New Kennel Set Up But I Need Advice On The Shed Floor

[perthshire keeper 1,239]

hi all after comeing back from scotland,i needed to make some new kennels and wanted to do it as right as i could given funds so i got a 10ft by 8ft shed from a freind and made it 4ft longer..and ended up with a 14ft x 8ftwide and set the inside up as a smaller mirror image of the outside

 

the 2 pens on the inside are 5ft long and 4ft wide and the other is 4 ft by 4 ive not done painting but you get the idear!

 

 

the out side runs are 2x 5ft by 8ft and one 4ft x 8ft

 

 

terrier proofing!

 

 

the last door front section being built!

 

 

now for the hard bit as the floor inside is wood it gets all wet and horrid not to mention the terriers have a habit of crapping inside or peeing on it, now its scrubbed with jeys fluid twice a week but it jst looks horrible ive put some old carpet down in their that i can throw away when it gets manky but what would you lads recomend to paint on the floor or to put on the floor to water proof it so i can almost swill it out if i need to?

 

 

 

 

you can se how the bare wood floor looks wet and horrid even thou its clean (the outside runs had just been washed out)

Edited September 24, 2013 by perthshire keeper

[Drebz87 39]

Hows about cattle cubilcle matts? sturdy and easily wiped down, being arg rubber? just a thought.

[perthshire keeper 1,239]

Hows about cattle cubilcle matts? sturdy and easily wiped down, being arg rubber? just a thought.

i have them on standby but i want to paint the floor with something as-well as/instead of, and the terriers rip every thing to bits i don't want them to eat rubber!

[Tiny 7 1,694]

Tiles or a bit of vinyl......? Easy cleaning ect

[perthshire keeper 1,239]

again ive a freind who is a tiler and loads of 4inch tiles but the floor has a bit of give in it do you think they will crack? he recons the grout has a flex in it?

[theworkingferret 56]

do away with the wood floor and put a concrete floor down and seal it

[Tiny 7 1,694]

Measure the floor brace it and put a bit of ply down... And tile and seal it with silcone

 

If not glue a bit of vinyl and seal and then it wouldnt matter if the floors got a bit of play

[perthshire keeper 1,239]

Measure the floor brace it and put a bit of ply down... And tile and seal it with silcone

 

If not glue a bit of vinyl and seal and then it wouldnt matter if the floors got a bit of play

now you mention it glueing and sealing vinyl seems a good plan!! the floors a foot of the ground so pulling it up and concreting it aint a option just yet!

[Wxm 1,638]

sheets of perspex from bus shelters i hear are good

[the_stig 6,614]

I`ve over boarded my wood floors with think ply --then painted with 3 coats of johnsons concrete floor paint --I always put down 2 inch of shavings and shoval any wet out daily ---

[clueless 11]

3/4 inch ply nice and solid vinyl over top and then cattle mats

[clueless 11]

Was gonna say concrete floor paint but never covered wood with it

[the_stig 6,614]

Was gonna say concrete floor paint but never covered wood with it

does the job but needs 3 coats

[billy whizz 141]

you can get a rubber paint that window cleaners use for inside there vans its not cheap mind but its a idea normaly bright blue lol fully waterproof.either that or cut the floor out and pave it.

[CWN-HELA 228]

Thin ply board and up the sides by 6-8 inch, then fiber glass oh maby that rubber roofing stuff stick down with glue. Cwn-hela