Rubber flooring, anyone used outdoors?

[custard]

Seeing as it's been so wet last week having to think ahead to the dreaded winter may have to 'yard' my older horse to save the ground. Yard is fully enclosed with concrete in front of the stables but the older boy is barefoot and will be sore pottering round on it. I'm thinking of laying mats over the whole yard which is about 18'x12' but worried they will become slippy when wet/frosty. I think the best sort would be the the porous kind used in playgrounds so it can still be swept. The honeycomb kind will just get clogged up with muck. Any thoughts?

 

[xcalicox]

A friend of mine uses "liquid rubber floor" on the walkway to her school and walker.
It seems to work well for her, she's never complained about it.

She had her OH lay it to save costs.

 

[custard]

Is it outside in all weathers? I've seen this stuff at a nearby equine pool and it sort of has grippy chunks mixed in

 

[xcalicox]

I'm fairly sure, it's the same stuff hat you use on horsebox ramps

I'll try and get hold of her to check.

 

[xcalicox]

It is the same liquid rubber flooring, that you can buy for ramps.

Apparently, it's beginning to crumble on the very outer edges

, whether that would be the product or the laying, She has no idea?

I would want to investigate a bit more, before I made the financial outlay.

 

[shellonabeach]

Last year I used rubber mats on top of the grass outside my field shelter, they have the "amoeba" pattern, they are the normal non-porous stable mats.

They did not become slippery when wet and because they are rubber never had frost or ice on them.

 

[Box_Of_Frogs]

I bought a couple of cheapy rubber mats to lay on the approach to the muck heap last winter. I have 2 neds and just about manage to muck out 2 stables into one double-wheeled wheelbarrow. But the weight of it meant that it sunk in the mega squelchy approach. The mats stopped that. Loads of liveries wheeled their barrows back and forth over the mats all winter long and they never got really slippy even covered in mud! Guess if it got to be a problem for your ned you could just take a pressure washer to them every so often x