7 steps to a professional recovery stall from Gröne

Special flooring consisting of a rubber composite system and PU padded walls protect horses after anaesthesia

When a horse wakes up from anaesthesia after surgery, its flight instinct takes over. Although it is still slightly groggy and anything but steady on its feet, the animal attempts to stand up and walk. In its attempts, it can sometimes happen that it rolls over or collides with the wall of the recovery stall. All the more comfort to owners who know that their valuable horse is in a professionally protected intensive-care stalls. Constructed using a multi-layer process, our special flooring system for recovery stalls and the foamed padded walls consisting of a high-quality polyurethane (PU) system with its special elasticity protect the horse from injuries.

Top protection with professional wall and floor padding
Three of our experts only take about a week to transform an intensive-care stalls into a professional recovery stall with all-round protection from Gröne. Here's how it's done, step by step, in words and pictures:

Step 1:
It is important that the substrate, concrete in this case, is cleaned as thoroughly as possible before the first layer is applied. Once the substrate is accordingly clean and dry, it can be sealed and the first layer of cellular rubber flooring can be bonded on.

Step 2:
Edge reinforcement is installed all around the dried layer of cellular rubber. The aim of this elementary preparatory work is to prevent the seal between the wall and floor from subsequently tearing.

Step 3:
To ensure a seamless seal between the wall and floor, the edge reinforcement must then be carefully ground down and primed. Only this enables us to keep to our Gröne quality commitment of extensive durability.

Step 4:
Once the floor and walls have been prepared, the special floor mat can be aligned in the stall. The biggest challenge involved is that the mat weighs between 300 and 400 kilogrammes and is supplied in one piece. But this is the only way that the special floor mat is able to meet our standards of maximum quality and top protection.

Step 5:
Once the 400-kilogramme protective mat is crease-free and has been properly laid down and cut to size, it is then carefully bonded holohedrally onto the substructure as well as being screwed down all along the edges.

Step 6:
The floor of our professional recovery stall is now ready to use. All that is now missing is the final cutting to size and installation of the polyurethane plastic wall elements prefabricated at Gröne GmbH's factory in Dinklage. Our PU padded wall system in green or grey is used here. The top PU layer is PAH-free, elastic, soft, smooth, hygienic, impact-resistant and extremely robust.

Step 7:
The finishing touch for the intensive-care stalls is to seal the joints, bottom edges and top edges. In addition, special sealing tapes made of the same material are also installed all around the door edges and joints to cover them.

Gröne special flooring consisting of the rubber composite system and PU padded walls have become established in extreme applications such as intensive-care stalls or recovery stalls for horses that have undergone surgery at veterinary clinics and university clinics in Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Belgium, amongst others. Once installed, our unique solution protects the health of animals, for two decades in some cases. Further stalls have just been completed at the University of Giessen (www.uni-giessen.de), Lüsche veterinary clinic (www.tierklinik-luesche.de) and Huwiler veterinary clinic in Switzerland.