Flexiride surface- experiences / opinions? Membrane or blinding?

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Arena is now ready for surface. (Am SO excited!) Drainage and stone base in and it's going to be levelled / rolled tomorrow. We were originally going to go for membrane, sand and then topping but, after a bit of Googling, I came across Flexiride which, apparently, can be used as a complete surface with no membrane.

Lady from the company said we just need a blinding layer of stone dust / sharp sand to fill in stone gaps and then we can put Flexiride straight on top. All sounds a bit too good to be true!

Just wondered if anyone has an arena with Flexiride as a complete surface and, if so, how it's going. Lady from company is going to find some local people to see if I can visit too.

Thanks in advance.
 
My mother has it. It's brilliant. Never ever gets wet or floods as it just soaks everything up. Very soft to land on should one fall off. They said to us to roll it regularly if not many horses use it to break it down. We've rolled it once in 5 years. It's still as good as new and lovely to ride on.
 
JJones said:
My mother has it. It's brilliant. Never ever gets wet or floods as it just soaks everything up. Very soft to land on should one fall off. They said to us to roll it regularly if not many horses use it to break it down. We've rolled it once in 5 years. It's still as good as new and lovely to ride on.
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Thanks. Do you have just Flexiride on its own or with a sand base? It'll only be used lightly by not many horses so hearing your experience has been helpful.
 
We have flexiride on top of sand. The company were very helpful and gave us details of an arena we could go and view. Sorry I don't know about flexiride on it's own but we are very pleased with our arena.
 
My OH builds arenas - he has done one recently with Flexiride (customer choice of surface). Membrane, stone, membrane, flexiride and then a light covering of sand (not sure on tonage of sand). Customer very pleased with it :)
 
We have FlexiRide at the riding school I work at, we have put it ontop of our sand surface, and in some places the sand is coming through. I think we could have done with another load, but my horses are going so much better on the soft and bouncy surface, and its lovely to fall off on (not like hitting concrete at all!) - however if you plan on doing lots of running around with people/children/after runaway ponies, then be aware its so spongy you will struggle to run! hahha
 
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