Every barn I'd boarded at in the past 30+ years had concrete floors with rubber mats
in the aisles and stalls.
When we bought our place 15 months ago the barn had been used as a shop and didn't
have the heavy brushed surface, slipping could have been an issue, but I like the mats
so we'd have matted the aisle anyway.
For cleaning we do some brooming for touch-up but use our leaf blower and blow all
the shavings, dirt and all the other stuff that seems to accumulate out. LOVE
that blower!!!! I can't stand messy aisleways!
Michael loves it so much he's trying to figure a way to modify
a leaf blower, that it wouldn't be so powerful, to use in stalls.......he thinks it'd
save a lot of sweeping there, too. But he's been recovering from knee surgery
so had lots of time to come up with ideas and plans LOL