How does one scrub a floor with bleach and not ruin the clothes that they are wearing from the splatter caused by scrubbing?
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The BO’s at my barn hate the dust kicked up by sweeping, and the aisles are all rubber matted, so sprinkling with water just makes more of a mess. So, we use a large industrial vacuum to clean the aisle after stalls are done. Its electric, so no gas fumes, and while it is loud, the horses are used to the sound if they happen to be in. There is a catch bag that gets dumped in the muck heap after each use.
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Who says the boarder’s clothes matter? What matters is that the floor of the barn look like no horse has ever walked there. :::shrug:::
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I wish the only dust I dealt with was from sweeping! My barn has a dirt floor aisle, and the barn setup is stalls–>aisle–>indoor. Our shavings also seem particularly dusty. BO regularly waters and drags the arena and the aisle gets watered down before raking which helps, but dust is a part of life right now.
A barn I leased at for about 6 months had a concrete aisle and would leaf blow with an electric blower on the lowest setting. I didn’t think much of it at the time as it didn’t seem to kick up much more than a good strong sweep would. I could see it being problematic for horses with allergies or respiratory problems though. It was definitely less dust than my barn now, but the stalls are pretty well ventilated at least.
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Ok. I’m not going to lie, this actually makes my little heart smile.
I am such a weirdo. But, after being in a large-ish boarding barn for nearly a year that has no rules/makes no effort to keep things clean or organized, I would be nearly giddy to be somewhere where people were made to clean up after themselves.
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That sounds like the best possible solution for a large commercial barn.
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I rode at a barn that built an indoor soon after I started there. They “floored” it with what came out of the stalls. Yes, poo, pee, and shavings. After riding, my nose was lined with brown stuff. Yuck. I didn’t worry about the horses too much, as their stalls, separated from the arena by an aisle, all had the upper couple of feet of the outside wall of the stalls, open. Completely. No wall there along the top. Also, they were out on pasture part-time.
They also built a new outdoor arena at the same time, and floored it with shredded tires. Wonderful moisture-holding “mulch” for the Maryland red clay. It was only dry enough to use for one day that I remember.
There’s budget-friendly and then there’s this…
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. Her eyes are still a bit runny but better I think.
