Ideas to protect the kick boards please

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My horses stable is lined with Sterling Board (apparently!), like big chip board. She is such a wet horse and makes a terrible mess around her water buckets to the extent where the lining(kick boards) are absolutely soaked at the bottom all the way round.

She has been out for the last few days, so I have taken all the bedding out and eventually the boards will dry out but is there anything I can put on them to prevent them rotting?

I thought perhaps I could creosote them (when they have dried) for the first couple of feet up from the floor. I creosote the outside of the stables every year and although they are about 15 yrs old now they look in really good condition despite our hideously wet and damp atmosphere.

Have you done anything in your stable to prevent it from rotting?

ETA: I have tried all sorts of different bedding and management but she wees like an elephant
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I don't know why they line them with chipboard when it's inevitably damp in there? However, that doesn't help you much!

You can get Ronseal stuff which dries v. quickly and makes it waterproof - we used to use it on our outdoor rabbit hutch - a good bit less stinky than creosote!
 
Do the boards touch the floor? If so, remove a little of the board at ground level so the urine cannot run into it.
 
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I don't know why they line them with chipboard when it's inevitably damp in there? However, that doesn't help you much!

You can get Ronseal stuff which dries v. quickly and makes it waterproof - we used to use it on our outdoor rabbit hutch - a good bit less stinky than creosote!

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Ronseal - good thinking although not sure it will be industrious enough for constant urine!! I have tins of the old fashioned creosote (banned now I think) and yes stinky but ok once its dried
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what about waterproof rubber matting round the lower part of kick boards
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Good idea but the joins would have to be 100% watertight otherwise it would still seep under and I wouldn't see the extent of the problem. Mind you, out of sight, out of mind as they say - until it all comes crumbling down!!
 
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Do the boards touch the floor? If so, remove a little of the board at ground level so the urine cannot run into it.

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Thats another good idea I hadn't thought of - but wouldn't the wet just seep into the outside boards then?
 
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what about waterproof rubber matting round the lower part of kick boards
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Good idea but the joins would have to be 100% watertight otherwise it would still seep under and I wouldn't see the extent of the problem. Mind you, out of sight, out of mind as they say - until it all comes crumbling down!!

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silcone the joins
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There is a thick, plastic paint that you can buy from garden centres to line concrete fish ponds. You just slap it over the concrete base and it goes on thick and oily. But it dries as hard as rock and is completely safe for living things. Alternatively, why not lay rubber mats as suggested above but deliberately lay them so that 18" of the mat edges curves from the floor up the walls. I was too lazy to trim the excess off in my stables so that's exactly what the matting does. It settles in firmly and hasn't moved in almost 2 years. The whole stable is then waterproof up to the 18" line.
 
Thank you - another good idea.

With rubber mats though, aren't you supposed to lift them ever now and again to clean underneath?
 
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