Things to consider when buying a Timber Stable

The use of timber as a building material in construction has been momentous. Timber is an easy material to work with as it can be shaped specifically into its desired use and offers strength and longevity. Unfortunately, timber is also extremely attractive to various insects and also fungal infestation which can weaken its structure – making for a less than solid build.

Wood boring insects can seriously damage wood structures as they eat their way through, literally tunnelling through the very core structure of the timber. Once inside adults will lay their eggs which, once hatched, continue to eat through the material as they develop. Once fully mature, these beetles then repeat the process; making for easily infested wood. Most timber boring insects prefer damp wood conditions and so any external timber structures are more prone to an ‘attack’.

The other major destroyer of timber is fungal decay; or more specifically dry rot and wet rot. This decay is, again, able to grow better in damp conditions. These fungal infestations can cause the timber to split and often shrink making any structure extremely weak. If undetected, fungal rot can causes masses of structural damage that, at worst, could result in a collapsed structure.

If opting for timber as a building material it is important to take every precaution to prevent such destructive infestations occurring – particularly if using it externally where it is more prone to damp conditions. If you are looking at a timber stable structure, you should opt for a product that uses pre-treated timber. Timber stables, such as those sold by Jon Williams Stables, are usually protected against both insect and fungal decay with a high pressure treatment called tantalising. This treatment preserved the timber making it less likely to be attacked by such intrusive destroyers.

If you are looking for a new timber stable and want to be assured that it will withstand against possible decay and insect infestation, please speak to a member of the Jon Williams Stable team by calling 01380 850 965 to find out more about their timber treatments. Alternatively, please visit the company’s website to view a wide range of timber stables that use tantalised timber as standard to add to the longevity of your structure.

Timber Stable Construction and Maintenance

Getting a suitable timber stable built to shelter your horse or pony is something you want to do quickly and efficiently. Fortunately this is what this guide hopes to give you a hand with with a series of basic steps for you to follow.

Step 1) Survey the Ground

The first step is to survey the ground that the stable is to be built on. Ideally the ground should be soft enough that preparing foundations does not take longer than it needs to. At the same time, it should also not be so soft that it could sink or list after construction. The grounds immediately outside and within the timber stable should also be relatively flat and even, to make movement easier for your horses.

Take a look at surrounding plants too. Scour the ground of any weeds that may be harmful to your horses and remove them thoroughly with weed killer. This will help ensure that the stable and the surrounding area are safe places for your horses and won't cause them any unnecessary harm.

Step 2) Plan Your Timber Stable’s Layout

The function and capacity of your stables are two important things to consider. A simple shelter to keep your horses out of the wind and rain while out in the paddock to graze and stretch their legs will not be the same as a stables intended for them to sleep overnight in.

The former can literally just be a small shed tucked away in the corner of the paddock, while the latter will be a fairly large structure with numerous rooms, storage areas and amenities.

Timber stables intended for bedding down in will also need to take into consideration other factors, such as....

• The stable should be designed to make evacuation of horses fast and painless in case of emergencies, like a fire or a bad storm. 

• Ensure that you have factored in high ceilings and broad throughways, with at least two large exit doors that swing open from the inside. 

• Another important detail to work into your timber stable are more general elements relating to the horses’ health and sanity -- they should be bright, airy and have good access to clean water. 

• Electronic lighting for the evenings would also be a good investment. 

• Storage rooms should be large, dry and air-tight, while easily accessible by the stables at large.

Step 3) Materials and Construction

Construction materials should, of course, be durable and strong. A horse, when bored or frustrated, may lash out with its hooves at the stalls. While no wood can last forever against iron-shod hooves and strong hind legs, stronger woods will allow the stables to last longer. Oak is a traditional building material for English-style timber stables. However stronger, heavier woods tend towards the expensive and not everyone can afford thick oak beams or panelling.

An important thing to consider is the possibilities of the wood splintering, try to line any wooden areas with ply, to further protect the horses. Concrete is a good all-purpose base for your foundation, although you should cover the floor with hay or wooden floor beams to help soften the ground for your horse’s hooves and legs. Hard floors may cause them injury.

For further information about timber stables, or for a selection of affordable flat-pack stable sets, you can always visit the website of Jon Williams Stables, a provider of professional timber stables and equine supplies. You can also contact them directly by phoning 01380 850965.

Storage Ideas with Stables for Sale UK

A horse is known for needing lots of care and attention to keep them happy. With this comes plenty of equipment from riding tack to grooming and feed which is all necessary to maintain a horse. Not only is this equipment fairly expensive, but the large bulk is often difficult to store – especially if it needs to be easily accessible.

Finding a storage option that can easily accommodate such a large amount of equipment and store it in a convenient way is often very difficult. Designing your own storage space may be just the alternative to ensure all of your needs are met.

Companies such as Jon William’s Stables offers a wide variety of stables forsales in the UK which can be uniquely tailored in design specific to your storage needs. Additional ‘storage rooms’ can also be added to all stables for sale UK, offering a safe and protected space to house all of your equipment including feed.

Many stables for sale have options for additional internal doors which can be completed with a lockable system just to give you that added piece of mind that your horse’s equipment will be safe. These stables are also well protected against insect and fungal infestation which could otherwise ruin your equipment.

If you are looking for a tailored storage solution in the UK and would like to view the range of products that Jon Williams Stables has to offer, please visit the company’s website which will also give full details of stable specifications and ‘additional extras’ that may be available to help make the design work best for you. If you would like to find out any further information or would like to speak to a member of the team for a little advice on the types of stables for sale that may suit your needs best, please contact them by telephoning 01380 850 965.

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.

Field Shelter for Sale in the UK

Field shelters for sale throughout the UK are on the rise. But why would I need a field shelter, you ask? If you don’t own a horse, pony or a similar kind of animal then you probably don’t, or at least not for the purpose it was intended for (they may make a nice place to store a quad though). However if you do own a lovely animal companion of the previous description, then you may find a field shelter very useful indeed.

What is a field shelter? It’s a simple yet permanent wooden structure that can either be fixed into a concrete foundation, or else used with a handy-dandy foundation back to help keep it secured to the floor.

The primary use of such shelters is found more or less in the name, they’re shelters that you place on the field. Cheap and lightweight, they’re easy to assemble and cheap to purchase.

Field shelters tend to be fairly simple in their build, and are not really intended to serve as an alternative to stables. Rather, they’re more a place for animals to be sheltered during wet or stormy weather, or else as a temporary shelter while stables are being cleaned out or repaired. This makes them ideal for building up additional space to keep animals in, although that’s not all they can be used for.

Another use that people looking for field shelters for sale often find in such objects is for additional storage space. Field shelters are fairly large and spacious; as a result they make it ideal for storing large objects or objects that must be stored in large quantities. Things such as bales of hay, bags of feed, equipment for cleaning the stables and whatnot can be stored in field shelters where they will be kept safe and dry.

This is much easier and cheaper than forking out to pay for the construction of a new single-purpose barn or hayloft. Bear in mind that field shelters are permanent structures, and so will need planning permission before they can be built. Make sure that you have all the relevant paperwork before purchase.

 To see a whole list of field shelters for sale, or for further information regarding wooden equestrian buildings including stables and supply sheds, why not visit the website of Jon William Stables? Alternatively you can also contact them directly by phoning the following number: 01380 850 965