Internal stable walls - help please!

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Hi
I am after some advice. I'm just in the middle of converting a brick barn (its about 200 years old) so that it will have 2 internal stables. I'm just wondering what to do about the brick walls which form 2 sides of the stables (the back and one side). The wooden partitions form the other sides.
I am just a bit worried about hocks getting scraped on the walls and thinking about some options - kick boards? Paint to smooth over? Sandblasting to smooth?
Does any one else have brick stables who could give me advice?
Thanks in advance!
 
At our old yard most of the stables were like that and think they were just painted and never had any problems with legs getting scraped.
With kick boards you might struggle to put them up if the walls are uneven as i know we struggled attaching things to the walls like haybars and mangers.
 
My stables are in a stone built barn. Two walls blocks, two walls stone. No problems with leg scraping. Boxes are 3m x 3m.

I wouldn't bother boarding them out
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yes kickboards would be difficult to fix on uneven walls without lots of messing around. As the others said you should not get to much trouble unless there is large lumps sticking out of the wall .you could drape the thinner rubber matting down and fix with rubber protcted caps as a temp measure !
 
Agree with both above - big beds and big banks. Also, we used rubber matting because we had a very stroppy colt and it worked well. Not the normal black-type rubber, but the light floor-type matting.

Although, I think that the first option of huge beds and banks could be your best (and cheapest option).
 
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