After decades of use, our vet clinic exam room was getting slick.
They had someone come in with a concrete saw and cut a grid of lines in it that made it much less slick and helped conduct water to the drains.
They have mats under the stocks.
We used plain concrete paint with speckles for the concrete floor of our tackroom and that surprisingly has a very good grip for human shoes.
I love the look, safety, and comfort of rubber pavers, but I would not install them in my own future/private barn for reasons listed below.
But I find for a boarding barn they are very desirable. I echo the sentiments of others: the pros are that they look wonderful, feel wonderful to walk on (a huge bonus for staffers, stuck walking up and down the aisle all day), theyâre safe, non-slip surface, in the winter they were perfect for hand walking or jogging horses on layup since it would be too icy to lead them outside, wasnât slick when wet, and they keep a barn quieter than concrete. I was one of the barn rats roped into being âpaver installersâ when the barn I worked for moved and built this barn some 15 yrs ago - aisle was about ~18 ft wide with concrete lips on each side and pavers down the middle. We used compacted stone-dust down the middle, but the stalls + lip are concrete bedded. It still looks like a million bucks ~15 years later. The blocks donât look worn or slipped; this is a big eventing barn that has ~30 horses at any given time, and includes horses shod with boriums 8 months of the year.
The drawbacks (and the reason I would not be installing for my own personal use) is that they are very difficult to keep clean in the visual sense - easy enough to use a leaf-blower on them but for traditional sweeping, forget it. Straw, sand, hay all gets caught in their million crevices. I used to have to do two laps with the leaf blower just to feel like it was satisfactory and even then I had to keep my eyes up when leading horses/up down or it would bother me. It was too much for my weird âbarn aisle OCDâ because I found they never looked clean even after freshly blown.
For a normal person, I am sure they are fine :lol:
Well, we needed two full concrete trucks to fill in the area the pavers had been in. They were 1 1/4" thick, so this wouldnât have worked for us.
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