put sand down first. Can't use rubber due to run off problems. Also help with quantities please the arena will be a standard 40 x 20m.
Thanks
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My instructor has had fibersand down for about 20 years with the odd top up, rides well and seems easy to maintain with an Arena mate hope that helps...
 
Our yard had flexi-ride installed ontop of silica sand a couple of years ago and it rides really well and all the horses seem to go well on it. Our main problem with it is not the riding on it (we have probably 15+ horses on it every day) but that people are allowed to lunge on it as well - and a lot do. The surface doesn't hold up to this well.

One thing defo in its favour is that it stands up very well to low temperatures - frost does not seem to affect it at all, and it stood up to freezing temps of last winter, we just struggled (as all surfaces do) with balling in the snow.

Would very much recommend it.
 
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