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Location: WI | Like, pull the mats out and full spray down? |
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Twice a year.  |
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Location: WI | So, how many trips do you have per year? After about how many uses do you do this? |
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| Depends on the floor of the trailer. For wood floors I pull and let everything just dry out every few months. With aluminum, I may do it once a year if that. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | If I were using my trailer pretty heavy all week I would pull my mats and hose down, but I also would also pull mats hose and down after a weekend of going, but thats me I dont want all that pee and poop sitting in my trailer and drying out, I like a clear trailer when I laod.
Edit to add; My trailer has Aluminum floors..
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Georgia Peach
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Location: Georgia | linds - 2017-03-30 10:27 AM So, how many trips do you have per year? After about how many uses do you do this?
Lets just say roughly 2-3 times a month on average. So maybe 30-40 trips per year. We use shavings also.
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | My trailer goes almost everyweekend winter and summer...and i pull the matts twice a year spring and fall.....but i clean the horse part when i get home everytime....m |
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Georgia Peach
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Wanted to add, we use this cool little trick we learned. If you put down a layer of baking soda under the mats, it helps to soak up anything that leaks through the mats. It's great. A bit of a pain but worth the effort. |
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Location: WI | I would love to do it more often, but it is such a PITA to pull the mats! Anyone got any hacks that makes this easier? |
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Location: Georgia | linds - 2017-03-30 10:42 AM I would love to do it more often, but it is such a PITA to pull the mats! Anyone got any hacks that makes this easier? I agree. It's not fun at all. I have to make myself do it - usually after weeks of putting it off.
We do have one of these for pulling out the mats. It does help some.
https://www.valleyvet.com/ct_detail.html?pgguid=742d5b8b-3ecf-424a-859b-5097b16bdf41&sfb=1&itemguid=c01d5b6b-6b4f-4024-886f-da80effdc041&utm_content=38341&ccd=IFF003&CAWELAID=120295250000089278&CATARGETID=120295250000183617&cadevice=c&gclid=CNrPl6y8_tICFcS1wAodX08BBg
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| We pull ours out at least 3-4 times a year and wash it out. We use shavings and keep it clean, but the urine can still leak through to the Aluminum floor. The urine causes pitting in the Aluminum. I have a fear of a horse falling through the floor of the trailer. I feel better double checking it. Plus it's a fantastic work out!!! LOL!!! |
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Location: North Dakota | Once a year in the Fall, when we are pretty much done hauling. It sits clean all through winter. If it's a mild winter and we are able to haul than we powerwash it in the spring too. |
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Location: The barn...where else? SW Missouri | barrelrider - 2017-03-30 9:58 AM
We pull ours out at least 3-4 times a year and wash it out. We use shavings and keep it clean, but the urine can still leak through to the Aluminum floor. The urine causes pitting in the Aluminum. I have a fear of a horse falling through the floor of the trailer. I feel better double checking it. Plus it's a fantastic work out!!! LOL!!!
This is what I do also. It will start to corrode if you don't and you will have pits and holes in the aluminum. Mine is a 1998 and the floor is in awesome shape because I wash it out fully at least 3 times a year. I also keep shavings in it. |
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Location: Running my kids somewhere. | Runninbay - 2017-03-30 9:40 AM
Wanted to add, we use this cool little trick we learned. If you put down a layer of baking soda under the mats, it helps to soak up anything that leaks through the mats. It's great. A bit of a pain but worth the effort.
I am going to try this when I pull my mats next month.
Where do you take a trailer to have it acid washed and resealed? The winters are starting to show on the outside. |
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Location: Texas | Every four months. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | My mats are super thick and heavy so we use Vise Grips, they are really handy to have around.. 
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| I had a Polylast floor put in my 6H, and it's super easy to clean! Shovel everything out every haul, and spray it out with a hose every time we were gone long enough for a horse to urinate. Takes me 10 minutes tops, and there's never any goop built up in the corners or under edges of mats. Love it! |
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Location: Iowa | I pull mats out once a year. I gorilla tape the seams of the mat and the crease that is along the wall too. Another trick to pulling mats out by yourself,I cut the mat into two pieces. |
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Location: BFE, Texas | I have rumber flooring in my trailer. Best thing ever ! Its grooved so urine runs to back doors and out. I use shavings also to prevent splatter. I pick it clean after each use and when needed, totally strip shavings out, hose down clean, dry and put clean shavings in. I'm ocd about clean trailers. |
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