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You know your day can only get better when this is the sight that greets you when you open your tack room door:



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Anyone else have to contend with leaky tack rooms/ holes in the ceiling? Any tips on how to cope? :/
 
Oh dear, poor you. Quite honestly, if you can't keep the weather out, I'd take a lot of it home and ferry what you need each day. Just looking at the photo, you have hundreds of pounds worth of kit there.
 
My tack lives in the house but feed and rugs are in a lean to, the open end is east so yes I saw a similar sight this morning!
 
If there are any cracks where snow is coming in a quick emergency fix is a plastic sack shoved in the gap. Not pretty, but effective and I've had to do it where snow is being blown in under the stable roof.
 
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Our feed storage is under shelter but open sided, so we were lucky with wind direction today, however in the last snow I wasn't so lucky. The snow blew under the eves in my stable and I had a drift at the back on top of the straw! Lovely! Thankfully no drift today, just a rat shaped hole in the straw leading from the hole at the base of the back door!!!
 
touchstone said:
If there are any cracks where snow is coming in a quick emergency fix is a plastic sack shoved in the gap. Not pretty, but effective and I've had to do it where snow is being blown in under the stable roof.
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Thanks for the tip! Unfortunately there's a metal 'cage' type thing above the tack room and between it and the ceiling; hard to explain in words! I think some timely nagging of the farmer to get the roof fixed is possibly in order!
 
Fransurrey said:
Our feed storage is under shelter but open sided, so we were lucky with wind direction today, however in the last snow I wasn't so lucky. The snow blew under the eves in my stable and I had a drift at the back on top of the straw! Lovely! Thankfully no drift today, just a rat shaped hole in the straw leading from the hole at the base of the back door!!!
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Yikes! Yes, I think it was the wind that caused it all to come in as I've had nothing like this in the previous snowfalls!
 
Clodagh said:
My tack lives in the house but feed and rugs are in a lean to, the open end is east so yes I saw a similar sight this morning!
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Despite the initial heart-sinking 'Oh fabulous' moment, it actually turned out to be somewhat of a blessing as it forced me to do some 'spring' *coughs* cleaning in there which was much needed!
 
horserider said:
Oh dear, poor you. Quite honestly, if you can't keep the weather out, I'd take a lot of it home and ferry what you need each day. Just looking at the photo, you have hundreds of pounds worth of kit there.
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Yes, I think that would be wise! Unfortunately I have a not only non-horsey, but actively anti-horsey other half so I don't imagine all the paraphernalia from my tack room would be welcome in our already too tiny house :/ I think it's going to have to be an investment in some waterproof containers.
 
Oh no :(

The direction if the snow meant I had a similar thing this morning (but not with tack) I've covered everything with turnout rugs for tonight's snow

I'd push to get that fixed, the YO can't possibly think that's ok surely?!
 
Our foaling box, which is now straw/feedroom/store looked like that. And its well maintained and secure - nothing is going to keep the snow out in blizzards like this - it comes through the louvre boards, under the door, throught the half inch gap between doors, wherever it can!

We have moved the feedbins to the other side of the room, and hung spare rugs over anything else that can't be moved - weighted down with bricks..
 
Honey08 said:
Our foaling box, which is now straw/feedroom/store looked like that. And its well maintained and secure - nothing is going to keep the snow out in blizzards like this - it comes through the louvre boards, under the door, throught the half inch gap between doors, wherever it can!

We have moved the feedbins to the other side of the room, and hung spare rugs over anything else that can't be moved - weighted down with bricks..
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Yep - I've covered everything with turnouts tonight!
 
WelshD said:
Oh no :(

The direction if the snow meant I had a similar thing this morning (but not with tack) I've covered everything with turnout rugs for tonight's snow

I'd push to get that fixed, the YO can't possibly think that's ok surely?!
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Yep - I've covered everything with turnouts now!
 
My snow drift was over my feed bins and my rug box. I'll have to go through the rug box to check nothing's got damp - they probably all need a wash now anyway.
 
yep, not my tack room but the alley way between my american barn type set up loose boxes, snow blew in and covered my big straw bale which i keep along the far end. i lost a fair bit of bedding due to it and it did to a certain extent get into the stables on either side. nothing really to be done tho as the weather was extreme and its never come in like that before or since certainly doesn't rain in under normal conditions. annoying to be sure, you have my sympathy ! i was cursing as i was snow shoveling out my corridor so it didn't melt and flood the stables i can tell you !

i keep fells and if it wasn't for the wet conditions they'd actually be much happier living out, its the land that cant cope. this winter is costing me a fortune !! :mad:

sharron
 
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