Wet floor????

[Dr_Horse]

Right so when i viewed my new yard it had been peeing it down for days and was raining at the time, looked in my stable, the floor was bone dry.

In the last week or so my stable floor is soaked :-( ive been up this morning and thrown my WHOLE bed up to let the floor dry.

No he hasnt knocked his water over it lives in a tyre. He isn't drinking excessively in fact i only top it up with a standard bucket or 2 a day!

I can ONLY presume its him? Weeing and his poo retaining alot of water????

Other than that i do not know :-(

I currently removed wet once/twice a week but i think im going to have to try removing every day :-(
Gutted i disnt get a before photo. The bed was far from trashed but the floor soaked :-(

Any way

Before

About 2 weeks ago

And today

Ideas please :-(

 

[Pinkvboots]

I don't know what your weather has been like there but it was really cold here until yesterday and then it went up to 14 degrees, my stable walls and my tack room was soaking wet like it was some sort of condensation, all I think think of it was due to the rise in temperature, maybe that's what's happened where you are as your bed doesn't look particularly wet compared to the floor

 

[ILuvCowparsely]

Is the concrete new??? as it does take a while to dry if new, failing that maybe an underwater pipe burst?

 

[The Fuzzy Furry]

Sometimes if you have clear roofing you can get heavy condensation (I do in 1 box along under the clear panel).
Burst pipe under or in adjacent box? (check for old auto water pipes that may not have been completely disconnected)
Someone hosing outside - water coming in through porous brickwork?

 

[Mrs G]

I don't know what your weather has been like there but it was really cold here until yesterday and then it went up to 14 degrees, my stable walls and my tack room was soaking wet like it was some sort of condensation, all I think think of it was due to the rise in temperature, maybe that's what's happened where you are as your bed doesn't look particularly wet compared to the floor

This, it also happens in our American Barn; we have whiteboards on the walls and you can see the moisture dripping down the writing. The walls, floors all get damp from condensation.

 

[Birker2020]

Our yard gets it when its been raining and the whole of the floor area in the barn is wet. In the construction trade its called sweating concrete syndrome and its caused when atmospheric conditions are high in moisture and the air becomes warmer and causes condesnation to form on the floor area.

This can be really dangerous for workers in warehouses and other places where there are large expanses of concrete as it can be very slippy for them to walk on. It can be cured by adding a type of substance to the surface which will prevent this from happening and provide a seal. How feasible this would be for you I am not sure.

You could try putting down a layer of sawdust, cat litter, shredded newspaper or auboise to the floor first before putting your bedding on top. At least this would absorb the wet.