Sealed rubber stable floors

[stimpy]

I've just moved house and have a rather neglected stable yard that I need to make work better for my horses. The stables are block stables that are good enough but the concrete floors are old and pitted and I am finding lots of pools of pee accumulating on the uneven concrete. I have lots of rubber and EVA stables mats that I would like to use in the stables and initially I thought that I would have the floors screeded to level them out and create a fall but now I am wondering about laying a sealed rubber floor instead. Does anyone have sealed floors? If so do you like them? How do you manage them? And who l laid them, i.e. was it a DIY job or did you get someone in to lay them? TIA.

 

[SamBean]

Can you patch repair any deeper sections then use an external grade leveller on the floor then use you mats and would you be doing this yourself or getting someone in? I've no experience of sealed floors but I would be worried they are very permanent and would they look messy when they show signs of wear? I only know of 1 person have them a good few years ago who commented found hers hard to sweep clean but the technology would be totally different and more advanced now.

 

[Goldenstar]

Yes I have them but they need to laid on to a good floor.
They are fantastic I love them
Quattro fitted mine

 

[Fanatical]

Yes I have my stables fitted with sealed rubber - love them! No more lifting dirty, smelly mats. Quattro fitted them.

 

[hopscotch bandit]

I had my normal rubber mats down for around 10 years and can honestly say I never lifted them up once.. When I came to move I lifted them up and there was barely any smell at all. There was no drain in the stable, I assume the wee just evaporates or goes into the floor somehow.

That's the reason I wouldn't bother with sealed mats (even if we were allowed on our yard).

 

[stimpy]

Thanks Goldenstar and Fanatical, I shall send a message to Quattro

 

[stimpy]

I had my normal rubber mats down for around 10 years and can honestly say I never lifted them up once.. When I came to move I lifted them up and there was barely any smell at all. There was no drain in the stable, I assume the wee just evaporates or goes into the floor somehow.

That's the reason I wouldn't bother with sealed mats (even if we were allowed on our yard).

Crikey, lucky you! I've used mats of various types in various locations for various horses over many years and they have always been disgusting underneath. Perhaps that says something about my mucking out

 

[hopscotch bandit]

Crikey, lucky you! I've used mats of various types in various locations for various horses over many years and they have always been disgusting underneath. Perhaps that says something about my mucking out

I've always used about 4-5" of shavings on top of the rubber mats which defeats the use of rubber mats tbh. And I've always mucked out down to the floor every night so maybe that is why. Or maybe my horse is out more than yours (that isn't meant rudely btw), or a smaller size than yours?

Or maybe it's just the fact that your floor is different to ours, ours is like a screeded concrete type of affair?

I suppose there are a many reasons. I expect your mucking out is perfect in reality

 

[milliepops]

depends what kind of floor you have and whether it is sloped at all IME.
I have used the same mats in various stables and find some you get seepage underneath and some you don't. Last one I moved from had a slope towards the door and they were gross underneath. Previous were dead flat and there was nothing.