Stables are Often Wooden
Stables are often wooden, which is adequate, but not fire resistant. Brick-built stables are excellent, but very expensive. A good combination is wood and brick - a wooden structure built onto a brick base.
Breeze blocks are quite good as an alternative to brick and are, of course, like brick, being fire resistant and durable. There needs to be a drainage hole in the base of J the walls, and they should be lined with wooden 'kicking' boards to a bright of approximately 4 ft (1.2 m).
Stall floors are generally concrete with ridges on the surface to provide grip. Drainage in the stall is extremely important, and can be effectively achieve- number of ways.
Some floors are built with a -slight slope either to the front, or the back, of the stall, which then leads to a drainage channel. These week well, but must be kept clear.
Drainage channels such as these are easy to clean out if they are at the tarn, of the stall, but this then means the horse is likely tî be standing in the wettest part of the stall.
When the drains are at the back of the stall, they are harder to clean, but the horse will probably be in drier area. Some stall floors will slope to a central drain, which has advantages and disadvantages.
Usually the floor is extended beyond the front of the stall so that there is hard standing outside the stable. The roof needs to be high and pitched, and should overhang the front of the box to prevent rain driving in.
