10 Reasons to Buy Stable Matting
Top 10 Reasons to Stable Matting
- Environmentally friendly
- Available in 3/4″, 1/2″ or 3/8″ sizes (with diamond or button top design)
- Over twenty eight years mat manufacturing experience
- 12 year limited warranty
- Will not harbor or grow bacteria
- Comfortable cushion support for your horse
- All mats available in interlock
- Rubber mats will not curl
- Reduces the need for bedding which minimizes cleanup time
- Recommended by Michael Plumb’s Horse Journal.
Stable Matting Is Easy to Install!
They can be installed in new or existing facilities. And if you ask the people that have installed them, you’ll soon find out that you’ll save time and labor because stalls clean faster, and require less bedding.
Stable Matting Is A Humane Way to Treat Your Horse
If proper care and protection of your valuable horses are high on your list of priorities, you can’t afford to be without the benefits of Humane Stall Mats…. and from a point of maintenance, you can’t beat the time, labor, and moneysaving convenience they have to offer. Humane’s combination of a textured surface provides traction and greater resiliency while providing cushioned comfort against injuries and swollen leg problems.
Stable matting mat floor can be laid on top of any hard, non-moving surface such as concrete, asphalt and wooden floors. However, soft surfaces, such as earth or sand, are unsuitable as they can move under the mats, resulting in depressions in the mats. Eventually, this can lead to separations between the mats or even tearing of the mats. Consequently, stable matting is more a floor covering, rather than a stand-alone floor.
Some stable matting (the thicker and stronger ones) can also be laid on compacted stone, provided that that stones do not exceed a certain size (large stones can cause bumps or even tears in the mats).
Stable Matting can be used as a floor covering almost anywhere, providing the advantages listed at the top of this page (e.g. yielding, insulating, better traction, ease of cleaning & sterilization). In fact, the name ‘stall mat’ is a bit misleading as there are a number of very good non-stall applications, in the following list of typical applications.
Trailers, where they provide a superior floor surface for horses, which is particularly benefical for the horses comfort and health on long journeys.
Shower and cleaning areas, where water can make other surfaces (e.g. wood or concrete) dangerously slipperly.
Walkways, particularly in professional stables or arenas or other high traffic areas, where the amount of traffic justifies the investment in mats for an improved surface.
Short term stalls (that is, stalls which your horse will be using for a short period, such as when they are away at exhibitions or short-term training). The use of portable stable matting allow you to place a protective mat over such temporary-use stalls (and save on bedding), and you can then take the mats away when you leave.
Permanent stall floor covering. Many horse owners put down mats to permanently cover their stall floors, attracted by the advantages of stall mats. The incorrect use of stall mats in this application is the main cause of discontent with stable matting and in fact all stall mats.
