Wash box anyone???

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melissa1971

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Anyone have a wash box/stable at their yard?

If you do what sort of size is it?
What sort of flooring do you have?
do you have hot and cold water or just cold?

Anything else you can tell me about it or post a photo if possible, thanks im hoping to convert part of our barn into a wash box so need to show my totally none horsey oh what im after, thanks.
 
I dont have, but a school I go to has. Box is approx 12 x12, concrete floor with rough bits, and they have a self heating power shower in the corner with a very long hose bit.

Super thing, get to use it after a schooling/jumping session.
 
used to have one, it was 16 x 16, had a hot/cold shower in, power for clipping etc also. A big drain also. very useful I thought.
 
We have one that is prob about 12' deep and a little less wide, 10' ish. It is rubber floored and walled up to about 5' and has hot and cold water.
The hot water runs off a boiler that is on a timer, set to go on when people are at the yard really. I have never got to it and not found hot water.
We have tie rings each side to cross tie them in there. The drain is also sited right at the front of the box, so the water drains into there.
 
We have one too. Its about 12x12 with rubber matting that is sealed now as otherwise have to constanly lift it to dry the floor out. Its slightly sloped to a drainage hole in the back. We have a power shower - although its placed on the wall out side the box so that its safe away from the horses, we feed the hose through the bars. Its also has our solarium in it. Its just a standard internal stable,
 
We have a power shower on one side of our wash box and an electric socket on the other.
A word of caution, build a wooden box with a door on it around your shower unit (where controls are) and put sponge and lagging inside it around control box. Showers are made for in warm bathrooms NOT outside when its -15 the pipes etc inside can get iced up and burst. We have the above round ours and yesterday when our yard water supply finally defrosted, the shower was working ok, friends of mine that have got them have had trouble with bursts.
 
i have a hot shower in the archway (well the shower unit is inside the toilet and the pipe goes through the wall) tie points, well drained down to yard drain, on concrete, then i have a stable which is 11 by 12, fully matted with infra red heaters to dry off in. also use this for clipping in, getting tacked up if raining etc. can still be used in emergencies as a stable, just need to chuck some shavings in.
 
We have an electric shower with a long hose fitted in our wash box. After having a couple die following a freeze we had a valve fitted a couple of inches before the water feed into the shower unit so that we can turn the water off to the shower and drain it before a freeze.

Boxes (two adjacent to each other) are rubber matted.
 
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