Has anyone added Wax to a surface after it was laid?

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I have v. good silica sand (from same quarry as Charles Britton uses) + Springride rubber down, which is a brilliant surface (same as i had at last place for 5 years, no problems at all) but where i live now is just about the windiest place on the planet and the rubber is blowing away. hedge growing slowly but will take a few years to get big enough to be a good windbreak, plus prevailing wind veers around dramatically, so rubber goes in all directions.
so... desperation... i will have a ring round all the manufacturers, but has anyone added wax or vaseline or similar to an existing surface please, and what sort of result did it have? any answers much appreciated, thankyou.
 
hi, no idea about adding wax, but you could put some 3 or 4 foot high fencing panels up around the arena. The type you put around a garden, the sturdy feather edge ones would probably be the best.

You and horse would still be able to see over them, but no (or less) surface could escape.
 
What about netting around your fencing? Would that work? I know of a few people who have lost their surfaces because of the wind!
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Kate x
 
I second Kates suggestion, of netting round the edge.

We used the 3ft stuff with the slits along the top and bottom of the netting, threaded thin blue rope (from hardware shop) through these slits, and the rope is well nailed on top and borrom with staples to the outside of the posts of the post & rail fence.

A certain amount of wind blows through the perforations, so it shouldn't be blown about the same as a solid panel, and it was a relatively cheap and fairly quick way of stopping arena surface disappearing.

Fiona
 
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