![]() ![]() There is a slight knack, once you have that you can put them down very fast, like a Pro. You just put them down and push them together, and the solid tabs on every side slot into the gaps on the adjacent slabs. Check out these videos - Video 1 and Video 2 But the textured slab surface still gives grip (unless it was already covered with water which then froze solid). If a hard frost is forecast we recommend leaving any hay, mud or manure on top to freeze into lumps to give more purchase underfoot, or otherwise putting fresh sharp sand down. Just about any solid surface gets slippery when iced over. To read more about the importance of your sand choice, please visit our USE OF SAND page. Around hay feeders, holey rubber grass mats work well on top of the slabs. For an all weather area we’d recommend putting some sand or surface on top of the slabs. Some people don’t bother doing this and have no problems, but we’d rather err on the side of caution. Why do you say to put sand on top of them?įor livestock we strongly recommend putting a good amount of sand on top of the slabs, at least at first, to give extra grip until the horses/cows/alpaca/sheep/whatever learn how to move on the slabs. They are rock hard, rather like roughened/patterned concrete. ![]() They are covered by a 20 year manufacturer’s warranty, but will last much longer than that, being 100% stable plastic. No, the tabs are solid, they simply interlink with adjacent slabs. They are £8.10 each, or £32.40 per square metre, including VAT. They measure 50cm x 50cm x 5.3cm each, and weigh about 7kg each (over a stone). They are 100 % recycled German ‘yellow bag’ domestic plastic. If your slabs are bare, and you have animals on them, please seriously consider adding a topping as recommended… it really is worth it.īecause they are not like any other type of mat or grid product, they are more like rock solid paving slabs (but with a cleverly designed grid underneath that pushes into the mud and holds them in place, and tabs which stabilise them with the adjacent slabs on any side.) They feel like textured concrete underfoot, there is no ‘give’. The horses like lying down on them too – they are definitely a lot softer than the slabs.Ī huge proportion of our orders is repeat orders from very happy customers, so we know that the slabs work incredibly well if used and topped correctly. We’ve been trialling this for over a year around our hay feeders and are very happy with the results. They will move a bit as horses and people walk on them, but are easily pulled back into place. This is dependent upon rainfall and gradient of the land.Īround any feeders, or in very exposed areas (where topping might get washed away quickly) holey rubber grass mats on top of the slabs also work very well. We top ours up every year or two, as needed. It’s totally natural, and improves the drainage. We recommend at least 1 bulk bag per full pallet of slabs, ideally two or more (especially if you want it to be deep enough for playing, rolling, lying down on.) It is money very well spent, and usually lasts for a long time. We realise that some customers ignore the Manufacturer’s Recommendation and allow their animals onto bare slabs, but this is their decision, and we do not recommend this.Ī bulk bag of sand is about £50 incl VAT and delivery (from your local builder’s merchant or quarry, or Jewsons, or B&Q etc) in most areas. The surface of the slabs is designed to be slip-resistant, and the texture is similar to roughened concrete.įor the topping, you can use sand (quarried sharp sand is our preference after a few years of testing here on our clay soil at MCHQ), or you can use topsoil (an inch or two of mud, when it comes, on top of a rock solid base, is infinitely preferable to a foot or more of mud), or wood pellet bedding, or woodchip, miscanthus, other bedding types (but with the proviso that some will start to rot at some point and probably need scraping off, as rotting things can go slimy and smelly), or even used bedding or manure.Īnimals moving on and off the slabbed area will carry mud etc onto the slabs. Īs we all know, animals can and do on occasion lose their footing on ANY surface, be it mud, grass, concrete, hard core, or anything else, and all that any of us can do is try to minimise this risk as much as possible. We cannot possibly stress this strongly enough – the slabs are designed to be the sub-base and base in one, then THEY NEED A GOOD LAYER OF TOPPING if they are being used for animal traffic. ![]()
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