ILovebaling
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Should the membrane be under all the drainage or on top of the last layer of stone below the top layer?
There needs to be a membrane below the final layer, otherwise stones will come up through. My question would be do you really need one at the drainage layer? Wife showed me an article from some dressage magazine and it made it look very expensive, hoping to make it cheaper as it’s my project for the summer as well.Thanks for replys. Can only advise it needs to be above drainage and probably over the 2 layers of stone.
Fancy nipping round and doing mine? ?Sub surface compacted with vibrating roller
Herring bone drains in and stoned
regular membrane
Stones in and rolled
Blind off with smaller stones and rolled
None woven (geotextile) membrane glued at the seems.
silica sand Tracked in with digger. The more compacted the sand is the less wet it will sit.
a regular woven membrane will not let water through with sand on top of it.
There’s a right way and a wrong way. One thing worse that building a horse arena is building the fugging thing twice.We stopped putting herringbone systems in 9 years ago we’ve built over 300 in the last 21 years, 2 membranes one above & one below the stone base layer the only time you would need to glue the membrane is when you’re using a poor grade surface good fiber based surfaces don’t let the horses go down to the membrane.
The surface is the most important part of what you are doing.
I’m on a different continent at the moment, and there is probably nothing I would want to do less. Drop me a PM if you have any questions though.Fancy nipping round and doing mine? ?
whos putting the surface in for you?All of this that seems to need doing makes me glad all I'm required to do is dig it out and level! If they mess all the rest up they can't come back at me. Was mearly wondering how to do it properly!
Farmer is doing it themselves, I was just there with the digger doing another job so I got the job of digging them out (1 each). Builder has put a level on and dug the drains with a smaller digger. Just don't see the benefit of putting the membrane under the drains so was curios on other people's way (or proper way) of doing them.whos putting the surface in for you?