Is this a temporary stall/mat set up?
Temporary. And my horses are only stalled to eat or for emergencies.
I would think that since this is temporary that leaving a gap around the edge would work. Don’t want to cut up mats that you might not use that way in your final location.
Clearly, as you know, with a gap around the edge the mats might move.
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Can you run mats under the divider? Then you only need strips on one side. I was able to do this and they have stayed tight. I cut them a smidge big finished with the strip along the least “active” wall, away from the doors, water and hay.
Skip the mats and put the money towards the plumbing first.
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The horses made it home!
They moved Saturday morning. It was mostly uneventful, although the girls hate change and loved the rental farm we were at, so they are acting like I’ve ruined their lives. They’ll get over it… someday…
Most of yesterday was devoted to carport assembly. @Feliz 5.5 hours got us to this point:
Only the corner anchors are in the ground, because that is a Herculean task. We’ll get the rest in one by one over the week. And there is one last row of roof panels on either side that need to be placed. These are the panels that curl down the frame at horse-scalping height. Mr. Texarkana thinks he has a solution to prevent that, but we were running out of daylight and just left them off for now. It’s not a perfect solution, but there was no other that would get a roof over their heads this quickly. Once things calm down and I get the fence in the larger pasture repaired, we will put up a real 12x24 shed out there.
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Home at last, sweet!
Expected to see pictures of horses, first one was … a donkey? 
So much for literal thinking.
We are super windy here, but seems that carports can be engineered to stand up to those winds. They sure don’t look like it.
Keep taking pictures. After you have been there long time and have many memories made, pictures help you see how far you went.
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Yeah! I’m glad the horses made it home! Whoop whoop!
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Congratulations. It’s such a great feeling once they’re home.
For the roof edges, could you get some PVC pipe, use a table saw to cut a slot in it and slide it over the edge?
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Good idea with PVC. The real problem is the height, though, so he’s going to try to layer them differently so they don’t come down so low. We’ll see if it works. If not maybe they will just stay off. I’m probably going to put up some kind of wind break, too, but waiting to get a better feel of how it blows in the rain. The wind oddly seems to come from the south and east a lot at this property; most places around here it comes from the north or west. I’m curious if that shifts dramatically as we go into the winter months.
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My horses live in a carport shelter (wind-engineered) & I built really simple windbreak walls for it myself, using treated plywood with a few 2 x 4 s underneath where I needed more attachment points. I’ve never had a problem with roof edges, but I also have 10’ sidewalls. I love my shed, so nice to have a little less wood maintenance. But you could do some walls like that really quickly & that would prevent any accidental roof encounters.
Such great progress. Burrito will be very happy to be out of the rain that’s on the way.
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And prevent itchy horses from trying to destroy the legs by rubbing on them!
Can you just slip the partially needed mat under the wall between stalls? That way a 4ft mat could serve two stalls – 2 feet on each side of the wall.
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Any updates? How are you liking your farm? I hope the buying process is now a memory that you can recall with some amusement, or at least, without much pain.
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We LOVE it. We still have soooo much work to do, but it’s worth it. Winter halted a lot of the outdoor projects. Hopefully nicer spring weather means I can finally finish fixing the fencing in my other fields. If I can get all my fields operational plus a permanent shed up in the big pasture, I will be a happy camper.
So funny story from last month. I was home from work on a snow day. Our driveway hadn’t even been cleared yet when there was a knock on the door. It was the state police here to arrest the former owner over unpaid traffic tickets. 
They could quickly see that I was not him and apologized for the inconvenience. I thought it was hilarious. Karma.
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Some before and after:
Sorry, the photos got out of order when uploading. Before and after of the exterior vegetation overgrowth, laundry room, pantry, bathroom with sink ripped out…
You can’t fully appreciate how dirty things were in the pictures. Like that teal pantry? The amount of mouse and fly poop coating every surface was 
. You also can’t appreciate how many personal belongings the sellers left behind. You can see a few, but that is nothing. We still have a garage and attic full of their junk.
Getting the place in liveable order in such a short period of time was so overwhelming we didn’t take all that many pictures.
We still have a long way to go.
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Wait, they left their dishes but took stall mats and fencing?
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They left dishes, clothes, furniture, mattresses, broken appliances, electronics, childrens’ toys, endless trash… you name it!
Yet they took doors and sinks and entire flipping outbuildings!!!
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Oh wow! What a load of work.
But!
Your house is ADORABLE!!! I love it!
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