Installing A New Menage...

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Not sure if 'installing' is the right word but I am just interested to know the rough cost of building a menage on your own property. Ideally a bit bigger than 20 x 40 and with a good surface.

Presuming you need pre-installation work with levelling the land and putting drainage in etc.

Does anyone have any experience of this?
 
To give you an idea, I have recently built a 40x30m arena from scratch and it cost c.£16k. We did most of the work ourselves although had to pay some labour and digger costs. I found that the hardcore and sand was the most expensive bit. I didn't have a fancy surface - that only cost about £2.5k of the total!
 
Hi,
Had a 20x40 done last year with top quality sand and rubber. Cost about £18500 and all work was done by the contractor.
Hope that helps
 
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Hi,
Had a 20x40 done last year with top quality sand and rubber. Cost about £18500 and all work was done by the contractor.
Hope that helps

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Being nosey here, but which contractor did you use?
 
how flat is the land? the real money is in the groundworks and prep so the flatter it is, the cheaper!

you can install a 20m x 40m with sand and rubber for about £9k on level ground, in an area near quarries and supplies and if you do the work yourself.

costs can also go through the roof if you can't get 18 wheeler lorries in and also if you want all of the top soil etc taken away.

(can you tell my stepdad is a contractor who does groundworks and maneges??)
 
Wow, very wide price range but thanks all for your replies. If/ when we know we will be looking at doing it then I will enquire further...just wanted a rough idea. Thanks!
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Fanatical, it totally depends on your subsoil type too. e.g. free-draining sandy soil might require less groundworks. there are "roll out and use" type surfaces for certain types of subsoil etc. clay is about the worst to deal with afaik.
prices depend hugely on where you are (how far from quarries), access (being able to get big lorries in easily) and the surface you choose.
best of luck!
 
We did ours ourselves a few years ago with the help of a builder friend and it cost £10,000 for 20 x 45. The land was unlevel and the soil was not good but it all seemed to be sorted easily. The most expensive thing was the stone and the membrane. It only took a week to complete the arena without the fencing as this took a bit longer. We used cushion ride and added sand to this.
 
Our slope was greater than _Claire_. Ours was almost 3m but we saved money by digging out one end and using the earth to build up the other end. You have to have some 'settling' time but it drastically reduced the cost of having to pay to get ride of tonnes of earth.

Ours is 23m x 52m and we worked out that in all it cost around £45000 this included, ground works, escavation, machinery hire, fencing (post and rail 4'6 with extra gravel boards), membranes (of which we have 2), drainage, surfaces (sand rubber and Clopf).

We had qoutes in at £55,000 - £65000 from professional companies. The £10,000 we saved meant we could install brand new Hiscox internal stables in the barn.

However doing it ourselves took longer and we did make mistakes.
 
Gingerbear, do you mean you added sand to woodchip? What sort of sand did you use? How did you integrate it? What's the end result like? My cushionride surface is slippery, & I've topped it up once, which fixed it temporarily.

Thank you!

T x
 
catembi said:
Gingerbear, do you mean you added sand to woodchip? What sort of sand did you use? Hoyw did you integrate it? What's the end result like? My cushionride surface is slippery, & I've topped it up once, which fixed it temporarily.

Thank you!

T x
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Catembi this us an old thread that's been resuscitated. .. not sure if Gingerbear is a current poster, ?
 
I am just spreading a new topping of cushionride, the new stuff is smaller but I have never found mine slippery this may be due to fact my drainage is excellent as I used rubbish stone so water just flows through, old cushion ride was bedded in but like a springy turf to ride on. My arena cost 7k but rubbish stone used saved 2k and ground was level, its 20x40m, local drainage contractors did the work but I can only get 6 wheeler lorry in so that bumped up cost. With proper stone (didn't pay for most of mine as wrong stuff sent) would have been 9k
 
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