Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Stable Comfort Mats

The StableComfort stall mats are almost completely installed. 
We went to Habitat For Humanity and purchased just enough carpet padding to cover the entire floor.
Then we had to have 2 more people come over and help get the mat rolled out in the aisleway and rerolled in the length wise direction, so we were carrying a 27 foot long HEAVY limp noodle
instead of a 13 footer.


Hemmed & hawed, pushed & pulled, finally got it about right.


Then the sides started getting the black strips screwed in, this wall first. 
At  his point it still had a lot of wrinkles and we were thinking they would have to be there forever as the mat is too bulky and difficult to just move and stretch.


This is what the top mat looks like, almost a felt-carpet on the bottom/underneath.


And heavy duty rubber on the top.


Its about 1/4 inch thick all together.


Here is beside one of the outside doors. See the angle? it was too much, he had to remove some and loosen them to less of an angle.


This is the divider post, the second wall area we did
and we had to figure out how to go around the post. 


I was a bit freaked out about him cutting it but he just went ahead and it all turned out OK. 
This wasn't easy and took about an hour to get it just so. 


This is the almost finished post.
This is below two feed windows which will be open a lot with them standing there with their heads out, stamping their feet for food and attention.


Now that wall is all finished with the top row of screws but had to be redone at the lesser angle.




There is one of the end walls done, as soon as he got the second row of screws in the floor got smooth and most of the wrinkles are gone.


Doorway outside. He had installed the pressure treated board just for this purpose and it looks like its going to work OK for a while.


There is one more doorway to finish, then trim all the excess from above the black strips and then black caulking along the tops to seal them from having pee go down behind them.
Divider boards, water bucket hooks, feed bins and
then I can FINALLY use the stalls.

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