Internal Stabling ideas and recommendations required, Derbyshire

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Looking to put some large internal stables into a barn. Will probably want 14x15 ish size.

As liveries what would you like to see available in each stable, the barns are very high giving good light and ventilation, so thinking of type material for dividing walls, tie rings, position of doors etc.

Also in need of someone to carry out the work, advice by pm would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
 
I'm a bit old fashioned and I like to see breeze block partition walls so that the horses can keep in contact with neighbours and even groom one another if they want. I also prefer putting a water bucket in to automatic wateres - I like to know how much they are drinking and more importantly if they aren't drinking.

I like to see doors at the side and swing open rather than slide open. I always have my tie rings at the front of the stable.

I really dislike american barning type stables.
 
I think it's okay for horses to be able to interact with a neighbour on one side - either through bars or over a low wall but think it is best to have at least one private side as some can get arsey with neighbours at feeding times or just feel generally unsettled. I don't have a preference on materials as long as they are well built and welcoming. I too prefer water buckets / tubs rather than automatic, and these days I think the provision of a hay bar or similar is a good idea. I too prefer tie rings at the front of the stable... all depending on the positioning of the door etc but one each side towards the front should be sufficient. re the positioning of the doors, either left or right but sometimes it is handy to have a little bit of wall to one side of the door so say the door is on the left, you'd have a foot or so of wall to the left of it, so that water buckets can be popped in the rescess with minimal risk of it being knocked over... :)
 
Large windows they can put their head out of.

Dividing walls should be higher than the horse but have a small talk grill - you can cover these with some ply wood / mdf at a later stage if needed for certain horses.

Swinging/sliding doors - I don't have a preference.

Tie rings - one at front and one on one side.

I used concrete building blocks.

Centered doors

I quite like doors with anti-weave grills already attached.

I like Monarch / Lodden / IEA (?)
 
I have done this in a barn. I priced up doing it via block or other materials and it actually came out cheaper to use a stable company particularly as there are lots of things you forget like doors, blots, hinges, grills, etc. that really add to the total cost. Plus if you ever want to sell the partitions they hold their value well and are easy to move somewhere else.

I ended up going with Monarch who provided excellent customer service, they did what they said they would do when they said they would do it. We put the partitions up ourselves and the instructions were easy to follow by a competent DIYer. The quality of the partitions has been excellent (we went for plastic) despite grumpy mare double barrelling them frequently and they still look very smart. Monarch will also do non standard sizes which was what we needed, IAE only do standard sizes.

Really pleased I went this route as ended up with smart very user friendly stables that are huge and the plastic means zero maintenance
 
I have internal stables from Loddon. Amazingly pleased with them we went for the recycled plastic partitions they look just like hard wood but are stronger and need no maintenance then a grille on top.
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I don't like internal stables as the horses are for more susceptible to long term respiratory disorders because micro-dust particles remain suspended in the air due to the lack of ventilation.
 
I recently moved yards to an indoor barn stable. I wondered how I would feel having had horses in traditional outside wooden stables for 30 yrs but I love it! We have bars at the front which I like as horses can chat to their neighbours and you get more light and then normal height stable walls on the sides. The back wall is the wall of the barn. We have enough room to tie up every horse outside and still be able to get horses in/out which is fab for doing feet etc if it is actually raining outside. We don't have weave bars but then personally I don't like them. Some have haynets tied to the front bars, other have rings on the side wooden walls, others have haybars. I guess it depends on your preference but I am a new convert to haybars (with a tie ring low inside to tie a net too to keep the hay inside). Again prefer water buckets.
 
My experience with Lodden are brilliant by the way. The yard I help at has IAE look very smart imo. Monarch also.

Only bought 2 windows and 3 doors off Lodden but we needed a door certain size for feedroom and builder boogered up measurements. So they made us a Made to Measure door - quickly and very nicely also. Were very pleasant to deal with.

Can't fault their doors or windows either - very smart.. I'll get a pic up if I can.

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Thank you for all of your replies lot of ideas to look at.
The barns are actually open fronted and gated, not American style stabling, just looking to use internal stables to divide them up, the gates will remain giving extra security especially as there will also be plenty of room to tie up outside the stables but wont compromise ventilation.
 
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