Timber Stables Fire Safety

If you have stables, chances are they’re timber stables, unfortunately wood sets on fire easily. As such, if you want to avoid fires that could very easily have been avoided, it’s important to ensure that you and anyone else using your stables follow fire safety procedures very closely.

For reference, it takes about two minutes for a horse to die in a fire. You have about thirty seconds tops to get the horse out of the stables before the smoke starts searing its lungs.

So what can you do to prevent this sort of occurrence? The most basic thing you can do is just enforce some basic fire safety measures around your timber stables. No smoking. No open flames. Make sure hay is properly dry before storing it. Don’t leave hot objects lying around where it could ignite dry hay. Make sure wiring and other electronics are well maintained. Install fire alarms. The basics. Also make sure that everyone is familiar with the layout of your stables, and drill out a basic plan of action should your stables ever catch fire so that people know what to do and how to do it.

Another more integral thing can be undertaken to ensure that horses sheltering within your timber stables are more protected in the event of fire, and that’s to carefully plan out the overall lay out of the stables. For example, make sure that the spaces inside the stable are fairly spacious and airy, so that smoke doesn’t build up inside too quickly. That can buy you precious minutes to get the horses out of their stalls and out of the stables before they start suffering from smoke inhalation. A high ceiling also helps with this.

You should also design your stable doors so that they swing outwards, so as to make opening them easier during an emergency. Exists should also be placed on as many of the walls as possible to provide your horses (and any hands) plenty of avenues for escape. It also helps to space buildings a fair distance away from each other, say about 10ft-20ft apart, so that flames have a harder time spreading from building to building.

 Every little helps, and there are dozens of other strategies and techniques you can use to protect your horses and property from fire. Doing all this can make your timber stables safer, and also protect your horses more effectively in the event of a fire.

Uses for Carriage Garages in the coming Spring

The British weather may not yet be improving but the evenings are getting lighter – a tell-tale sign for the new season. With Spring time comes the aptly named ‘spring clean’. A dedicated time to clean your homes from top to bottom, ditching the junk and giving every room that needed lift. Knowing what possessions should be thrown and which can be reused is often a difficult task – especially when it takes up valuable space within the home. A carriage garage could be just the answer to make the dreaded spring clean that little but easier.

A carriage garage outbuilding can be designed specifically to your requirements whether it be for storing large pieces of equipment or even making for a new office space to give more room within the home. These out houses can also be fitted with windows to make for a light and airy space. Well-built carriage garages use high specification materials including tantalised timbre, which offers protection from little critters and also fungal decay. The wood treatment offers extra protection for your possessions, making it as safe to store your articles outdoors as it would be within the home.

The roof should be lined with long lasting material to give added protection. Many roof lining materials can help create a cooler environment during the summer months and a warmer environment for the colder winter months, making for a more energy efficient outbuilding. Companies such as Jon Williams Stables are able to offer a number of ‘added extras’ based around your bespoke requirements including doors, with additional ‘backdoor’ options available to made the space for accessible.

If you are looking for ways to improve the space available in your home or are looking for that little bit of help when spring cleaning, please visit the website of JonWilliams Stables. Alternatively, if you would like to speak with a member of the team to discuss your specific requirements and what carriage garage may be best suited to you, please call 01380 850965 and a knowledgeable team member will be happy to help.

Portable Stables for Sale - Why This Should Interest Horse Owners

If you have a horse, it’s only basic practice that you have somewhere for it to sleep at night and shelter in during the wet or stormy weather. In fact, it’s required by law, and failure to stable your horses could result in them being taken into the custody of the RSPCA. This can be a problem if you did have a stable or some other form of shelter, but it’s collapsed or has been rendered uninhabitable. Stables are expensive and time consuming to build, during which time your horse may have to be stabled elsewhere while the shelter is rebuilt. Fortunately, there are often a large number of portable stables for sale throughout the country.

What are portable stables? The answer is in the name, silly. A portable stable is basically a temporary structure that can allow you to shelter your horse for a short time period, often when travelling or if a horse needs to be moved briefly to a new field, say because of flooding in the usual paddock.

Portable stables for sale should be of interest to you, because they allow you a quick and easy solution for shelter regarding your horses that are not always available. After all, sometimes you may not even have planning permission to construct a more permanent shelter in a certain field, so if a horse does need to be moved into it during an emergency you may have to wait for as long as several months before permission pushes through the right channels. During that time, your horse is dangerously exposed to the weather and other dangers. This in turn makes the horse unhappy, unhealthy and somewhat illegal.

Many portable stables are built from cheap, light-weight materials that are never the less durable. They have to be, after all, if they’re to contain horses. Their light frame means that transporting them is an easy matter of placing them onto a suitable frame for movement and then attaching that to a car. Perhaps not coincidentally this also makes it useful for providing shelter for your horses if ever they are to be taken long-distances, especially if renting a stable is difficult or expensive.

If you’d like to look at a wide range of portable stables for sale, or for further information regarding temporary, permanent or transportable shelters for horses and ponies, then you might want to consider Jon Williams Stables. Specialists with light-weight timber frame horse shelters, JonWilliams Stables is sure to have something to suit you. Get into contact by either visiting their website, or by phoning 01380 850 965.