How to Make a Horse Stall Drain Well
- 1). Dig out the floor of your stall between 8 and 18 inches. Installing rock across the entire stall gives more horizontal drain room to water and urine, but one or two channels at the stall walls are all that might be needed. If you plan to dig a single drain channel, slope the stall floor no more than 1 inch every 5 feet toward the drain channel.
- 2). Fill the channel with 2 inches of sand or rock dust.
- 3). Add a thick layer of 3/8 to 3/4-inch gravel, a minimum of 4 to 5 inches on top. It should be compacted well, returning to the original surface level.
- 4). Top this with a quality stall matting of vulcanized rubber or polyethylene resin and your horse stall should drain well.
