Stalls won't drain -- help!!
l am renting a two horse barn and, with the considerable amount of rain
this year, my two horses are having to stay in their stalls a lot lately.
The stalls do not drain well and consequently it begins to smell pretty
quickly, even though l am putting a generous amount of shavings in there
to soak it up. There are rubber mats in each stall, but they are broken
into about 8 sectionals, thus allowing ''liquids'' to get under the mats.
My husband and l have taken all of the mats out, hosed it down, and slicked the water out, but it took us over 4 hours as the mats are very heavy and the stalls are angled so that the water puddles in the middle. Does anyone know of a way to seal these mats so that liquid cannot get through to the concrete below? Because we are renting, we do not wanna spend a lot of money for a solution to this problem. However, l want my horses to have a healthy, clean, living environment during these rainy months. It is just not feasible to spend 4 hrs. per stall per week to hose it out. The barn we are renting is sitting on about 1.5 acres, so the horses do get to go outside when it is sunny. Does anyone know of any cheap shelters l could buy/make and not use the stalls at all? Again, we do not wanna spend a lot of money on a place that we do not own. Any suggests are greatly appreciated! Thank you. :)
Would you be allowed to pull the mats & have some pea gravel
brought in & build the ground up so it can drain? Another question is, if
the angles were situated, could it be made to drain outside instead of
settling in the stalls center, by bringing in dirt?
I don't know about sealing the mats. That sounds tricky, but there should
be some sort of sealer that can be put on the edges. And, there is a product called Sweet PDZ, that many people use in their stalls. I believe it is either a calcium or lime base & it absorbs the odor from urine. Good luck & I wish you well.
Hi if there is an auto glass replacement company near you, see
if you can buy a few caulking tubes of urethane. We use it here at my shop
when we replace windshields and I had to fix a leak in a foot bath for cows
once that had a rubber mat in it and it sealed it very well. It is a little
tough to push through a hand caulk gun so heat it up a little before trying
to caulk with it.
i would do a combination of things. Are the liquids are only
coming from inside the stall & not leaking in from the outside? This is
what I did with mine & it works fairly well. i brought a bunch of sand in
to make sure the inside of the stalls where higher then the saturated
ground on the outside. then i put down the mats (that you have) I filled
the stall then with Dry stall pellets. These are bags of pellets that look
like something they would eat(but they arent). you have to buy maybe 8 bags initially, then maintain it with maybe two bags a week. Then you lightly wet the pellets with water, they puff up & become absorbent & are easy to pick out. they work better then shavings. A little goes farther then you think. good luck, hope this helps.
First thing I would think would be to even out the surface the
mats are on. build up the middle and one side (very slightly) so the water
will drain to the desired side. Then put the mats back in and maybe try
sealing them with some type of caulk--- like the kind you might use in a
bathroom to seal the edges of a bathtub or sink.?
Mmm problem, I would suggest putting a raised floor in the
stalls then the mats on top. They do sell liquid rubber matting this
would be sealed so the wee could not get through the mats. It is
expensive but does work.
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