Covering Dirt Floor Barn

Flooring needs to have good traction so that horses and their handlers don t slip and fall.

Covering dirt floor barn. My shop which is a 24x60 ft insulated room with concrete slab floor has been built in one corner of the barn. Agricultural equipment can also be stored safely in a dirt floored barn. Barn flooring is the foundation of a clean and safe barn. While ventilation is always important moisture naturally occurs with dirt floors.

Dirt floors are the ideal option when it comes to livestock barns. Interlocking brick or pavers are attractive but present the same problems as concrete floors. So make sure adequate ventilation is in your plans. Just a short video on a way to use junk tracks to make a floor in a dirt floored storage building.

When you have animals housed in a barn dirt floors will provide softer ground to stand or rest on than other types of flooring such as concrete. Dust kicks up because it is fine and small enough to be influenced. Rubber and synthetic bricks are other options and these are easy on a horse s legs provide good drainage and are non slip. The other side of the same end of the barn used to be a 10 or 12 horse stable but all the stalls have been removed leaving a concrete slab on the center walkway strip and just dirt floor in the areas on both sides where the horse stalls.

Lay the sheets in rows across the dirt floor. Part of the garage we did years ago and it has worked very. Cover the dirt floor with a layer of 10 mil plastic sheeting to serve as a vapor barrier which will keep moisture from seeping through the dirt and onto your wood floor. Since barns are constantly exposed to the mess that goes along with horses including manure dirt and hair the floors need to be easy to keep clean.

I have a 60x120 ft pole barn in my backyard. If you want to practice compost bedding adding bedding to the top periodically to create a clean surface and allowing the bottom to compost and produce heat all winter then it is probably the best choice. Cover the entire floor with gravel coarse sand chipped wood or a similar larger particle product to a depth of about 3 inches. Overlap the bottom of the walls with two inches of the sheet edges raised upward along the wall s surface.